I used to drive combine during the summer while I was in high school (i'm still convinced I'm the only person to listen to the Chemical Brothers and Orbital while driving a tractor), and the one thing I learned from that experience is that Duct tape and bailing wire will fix anything. When its 50 miles to the repair man, you learn to fix things yourself with what you have. That sort of problem solving and self sufficiency helps alot in the computer world, where the perfect solution may exist, but costs you 20 grand, but a good enough solution can be done extremely cheap.
Uh, Sonny Bono was a republican, and he pretty much handed Disney what it wanted too with the most recent copyright extension. Face it, both parties are filled with whores. Liberal media likes to call the conservatives whores, and the conservatives like to call the liberals whores. The problem is, they are both right.
And how many of those dead people had anything to do with the 1967 invasion? There is plenty of blame to go around in the middle east, especially when the palestinians and the isralies are both acting like first rate fuckos. Both sides show exactly why religion and politics shouldnt mix.
Its been awhile since I read the Communist Manifesto, but for true marxist communism, a dictatorship of the proletariat is a nessecary step. The eventual hope is to remove all the government apparatus and the people will take care of themselves, and communism would spread around the planet, and the concept of a nation state would dissappear. Eventually this would end with no need for government. Considering that the nation state has not dissappeared, and there is no one world government, communism with out dictatorship wouldnt be possible. Perhaps you meant socialism, which economically is very similar to communism. Socialism's only major difference is the method of enacting the policy, generally socialist tried to work within the existing government structure.
I see tar.gz and some RPM's but no.debs. Is there someone packaging them, or will I have to wait till march when it gets out of beta for it to be put in unstable?
lets see, we have a futurist who got lucky and predicted near future stuff pretty well, i.e. Age of rational machines) and then decides to try a little more. Sounds like a Ray Kurzweil book I read a couple of years ago, the Age of Spiritual Machines.
The major problem I see with these futurists saying that we will move so fast in the next hudred years is the capacity of humans to change that quickly and handle the power that it will give us. At some point augmenting humans directly, either through genetics or cybernetics will be nessecary, and I cant see us handling it well. We cant agree on what to do with cloning or fetal cell use, and these are the beginning of the augmentation process.
Warning this is nitpicking, but an important point that should be made. Full on capitalism is the abscene of government controls. What we have is a mix of socialism and capitalism, what most people call a free market economy, and for this, the government must be involved in it. The captialism involves things like private enterprise, and the socialist aspects are things like anti-trust laws, safe product laws, unemployment, and welfare. It takes both aspects for an economy to work, but the result is not capitalism.
The computer market reminds me of the way cars are. Older cars had wide open engine areas with plenty of room to work on them, nowadays the engine area is so packed, it makes even changing the oil a real bugger. You want smaller form factor? Then go with a pre built machine. If you want to customise the hell out of it, your pretty much stuck with the older atx form factor. Unfortunately, just like cars the two seem to be mutually exclusive right now.
I was really troubled by the fact they struck down the statute on violent games, but the ban on sexual content was left alone. Does anyone besides me find that really troubling? I find it really troubling that its alright to show someones head being blown off, but you show a breast and suddenly its banned.
Well, in rural areas large mp3 collections are problematic because of the lack of broadband. I lived in rural montana for quite awhile, and you were lucky to get 28.8. Even ISDN was not an option there. Also, there are situations where radio does things that are not possible with mp3, namely any sort of live event from sporting events to talk radio. Personally, I would have killed for this sort of thing when I used to drive combine for harvest. I had my choice of NPR (which isnt bad, but can get really monotonous) or the right wing radio talk network.
Let me guess, its an Nvidia board. there is a documented bug with 2k and xp and the latest detonator drivers. the first patch supposedly will fix it. the only solution so far is to roll back your drivers, or wait for the patch
Oh boy, another overpriced mp3 player, just what I need. I really dislike memory or hd based players as you can buy a burner and an mp3cd player for less than the cost of these devices I'll go buy a portable mp3 cd player and be done with it.
But, since its not an iWalk, let the Apple buying palm rumors return.
Not nessecarily, the OS is loaded with the game. Most of the best games for dreamcast used segas proprietary OS instead. I'm only aware of two games that used WinCE, some casino game, and Sega Rally 2. The really amazing games like Crazy Taxi, the NFL series, Soul Caliber, and Skies of Arcadia all never used WinCE.
Now as far as Microsoft making a poor console that crashes? Well, I have a first gen PS1 that locks up and hiccups quite a bit, a little fun with the bias screw, a fan stand and unplugging the power supply when not in use helped, but honestly I shouldnt have had to do that. Still it had some great games that I enjoy. It also taught me a lesson, being the first on the block to buy a console is a bad idea. Wait till the second revision of the machine comes out and then buy. Usually then this sort of problem is solved.
On top of that, by that time, the price has dropped and the second and third gen games are out.
Robotix was my personal favorite of the construction toys, although it was fun to build a boat with those strange looking yellow floaters on capsela. I really liked the big walker legs on robotix, and the fact that all of the motors were independantly controlled. Although I used to build a robotic arm with it, with that counter weight on the arm, those tiny motors sure didnt sound like they could handle it.
Just kinda wondering when debian packages will start showing up in unstable. I heard awhile ago that it may be sometime before that occurs, but I havent heard any news recently.
Yes, drug R&D is intensly expensive, but a significant amount of that research cost in many cases is publicly funded. In those cases, I really dont think the drug companies should have the right to patent it. I'm all for private companies making a profit when its their money at risk, but corporate welfare has to stop sometime.
Truely great troll, full of enough half truths just to be good. Read my post, it refers to the Bill of Rights, not the Constitution. If it meant citizens, then it wouldn't say people, the delination is pretty clear all the way through. A great example of this is the Miranda case, I believe he was an illegal immigrant, but there was a big stink about his rights in a court of law. As for INS, I'm not fond of them either, but every time we leave the country, we make sure, either by calling the INS or checking their web page, what documents we need for her to get back in (she is a singaporean national). We show our documents, we go through, no problem. If you dont have them, its like driving a car with out your license on you, your asking for trouble.
Most of the basic constitutional rights still remain the same no matter whether you are a citizen or not. The Bill of Rights makes this very clear in the fact that it refers to people in almost all cases not involving voting. Read the Bill of Rights . No mention of citizens or citizenship at all. So get your facts straight before you post. The guy still has rights.
Alright, I'll bite on this troll. First of all I have yet to see any study that has ever been able to link pure porn and rape. Its B.S. Hell your best link to rape at least in the college life, is either being in a fraternity or a member of an atheletic team. Now as far as anorexia, take a look at Cosmo, or fashion models, or even better barbie. These are things that women see and read much more than a game or a gaming magazine. I spend more time with my girlfriend saying "you're not fat, those girls in the magazine are just sickly thin", even though she is height weight proportional and quite shapely. She never complains about being fat when she sees me play unreal tournament or quake or anything. She doesnt complain about being fat while she plays The Sims. If you want to complain about the objectification of women, start with the stuff they read, I have a feeling you will find a much better link there.
So apple is exploiting BSD license software. Big whoop, Microsoft, and damn near every company that makes a form of UNIX does too. Does it break the license? nope. Is it nice? nope, but none of them are in business to be nice, they are in business to make money.
No, I think you misunderstood. I missed the palm functionality that was in Gnome. As in KDE doesnt have it. In fact Gnome had good integration even before I used evolution.
I switched from gnome to KDE soon after 2.0 came out. I've loved the switch (no hard feelings toward the Gnomish among you, its a good desktop too) but the one thing I miss is the intergration of the address book, the mail client, and the palm pilot. In KDE you have kpilot, which just basically works as a backup for your palm. I hope this Aethera program can intergrate better with my palm pilot than the current batch of kde programs can.
One thing that impressed me was that they had one of the smaller record label execs was speaking before them. I believe it was the head of TVT. One of his major points was that napster wasnt just popular becasue of the free as in beer nature of the music. He thought its major success was the freedom of choice that it provided, allowing easier access to new and unusual music, which honestly is the major reason I use it. Yes he did think that napster was breaking copyright laws, but he was ready to make a deal with them so they could actually still have the music trading, but the copyright could be taken care of and some sort of payment could be made. He definately sounded more intelligent than any of the other record execs. He was also concerned about the division between the larger labels and the independant labels in application of copyright laws. Kudos to the committee and to CSPAN for providing some airtime and publicity to a viewpoint we dont see in the regular debates on this issue.
I love my dreamcast, PSO has been a blast, NFL2k1 was alot of fun, Skies of Arcadia has been one of the best RPG's I've played in awhile, and Crazy Taix is one of the few games that me and my girlfriend both enjoyed. Still, its the same old story from sega, another botched half supported system. Sega CD, 32x, Saturn, now Dreamcast. That being said, this problem with marketing, and corporate infighting has forced its in house development teams to become extremely strong and creative, which is exactly what sega is going to need now. With the Sega Sports label, they could really do some damage to EA right in its core market, the sports games, hence the bad mouthing from both sides. AM2 can make great fighting and driving games, and Shenmue, for all its faults, definately is original. With sonic team you have a group that really understands the platform game well, and is getting a trial by fire initiation into the world of online gaming by PSO. And flat out, no other company around translates fun arcade games into fun console games. I just hope that the BS that destroyed their consoles doesnt destroy what could be a great third party publisher.
Ironically, Baseball has one of the only exemptions from anti-trust law. It doesnt make it a cartel, but it definately makes it a monopoly with out legal control. In fact, during the last strike, one of the threats laid on MLB was the removal of its anti trust status. If there is another work stoppage, it might be time to pull the plug on it.
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I used to drive combine during the summer while I was in high school (i'm still convinced I'm the only person to listen to the Chemical Brothers and Orbital while driving a tractor), and the one thing I learned from that experience is that Duct tape and bailing wire will fix anything. When its 50 miles to the repair man, you learn to fix things yourself with what you have. That sort of problem solving and self sufficiency helps alot in the computer world, where the perfect solution may exist, but costs you 20 grand, but a good enough solution can be done extremely cheap.
Uh, Sonny Bono was a republican, and he pretty much handed Disney what it wanted too with the most recent copyright extension. Face it, both parties are filled with whores. Liberal media likes to call the conservatives whores, and the conservatives like to call the liberals whores. The problem is, they are both right.
And how many of those dead people had anything to do with the 1967 invasion? There is plenty of blame to go around in the middle east, especially when the palestinians and the isralies are both acting like first rate fuckos. Both sides show exactly why religion and politics shouldnt mix.
Its been awhile since I read the Communist Manifesto, but for true marxist communism, a dictatorship of the proletariat is a nessecary step. The eventual hope is to remove all the government apparatus and the people will take care of themselves, and communism would spread around the planet, and the concept of a nation state would dissappear. Eventually this would end with no need for government. Considering that the nation state has not dissappeared, and there is no one world government, communism with out dictatorship wouldnt be possible. Perhaps you meant socialism, which economically is very similar to communism. Socialism's only major difference is the method of enacting the policy, generally socialist tried to work within the existing government structure.
I see tar.gz and some RPM's but no .debs. Is there someone packaging them, or will I have to wait till march when it gets out of beta for it to be put in unstable?
lets see, we have a futurist who got lucky and predicted near future stuff pretty well, i.e. Age of rational machines) and then decides to try a little more. Sounds like a Ray Kurzweil book I read a couple of years ago, the Age of Spiritual Machines.
The major problem I see with these futurists saying that we will move so fast in the next hudred years is the capacity of humans to change that quickly and handle the power that it will give us. At some point augmenting humans directly, either through genetics or cybernetics will be nessecary, and I cant see us handling it well. We cant agree on what to do with cloning or fetal cell use, and these are the beginning of the augmentation process.
Warning this is nitpicking, but an important point that should be made. Full on capitalism is the abscene of government controls. What we have is a mix of socialism and capitalism, what most people call a free market economy, and for this, the government must be involved in it. The captialism involves things like private enterprise, and the socialist aspects are things like anti-trust laws, safe product laws, unemployment, and welfare. It takes both aspects for an economy to work, but the result is not capitalism.
The computer market reminds me of the way cars are. Older cars had wide open engine areas with plenty of room to work on them, nowadays the engine area is so packed, it makes even changing the oil a real bugger. You want smaller form factor? Then go with a pre built machine. If you want to customise the hell out of it, your pretty much stuck with the older atx form factor. Unfortunately, just like cars the two seem to be mutually exclusive right now.
I was really troubled by the fact they struck down the statute on violent games, but the ban on sexual content was left alone. Does anyone besides me find that really troubling? I find it really troubling that its alright to show someones head being blown off, but you show a breast and suddenly its banned.
Well, in rural areas large mp3 collections are problematic because of the lack of broadband. I lived in rural montana for quite awhile, and you were lucky to get 28.8. Even ISDN was not an option there. Also, there are situations where radio does things that are not possible with mp3, namely any sort of live event from sporting events to talk radio. Personally, I would have killed for this sort of thing when I used to drive combine for harvest. I had my choice of NPR (which isnt bad, but can get really monotonous) or the right wing radio talk network.
Let me guess, its an Nvidia board. there is a documented bug with 2k and xp and the latest detonator drivers. the first patch supposedly will fix it. the only solution so far is to roll back your drivers, or wait for the patch
Oh boy, another overpriced mp3 player, just what I need. I really dislike memory or hd based players as you can buy a burner and an mp3cd player for less than the cost of these devices I'll go buy a portable mp3 cd player and be done with it.
But, since its not an iWalk, let the Apple buying palm rumors return.
Not nessecarily, the OS is loaded with the game. Most of the best games for dreamcast used segas proprietary OS instead. I'm only aware of two games that used WinCE, some casino game, and Sega Rally 2. The really amazing games like Crazy Taxi, the NFL series, Soul Caliber, and Skies of Arcadia all never used WinCE.
Now as far as Microsoft making a poor console that crashes? Well, I have a first gen PS1 that locks up and hiccups quite a bit, a little fun with the bias screw, a fan stand and unplugging the power supply when not in use helped, but honestly I shouldnt have had to do that. Still it had some great games that I enjoy. It also taught me a lesson, being the first on the block to buy a console is a bad idea. Wait till the second revision of the machine comes out and then buy. Usually then this sort of problem is solved.
On top of that, by that time, the price has dropped and the second and third gen games are out.
Robotix was my personal favorite of the construction toys, although it was fun to build a boat with those strange looking yellow floaters on capsela. I really liked the big walker legs on robotix, and the fact that all of the motors were independantly controlled. Although I used to build a robotic arm with it, with that counter weight on the arm, those tiny motors sure didnt sound like they could handle it.
Just kinda wondering when debian packages will start showing up in unstable. I heard awhile ago that it may be sometime before that occurs, but I havent heard any news recently.
Yes, drug R&D is intensly expensive, but a significant amount of that research cost in many cases is publicly funded. In those cases, I really dont think the drug companies should have the right to patent it. I'm all for private companies making a profit when its their money at risk, but corporate welfare has to stop sometime.
Truely great troll, full of enough half truths just to be good. Read my post, it refers to the Bill of Rights, not the Constitution. If it meant citizens, then it wouldn't say people, the delination is pretty clear all the way through. A great example of this is the Miranda case, I believe he was an illegal immigrant, but there was a big stink about his rights in a court of law. As for INS, I'm not fond of them either, but every time we leave the country, we make sure, either by calling the INS or checking their web page, what documents we need for her to get back in (she is a singaporean national). We show our documents, we go through, no problem. If you dont have them, its like driving a car with out your license on you, your asking for trouble.
Most of the basic constitutional rights still remain the same no matter whether you are a citizen or not. The Bill of Rights makes this very clear in the fact that it refers to people in almost all cases not involving voting. Read the Bill of Rights . No mention of citizens or citizenship at all. So get your facts straight before you post. The guy still has rights.
Alright, I'll bite on this troll. First of all I have yet to see any study that has ever been able to link pure porn and rape. Its B.S. Hell your best link to rape at least in the college life, is either being in a fraternity or a member of an atheletic team. Now as far as anorexia, take a look at Cosmo, or fashion models, or even better barbie. These are things that women see and read much more than a game or a gaming magazine. I spend more time with my girlfriend saying "you're not fat, those girls in the magazine are just sickly thin", even though she is height weight proportional and quite shapely. She never complains about being fat when she sees me play unreal tournament or quake or anything. She doesnt complain about being fat while she plays The Sims. If you want to complain about the objectification of women, start with the stuff they read, I have a feeling you will find a much better link there.
So apple is exploiting BSD license software. Big whoop, Microsoft, and damn near every company that makes a form of UNIX does too. Does it break the license? nope. Is it nice? nope, but none of them are in business to be nice, they are in business to make money.
No, I think you misunderstood. I missed the palm functionality that was in Gnome. As in KDE doesnt have it. In fact Gnome had good integration even before I used evolution.
I switched from gnome to KDE soon after 2.0 came out. I've loved the switch (no hard feelings toward the Gnomish among you, its a good desktop too) but the one thing I miss is the intergration of the address book, the mail client, and the palm pilot. In KDE you have kpilot, which just basically works as a backup for your palm. I hope this Aethera program can intergrate better with my palm pilot than the current batch of kde programs can.
One thing that impressed me was that they had one of the smaller record label execs was speaking before them. I believe it was the head of TVT. One of his major points was that napster wasnt just popular becasue of the free as in beer nature of the music. He thought its major success was the freedom of choice that it provided, allowing easier access to new and unusual music, which honestly is the major reason I use it. Yes he did think that napster was breaking copyright laws, but he was ready to make a deal with them so they could actually still have the music trading, but the copyright could be taken care of and some sort of payment could be made. He definately sounded more intelligent than any of the other record execs. He was also concerned about the division between the larger labels and the independant labels in application of copyright laws. Kudos to the committee and to CSPAN for providing some airtime and publicity to a viewpoint we dont see in the regular debates on this issue.
I love my dreamcast, PSO has been a blast, NFL2k1 was alot of fun, Skies of Arcadia has been one of the best RPG's I've played in awhile, and Crazy Taix is one of the few games that me and my girlfriend both enjoyed. Still, its the same old story from sega, another botched half supported system. Sega CD, 32x, Saturn, now Dreamcast. That being said, this problem with marketing, and corporate infighting has forced its in house development teams to become extremely strong and creative, which is exactly what sega is going to need now. With the Sega Sports label, they could really do some damage to EA right in its core market, the sports games, hence the bad mouthing from both sides. AM2 can make great fighting and driving games, and Shenmue, for all its faults, definately is original. With sonic team you have a group that really understands the platform game well, and is getting a trial by fire initiation into the world of online gaming by PSO. And flat out, no other company around translates fun arcade games into fun console games. I just hope that the BS that destroyed their consoles doesnt destroy what could be a great third party publisher.
Ironically, Baseball has one of the only exemptions from anti-trust law. It doesnt make it a cartel, but it definately makes it a monopoly with out legal control. In fact, during the last strike, one of the threats laid on MLB was the removal of its anti trust status. If there is another work stoppage, it might be time to pull the plug on it.