Do lesbians go for strip clubs with nude women dancers, or would renting a girl-on-girl(s) porno flick be more appropriate?
Most of the lesbians I know do both. Though they seem to prefer the live nude dancers thing, even though it's WAY more expensive. My hypothesis is that the emotional connection (you know how women go for that), though temporary, is more intense (like, there at all) with a live person.
As a side note, my lesbian friends, when I asked them, said the strippers we very happy to do lap dances and the like for them, and some stippers even told them they prefer to dance for a woman.
It's kinda the enjoyment of getting one over on the big, bad MPAA (or any other really big and powerful corp. that steps on the publics rights on a regualr basis).
As far as napster goes, I get alot of stuff there, whether I own it or not. But if I can find 2 good songs that are off the same CD, I'll go buy the CD just for the convienience of having it.
I want to pay for a movie, I'll go rent or buy the DVD. If i'm going to spend 3 days downloading a huge movie file that I have to watch on my 'puter, I want it for free.
If and when bandwidth gets to the point that I can grab a flick off the net in, say, 5 minutes, and watch it on my TV, I will gladly pay $5 or whatever for it.
The internet is still in it's "Wild West" phase, and I say lets do what we can to keep it there as long as we can, because when it gets into it's "Civilized" phase, things are going to get boring right quick.
Ah, yes... fond memories - an 11 year old geekd typing BASIC commands into an apple II (or was it a II+ ?) in 1981...
I had a TRS-80 model III at home. It had screen res of a total of 1024 pixels. I don't know what the horz x vert res was, but there was 1024 pixels total on the screen, and all white or black.
Then my grade school got a bunch of Apple IIs. color! Hi-res! same BASIC! whoo hoo!
I already knew BASIC, so all during my BASIC programming classes I just made pretty screen-saver type things. I thought I was hot shit, for an 11 year old. I remember trying to write an OS. In BASIC. That got nipped in the bud pretty quick.:-)
I owe alot to the Woz. My current job, for example. If it wasn't for Apple and the TRS-80, I'd be working at a record store, or somthing, making $6.00 an hour instead of (much) > $6.00
I, for one, would not pay. In fact, I would immensly enjoy trying to crack this protection scheme. I would enjoy trying to crack it way more than I would enjoy watching the film. An I would enjoy watching a film I cracked (or recieved a cracked copy of) way more than watching a film I paid for.
I have been using Mandrake since 5.1, and this is the best yet. They really got everything organized well in the default KDE setup, integrating all the apps together, instead of putting the gnome apps in the "red hat" menu.
It recognized my pcmcia cards out of the box. I can even switch from my Aironet wireless LAN card (at work) to my 3Com 10/100 LAN card (at home) without a re-boot or anything, just re-starting network.
The "K -> Configuration -> hardware -> laptop settings" (kcmlaptop) is way cool and very usefull.
Eterm is (finally) included in the default install.
AbiWord "preview" version is included, and it's pretty cool. I was just messing with it a bit last night (I mostly use xemacs for any type of text stuff) and it worked great.
IBM thinkpad 240, btw, and it was just as easy as a standard desktop install.
And it was cool, but it's pretty much the same game as Diablo One. Looks better, and has some more stuff like skills and more items/magic/monsters, but it's still "Wander around and kill things" without much "role playing" or interaction.
Of course, in the beta, only the Barbarian was available to play, and only a small part of the first adventure. So, it could be alot cooler than the Beta was.
On the upside, it looks really good, and had no bugs that I could find after many hours of play. And Diablo One was a GREAT game, so you don't want to fix what aint broke.
For the past 6 months, I have rejoiced, silently, every time good news about AMD came out.
"AMD grosses $1 Billon"
and also celebrated when Intel had a screw up
"Intel recalls 840 chipset"
This is not because I hate Intel. I like Intel. The Pentium family of chips has revolutionized home computing. I have a dual celeron machine (BP6) that I am typing on right now. I have a P II 450 machine at work that rulez.
But, Competition is good
If AMD wasn't putting the screws on Intel, then they wouldn't give a damn what the consumer wants. They'd be as bad as Microsoft. But, with AMD giving Intel real competition, things couldn't be better in PC hobbyist land. Chips are cheap as all hell, and there is real choice in the market.
And Intel is forced to pay attention to what we want. We want Dual PIII boxes for cheap. Intel has listened and responded.
I'm just saying that to the developers it could look as if "We did all this work, and now Microsoft is suing us!"
In some companies, (and I'm not saying VA/Andover/Slashdot is one of them) there is a strong corporate identity, where what happens to one person feels like it's happening to all.
From Salon.com:
"[Kerberos] is an open standard, developed in part by Theodore Ts'o, a software developer who now works for VA Linux
Ts'o says that Microsoft has taken extensions of Kerberos that the company "promised two years ago to release freely to universities" and made those extensions proprietary. "They welshed on their promises," Ts'o says. "I'm fairly indignant about it.""
----
So what I'm saying is that MS pissed off Ts'o, and then, later, threatned legal action against a division of Ts'o current employer over a something related to what pissed off Ts'o in the first place.
Sure, it's a tenuous string of events, but interesting.
has anyone noticed that the guys who wrote Kerberos in the first place are really pissed at MS? And they work for VA Linux, who owns Andover, who owns Slashdot.
So MS is, in effect, adding insult to injury by taking legal action against the company that employs the creators of an open protocol that MS is subverting.
"We will take your work, make it proprietary, then threaten legal action when you complain!"
VA Linux/Andover/Slashdot should sue MS! I'm sure they can find the grounds for it somewhere.
Actually, I had heard they were working on system admin tools. I was hoping for an easy way to change color depths and virtual desktop size without having to edit XF86Config. But then I read that they would be doing the system admin for you. That kinda sucks, from my perspective.
I will also admit to being in a bad mood when I made that post.:-)
However, I count myself in the camp of people who don't want linux 'dumbed down' so Joe A User can have his way. But then, with Open Source, there will always be an alternative desktop, and of course, the command line, so I guess we're safe.
"What this means is that over the next couple of months, the serial presentation will allow you to help us determine the book's future"
What this means is that a bunch of selfish whiners are keeping a much need book from being published. A book that could actually do some good in the world.
"You can't quote me! That post is my property"
You guys are just as bad as the RIAA amd the MPAA.
Forgive the rant, but the Linux retail release coming out now is kind of pointless. If idsoftware really wanted to get an accurate measure...
I've seen a lot of bitching about this here. 2 points:
1) I ordered my copy from Loki off thier website and got it one week after the windows version came out. I have been fragging in the full version of Linux Quake 3 for several weeks already.
2) The Windows and Linux versions of Quake 3 were given to distributors at the same time. The Windows distributors spent extra money to get that version into boxes and into store ASAP. Since I got my CD so soon, obviously Loki was waiting on the packaging. So quit blaming id.
Pretty much every diehard Quake fan has already purchased the win32 release and downloaded the linux client and server binaries
This die-hard quake fan ordered off Loki's site and waited a whole extra few days so I could cast my vote for Linux. PLUS - the binaries are not yet available for download for any version.
"just run two machines for god sakes, have one machine running linux with your geeky tools and have another pure 100% windos box with latest 3d hardware, celeron433 etc.... for games."
I just picked up "Linux Complete" for $19.99 (actually $17.99 at Crown). It's mostly HOW-TOs from the LDP (and it says LDP on the front and back covers) with some commentary thrown in and IT ROCKS!
This is a really good book. Almost 1000 pages, and the HOW-TOs it chose seem to be really up to date. It really covers networking and security well.
It's even got the GNOME and KDE user manuals (though if you need a manual to use Gnome or KDE then you better stick with Windows) and a Command reference (looks like the man pages).
The only complaint I have is the command reference should have the current command being discussed listed on the header of each page.
I think this is an "official" publication from the LDP. It mentions the LDP alot, and the author says in his acknowledgements "we of the LDP".
Anyway, I just wanted to point out something that I think the LDP is doing RIGHT NOW that is good (this book came out sometime this year)
Online docs are great, but I have this fetish about holding a book in my hands...:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Well, because I can get a celeron 500 for about $89 US, and there doesn't seem to be any shortage of them around here (San Diego, Ca, USA)
A pIII 500 from the same store is $179.
actually, I had to read it in grade school....
one of the few "compulsory" reads that was actually any good.
-geekd
How about the right of free speech? As in the right to simply LINK to another web page (see MPAA vs alt2600 re: DeCSS)
/. trouble over the DeCSS thing. HAve you been living under a rock?
Hell, they were even gining
Do lesbians go for strip clubs with nude women dancers, or would renting a girl-on-girl(s) porno flick be more appropriate?
Most of the lesbians I know do both. Though they seem to prefer the live nude dancers thing, even though it's WAY more expensive. My hypothesis is that the emotional connection (you know how women go for that), though temporary, is more intense (like, there at all) with a live person.
As a side note, my lesbian friends, when I asked them, said the strippers we very happy to do lap dances and the like for them, and some stippers even told them they prefer to dance for a woman.
(or recieved a cracked copy of)
It's kinda the enjoyment of getting one over on the big, bad MPAA (or any other really big and powerful corp. that steps on the publics rights on a regualr basis).
As far as napster goes, I get alot of stuff there, whether I own it or not. But if I can find 2 good songs that are off the same CD, I'll go buy the CD just for the convienience of having it.
I want to pay for a movie, I'll go rent or buy the DVD. If i'm going to spend 3 days downloading a huge movie file that I have to watch on my 'puter, I want it for free.
If and when bandwidth gets to the point that I can grab a flick off the net in, say, 5 minutes, and watch it on my TV, I will gladly pay $5 or whatever for it.
The internet is still in it's "Wild West" phase, and I say lets do what we can to keep it there as long as we can, because when it gets into it's "Civilized" phase, things are going to get boring right quick.
Jobs is a marketing slob.
Not that marketing slobs aren't necessary, or even desireable (good ones) but they don't belong in the Inventors Hall Of Fame.
Ah, yes... fond memories - an 11 year old geekd typing BASIC commands into an apple II (or was it a II+ ?) in 1981...
:-)
I had a TRS-80 model III at home. It had screen res of a total of 1024 pixels. I don't know what the horz x vert res was, but there was 1024 pixels total on the screen, and all white or black.
Then my grade school got a bunch of Apple IIs. color! Hi-res! same BASIC! whoo hoo!
I already knew BASIC, so all during my BASIC programming classes I just made pretty screen-saver type things. I thought I was hot shit, for an 11 year old. I remember trying to write an OS. In BASIC. That got nipped in the bud pretty quick.
I owe alot to the Woz. My current job, for example. If it wasn't for Apple and the TRS-80, I'd be working at a record store, or somthing, making $6.00 an hour instead of (much) > $6.00
Thanks Woz!
I, for one, would not pay. In fact, I would immensly enjoy trying to crack this protection scheme. I would enjoy trying to crack it way more than I would enjoy watching the film. An I would enjoy watching a film I cracked (or recieved a cracked copy of) way more than watching a film I paid for.
I have a feeling I am not alone here.
and it rocks.
I have been using Mandrake since 5.1, and this is the best yet. They really got everything organized well in the default KDE setup, integrating all the apps together, instead of putting the gnome apps in the "red hat" menu.
It recognized my pcmcia cards out of the box. I can even switch from my Aironet wireless LAN card (at work) to my 3Com 10/100 LAN card (at home) without a re-boot or anything, just re-starting network.
The "K -> Configuration -> hardware -> laptop settings" (kcmlaptop) is way cool and very usefull.
Eterm is (finally) included in the default install.
AbiWord "preview" version is included, and it's pretty cool. I was just messing with it a bit last night (I mostly use xemacs for any type of text stuff) and it worked great.
IBM thinkpad 240, btw, and it was just as easy as a standard desktop install.
enjoy,
geekd
You are correct sir.
And it was cool, but it's pretty much the same game as Diablo One. Looks better, and has some more stuff like skills and more items/magic/monsters, but it's still "Wander around and kill things" without much "role playing" or interaction.
Of course, in the beta, only the Barbarian was available to play, and only a small part of the first adventure. So, it could be alot cooler than the Beta was.
On the upside, it looks really good, and had no bugs that I could find after many hours of play. And Diablo One was a GREAT game, so you don't want to fix what aint broke.
-geekd
actually, there can (and is) great differences in the sound quality that different encoder produce.
Here's an article that explains why.
http://arstechnica.com/wanker desk/1q00/mp3/mp3-1.html
It's a lossy compression, so what gets 'lost' greatly affects the sound quality.
Deciding what to 'lose' is what makes one encoder different from another
I AM using plugger.... going to delete the .png MIME types now...
Thanks!
-geekd
Thanks for the info!
.png? (the screenshots)
Now, can anyone tell me why my Netscape 4.72 on Red Hat 6.2 (upgraded from 6.1 upgraded from 6.0) won't display a
I get a pop-up window saying "/big/long/filename.png: Unknown or unsupported image type"
Anyone?
-geekd
Intel has come to thier senses.
For the past 6 months, I have rejoiced, silently, every time good news about AMD came out.
"AMD grosses $1 Billon"
and also celebrated when Intel had a screw up
"Intel recalls 840 chipset"
This is not because I hate Intel. I like Intel. The Pentium family of chips has revolutionized home computing. I have a dual celeron machine (BP6) that I am typing on right now. I have a P II 450 machine at work that rulez.
But, Competition is good
If AMD wasn't putting the screws on Intel, then they wouldn't give a damn what the consumer wants. They'd be as bad as Microsoft. But, with AMD giving Intel real competition, things couldn't be better in PC hobbyist land. Chips are cheap as all hell, and there is real choice in the market.
And Intel is forced to pay attention to what we want. We want Dual PIII boxes for cheap. Intel has listened and responded.
The free market rules, when there is competition.
-geekd
I'm just saying that to the developers it could look as if "We did all this work, and now Microsoft is suing us!"
In some companies, (and I'm not saying VA/Andover/Slashdot is one of them) there is a strong corporate identity, where what happens to one person feels like it's happening to all.
From Salon.com:
"[Kerberos] is an open standard, developed in part by Theodore Ts'o, a software developer who now works for VA Linux
Ts'o says that Microsoft has taken extensions of Kerberos that the company "promised two years ago to release freely to universities" and made those extensions proprietary. "They welshed on their promises," Ts'o says. "I'm fairly indignant about it.""
----
So what I'm saying is that MS pissed off Ts'o, and then, later, threatned legal action against a division of Ts'o current employer over a something related to what pissed off Ts'o in the first place.
Sure, it's a tenuous string of events, but interesting.
-geekd
has anyone noticed that the guys who wrote Kerberos in the first place are really pissed at MS? And they work for VA Linux, who owns Andover, who owns Slashdot.
So MS is, in effect, adding insult to injury by taking legal action against the company that employs the creators of an open protocol that MS is subverting.
"We will take your work, make it proprietary, then threaten legal action when you complain!"
VA Linux/Andover/Slashdot should sue MS! I'm sure they can find the grounds for it somewhere.
-geekd
Actually, I had heard they were working on system admin tools. I was hoping for an easy way to change color depths and virtual desktop size without having to edit XF86Config. But then I read that they would be doing the system admin for you. That kinda sucks, from my perspective.
:-)
I will also admit to being in a bad mood when I made that post.
However, I count myself in the camp of people who don't want linux 'dumbed down' so Joe A User can have his way. But then, with Open Source, there will always be an alternative desktop, and of course, the command line, so I guess we're safe.
"What this means is that over the next couple of months, the serial presentation will allow you to help us determine the book's future"
What this means is that a bunch of selfish whiners are keeping a much need book from being published. A book that could actually do some good in the world.
"You can't quote me! That post is my property"
You guys are just as bad as the RIAA amd the MPAA.
I've seen a lot of bitching about this here. 2 points:
1) I ordered my copy from Loki off thier website and got it one week after the windows version came out. I have been fragging in the full version of Linux Quake 3 for several weeks already.
2) The Windows and Linux versions of Quake 3 were given to distributors at the same time. The Windows distributors spent extra money to get that version into boxes and into store ASAP.
Since I got my CD so soon, obviously Loki was waiting on the packaging. So quit blaming id.
Pretty much every diehard Quake fan has already purchased the win32 release and downloaded the linux client and server binaries
This die-hard quake fan ordered off Loki's site and waited a whole extra few days so I could cast my vote for Linux.
PLUS - the binaries are not yet available for download for any version.
-geekd
"just run two machines for god sakes, have one machine running linux with your geeky tools and have another pure 100% windos box with latest 3d hardware, celeron433 etc.... for games."
:-)
Most if us do.
we call it "Wintendo"
the libMesaVoodoo.so.3.3 that came with q3demo sucks. Daryll Straus says they grabbed the wrong branch off cvs and shipped that.
play with the old libMesaVoodoo.so.3.1 from q3test 1.08 and things will look MUCH nicer.
I was really impressed with how much better it looks compared to q3test
'course it does hang on me every once in a while, and q3test never did.
:-(
well, UT hangs on me every other game..... Q3Demo not nearly as often.
I have news for you. You're average Unix Sys Admin makes alot more than your better than average MCSE
Well, to be a Unix sysadmin, you actually have to KNOW something.
The be an MSCE, you just have to pass a test. A test that is freely available on the net. Just write the answers on your hand.
I just picked up "Linux Complete" for $19.99 (actually $17.99 at Crown). It's mostly HOW-TOs from the LDP (and it says LDP on the front and back covers) with some commentary thrown in and IT ROCKS!
:-)
This is a really good book. Almost 1000 pages, and the HOW-TOs it chose seem to be really up to date. It really covers networking and security well.
It's even got the GNOME and KDE user manuals (though if you need a manual to use Gnome or KDE then you better stick with Windows) and a Command reference (looks like the man pages).
The only complaint I have is the command reference should have the current command being discussed listed on the header of each page.
I think this is an "official" publication from the LDP. It mentions the LDP alot, and the author says in his acknowledgements "we of the LDP".
Anyway, I just wanted to point out something that I think the LDP is doing RIGHT NOW that is good (this book came out sometime this year)
Online docs are great, but I have this fetish about holding a book in my hands...
-geekd