Ever heard of something called DeCSS? Go to the search page if you haven't. For that matter, substitute DeCSS with Napster, SDMI, or CueCat -- you see the pattern? Yep, they post an article about all three of these things once every fifteen minutes.
Pay a visit to THG and check out the article about compressed DVD video on a CD-ROM. No special tricks required.
, search by topic and see if you can't find an article posted once every 15 minutes. You'll see the same pattern
According to the Greens:
Big corporations - bad.
Big government - good.
There is some sanity in other parts of their platform, and even bigger holes elsewhere. I had no idea it was this bad, and I almost voted for the guy before I went to his rally at the Target Center in Minneapolis and heard everything they were proposing...
No, I was just suggesting that his definition of "distribution" for Windows 2000 OSes might be a bit too loose. Red Hat fragments just as much with only one kernel, vs.,the two MS kernels I mentioned (and left out WinCE).
No, not even close! There are two kernels, and everything except ME is the W2K kernel with varying degrees of functionality. The versions are as follows:
Windows Me (I prefer to call it complete shite)
Windows 2000 Pro (very happy with it)
Windows 2000 Server (which I would run if I had more RAM)
How about the one that cites Moore's Law and questions why we have supercomputers at all? Here's a taste:
A 12 year project on today's hardware would take only 6 years with the hardware of 2006, 3 years with the hardware of 2009, and only nine months with the hardware in 2012. Why not wait?
Well, I think the darker beers fare better because less light can pass through the bottle and skunk its contents...
As for lagers... blecch! It's been ages since I drank one that I enjoyed. I used to think Upper Canada was the greatest lager ever, but looking at the other beers I drank at that time in my life, it probably isn't very good. UC doesn't export to the U.S., so I'd have to make another trip to the Great White North if I wanted to quaff one.
Putting those two subjects together and making them fit a third, dark lagers are very suspicious beers. As a rule, I don't drink any beer labeled as a "dark", nor do I drink any of that brewery's other beers. To me, the label "dark" is a red flag that means the brewer is either completely ignorant of the many brew styles or marketing it as an inferior, mainstream beer with the implication that it is either exotic or more potent.
IMO, the forcing of hops to share a category with quinine is incredibly unfair. I prefer to describe hops as "yummy" instead of "bitter":)
I have no idea where the non-hops bitter comes from -- it doesn't matter where or when I buy imports, although darker ales always fare better. It's kind of sad.
What I meant to say is that when otherwise great German or Canadian beer makes it to the U.S., it's nothing like the stuff you get in its native country -- bitter, coarse, and/or skunky. Blargh!!!
Anyway, since you were in Colorado, what did you think Fat Tire Amber Ale? I think it's a good beer with better marketing (sorta like Guinness).
I take exception to your attempted statement that I am an unintelligent American, though your "superior" English (because it was not taught in the US) actually seems to include me among "the majority of intelligent Americans".
I was targeting those unintelligent USians. You don't realize how many people wouldn't take any stout other than Guinness because they "can't stand the taste". People buy Guinness Extra Stout (blech!) and expect to be able to mix it with their Harp or Bass to make a Black and Tan/Half and Half. They're idiots.
If anything, I think you are the one blinded by isolationism. Fresh beer tastes better, and I can testify to this. In Canada, the local beer tastes great. In Germany the local beer tastes great. In the U.S., they both taste like crap. The combination of age and possible "export versions" always ruin them.
Furthermore, different countries have different tastes, and I won't make any jokes about English food;). If you want the reference implmentation of a USian craft beer, drink Sierra Nevada (and Minnesota's Summit in my case). Almost everything else falls short, but all of them are fresh, none of them are skunky, and there is no aluminium aftertaste.
Oh, and there were no racial implications -- it's just that Irish people live in Ireland, where you can get real Guinness, not the facsimile they ship across the pond. WRT your implication that I am an ignorant USian, I *do* hope that flame was spawned off your misunderstanding of my statement about the Irish.
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I won't drink Guinness, but not because of some altruistic boycott. I'm not drinking it on the grounds that it sucks. The widget only does so much, and Guinness refuses to put the Stout in straight-up brown bottles. Don't confuse the Stout (cans) with the "Extra" Stout, which does come in bottles, and sucks even more.
Then again, no export Guinness is going to taste the same as the Irish brew -- my experience from local brewpubs tells me that stouts from hand pumped casks with natural carbonation are MUCH better than the same beer from force-carbonated kegs. It is just as much different as canned beer vs. bottled beer of the same breed.
Unless you are Irish, at least one of these things is true:
1. You drink Guinness because of the name.
2. You drink Guinness because of the head.
3. You drink Guinness because of the can (see Foster's Lager).
4. You drink Guinness because it comes in a Black and Tan.
5. You drink Guinness because it's imported (see Heineken)
a. EXTENSION: you drink it because it is imported and NOT skunky.
There is nothing special about this beer, and I strongly recommend that you try the stouts and porters from Sierra Nevada (pretty much US-wide) or your local craft brweries. If you don't like them, you are guilty of several of the charges above, and if you do like them, at least one of them will taste better than export Guinness.
Thank you, and please mod me as flamebait if you are guilty as charged above.
Don't believe anyone's links. There have been far too many times that I have unwittingly clicked a link to http://www.goatse.cx or misdirected on links to the Perl or Python websites. Go back to the Slashdot FAQ and look under #consideredharmful.
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If that's the case, how were Linda Tripp's illegal telephone recordings considered admissible?
No, it does not automatically run in the preview pane -- I promise. The user needs to physically open the attachment, and have the Windows Scripting Host installed...
Most Windows 95 machines don't, in Windows 98 it is a frequently chosen option, Windows 2000 it is standard (I believe), and is a very optional component of Windows NT 4.0 -- to get it, you must have at least Service Pack 3, then select WSH as an option in the Windows NT Option Pack. That's still a lot of people...
This is not a poll of/. members for questions -- this is a link to an interview performed by Linux UK. There is no need to ask questions, because they won't be answered here.
vi is for cheap people. If you want to do anything more than basic text editing, you should be using an X11 app instead -- I can see a lot more lines of text at 800x600px than I can at 80x24chr. If you're stuck with a shell, pico is your friend.
I'm actually very excited about a "better pico than pico", which is the goal of nano (tip was a better name, but I digress). Maybe I'll check out the newer versions -- it's kinda neat to hear from the developer himself!
I am no slave to fashion and the latest trendy brands, particularly ones that are less than subtle with their branding, but occasionally have to make exceptions.
Tommy Hilfiger jeans RULE. I love every pair of 'em that I own. In fact, I can't wait to get home from work and rip off my lousy Dockers® for a pair of Tommies... well, it might be too hot to wear any pants when I get home, but you get the idea...
I had a 286 with a 2400 baud modem and ran DR-DOS -- it was reliable technology, and with lynx, surfing most sites really wasn't that much of a problem until recently. Three years ago, my ISP shut down their 14.4 modem pool, which was the only one I could connect to, stopped providing tech support and laughed at me when I called ino the queue, yet they continued to charge my card.
Yes, I do feel victimized by my ISP. I feel even worse for using DOS all those years, too. Once I discovered the FreeBSD operating system written by Raymond S. Ericsson, I found that DOS was not so great.
Midway was really good at making "shoot the aliens" games, but eventually everyone got sick of them, and moved on to new ideas.
With FPS, there are just two variables -- plot and graphics, and nobody seems to concerned with the former. King and Ferrari have several more variables to consider...
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Pay a visit to THG and check out the article about compressed DVD video on a CD-ROM. No special tricks required. , search by topic and see if you can't find an article posted once every 15 minutes. You'll see the same pattern
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Big corporations - bad.
Big government - good.
There is some sanity in other parts of their platform, and even bigger holes elsewhere. I had no idea it was this bad, and I almost voted for the guy before I went to his rally at the Target Center in Minneapolis and heard everything they were proposing...
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There are nearly as many flavors as Red Hat, and they only use one kernel!
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A 12 year project on today's hardware would take only 6 years with the hardware of 2006, 3 years with the hardware of 2009, and only nine months with the hardware in 2012. Why not wait?
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I have no idea where the non-hops bitter comes from -- it doesn't matter where or when I buy imports, although darker ales always fare better. It's kind of sad.
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What I meant to say is that when otherwise great German or Canadian beer makes it to the U.S., it's nothing like the stuff you get in its native country -- bitter, coarse, and/or skunky. Blargh!!!
Anyway, since you were in Colorado, what did you think Fat Tire Amber Ale? I think it's a good beer with better marketing (sorta like Guinness).
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I was targeting those unintelligent USians. You don't realize how many people wouldn't take any stout other than Guinness because they "can't stand the taste". People buy Guinness Extra Stout (blech!) and expect to be able to mix it with their Harp or Bass to make a Black and Tan/Half and Half. They're idiots.
If anything, I think you are the one blinded by isolationism. Fresh beer tastes better, and I can testify to this. In Canada, the local beer tastes great. In Germany the local beer tastes great. In the U.S., they both taste like crap. The combination of age and possible "export versions" always ruin them.
Furthermore, different countries have different tastes, and I won't make any jokes about English food ;). If you want the reference implmentation of a USian craft beer, drink Sierra Nevada (and Minnesota's Summit in my case). Almost everything else falls short, but all of them are fresh, none of them are skunky, and there is no aluminium aftertaste.
Oh, and there were no racial implications -- it's just that Irish people live in Ireland, where you can get real Guinness, not the facsimile they ship across the pond. WRT your implication that I am an ignorant USian, I *do* hope that flame was spawned off your misunderstanding of my statement about the Irish.
Cheers,
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Then again, no export Guinness is going to taste the same as the Irish brew -- my experience from local brewpubs tells me that stouts from hand pumped casks with natural carbonation are MUCH better than the same beer from force-carbonated kegs. It is just as much different as canned beer vs. bottled beer of the same breed.
Unless you are Irish, at least one of these things is true:
1. You drink Guinness because of the name.
2. You drink Guinness because of the head.
3. You drink Guinness because of the can (see Foster's Lager).
4. You drink Guinness because it comes in a Black and Tan.
5. You drink Guinness because it's imported (see Heineken)
a. EXTENSION: you drink it because it is imported and NOT skunky.
There is nothing special about this beer, and I strongly recommend that you try the stouts and porters from Sierra Nevada (pretty much US-wide) or your local craft brweries. If you don't like them, you are guilty of several of the charges above, and if you do like them, at least one of them will taste better than export Guinness.
Thank you, and please mod me as flamebait if you are guilty as charged above.
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Most Windows 95 machines don't, in Windows 98 it is a frequently chosen option, Windows 2000 it is standard (I believe), and is a very optional component of Windows NT 4.0 -- to get it, you must have at least Service Pack 3, then select WSH as an option in the Windows NT Option Pack. That's still a lot of people...
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I'm actually very excited about a "better pico than pico", which is the goal of nano (tip was a better name, but I digress). Maybe I'll check out the newer versions -- it's kinda neat to hear from the developer himself!
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Tommy Hilfiger jeans RULE. I love every pair of 'em that I own. In fact, I can't wait to get home from work and rip off my lousy Dockers® for a pair of Tommies... well, it might be too hot to wear any pants when I get home, but you get the idea...
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Then again, it's not just RMS urging developers not to use Motif... I'll join that picket line, too -- Motif is DAMN UGLY...
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Yes, I do feel victimized by my ISP. I feel even worse for using DOS all those years, too. Once I discovered the FreeBSD operating system written by Raymond S. Ericsson, I found that DOS was not so great.
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With FPS, there are just two variables -- plot and graphics, and nobody seems to concerned with the former. King and Ferrari have several more variables to consider...
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