We all know Russia has plenty of weapons that are unaccounted for, (or some that have bad care taking/accounting). So instead of funding all this new bullshit, and this useless war on Iraq, how about we keep funding for arms control like Nunn-Lugar or Start III ?
In India too, the government banned minors from entering Cyber Cafes
Bullshit, I've been to Indian Internet Cafes. And I see kids playing games all the time. In particular they like to play games they can quickly download for free (read: emulators and ROMS, particularly Zsnes).
I guess I should clarify
Most airlines don't give people power-plugs unless they are in First/Business Class. Secondly, in order to use the plug, you have to get a special adapter for your plug (Targus makes these)
Thomas Monaghan is an American billionaire who made a fortune from the Domino's Pizza chain. By the time he sold it, he had used the profits to finance and raise an ultra-right politico-religious imperium.
When they ask why "why?"... I tell them it has all the good apps, etc, and it doesn't have spyware. Everything else I tell them doesn't matter, just the spyware part really gets to them.
There are lots of things that need topics. But for some odd reason the Slashdot editors are more interested in making all these neat Apple topics, and even updating their damn icons (the main apple icon as an example).
I'll just wait till John Carmack has something to say on all of this. Why? because he actually delivers on the technology he speaks of. LucasArts and EA have been going on and on about movie like Video games, and yet have never had much to show for it.
Additionally, any real game player knows that playing the bloody game is *much* better than watching mindless mini-sequences.
If you've ever read a white paper of Google's, you'd realize that they even tell people why they deal with massive clusters over mainframes: lower latency.
Anyone who is seriously in the warez community has no problem with it.
[.. ]
I've had about a dozen dial up users get the UT2004 DVD.
Thats the problem with warez kiddiots. They'd rather waste their lives downloading software, as opposed to doing something productive. Shit, I'd rather spend the 24392394234 hours needed to download UT2004 on dialup, doing something productive like learning perl. Why ? Because 29483984234 hours of my life isn't worth saving 50 bucks. Only if the warez community would get a clue...
I'm on a 10mbit connection, so I'm a dump site.
You have a trackable slashdot account, and you publically admit to this ? Sure there are bigger warez fish to fry, but the less anyone knows about you, the better.
I think the guys at Epic have zero issues making their UT2004 game 5 CDs. For every CD their game is, it only becomes that much harder/annoying to massdownload it from usenet (proken pieces), bittorrent (will take forever), p2p networks (no promise of getting it all) and where ever else.
just my two cents
Sunny Dubey
PS: Bless the Epic guys for UT2004. It has the software renderer back, comes with a single DVD version, and supports linux
Mind you the 9th circuit is the largest out of any district, and definitely the most liberal out of all of them.
Some of non-9th circuit folks are somewhat glad that the 9th circuit pushes the limits on regular basis. For someone has to, and for each time the Supreme Court over-rules them, they have to justify why, which becomes even more interesting.
Agreed. Many people say MS is all bad but they tend to forget the MS has a reputation for eventually making things better. Win2K was a solid OS for business. Win XP is a solid OS for the home(and business).
I call bullshit,
It took MSFT 6 months to fix that SSL bug ? Integrating a freaking browser into the kernel ? And this is good for businesses because.... ?
The ONLY reason for running MSFT software is because everyone else runs it. Its obviously not cheap, not trust worthy, not secure by design, and we all know it screams of consumer abuse
it was the perfect antidote to shows like DS9, which seemed to be so concerned with being "serious" sci fi they forgot about things like character, dialog or plot.
I disagree
Unlike all the other Star Trek series, DS9 had the interesting "Advantage" of being situated in a space station. Which essentially was a non-moving set/location. So while all the other Star Treks were about mindless exploration (and meeting new species in each episode), DS9 was all about building what was there because it was all what they had.
The story/plot of DS9 got quite involved, you had the Federation, Cardassians, Bajorans, the Dominion, and even the Klingons all in a developing plot. On one side you had the Federation and their shaky alliance with the Klingons, on the other you had the Cardassians and the Dominion. WIth the poor, defenseless Bajorans and their worm-hole in the center of it all.
There is no denying it. Mandrake is a lovely 100% GPL user-friendly distro, that seems to be rather popular... (they have a GUI front-end for everything, CUPS, Samba, even VPN!!) It probably beats the crap ot Linspire anyday of the week.
But even without knowing much about this meeting, I'm pretty sure that Mandrakesoft wasn't there. Why? because Mandrakesoft does a crappy job of MARKETING. And its getting really annoying too watching crap distros like Linspire get so much spot-light.
Like I said... this rant was OT and morely for my fellow Mandrake users...
Sunny Dubey
Final Fantasy VII comes to mind ....
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Videogames as Art
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· Score: 1, Interesting
Anyone who played Final Fantasy VII on their PS-X/PC knows what I'm talking about.
Those movies were such vividly rendered with amazing music to match. The art work done was probably the best I've ever seen in any Final Fantasy game. Some of the effects done during game play stood out like no other RPG. Ahh, the memories...
Sunny Dubey
PS: I've been trying to get FF7 working with wine, but have had no luck (I think I need/dev/sequencer support). Anyone else try ?
Slashdot Mirror
On one of the upper lines, it says "UFAG", and on the lower one, it says "LOL".
Nice touch
Deal with the ones we currently have ...
We all know Russia has plenty of weapons that are unaccounted for, (or some that have bad care taking/accounting). So instead of funding all this new bullshit, and this useless war on Iraq, how about we keep funding for arms control like Nunn-Lugar or Start III ?
Sunny Dubey
In India too, the government banned minors from entering Cyber Cafes
Bullshit, I've been to Indian Internet Cafes. And I see kids playing games all the time. In particular they like to play games they can quickly download for free (read: emulators and ROMS, particularly Zsnes).
Sunny Dubey
I guess I should clarify
Most airlines don't give people power-plugs unless they are in First/Business Class. Secondly, in order to use the plug, you have to get a special adapter for your plug (Targus makes these)
'nuff said
Sunny Dubey
When there are too many +5 modded questions, and the mods can't mod any higher ?
Sunny Dubey
From the article itself ...
Thomas Monaghan is an American billionaire who made a fortune from the Domino's Pizza chain. By the time he sold it, he had used the profits to finance and raise an ultra-right politico-religious imperium.
Sunny Dubey
Tell people they need to buy a Mac.
... I tell them it has all the good apps, etc, and it doesn't have spyware. Everything else I tell them doesn't matter, just the spyware part really gets to them.
When they ask why "why?"
Sunny Dubey
No way,
thats unpossible
There are lots of things that need topics. But for some odd reason the Slashdot editors are more interested in making all these neat Apple topics, and even updating their damn icons (the main apple icon as an example).
Sunny Dubey
hey hey
My comment on Carmack was a purely technological one. The likes of Shigeru Miyamoto, and (the late) Gunpei Yokoi is another story.
Sunny Dubey
NEVER EVER BUY FROM TIGERDIRECT
These guys screw up big time, constantly have credit cards stolen, etc etc etc
Just google for night-mare like stores
Sunny Dubey
I'll just wait till John Carmack has something to say on all of this. Why? because he actually delivers on the technology he speaks of. LucasArts and EA have been going on and on about movie like Video games, and yet have never had much to show for it.
Additionally, any real game player knows that playing the bloody game is *much* better than watching mindless mini-sequences.
Sunny Dubey
If you've ever read a white paper of Google's, you'd realize that they even tell people why they deal with massive clusters over mainframes: lower latency.
Sunny Dubey
More importantly, May 1st is also when the first Eastern European country joins the EU: Poland.
Congrats from the USA.
Sunny Dubey
Last I checked, this was some old Mandrake code that Mandrake stopped working on.
Any reason why they couldn't use Mandrake's newer hardware detection code (ldetect) ?
Or juse use Knoppix's Kudzu derivative)
Sunny Dubey
Anyone who is seriously in the warez community has no problem with it. .. ]
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I've had about a dozen dial up users get the UT2004 DVD.
Thats the problem with warez kiddiots. They'd rather waste their lives downloading software, as opposed to doing something productive. Shit, I'd rather spend the 24392394234 hours needed to download UT2004 on dialup, doing something productive like learning perl. Why ? Because 29483984234 hours of my life isn't worth saving 50 bucks. Only if the warez community would get a clue
I'm on a 10mbit connection, so I'm a dump site.
You have a trackable slashdot account, and you publically admit to this ? Sure there are bigger warez fish to fry, but the less anyone knows about you, the better.
Sunny Dubey
I think the guys at Epic have zero issues making their UT2004 game 5 CDs. For every CD their game is, it only becomes that much harder/annoying to massdownload it from usenet (proken pieces), bittorrent (will take forever), p2p networks (no promise of getting it all) and where ever else.
just my two cents
Sunny Dubey
PS: Bless the Epic guys for UT2004. It has the software renderer back, comes with a single DVD version, and supports linux
Mind you the 9th circuit is the largest out of any district, and definitely the most liberal out of all of them.
Some of non-9th circuit folks are somewhat glad that the 9th circuit pushes the limits on regular basis. For someone has to, and for each time the Supreme Court over-rules them, they have to justify why, which becomes even more interesting.
Sunny Dubey
[..] UNIX has this wonderful habit of trying to protect users from their own stupidity without recognising its own. [...]
... now it sounds rite ... Unix doesn't hide anything, and thats where the power is (and the great ability to screw up the entire system).
s/UNIX/OS-X
Yeah
Sunny Dubey
In Soviet Russia, the spammer complains about forged headers.
On slashdot, many are tired of these cliche, and unoriginal jokes.
Sunny Dubey
Exactly what does that add to this story?
Jingo'ism, and allowing us to fight the bad guys. Its in human nature.
Sunny Dubey
Agreed. Many people say MS is all bad but they tend to forget the MS has a reputation for eventually making things better. Win2K was a solid OS for business. Win XP is a solid OS for the home(and business).
.... ?
I call bullshit,
It took MSFT 6 months to fix that SSL bug ? Integrating a freaking browser into the kernel ? And this is good for businesses because
The ONLY reason for running MSFT software is because everyone else runs it. Its obviously not cheap, not trust worthy, not secure by design, and we all know it screams of consumer abuse
Sunny Dubey
it was the perfect antidote to shows like DS9, which seemed to be so concerned with being "serious" sci fi they forgot about things like character, dialog or plot.
I disagree
Unlike all the other Star Trek series, DS9 had the interesting "Advantage" of being situated in a space station. Which essentially was a non-moving set/location. So while all the other Star Treks were about mindless exploration (and meeting new species in each episode), DS9 was all about building what was there because it was all what they had.
The story/plot of DS9 got quite involved, you had the Federation, Cardassians, Bajorans, the Dominion, and even the Klingons all in a developing plot. On one side you had the Federation and their shaky alliance with the Klingons, on the other you had the Cardassians and the Dominion. WIth the poor, defenseless Bajorans and their worm-hole in the center of it all.
Seems like quite a setup if you ask me
Sunny Dubey
Slightly OT, but I can't resist ...
... (they have a GUI front-end for everything, CUPS, Samba, even VPN!!) It probably beats the crap ot Linspire anyday of the week.
... this rant was OT and morely for my fellow Mandrake users ...
There is no denying it. Mandrake is a lovely 100% GPL user-friendly distro, that seems to be rather popular
But even without knowing much about this meeting, I'm pretty sure that Mandrakesoft wasn't there. Why? because Mandrakesoft does a crappy job of MARKETING. And its getting really annoying too watching crap distros like Linspire get so much spot-light.
Like I said
Sunny Dubey
Anyone who played Final Fantasy VII on their PS-X/PC knows what I'm talking about.
...
/dev/sequencer support). Anyone else try ?
Those movies were such vividly rendered with amazing music to match. The art work done was probably the best I've ever seen in any Final Fantasy game. Some of the effects done during game play stood out like no other RPG. Ahh, the memories
Sunny Dubey
PS: I've been trying to get FF7 working with wine, but have had no luck (I think I need