Re:Can we get past the holier-than-thou dude?
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Linus Interview
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No, it isn't a digital stream, if you're listening from wbaifree.org. It says on the site that it isn't. And, yes, this guy is very strange, even over actual radio waves.
Yeah, 2600 uses WBAI. Honestly, though, why should they have a copy of this program on 2600's site? This isn't their program -- it's apparently called Earthwatch. [I live in New York, so I can listen without RealPlayer. Now to see if anyone has anything interesting to say. Doubt it.] Oh, for the record, Emmanuel Goldstein, publisher of 2600 and host of the radio show, has been working on the DVD fight, not just Mitnick (though he did have a 45-minute interview w/ mitnick this week, so he didn't talk about DVD much).
What I meant is that right-wing morons who use "Judeo-Christian" thought to defend capital punishment, stopping abortion, prayer in school, etc. have essentially no support from Jews. This is not what the original poster was implying, of course, but the phrase just pisses me off.
I don't much want to read Katz's book, with or without paying. My point is the hypocrisy evident in announcing the death of the recording industry while simultaneously urging us to buy his book.
I tried to ask this at LinuxWorldExpo, but you were too busy signing a copy of your book to respond.
So, why is the print media special? You proclaim the death of the CD with the rise of MP3 and the death of VHS and DVD with the [inevitable] rise of easy digital copying, and then ask us to buy your book. Why don't you proclaim the death of the book with the rise of HTML?
HTML is today easier to copy, post, and download by at least an order of magnitude compared to MP3, especially over a modem. If I buy your book, would you have an objection if I scanned the book in and posted it on the web? If so, how is this different than the posting of MP3s which you so often tout?
I understand that you have children in college (and, being a student myself, I understand how expensive it is), but why should you, as a print author, be any more desrving of my money than a musician or filmmaker?
Just to nitpick, there is no "Judeo-Christian" belief system. I've never heard any Jew use that word. It's a term coined by the Religious Right in a futile attempt to not alienate all Jews (though they don't seem to mind alienating Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, atheists, semi-logical Christians, or anyone else). Believe it or not, Jews and Christians believe different things -- that's why they're different religions. Whoa.
Progress? Yes, I love progress as much as any other/.er. I just don't think that manned spaceflight is the most cost-effective way to achieve progress. And, if you should ever find yourself without healthcare or food, let's see if you still agree that these 'handouts' are evil.
Zero is most certainly even! Observe the pattern: -4: even -3: odd -2: even -1: odd 0: ??? 1: odd 2: even 3: odd 4: even The proper answer is, by inspection, that zero is even. Or, to prove it mathematically, an even number is any number n such that n=2k for some integer k. Since, 0=2*0, it meets this definition, and is thus even.
Honestly, are there many benefits beyond propaganda to putting humans in space (for the US as well as China)? We spend millions and millions of dollars on the space shuttle, with few tangible benefits (especially benefits per dollar). The Mars probes and other 'cheap' missions are not such a bad deal and often produce interesting data. Many of the experiments done on the shuttle could similarly be done without human intervention. When people, in the US as well as China, are starving, can't get medical treatment, etc., aren't there better uses for our money than putting anthills and aging Senators into space?
In addition to points mentioned in other posts, MS makes money by selling copies of Word, Office, whatever. They don't make a profit off Media Player. They make no other money off Linux. Why should they help keep Linux alive?
winipcfg does not exist on NT, but ipconfig (a command-line utility that does much the same thing) does. Unless it's called ipcfg. Whatever, do dirc:\winnt\ip*.exe and figure it out.
What a ripoff! At my school, we pay AT&T 9cents/min for long distance 24/7, 6cents/min in state, and either 3, 6.5 or 10 cents flat fee for a local call (on-campus calls free), depending on the time of day.
The RealPlayer on Linux is a piece of crap. It's an alpha of G2. Sound skips and does other odd things, it can't embed as a NS plugin like the Windows version can, and it crashes a lot. It's nice to have it, but it is not that great. Furthermore, there's now the RealPlayer 7, and I'm looking for any evidence at all that Real is going to even try to do Linux for this one.
As long as you're peaceful and don't physically block people from entering the stores, they can't legally touch you. You are also (at least in some states) required to keep moving. This is not hard; just get a couple backbacks, or rocks, or imaginary points on the sidewalk, and walk in a circle aronud them.
Remember to act like reasonable adults This is key, because if you don't you may very well get arrested -- and it's not worth it. Behave rationally and follow this advice, and you won't be arrested.
be ready to give reasons to anyone who asks you "Why are you boycotting?" Having literature availible is also a Good Thing, also because you can give it to people who don't specifically some up to you and ask 'Why are you boycotting?'
On the website, it said it plugs in to the Serial interface. Can't get much more portable than that. It also claimed that the CPU load was low, because it uses less than 40K of diskspace. Determining the meaning of this is left as an exercise for the reader.
Since DeCSS is of absolutely no use in making a copy of a DVD
DeCSS is quite useful if you wish to downsample a DVD to MPEG or something to that effect. The fact the DeCSS has "good" uses does not cancel the fact that it can also be used for "bad" things (bad for the MPAA, anyway). Of course, I, along with most other/.ers, think that this whole thing is insane and overblown, but our friends at the MPAA respectfully disagree -- and they have more lawyers.
It would be interesting to see Slashdot polls about how Slashdot readers will be voting. Yes, but we'd run into the crappy of options problem for those who, like myself, favor third-party wackos.
Read the candidate comparisons that are going to appear all over the web over the next 10 months. And make an intelligent decision. While certainly no substitute for performing your own analysis, GoVote's VoteMatch is a pretty nifty and useful tool that compares your views to the candidates'. There's a terrible dearth of anyone but Democrats and Republicans (though Pat Buchanan is there -- yuck), but, honestly, one of them is going to win anyway.
For the record, I flatly refuse to qualify SUVs as fuel-efficient. In fact, I spent part of my summer campaigning for tighter restrictions on SUV emissions.
I drive a 1979 Camaro at 12mpg 500 miles a week. That means that I gave the government $900 in gas taxes last year.
And good. You burned about 2200 gallons of gasoline, releasing lots of toxins and pollutants. Get a fuel-efficient car, let the inner-city asthmatic kids breathe better, and pay less taxes. Everybody wins.
LinuxOne issued a press release to the effect that they'd opened an office in Taiwan, to: ... -- translate/localize LinuxOne products into Japanese
Right. I may not have taken geography since 8th grade, but even I know that they speak Japanese in *Japan* and *Chinese* (can't remember what dialect. Cantonese, maybe? As I understand it, it's all the same when written down anyway.) in Taiwan.
Page 294 of the Guide to Being Psychic reveals the secret of spoon-bending, which is a great relief to me since it means other people can take over the onerous duties of mangling the planet's cutlery. One accurate observation suggests novice spoonbenders will have better success when the audience is on their side. Positive, open minds are great for psychokinesis - negative, skeptical minds are not.
These books are crammed with easy-to-use features, packed into short spurts of text and peppered with quotes, asides and definitions.
Yes, so you, too, can be Uri Geller. In fact, it'll actually be a relief to him. Ah, lucky guy.
I dunno. Perhaps the wierdest part of all this is that Uri Geller is writing book reviews. (In the article, he also reviews The man who invented the 20th century (Nikola Telsa), and tries to discredit Prof. Richard Dawkin's book Unweaving the rainbow, because that book explains why Geller is a fraud.)
I think Armey-Shelby is phased in over a few years, during which you can choose which system you pay with.
Clearly, anyone with any brains in his head (and most people without any) would 'choose' the system which let him pay less taxes. So, wouldn't the effect be to decrease the total amount of government revenue during the phase-in period? Or am I just missing something?
Re:Apogee Follows The Open Source Wave
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Ah, Kroz! I remember Kroz. Perhaps if I ever get around to installing DOSEMU, I will try to find Kroz. Then again, I can always play NetHack, which is kinda similar. Only different.
Apogee still has some of its old games availible for download at the bottom ofthis page (They still expect people to register them. Bah.) And two of their really old games (Supernova and Beyond the Titanic) are freeware (beer, not speech). According to the 'official' Apogee FAQ, section 2.4.1, "[The Kroz series] was finally discontinued in early 1999 and is no longer availible from Apogee." Pity.
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No, it isn't a digital stream, if you're listening from wbaifree.org. It says on the site that it isn't. And, yes, this guy is very strange, even over actual radio waves.
Yeah, 2600 uses WBAI. Honestly, though, why should they have a copy of this program on 2600's site? This isn't their program -- it's apparently called Earthwatch. [I live in New York, so I can listen without RealPlayer. Now to see if anyone has anything interesting to say. Doubt it.] Oh, for the record, Emmanuel Goldstein, publisher of 2600 and host of the radio show, has been working on the DVD fight, not just Mitnick (though he did have a 45-minute interview w/ mitnick this week, so he didn't talk about DVD much).
What I meant is that right-wing morons who use "Judeo-Christian" thought to defend capital punishment, stopping abortion, prayer in school, etc. have essentially no support from Jews. This is not what the original poster was implying, of course, but the phrase just pisses me off.
I don't much want to read Katz's book, with or without paying. My point is the hypocrisy evident in announcing the death of the recording industry while simultaneously urging us to buy his book.
So, why is the print media special? You proclaim the death of the CD with the rise of MP3 and the death of VHS and DVD with the [inevitable] rise of easy digital copying, and then ask us to buy your book. Why don't you proclaim the death of the book with the rise of HTML?
HTML is today easier to copy, post, and download by at least an order of magnitude compared to MP3, especially over a modem. If I buy your book, would you have an objection if I scanned the book in and posted it on the web? If so, how is this different than the posting of MP3s which you so often tout?
I understand that you have children in college (and, being a student myself, I understand how expensive it is), but why should you, as a print author, be any more desrving of my money than a musician or filmmaker?
Just to nitpick, there is no "Judeo-Christian" belief system. I've never heard any Jew use that word. It's a term coined by the Religious Right in a futile attempt to not alienate all Jews (though they don't seem to mind alienating Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, atheists, semi-logical Christians, or anyone else). Believe it or not, Jews and Christians believe different things -- that's why they're different religions. Whoa.
Progress? Yes, I love progress as much as any other /.er. I just don't think that manned spaceflight is the most cost-effective way to achieve progress. And, if you should ever find yourself without healthcare or food, let's see if you still agree that these 'handouts' are evil.
Zero is most certainly even! Observe the pattern:
-4: even
-3: odd
-2: even
-1: odd
0: ???
1: odd
2: even
3: odd
4: even
The proper answer is, by inspection, that zero is even. Or, to prove it mathematically, an even number is any number n such that n=2k for some integer k. Since, 0=2*0, it meets this definition, and is thus even.
Honestly, are there many benefits beyond propaganda to putting humans in space (for the US as well as China)? We spend millions and millions of dollars on the space shuttle, with few tangible benefits (especially benefits per dollar). The Mars probes and other 'cheap' missions are not such a bad deal and often produce interesting data. Many of the experiments done on the shuttle could similarly be done without human intervention. When people, in the US as well as China, are starving, can't get medical treatment, etc., aren't there better uses for our money than putting anthills and aging Senators into space?
In addition to points mentioned in other posts, MS makes money by selling copies of Word, Office, whatever. They don't make a profit off Media Player. They make no other money off Linux. Why should they help keep Linux alive?
winipcfg does not exist on NT, but ipconfig (a command-line utility that does much the same thing) does. Unless it's called ipcfg. Whatever, do dirc:\winnt\ip*.exe and figure it out.
What a ripoff! At my school, we pay AT&T 9cents/min for long distance 24/7, 6cents/min in state, and either 3, 6.5 or 10 cents flat fee for a local call (on-campus calls free), depending on the time of day.
The RealPlayer on Linux is a piece of crap. It's an alpha of G2. Sound skips and does other odd things, it can't embed as a NS plugin like the Windows version can, and it crashes a lot. It's nice to have it, but it is not that great. Furthermore, there's now the RealPlayer 7, and I'm looking for any evidence at all that Real is going to even try to do Linux for this one.
You are also (at least in some states) required to keep moving. This is not hard; just get a couple backbacks, or rocks, or imaginary points on the sidewalk, and walk in a circle aronud them.
Remember to act like reasonable adults
This is key, because if you don't you may very well get arrested -- and it's not worth it. Behave rationally and follow this advice, and you won't be arrested.
be ready to give reasons to anyone who asks you "Why are you boycotting?"
Having literature availible is also a Good Thing, also because you can give it to people who don't specifically some up to you and ask 'Why are you boycotting?'
Ooh! My sig is actually relevant for once:
On the website, it said it plugs in to the Serial interface. Can't get much more portable than that. It also claimed that the CPU load was low, because it uses less than 40K of diskspace. Determining the meaning of this is left as an exercise for the reader.
DeCSS is quite useful if you wish to downsample a DVD to MPEG or something to that effect. The fact the DeCSS has "good" uses does not cancel the fact that it can also be used for "bad" things (bad for the MPAA, anyway). Of course, I, along with most other /.ers, think that this whole thing is insane and overblown, but our friends at the MPAA respectfully disagree -- and they have more lawyers.
Yes, but we'd run into the crappy of options problem for those who, like myself, favor third-party wackos.
Read the candidate comparisons that are going to appear all over the web over the next 10 months. And make an intelligent decision.
While certainly no substitute for performing your own analysis, GoVote's VoteMatch is a pretty nifty and useful tool that compares your views to the candidates'. There's a terrible dearth of anyone but Democrats and Republicans (though Pat Buchanan is there -- yuck), but, honestly, one of them is going to win anyway.
For the record, I flatly refuse to qualify SUVs as fuel-efficient. In fact, I spent part of my summer campaigning for tighter restrictions on SUV emissions.
And good. You burned about 2200 gallons of gasoline, releasing lots of toxins and pollutants. Get a fuel-efficient car, let the inner-city asthmatic kids breathe better, and pay less taxes. Everybody wins.
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-- translate/localize LinuxOne products into Japanese
Right. I may not have taken geography since 8th grade, but even I know that they speak Japanese in *Japan* and *Chinese* (can't remember what dialect. Cantonese, maybe? As I understand it, it's all the same when written down anyway.) in Taiwan.
I dunno. Perhaps the wierdest part of all this is that Uri Geller is writing book reviews. (In the article, he also reviews The man who invented the 20th century (Nikola Telsa), and tries to discredit Prof. Richard Dawkin's book Unweaving the rainbow, because that book explains why Geller is a fraud.)
The Livid group really needs some money right now, and their software looks like it'll actually be useful soon, so, why not?
O'Reilley's Java In A Nutshell is an incredibly useful book. And, of course, an Oreiley book (damn, I can't spell) must win.
Clearly, anyone with any brains in his head (and most people without any) would 'choose' the system which let him pay less taxes. So, wouldn't the effect be to decrease the total amount of government revenue during the phase-in period? Or am I just missing something?
Apogee still has some of its old games availible for download at the bottom ofthis page (They still expect people to register them. Bah.) And two of their really old games (Supernova and Beyond the Titanic) are freeware (beer, not speech). According to the 'official' Apogee FAQ, section 2.4.1, "[The Kroz series] was finally discontinued in early 1999 and is no longer availible from Apogee." Pity.