The makers of PowerDVD *do* have a Linux version of their software. However, they will not sell it, no way, no how. They only want to deal with OEMs. Bastards.
Actually s/games/apps . If someone put out a DVD Player that was blessed by the DVD Forum, I would pay for it in a New York Minute. I have paid for Linux games in the past...my copy of Unreal Tournament is bought and paid for, so too Hexen and Myth II: Soulblighter.
I want to buy UT2003 to be supportive and to send in my registration card stating it's playing under Linux, but I can't bring myself to do so because all the "improvements" made to UT2K3 have ruined gameplay. I can't bring myself to buying a game that sucks, just to show I am rah-rah supportive of Linux Gaming.
I don't think I'm the only Linux user who would actually pay money for decent Linux apps. C'mon! Bring 'em on!
I do remember hearing about one guy who chose the firing squad so his organs (asiddes from the heart and probably a lung then) could be harvested.
That was Gary Gilmore. His brother, Mikal Gilmore, a writer for Rolling Stone, later wrote "Shot In The Heart" which was his memoir of the incidents surrounding his brother's conviction for murder and subsequent execution.
The Adverts, a punk band from Britain, had a hit with the song "Gary Gilmore's Eyes."
Not if Italy is anything to judge by. You just get the Government of the Month club. France isn't much better.
Guess what, folks...California is next to join the Government of the Month Club if the recall measure goes through. The Republicans jam through a recall and get one of theirs to replace Davis. Next, the Democrats start a recall drive the next day and get enough signatures from fed up Dems to recall the new guy. The recall petition has enough signatures, the vote to recall is called, the measure passes, the Dems get one of theirs in the Governor's office. Which pisses off the GOP and they start collecting signatures the next day. Lather, rinse, repeat. Welcome to suburban Roma.
Actually, in Brave New World, specialized low-IQ humans were bred to do menial jobs. The "castes" created by the Hatcheries ranged from Alpha Plus (Genius) and Beta (average Human intelligence) to Epsilon Minus semi-moron. (extremely developmentally challenged, basically a flesh bot)
Then again, bots doing the work that Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons did would create basically the same social structure. I suspect that Aldous Huxley didn't use robots because he thought such machines were impossible. Remember, computers were not thought of in the book either...the records for the Hatcheries were kept in old-fashioned card files.
It is likely that in a situation where robots do the bulk of manual labor, people would get jobs more suited for human intelligence. The mechanical loom did not permanently affect employment, contrary to the fears of the Luddites. Neither did the advent of the car and the plane. Sure, lots of jobs died off, like blacksmiths and train porters, but other jobs took their places.
BTW, Mandalayx, a gramme is better than a damn. Take your meds. ^_~
Oh yeah, BNW has NEVER been done right in film. It seems like Universal holds the rights to the book, but only a very bad mini-series and an even worse TV movie resulted. Perhaps the Huxley Estate needs to put the rights back on the auction block so that someone truly worthy could take a crack at it.
Donate one to me. ^_~ Again, you can reach the Ms. Geek Home For Wayward Computers at msgeek93 at yahoo dot com. And yes, this home really is a Home For Wayward Computers. I even have placed a few in good, adoptive homes.
It's difficult for us to turn people away when... Some of the items the Museum can no longer accept include:
* IBM PC
OK, if you have an IBM PC 5150 (first 5-slot PC, released in 1981) and live in Los Angeles, and you are itching to get rid of it, please contact me. My email address is msgeek93 at yahoo dot com. That was my first computer, in 1987.
A must-go. Even though now it is a shadow of its former self and a lot of abandoned buildings mark its high-water mark during the dot-com boom.
Intel has a museum in Santa Clara, The Tech museum in San Jose is a must-visit, and the Apple Store in Cupertino is a place people who aren't Apple staff can visit to pay respects to the first true success story of the area.
This reminds me: there needs to be a newer version of the Carbon variety of Moz. Right now 1.3 is it, and even then you can't get it from mozilla.org. I don't think I will *ever* be able to run MacOS X on this Wallstreet. I will be able to put Linux on there, and I suppose that's where I'll have to snag an up to date Mozilla. (and Safari's brother Konqueror)
There are some people who are stuck with the Classic MacOS. Some can't even run a version of it that will work with CarbonLib. (you need 8.6 for that) Yes, we are benighted and in a backwater but we do need a browser that doesn't suck.
Au contraire, I suspect that VPC will actually work incredibly, amazingly good with Mac now that MS owns the code. They will be able to insert all the little hidden hooks that Connectix was unable to figure out.
There are people who sell remanufactured HP cartridges. I would never rely on a remanufactured HP color cartridge (they tend to have cross-contaminated ink, where the yellow might be greenish because some cyan leaked in, for example) but I use remanufactured black cartridges happily. They are all over the place. Even Wal*Mart has 'em, from NCR.
Lycoris is based in Redmond, Washington. Joseph Cheek, the person who is project leader, is an ex-Microserf. He's also put together a damn fine distro. That takes some doing, considering he had the misfortune to choose Caldera as the distro he forked to create it.
They are not pulling a Robertson and keeping their tools closed-source. Aside from Iris, their easy-install software gallery, they have released source on everything that makes Lycoris Lycoris. I would rather give an absolute beginner Lycoris than, say, Mandrake. You can get lost in Mandrake if you are a newbie.
I worry about the future of Lycoris because of this hideous, screwed-up SCO mess. I worry because what Joseph and his buddies have put together is really, really good, and they had the "it just works" thing down even before Mandrake got the hang of it. Yeah, Lycoris is designed to be Windows-refugee friendly. It doesn't mean what they are doing doesn't have value.
If you want to see the real face of Lycoris, stop in at http://www.lycoris.org/
and check out the community behind it. There's some good people there. And nobody will tell you to "man man" there.
That story actually sounds an awful lot like the movie They Live. You know, the one with Roddy Piper as a guy who can see which people are really human and which are part of the Evil Alien Enslaving Conspiracy when he puts on his sunglasses.
IMDB does not credit Philip K. Dick with writing the story that inspired the movie, but a guy named Ray Nelson. The story he wrote was called "8 O'Clock In The Morning" and I haven't heard of either the author or the story.
I guess I got taken in by some skillful rhetoric. Usually when someone says something like "drugs should be a medical issue, not a law enforcement issue" it sounds like they are anti-Drug War and pro-Harm Reduction. As in the kind of Harm Reduction efforts going on in Britain and in The Netherlands.
I guess I was hoping too much. Oh well, maybe Dean isn't the candidate I was hoping for. Kucinich is way too old-school Democrat for my tastes. [sigh]
I got Dean 94% but actually Dennis Kucinich (sp?) scored higher on the list. However, after reading the both of their platforms Dean seemed more like someone I can get behind.
Fiscal conservative. Pro individual liberties. Against interventionist, unilateralist foreign policy. Wants to get government out of the corporate welfare business. Wants to end the drug war in favor of looking at drugs as a public health issue.
He also seems to have the knack of pissing off extremes on both sides of the political spectrum, which suggests he's my kinda guy. Give 'em hell, Howard.
No, but there are 3D drivers, very good ones, in fact, that will work on the PCI GeForce4 MX cards that you can use to drive a stake through the Vampire Video the WalMart (and also the Fried Great Quality machine and the others in the same ballpark) provides.
The PCI bus doesn't give you as much bandwidth as an AGP slot will, but you can get enough to make you happy and allow you to merrily play Unreal Tournament (original recipe) without breaking a sweat.
This also applies to some variants on the EPIA platform. A Cubid-style case will prevent you from putting in a decent vid card, but the more roomy EPIA boxen are fine. You will have to look for a less power-hungry card than, say a GeForce Ti, but you can do it.
Oh, and the people that had the temerity to base a work on the CoS were Cos members themselves. And the results *were* horrific, but only to the audience. Unless you *liked* "Battlefield Earth"?!?!?
Indeed...I thought I had erased the horror of "Battlefield: Earth" from my brain. But you had to remind me. DEEEEEP Hurting!!!!!
I'm curious...I wonder if the mythos of the show, which were basically cribbed from the Book Of Mormon and also may or may not have included some items of Mormon dogma that the LDS folks wanted to keep secret, will remain intact in the remake?
It is interesting to note that the LDS Church did not sue ABC over Battlestar Galactica. Then again, the Super Seekrit Skripturez of the Church of Scientology are very well protected under the Sonny Bono Act, where the Book of Mormon passed into the Public Domain generations ago. If someone cribbed the bizarro stuff that passes for "higher revelations" in the CoS and used them as inspiration for a SF movie/TV show, the one who had the temerity to do so would probably be legal dead meat. Not to mention OTHER possible ramifications...[shudder]
Japanese mass media (TV, movies, etc) are perhaps the most violent of all "First World" media. Exhibit A, Exhibit B, just to give but two examples.
However, the murder rate in Japan is currently hovering at one in 100,000, where the murder rate in the US is at 7.7 in 100,000. This does not count suicides though, which have gotten hideously high (18 in 100,000) in Japan. However, I haven't seen people blaming violent movies for suicides. Judas Priest, maybe. Not violent movies. At least not yet.
Not really. At that price point, Mom and Pop would give him your typical lowball poorly-constructed unstable POS VIA PCChips (etc) motherboard.
Not necessarily. You can get a NForce2-based motherboard now for only a few dollars more than the crappy not-so-Elitegroup boards out there with VIA chipsets and every shortcut possible taken. Decent onboard video, great onboard sound, good performance, just an all around better solution.
Smart Mom and Pop screwdriver shops know that a little bit more spent on parts means a whole lot less people bringing in their fux0red computer and causing headaches for the one guy in the back who does both assembly and repairs. Fried can get away with their "Great Quality" POS machines but Little Shop O' PCs can't.
Even though Linus Torvalds pronounces his first name LEE-noos, Linux is always pronounced LIN-ux becase it's a pun on Minix. Linux originally started as Linus Torvalds' answer to Minix. Simple, eh? When you understand the background of why it is pronounced the way it is, it becomes very easy to get Linus from Peanuts out of your brain and get the pronunciation right.
Of course, what he *really* wanted to call it was Freax, which would have opened an entirely different can of worms...:)
I can tell you emperically that I've seen more "Internal Server Error", "Server too busy to handle your request", etc. messages from IIS than from Apache. donotcall.gov, as a matter of fact, has been having reliability issues right from the outset.
Ahahahahahaha! Netcraft.Com has it in black and white. IIS on Windows 2K Server.
The reason why there are no RH 8 or 9 ISOs for PPC is that basically they are leaving development of the PPC branch of Red Hat to the makers of Yellow Dog Linux. Which, right now, is G5 ready and is basically RH9 for PPC. http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
Really good Xft-enabled version of Moz is standard with Mandrake 9.1, and the update sent to me via Mandrake Update was similarly endowed. Moz font rendering on Mandrake 9.1 is superior to any other platform, Mac included.
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The makers of PowerDVD *do* have a Linux version of their software. However, they will not sell it, no way, no how. They only want to deal with OEMs. Bastards.
Actually s/games/apps . If someone put out a DVD Player that was blessed by the DVD Forum, I would pay for it in a New York Minute. I have paid for Linux games in the past...my copy of Unreal Tournament is bought and paid for, so too Hexen and Myth II: Soulblighter.
I want to buy UT2003 to be supportive and to send in my registration card stating it's playing under Linux, but I can't bring myself to do so because all the "improvements" made to UT2K3 have ruined gameplay. I can't bring myself to buying a game that sucks, just to show I am rah-rah supportive of Linux Gaming.
I don't think I'm the only Linux user who would actually pay money for decent Linux apps. C'mon! Bring 'em on!
That was Gary Gilmore. His brother, Mikal Gilmore, a writer for Rolling Stone, later wrote "Shot In The Heart" which was his memoir of the incidents surrounding his brother's conviction for murder and subsequent execution.
The Adverts, a punk band from Britain, had a hit with the song "Gary Gilmore's Eyes."
Guess what, folks...California is next to join the Government of the Month Club if the recall measure goes through. The Republicans jam through a recall and get one of theirs to replace Davis. Next, the Democrats start a recall drive the next day and get enough signatures from fed up Dems to recall the new guy. The recall petition has enough signatures, the vote to recall is called, the measure passes, the Dems get one of theirs in the Governor's office. Which pisses off the GOP and they start collecting signatures the next day. Lather, rinse, repeat. Welcome to suburban Roma.
Then again, bots doing the work that Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons did would create basically the same social structure. I suspect that Aldous Huxley didn't use robots because he thought such machines were impossible. Remember, computers were not thought of in the book either...the records for the Hatcheries were kept in old-fashioned card files.
It is likely that in a situation where robots do the bulk of manual labor, people would get jobs more suited for human intelligence. The mechanical loom did not permanently affect employment, contrary to the fears of the Luddites. Neither did the advent of the car and the plane. Sure, lots of jobs died off, like blacksmiths and train porters, but other jobs took their places.
BTW, Mandalayx, a gramme is better than a damn. Take your meds. ^_~
Oh yeah, BNW has NEVER been done right in film. It seems like Universal holds the rights to the book, but only a very bad mini-series and an even worse TV movie resulted. Perhaps the Huxley Estate needs to put the rights back on the auction block so that someone truly worthy could take a crack at it.
Donate one to me. ^_~ Again, you can reach the Ms. Geek Home For Wayward Computers at msgeek93 at yahoo dot com. And yes, this home really is a Home For Wayward Computers. I even have placed a few in good, adoptive homes.
* IBM PC
OK, if you have an IBM PC 5150 (first 5-slot PC, released in 1981) and live in Los Angeles, and you are itching to get rid of it, please contact me. My email address is msgeek93 at yahoo dot com. That was my first computer, in 1987.
A must-go. Even though now it is a shadow of its former self and a lot of abandoned buildings mark its high-water mark during the dot-com boom.
Intel has a museum in Santa Clara, The Tech museum in San Jose is a must-visit, and the Apple Store in Cupertino is a place people who aren't Apple staff can visit to pay respects to the first true success story of the area.
Mod this post -1 Obvious. ^_~
Vultus? As in Vulture?
This reminds me: there needs to be a newer version of the Carbon variety of Moz. Right now 1.3 is it, and even then you can't get it from mozilla.org. I don't think I will *ever* be able to run MacOS X on this Wallstreet. I will be able to put Linux on there, and I suppose that's where I'll have to snag an up to date Mozilla. (and Safari's brother Konqueror)
There are some people who are stuck with the Classic MacOS. Some can't even run a version of it that will work with CarbonLib. (you need 8.6 for that) Yes, we are benighted and in a backwater but we do need a browser that doesn't suck.
Au contraire, I suspect that VPC will actually work incredibly, amazingly good with Mac now that MS owns the code. They will be able to insert all the little hidden hooks that Connectix was unable to figure out.
There are people who sell remanufactured HP cartridges. I would never rely on a remanufactured HP color cartridge (they tend to have cross-contaminated ink, where the yellow might be greenish because some cyan leaked in, for example) but I use remanufactured black cartridges happily. They are all over the place. Even Wal*Mart has 'em, from NCR.
They are not pulling a Robertson and keeping their tools closed-source. Aside from Iris, their easy-install software gallery, they have released source on everything that makes Lycoris Lycoris. I would rather give an absolute beginner Lycoris than, say, Mandrake. You can get lost in Mandrake if you are a newbie.
I worry about the future of Lycoris because of this hideous, screwed-up SCO mess. I worry because what Joseph and his buddies have put together is really, really good, and they had the "it just works" thing down even before Mandrake got the hang of it. Yeah, Lycoris is designed to be Windows-refugee friendly. It doesn't mean what they are doing doesn't have value.
If you want to see the real face of Lycoris, stop in at http://www.lycoris.org/ and check out the community behind it. There's some good people there. And nobody will tell you to "man man" there.
IMDB does not credit Philip K. Dick with writing the story that inspired the movie, but a guy named Ray Nelson. The story he wrote was called "8 O'Clock In The Morning" and I haven't heard of either the author or the story.
When I first saw the movie, I thought that it seemed very PKD-like...it had his weird hallucinogenic logic. I could see someone like John Carpenter cribbing from PKD and not crediting him. When you are dead by then (PKD died in 1982) you can't really fight back from the grave. Unless you have a son who goes to law school and goes into the practice of suing people who use the likenesses of dead people without their heirs' permission.
I guess I got taken in by some skillful rhetoric. Usually when someone says something like "drugs should be a medical issue, not a law enforcement issue" it sounds like they are anti-Drug War and pro-Harm Reduction. As in the kind of Harm Reduction efforts going on in Britain and in The Netherlands.
I guess I was hoping too much. Oh well, maybe Dean isn't the candidate I was hoping for. Kucinich is way too old-school Democrat for my tastes. [sigh]
I got Dean 94% but actually Dennis Kucinich (sp?) scored higher on the list. However, after reading the both of their platforms Dean seemed more like someone I can get behind.
Fiscal conservative. Pro individual liberties. Against interventionist, unilateralist foreign policy. Wants to get government out of the corporate welfare business. Wants to end the drug war in favor of looking at drugs as a public health issue.
He also seems to have the knack of pissing off extremes on both sides of the political spectrum, which suggests he's my kinda guy. Give 'em hell, Howard.
No, but there are 3D drivers, very good ones, in fact, that will work on the PCI GeForce4 MX cards that you can use to drive a stake through the Vampire Video the WalMart (and also the Fried Great Quality machine and the others in the same ballpark) provides.
The PCI bus doesn't give you as much bandwidth as an AGP slot will, but you can get enough to make you happy and allow you to merrily play Unreal Tournament (original recipe) without breaking a sweat.
This also applies to some variants on the EPIA platform. A Cubid-style case will prevent you from putting in a decent vid card, but the more roomy EPIA boxen are fine. You will have to look for a less power-hungry card than, say a GeForce Ti, but you can do it.
Indeed...I thought I had erased the horror of "Battlefield: Earth" from my brain. But you had to remind me. DEEEEEP Hurting!!!!!
I'm curious...I wonder if the mythos of the show, which were basically cribbed from the Book Of Mormon and also may or may not have included some items of Mormon dogma that the LDS folks wanted to keep secret, will remain intact in the remake?
It is interesting to note that the LDS Church did not sue ABC over Battlestar Galactica. Then again, the Super Seekrit Skripturez of the Church of Scientology are very well protected under the Sonny Bono Act, where the Book of Mormon passed into the Public Domain generations ago. If someone cribbed the bizarro stuff that passes for "higher revelations" in the CoS and used them as inspiration for a SF movie/TV show, the one who had the temerity to do so would probably be legal dead meat. Not to mention OTHER possible ramifications...[shudder]
However, the murder rate in Japan is currently hovering at one in 100,000, where the murder rate in the US is at 7.7 in 100,000. This does not count suicides though, which have gotten hideously high (18 in 100,000) in Japan. However, I haven't seen people blaming violent movies for suicides. Judas Priest, maybe. Not violent movies. At least not yet.
Not necessarily. You can get a NForce2-based motherboard now for only a few dollars more than the crappy not-so-Elitegroup boards out there with VIA chipsets and every shortcut possible taken. Decent onboard video, great onboard sound, good performance, just an all around better solution.
Smart Mom and Pop screwdriver shops know that a little bit more spent on parts means a whole lot less people bringing in their fux0red computer and causing headaches for the one guy in the back who does both assembly and repairs. Fried can get away with their "Great Quality" POS machines but Little Shop O' PCs can't.
Even though Linus Torvalds pronounces his first name LEE-noos, Linux is always pronounced LIN-ux becase it's a pun on Minix. Linux originally started as Linus Torvalds' answer to Minix. Simple, eh? When you understand the background of why it is pronounced the way it is, it becomes very easy to get Linus from Peanuts out of your brain and get the pronunciation right.
Of course, what he *really* wanted to call it was Freax, which would have opened an entirely different can of worms...:)
Ahahahahahaha! Netcraft.Com has it in black and white. IIS on Windows 2K Server.
Attention, webmaster@donotcall.gov! We have the way out!
I'll take the Vegas odds on donotcall.gov being one of the first to fall in the skript kiddie website hax0ring competition on Sunday...just kidding...
The reason why there are no RH 8 or 9 ISOs for PPC is that basically they are leaving development of the PPC branch of Red Hat to the makers of Yellow Dog Linux. Which, right now, is G5 ready and is basically RH9 for PPC. http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
Really good Xft-enabled version of Moz is standard with Mandrake 9.1, and the update sent to me via Mandrake Update was similarly endowed. Moz font rendering on Mandrake 9.1 is superior to any other platform, Mac included.