That's ridiculous. The man is a straight up racist, homosexual hating, ultra-conservative, right-wing, bible thumping, worthless human being. He should be hung from a lightpole on Franklin Street and the public should be invited to give him a good beating.
I live in Chapel Hill, NC so we are all too aware of Helme's politics. After all, when questioned about a new state zoo, Helmes replied "We already have one, just put a fence around Chapel Hill." Yeah, we love Helmes here. My question is this. Is Senator Helmes running, able to run, for re-election again? I wonder if he is trying to paint a better public picture to us caged gorillas here in CH? What would the public zoo of Chapel Hill do if he were to have a significant influence over these issues such as webcasting royalties? I could never vote for him, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out. After all, Chapel Hill is home to WXYC, the first radio station to broadcast it's signal over the internet; I believe they used CuSeeMe (sp?). WXYC is an excellent open format station that has a lot of listeners not only in this area, but all over the world.
Bring to mind this excerpt: "Before it blanked out for good, the ship would have to pass on those instructions, such as they were, to it's more primitive systems. It must also revive all of it's crew. There was another problem. While the crew was in hibernation, the minds of all it's members, their memories, their identities and their understanding of what they had come to, had all been transferred into the ship's central mission module for safe keeping. The crew would not have the faintest idea of who they were or what the were doing there. Oh well." - Douglas Adams "Mostless Harmless" I read Kurzweil's "The Spiritual Age of Machines" were he talks about downloading the brain. It seems feasible, but don't erase the original when when we firewire our life's experiences into our new Microtium 500Ghz, Store-O-Comp sense-omatic pleasure box.
And I just got a Pentium II 233MMX IBM ThinkPad and was hella excited about that. But seriously, why doesn't someone try out these experiments on a Linux system? I'd be curious to see the differences in performance. I'd do it myself, but as I noted earlier I just got a PII 233 Thinkpad so we know what my financial situation is.
7 Years ago and you are now just getting around to posting it on Slashdot? Why didn't you contact Taco about this when he was still in his dorm room fiddling with Chips & Dip?
Because most kids could never get unspeakable amounts of the most crude forms of pornography the planet has ever known. I mean yeah, all those kids with active internet connections to their homes are hanging out on Nickelodeon.com or disney.com, right? Besides, it is far better to subject them to the exploding heads and guts strewn about a floor in a 1st person shooter then it is for them to see a little nudity and hear some curse words. What a backwards ass society we live in.
-2: Too damn whiney -3: Oh, it's you again. Why do you visit Slashdot and post comments and do nothing but bitch. Way too fucking whiney. -4: Just shut the fuck up will ya. -5: You are the biggest moron that ever lived.
Taco? Can these be incorporated into the moderation system?
Taco wrote "Gonna need the space since scifi has decided to air 4 episodes of SG1 a day." I thought we were boycotting ScFi until they decided to bring back Farscape;)
Didn't we see something about vulnerabilities in Apache just the other day? Patch your servers. Anyway, at least the bug reports are out in the open and I can have my server patched in a matter of minutes. Yes, we are ALL vulnerable, but some software is easier to patch than others.
I buy games, lots of games. If I go to Best Buy to pick up WarCraft III and there is a Linux version, I will buy that before I buy the Windows version. Now I would hope they would both be in the same box. But the point is that I do buy software. As far as being able to download your own linux distro free of charge, I have more than 30, probably closer to 50 burnt discs that I have collected over the years of various linux distros. Well, I was in Best Buy recently and decided to pick up SuSE 8.0. I have never regretted it. I would argue that MOST of the software that end users use at home consists of browsers, cd-burning software, games. Who actually buys Norton Antivirus 2002? Most of the big name software under Windows is being used illegally. I have had discs given to me by Windows users with hundreds of the most up to date music programs, graphics programs, cd-rw programs, antivirus, publishing, etc. etc.. I use none of it. Most of it is overkill. Let's face it. Your average user is not going to pay $1000's of dollars for software when they can get it for free, and I mean the Windows version. If you are smart enough to use the advanced functions in these programs you are smart enough to do a warez search. Windows users are just as cheap. Most of the software is overkill. The money being spent on these programs is being spent by business and education. These groups use Windows MOST of the time. I don't know exactly why, but that is the way it is. As an example, I am taking C++ from a graduate of a school that I know uses unix, linux predominantly in their teaching. We are being taught with Visual C++ and a crap of a book that makes no mention whatsoever of anything but Winodws. Why? I don't know why. Maybe the software vendors don't make Linux versions because Microsoft would have their ass if they did. Maybe my school doesn't use Unix because they got some crazy discount from Microsoft and a lot of hand holding. It's a difficult subject. There is more to it than end users. A lot of it is political and if we have learned anythning about politics here in the US it's that money talks. Those that have the money call the shots. There is a company on the West Coast with A LOT of money and I think they decide what is put on the shelves and what we are offered, and don't give me that it's available for Mac shit either. Microsoft owns them too. ohhh, it's getting hot in here.
Well, if you are using Debian unstable you should be at 0.9.6g-2. After reading the story I started up dselect and was surprised to see that I already had the patch. Still getting a shitload of../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir... requests though. Damn script kiddies
Seeing that these days the only I time I am rebooting into Windows is to run Cubase and various other music apps this is good news. I have been desperately trying to bring my music production over to Linux, in fact I'm picking up my copy of "The Csound Book" today. Over the years I have tried, with varying degrees of success, to run many of the freely available sequencers (Jazz), software synths, etc. Although I have never been a huge fan of ReBirth I have a friend who uses it and sends me ReBirth files once in a while. It will be interesting to see how they function in ReBorn.
C'mon! Wouldn't this be the equivalent of Menudo or some other really bad boy band of the day asking for a part in the one of the original 3 films? George Lucas would have said hell no. This is just ridiculous. 10 years from now Nsync will be laughed at even more than they are now and Attack of the Clones will be a big joke.
My god if I had the money I would buy this thing. I saw it compete on Battlebots the other night. The other robots never had a chance. Absolute carnage. Their web page says they are building a heavier/faster version. They better reinforce those walls or someone is going to get hurt
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Damn, Damn, Damnit! Why do I never use the preview before I post? I spelled Slashdot wrong! What a maroon.
Does Slahdot still use MySQL? I remember reading some MySQL gripes by Taco a WHILE back and some talk of NuSphere. Just curious.
Don't mention it
That's ridiculous. The man is a straight up racist, homosexual hating, ultra-conservative, right-wing, bible thumping, worthless human being. He should be hung from a lightpole on Franklin Street and the public should be invited to give him a good beating.
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I live in Chapel Hill, NC so we are all too aware of Helme's politics. After all, when questioned about a new state zoo, Helmes replied "We already have one, just put a fence around Chapel Hill." Yeah, we love Helmes here. My question is this. Is Senator Helmes running, able to run, for re-election again? I wonder if he is trying to paint a better public picture to us caged gorillas here in CH? What would the public zoo of Chapel Hill do if he were to have a significant influence over these issues such as webcasting royalties? I could never vote for him, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out. After all, Chapel Hill is home to WXYC, the first radio station to broadcast it's signal over the internet; I believe they used CuSeeMe (sp?). WXYC is an excellent open format station that has a lot of listeners not only in this area, but all over the world.
Bring to mind this excerpt: "Before it blanked out for good, the ship would have to pass on those instructions, such as they were, to it's more primitive systems. It must also revive all of it's crew.
There was another problem. While the crew was in hibernation, the minds of all it's members, their memories, their identities and their understanding of what they had come to, had all been transferred into the ship's central mission module for safe keeping. The crew would not have the faintest idea of who they were or what the were doing there. Oh well." - Douglas Adams "Mostless Harmless" I read Kurzweil's "The Spiritual Age of Machines" were he talks about downloading the brain. It seems feasible, but don't erase the original when when we firewire our life's experiences into our new Microtium 500Ghz, Store-O-Comp sense-omatic pleasure box.
And I just got a Pentium II 233MMX IBM ThinkPad and was hella excited about that. But seriously, why doesn't someone try out these experiments on a Linux system? I'd be curious to see the differences in performance. I'd do it myself, but as I noted earlier I just got a PII 233 Thinkpad so we know what my financial situation is.
Flamebait?!? What jackass modded me down as flamebait? You, sir, are an idiot.
7 Years ago and you are now just getting around to posting it on Slashdot? Why didn't you contact Taco about this when he was still in his dorm room fiddling with Chips & Dip?
I guess this supposed to appeal to the Got Milk? Got Jesus? Got a Life? crowd. God, that website is ugly.
Because most kids could never get unspeakable amounts of the most crude forms of pornography the planet has ever known. I mean yeah, all those kids with active internet connections to their homes are hanging out on Nickelodeon.com or disney.com, right? Besides, it is far better to subject them to the exploding heads and guts strewn about a floor in a 1st person shooter then it is for them to see a little nudity and hear some curse words. What a backwards ass society we live in.
I think we need a few new moderation categories:
-2: Too damn whiney
-3: Oh, it's you again. Why do you visit Slashdot and post comments and do nothing but bitch. Way too fucking whiney.
-4: Just shut the fuck up will ya.
-5: You are the biggest moron that ever lived.
Taco? Can these be incorporated into the moderation system?
So Taco, I guess my question is: Are you still going to buy one?
Taco wrote "Gonna need the space since scifi has decided to air 4 episodes of SG1 a day." I thought we were boycotting ScFi until they decided to bring back Farscape ;)
Didn't we see something about vulnerabilities in Apache just the other day? Patch your servers. Anyway, at least the bug reports are out in the open and I can have my server patched in a matter of minutes. Yes, we are ALL vulnerable, but some software is easier to patch than others.
I buy games, lots of games. If I go to Best Buy to pick up WarCraft III and there is a Linux version, I will buy that before I buy the Windows version. Now I would hope they would both be in the same box. But the point is that I do buy software. As far as being able to download your own linux distro free of charge, I have more than 30, probably closer to 50 burnt discs that I have collected over the years of various linux distros. Well, I was in Best Buy recently and decided to pick up SuSE 8.0. I have never regretted it. I would argue that MOST of the software that end users use at home consists of browsers, cd-burning software, games. Who actually buys Norton Antivirus 2002? Most of the big name software under Windows is being used illegally. I have had discs given to me by Windows users with hundreds of the most up to date music programs, graphics programs, cd-rw programs, antivirus, publishing, etc. etc.. I use none of it. Most of it is overkill. Let's face it. Your average user is not going to pay $1000's of dollars for software when they can get it for free, and I mean the Windows version. If you are smart enough to use the advanced functions in these programs you are smart enough to do a warez search. Windows users are just as cheap. Most of the software is overkill. The money being spent on these programs is being spent by business and education. These groups use Windows MOST of the time. I don't know exactly why, but that is the way it is. As an example, I am taking C++ from a graduate of a school that I know uses unix, linux predominantly in their teaching. We are being taught with Visual C++ and a crap of a book that makes no mention whatsoever of anything but Winodws. Why? I don't know why. Maybe the software vendors don't make Linux versions because Microsoft would have their ass if they did. Maybe my school doesn't use Unix because they got some crazy discount from Microsoft and a lot of hand holding. It's a difficult subject. There is more to it than end users. A lot of it is political and if we have learned anythning about politics here in the US it's that money talks. Those that have the money call the shots. There is a company on the West Coast with A LOT of money and I think they decide what is put on the shelves and what we are offered, and don't give me that it's available for Mac shit either. Microsoft owns them too. ohhh, it's getting hot in here.
Well, if you are using Debian unstable you should be at 0.9.6g-2. After reading the story I started up dselect and was surprised to see that I already had the patch. Still getting a shitload of ../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir... requests though. Damn script kiddies
This is just too bad. Farscape is the best show on Sci-Fi. Anyone care to comment on their reasoning behind this?
Seeing that these days the only I time I am rebooting into Windows is to run Cubase and various other music apps this is good news. I have been desperately trying to bring my music production over to Linux, in fact I'm picking up my copy of "The Csound Book" today. Over the years I have tried, with varying degrees of success, to run many of the freely available sequencers (Jazz), software synths, etc. Although I have never been a huge fan of ReBirth I have a friend who uses it and sends me ReBirth files once in a while. It will be interesting to see how they function in ReBorn.
C'mon! Wouldn't this be the equivalent of Menudo or some other really bad boy band of the day asking for a part in the one of the original 3 films? George Lucas would have said hell no. This is just ridiculous. 10 years from now Nsync will be laughed at even more than they are now and Attack of the Clones will be a big joke.
My god if I had the money I would buy this thing. I saw it compete on Battlebots the other night. The other robots never had a chance. Absolute carnage. Their web page says they are building a heavier/faster version. They better reinforce those walls or someone is going to get hurt
Shit, I'll take em! I'm still using an OLD 200MMx with a measly 64meg of ram. That's it, that's all I have. My email is above.
I see. Thanks