Basically I've been anticipating the trilogy of trilogies ever since I knew Star Wars was a neat movie (at least since '94 I've known about it.)
It's pretty much old news that that's the way it's intended to be. The most plausible explanation I've read is that Lucas originally had 3 movies he wanted to make, but each of those was so thick it would have to take up 3 movies by itself, he was told. So he did the middle "movie" first and that was the Star Wars trilogy. Makes sense to me.
I'm the one who always claims that most geek girls are pretty hot. Like when i demo my list of hacker pick-up lines at school and get told "yeah but all you'll get with that is geek chicks". So? "They're all ugly." I don't know what hole everybody else is living under, but i don't think I've ever met a geek chick who wasn't fine as all hell. (this is by my definition of geek, but hey, I only think we should be even in how we define geeks for girls and for guys)
I vote the rest of us geek guys open our eyes to how nice the pickings are (if slim, but hey it's quality and not quantity right?)
btw I hope you meant those 2 bulleted points to go together because I'm definitely drooling over any girl who runs gentoo (pretty or not =] )
You're not a real geek if you're not into any of those things. Not liking any one or even two out of the four things you mentioned is fine, but if you have distaste for all four then you're just an advanced computer/mathematics enthusiast.
Geekiness isn't just a field of academic interest, it's a state of mind.
Everybody I know who's seen it yet saw a midnight (or 12:03 or 12:05) showing. AFAIK every theatre in the Madison area (barring the $2 theatres that only show 6-month old flicks) had at least one midnight showing. (the place I went had it on 5 screens and the first 4 sold out)
Unless people thought it was so great they needed to watch it again the same day or they work third shift, I can't imagine that they would be skipping work to see it. Especially geeks.
I don't recall any reference to Han beginning his career in the Imperial military getting any mention in the films. (I do remember seeing references to it in other Star Wars media however)
First the playstation 2 starts being called ps2. That name is already taken by IBM's line of 386 boxes from way back when. But at least it's spelled differently. (Sony PS2 vs. IBM PS/2) So I can deal. But when you guys start calling the Sony machine the PS/2, then we have a problem.
I run exclusively linux at home but I've never even gotten to play Q3A or UT in their linux incarnations because my hardware sux and I can't afford anything better. =]
I do find it sad to see Loki go though, to me they represented hope for my favorite system. (#1 lame-ass reason people give me for not using linux: "it doesn't run any games!")
>>Windows, if it was sold in boxes and not preinstalled, would be unavailable for 95% of users, too. The point is, in this case stupid user is at fault, and he should shut up.
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Hence Linux has sub 1% market share, and windows over 90%. It's those kinds of attitudes that keep it that way too.
Actually, I think that's because linux comes in a box on the shelf and not (for the most part) preinstalled on your box. Don't act like there aren't any windows people with bad attitudes either.
Many in the firearms owners' rights community in the USA have proposed that once the government is finished stripping us of our Second Amendment freedoms, they'll come after the First Amendment.
We're going under the assumption they haven't already gone after our first ammendment rights here. Uh huh. Right.
(If you can be arrested for saying where you can get instructions for acquiring tools which may be used to commit a crime, it seems like we're definitely slipping)
is that you'd need a separate binary for each platform the software was intended to run on. Otherwise pc game manufacturers would have been doing this for years. I don't know much of the details of the iso 9660 spec but I'm presuming when you set up a boot sector (or whatever) it points to/contains a single binary and you can't make it switch based on what hardware is booting it. So your boot loader (lilo or whatever) would only be able to run on whatever architecture it was compiled for and you would only be able to boot from that version.
We don't want to become China. If we just sit around and let all that shit happen, it will be worse.
Remember, in Nazi Germany the censorship started out small.
Redhat, Mandrake, and SuSE have been pissing me off lately with installs that take 1800 MB of disk space, and 10,000 background daemons that eat up 80% of the available RAM. If I want to install a useful system with X and FVWM to do Web browsing, check e-mail and log into remote UNIX boxen, all on a Pentium-90 with 16 MB RAM and a 600 GB hard drive, the ONLY current distribution good for the job is Slackware.
I was doing all that with debian, on 486dx 100MHz with 20 MB ram and 200 MB HD. Hell, I even managed it on 486dx 33MHz with 8 MB ram and 200 MB HD. It was a bit slow, but it worked:PM
I've always found Debian to be pretty lightweight. Maybe not as much as slack, but since my only basis of comparison is Windows it seems hella lightweight to me =)
Hell I used Debian for over 2 years without running X. I just browsed web, read email, mudded, wrote text files all from the console. I also went the same period of time without using apt or dselect. I just ftpd to the server to grab a package, downloaded it and installed it manually.
And my only reply to this is, no we don't expect our car to run with damaged parts, but do we expect a single damaged part to destroy everything else under the hood? Yes a scratched cd *is* a programmer's problem, when the software he writes turns what should be a simple problem (can't read the cd, need to get a new one) into a disaster (reboot with a now corrupt hard drive)
It is the programmer's responsibility to make their programs handle things like this gracefully.
We wouldn't expect our car to run without fuel, but we would most certainly expect it not to run around wrecking things because it had no fuel. You expect things to work fine once you refuel. In the Word saving example, things could not work fine once some space was cleared because data had already been destroyed.
What if the GNOME and KDE projects could take back all the programmer hours that went into consumer desktop applications and instead focus that brain power on developing kick-ass development platforms? What if all the effort that's gone into writing desktop drivers that peripheral outfits don't care to support were redirected toward drivers for corporate environments? What if all the mental energy, the rage on the Slashdot message boards, had been concentrated on building solid business models? What if the Linux community put an end to all the desktop nonsense right now and built on its strengths in global enterprise computing - just how big could Linux get?
What traditional business-type thinkers all-to-often fail to realize is that we don't develop linux to make it succeed. We add the features *we* need. If someone wants a word processor or a desktop GUI, they write it. We don't write these things because we want to win some silly "war" with microsoft.
If people decided not to concentrate on the desktop with linux and make it a server only platform, I would lose my favorite OS. And so would a lot of other people I know. It wouldn't make linux greater, because those development hours would not magically switch to the server: People who need desktop features and don't need enterprise features would just quit programming linux altogether. Not write the features they don't need.
Let's say somebody had published a detailed article in a prominent place describing how to hijack airplanes using box cutters and knives with 2" blades. The furor that might erupt over this results in box cutters and short knives not being allowed on airplanes. Then an enormous security exploit might have been avoided.
We've already seen an example of how this exploit was still used despite not being reported. At least if someone had figured it out and made an issue of it sooner we would have had a chance to prevent it.
At first when I read that alice had been judged higher than one of the human participants, I thought "wow, that's gotta be one fancy AI."
Then I went and talked to alice online, and it was so blatantly obvious that it was a computer program it wasn't even funny. It was basically just a *slightly* beefed up version of eliza. So now, I feel sorry for the poor dude who rated less human than alice did.
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Basically I've been anticipating the trilogy of trilogies ever since I knew Star Wars was a neat movie (at least since '94 I've known about it.)
It's pretty much old news that that's the way it's intended to be. The most plausible explanation I've read is that Lucas originally had 3 movies he wanted to make, but each of those was so thick it would have to take up 3 movies by itself, he was told. So he did the middle "movie" first and that was the Star Wars trilogy. Makes sense to me.
So am I to understand that all the other parties are also to occur on the 12th, having seen no indication to the contrary?
I'm the one who always claims that most geek girls are pretty hot. Like when i demo my list of hacker pick-up lines at school and get told "yeah but all you'll get with that is geek chicks". So? "They're all ugly." I don't know what hole everybody else is living under, but i don't think I've ever met a geek chick who wasn't fine as all hell. (this is by my definition of geek, but hey, I only think we should be even in how we define geeks for girls and for guys)
I vote the rest of us geek guys open our eyes to how nice the pickings are (if slim, but hey it's quality and not quantity right?)
btw I hope you meant those 2 bulleted points to go together because I'm definitely drooling over any girl who runs gentoo (pretty or not =] )
There are so few stories about Microsoft being right because Microsoft is right so rarely.
You're not a real geek if you're not into any of those things. Not liking any one or even two out of the four things you mentioned is fine, but if you have distaste for all four then you're just an advanced computer/mathematics enthusiast.
Geekiness isn't just a field of academic interest, it's a state of mind.
Everybody I know who's seen it yet saw a midnight (or 12:03 or 12:05) showing. AFAIK every theatre in the Madison area (barring the $2 theatres that only show 6-month old flicks) had at least one midnight showing. (the place I went had it on 5 screens and the first 4 sold out)
Unless people thought it was so great they needed to watch it again the same day or they work third shift, I can't imagine that they would be skipping work to see it. Especially geeks.
Tomb Raider and glitter are just as dangerous under windows, dammit!
What about all the independant contractors they slaughtered on the second death star?
I don't recall any reference to Han beginning his career in the Imperial military getting any mention in the films. (I do remember seeing references to it in other Star Wars media however)
We were watching it the other night, before it premiered. =]
You mean Hindi, right?
First the playstation 2 starts being called ps2. That name is already taken by IBM's line of 386 boxes from way back when. But at least it's spelled differently. (Sony PS2 vs. IBM PS/2) So I can deal. But when you guys start calling the Sony machine the PS/2, then we have a problem.
he's doing a show about him doing nothing while I'm doing nothing about me doing nothing.
You're posting on slashdot about you doing nothing while I'm doing nothing about...oh wait...never mind...
I run exclusively linux at home but I've never even gotten to play Q3A or UT in their linux incarnations because my hardware sux and I can't afford anything better. =]
I do find it sad to see Loki go though, to me they represented hope for my favorite system. (#1 lame-ass reason people give me for not using linux: "it doesn't run any games!")
>>Windows, if it was sold in boxes and not preinstalled, would be unavailable for 95% of users, too. The point is, in this case stupid user is at fault, and he should shut up.
> Hence Linux has sub 1% market share, and windows over 90%. It's those kinds of attitudes that keep it that way too.
Actually, I think that's because linux comes in a box on the shelf and not (for the most part) preinstalled on your box.
Don't act like there aren't any windows people with bad attitudes either.
The article repeatedly refers to the 'warez group', 'warez network' and the group in question as being a prominent 'warez unit'.
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I know my leet sux, no need to tell me. Sorry.
Many in the firearms owners' rights community in the USA have proposed that once the government is finished stripping us of our Second Amendment freedoms, they'll come after the First Amendment.
We're going under the assumption they haven't already gone after our first ammendment rights here. Uh huh. Right.
(If you can be arrested for saying where you can get instructions for acquiring tools which may be used to commit a crime, it seems like we're definitely slipping)
is that you'd need a separate binary for each platform the software was intended to run on. Otherwise pc game manufacturers would have been doing this for years. I don't know much of the details of the iso 9660 spec but I'm presuming when you set up a boot sector (or whatever) it points to/contains a single binary and you can't make it switch based on what hardware is booting it. So your boot loader (lilo or whatever) would only be able to run on whatever architecture it was compiled for and you would only be able to boot from that version.
Or something.
We don't want to become China. If we just sit around and let all that shit happen, it will be worse.
Remember, in Nazi Germany the censorship started out small.
Redhat, Mandrake, and SuSE have been pissing me off lately with installs that take 1800 MB of disk space, and 10,000 background daemons that eat up 80% of the available RAM. If I want to install a useful system with X and FVWM to do Web browsing, check e-mail and log into remote UNIX boxen, all on a Pentium-90 with 16 MB RAM and a 600 GB hard drive, the ONLY current distribution good for the job is Slackware.
:PM
I was doing all that with debian, on 486dx 100MHz with 20 MB ram and 200 MB HD. Hell, I even managed it on 486dx 33MHz with 8 MB ram and 200 MB HD. It was a bit slow, but it worked
I've always found Debian to be pretty lightweight. Maybe not as much as slack, but since my only basis of comparison is Windows it seems hella lightweight to me =)
Hell I used Debian for over 2 years without running X. I just browsed web, read email, mudded, wrote text files all from the console. I also went the same period of time without using apt or dselect. I just ftpd to the server to grab a package, downloaded it and installed it manually.
And my only reply to this is, no we don't expect our car to run with damaged parts, but do we expect a single damaged part to destroy everything else under the hood? Yes a scratched cd *is* a programmer's problem, when the software he writes turns what should be a simple problem (can't read the cd, need to get a new one) into a disaster (reboot with a now corrupt hard drive)
It is the programmer's responsibility to make their programs handle things like this gracefully.
We wouldn't expect our car to run without fuel, but we would most certainly expect it not to run around wrecking things because it had no fuel. You expect things to work fine once you refuel. In the Word saving example, things could not work fine once some space was cleared because data had already been destroyed.
What if the GNOME and KDE projects could take back all the programmer hours that went into consumer desktop applications and instead focus that brain power on developing kick-ass development platforms? What if all the effort that's gone into writing desktop drivers that peripheral outfits don't care to support were redirected toward drivers for corporate environments? What if all the mental energy, the rage on the Slashdot message boards, had been concentrated on building solid business models? What if the Linux community put an end to all the desktop nonsense right now and built on its strengths in global enterprise computing - just how big could Linux get?
What traditional business-type thinkers all-to-often fail to realize is that we don't develop linux to make it succeed. We add the features *we* need. If someone wants a word processor or a desktop GUI, they write it. We don't write these things because we want to win some silly "war" with microsoft.
If people decided not to concentrate on the desktop with linux and make it a server only platform, I would lose my favorite OS. And so would a lot of other people I know. It wouldn't make linux greater, because those development hours would not magically switch to the server: People who need desktop features and don't need enterprise features would just quit programming linux altogether. Not write the features they don't need.
I meant <2" blades. Silly slashdot.
I even selected Plain Old Text.
Oh well, you probably still got my point.
Let's say somebody had published a detailed article in a prominent place describing how to hijack airplanes using box cutters and knives with 2" blades. The furor that might erupt over this results in box cutters and short knives not being allowed on airplanes. Then an enormous security exploit might have been avoided.
We've already seen an example of how this exploit was still used despite not being reported. At least if someone had figured it out and made an issue of it sooner we would have had a chance to prevent it.
At first when I read that alice had been judged higher than one of the human participants, I thought "wow, that's gotta be one fancy AI."
Then I went and talked to alice online, and it was so blatantly obvious that it was a computer program it wasn't even funny. It was basically just a *slightly* beefed up version of eliza. So now, I feel sorry for the poor dude who rated less human than alice did.