I'm not saying that it is, What I am doing is comparing it to something that most people I know think is expensive, and yet is a far better deal the a CD. If the comparison was something equivelent it would not of had as much weight.
The price/time ratio of a good book would of been better for proving my piont, but then I would be comparing on a more level playing field, which is not how you prove your point.
Even my Dad, who thought that Napster was a very bad thing agrees that it probably was not as big a problem as the hype, and that it is the industries attempt force us to like crap that is their reason for losing sales.
The music industry has turned itself into a paridy of what it was, churning out cookie cutter bands and nothing else. Now when someone says all the mane stream is exactly the same crap they entirly correct, and not just some poor lonley indevidual crying for help.
20 dollors is what a date to the movies costs. that includes two to three hours at the theater, plus a drive each way (if the drive is not fun, go out with someone else) some time back home, and hopefelly getting laid. That is a collective 10 hours (5 hours for 2 people at least) of enjoyment.
A new CD at 15 dollors would nead to be listened to 10 times through to get the same price time ratio (2 dollors/hour) for a 45 minute CD. There are very few people that listen to an entire CD enough times within paying the purchase for it to feel worth it.
I t does not nead to be all those things. It really only neads to be as good as the rest of the project in wrapping and testing. I mean I am not going to pay 100 dollors and expect something more then the rest of the project, but for a simple hacked on feature it could still be worth it.
Maybe I wan not clear, I meant the broadcaster/reciever on the hip, with a wire rnning to the ear, kinda like a walkman. Where you get antanna from wire running to is beyond me though.
umm doesnt bluetooth use 2G spectrum? The one that are water logged brains are more likely to absorb? if that's what you meant by cancer.
I personally would like something that strapped to one of my hips and was shielded well on the side towards my body with a wire running up to a small ear/mouth piece combo, but I am also probably overly worried about the cancer risk and at the same time overly naive to think that there isn't so much cancerous radio transmission in the air already to think it matters.
Anyway I do agree with your comments that got you modded as flame bait (I want more damned gadgets here in America, yet they don't come).
Obviously these people wouldl not go through the trouble of liting themself in a directory that had the purpose of setting up mini contracts, or mention such an interest on there webpage.
The projects that would like money for feature add stuff should mention it on their webpage, and should list with such a directory. *duh*
Anyway as to the guy that said is this not a lesser google?
So what, it would already be hyper focusses on relavancy, no nead to add OSS Open source type stuff to your search, and it could have other nifty stuff. It could be catagorized, it could have a monatary interest range, a whick liscence option, all that narrow the search, probably even to the point that you browse a list of projects all matching exactly your interest no nead to even search.
I know that when I am interested in an old/. article I don't use google, I use/.'s search, and guess on the catagory.
Again I don't think this is rocket science, A good project feature for hire sight would be good, and people that don't want any money for feature can either list as strait charity recepients, or not list at all.
Even I think more than that before I post and look at my sig.
I gave them some money, but I don't think they weill make the goal. I am writing this on 6/21 around 3:00 est, and the slashdotting seams only to have gotten them another 8000 EUR. That is certainly not very promissing. Maybe if the article came up on a weekday there would have been more traffic (I would imagine there is more workday browsing then non workday browsing). Unless they can get a signifigent chunk from Linux software companies or the investors holding the IP decide well, you only raised xxxx EUR I guess that's all we can get then we are screwed.
from the looks of it onle 1 or 2 thousand slashdotters were even touched by this (assuming average donation in the 5 to 10 dollor range, it's probably closer to 15 but who knows). I think this is very unfortunate, and anyone teatering should just plunk down the 10 dollors for the community. 5000 readers gave 5.00 EUR that would be 1/4 of the neaded money, all from slashdot, and with 200+k registered users that should be realativly easy.
I would think that reports of abductions under different names have been happening for thousands of years.
How many times were nubile young virgins taken by "gods" in greek mythology?
Or am I to assume that it is not the same phenominon?
PS, I think that most believers (in real contact) are wack jobs, and the rest are just wrong, but I do think that abductions by the paranormal have existed for a long time.
As far as playing on a console, I have an snes emulator for my Dreamcast, but it can't do 100% speed on many games, and all games have a frameskip of 1 at least.
Primarily, I was being a shit. I am would assume that not knowing enough english to vote, probably means not knowing enough to know anything about the canadates. Of course there are probably fairly intelligent people who have an alright english comprehension in spoken, but not written form. I would suspect that even they would be able to pick a canidate or ask for assistance (heavan forbid). I am truly for letting everybody, no matter how dumb, or lacking in english abilities to vote, but I do think that the desicion must be made by someone capable of communication with the rest of the world at the spoken level.
Not only do I think the fear of immatation is silly, but by not releasing on Linux it is more likly to happen. If there was photoshop Linux would we have the Gimp?, if there was MS Office for Linux would we have Koffice?, maybe or maybe not, but I think deffinatly companies are taking a far bigger risk on the immatation factor by not releasing Linux releases.
I would say that it should have a pal interface in simple mode. there should be a few apps with fairly big and descriptive icons. Icons should be able to exist in multiple catagories so that you have your default that pops up with these apps:
Office suite of your choice (preferably each part with its own icon, the whole integrated office thing is confusing). Web Browser of your choice, probably should be Mozilla, Opera, or Netscape). I really like konq, but people might accidently end up on their local drive. All apps should be configured to save and load from the same directory (a.k.a. My Documents). maybe There should be an option to switch catagories like the palm to games, office (more apps other suites?), Web (other browsers?), others?. You should be able to have sub folders in this starting window, so the games could have a solitare folder, an arcade folder etc. you should have an app finder that basically searches a small database for key words so people can download and isntall an app into this system (it should file appropiatly, this is just a confidence builder so you don't nead a long list, just stuff people will be happy is free). I am willing to help on the design and testing, if you would like, just email me.
"Hehehe.. yeah. I agree.. but then, I also think voting should be conducted in english only. See.. maybe I'm an elitist prick, but I figure if you love this country enough to choose the people who run it, you at *LEAST* oughtta learn the national language while you are at it. "
No you fool, he said "adverage" not "average". Anyway, going by his usage "adverage" means median. Because 100 IQ is the 50ith percentile is the median.
How about user accounts? What if they can't even use the modem by default? What if it starts with them having to add a user? These are things I want to know
I LOVE BeOS, but I will not agree that it is so easy and intuitive. I found it too is a little rough around the edges (every OS is).
I will grant it was fast as all hell. Very stable (I ounce had the same mp3 playing approx 30 times simulteaniously without my computer PIII 450) crashing, and still operable with the files playing 5 times simulteaniously).
Things people won't like about it are the thing in the top right (tracker?) disapearing all the time (not always on top). I could imagine someone making that happen and phoning for tech support. Also I found the menu to be a little confusing, there was applications and something else (system?) and the something else was full of what I found to be sub par system setup type tools.
I found the dialer in BeOS to be terrible (refuses to connect to my university, both DUN and WVdial work fine).
I do really like Be though, and the driver instalation was SWEET. Uncompress file, which produces a folder. In that folder there is a driver and a link, drag driver onto link.
I apologize for painting doctors with such a wide brush, but medicine is a large and very established (well organized) industry. As such it has many currupt people floating to the top and running things. I believe history is full of examples of large, long standing orginizations eventually becoming run by currupt individules. It is the very nature of humanity, once there is power to be had running something the power hungry will strive to run it. It is what our government has been reduced to, and being demonstrated by many of our major corporations.
I don't believe that there are not large quantities of good doctors, what I believe is that they are not the ones that are going to be in control of how any new technology is used. I also believe that many (if not most) of the good doctors are too busy healing people (many times for free or very little) to fight against the curruption on top.
I didn't say unregulated, I just don't think you nead a full fledged Doctor that knows every nook and cranny of the eye to due it. I wouldn't think there would be a booth next to piercing pagoda, but I would imagine it could be as simple as getting a haircut. Call, make appointment, go in, drive home. And could easily cost around 500 dollors (less then an hour of time, no dangerous anestetic). Optomitrists want to be allowed to do this (hell , they want to be allowed to perscribe contacts again), but it will never happen due to the interests of eye-doctors.
The surgery was invented in Russia as a cost saving messure for the state run Medical offices, not as a way for the more wealthy to have easier lives.
Note: the comment about contacts may be state, and not national, and obviously I am USian.
I bet software like this is made illegal for anyone but doctors to use for that reason. My Grandfather was an optomitrist, that had his ability to distribute contact lenses taken away. Why? because the bonafied MDs lobbied to make it so only they could perscribe them.
Laser surgery is relativly easy to perform, and was invented as a CHEAP alternitive to glasses, yet it is locked up for use at huge prices by only MDs.
This technology could litterly be used for relativly accurate internet diagnosis (if the certainty was under a certain percent you simply refer to a "real doctor to prevent mis-diagnosis). Or you could have specialy trained people that simply do the diagnosing and streamline the medical prosses.
What I see happening is doctors lobby to be the only ones with access. Then instead of fearing it, and slamming it, they advertise it as an added service. spend less time working with a patient and charging MORE for the added service.
Ever heard of Falcon's eye? It is a NetHack front end with a nice isometric view. The graphics are pretty good in quality, and very clean IMHO. It is available here:http://falconseye.sourceforge.net/
here:http://www.hut.fi/~jtpelto2/nhscreen_big05. jp g is a random screenshot. Unfortunaly some of it looks like I shit it out due to the fact it is 800 x 600 scaled down.
quote from AC:"Do tune2fs -j/dev/ext2_hd_dev and find out...creates a journal for ext2. Just change your fstab to try it."
You might also want to make sure you compiled ext3 support into your kernel. Not trying to be a jackass, but not everyone has the latst kernel, I just upgraded from 2.2.17 for ext3 personally. Giving sloppy advice like that to somebody could be bad. Shame on you.
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I'm not saying that it is,
What I am doing is comparing it to something that most people I know think is expensive, and yet is a far better deal the a CD. If the comparison was something equivelent it would not of had as much weight.
The price/time ratio of a good book would of been better for proving my piont, but then I would be comparing on a more level playing field, which is not how you prove your point.
Even my Dad, who thought that Napster was a very bad thing agrees that it probably was not as big a problem as the hype, and that it is the industries attempt force us to like crap that is their reason for losing sales.
The music industry has turned itself into a paridy of what it was, churning out cookie cutter bands and nothing else. Now when someone says all the mane stream is exactly the same crap they entirly correct, and not just some poor lonley indevidual crying for help.
20 dollors is what a date to the movies costs. that includes two to three hours at the theater, plus a drive each way (if the drive is not fun, go out with someone else) some time back home, and hopefelly getting laid. That is a collective 10 hours (5 hours for 2 people at least) of enjoyment.
A new CD at 15 dollors would nead to be listened to 10 times through to get the same price time ratio (2 dollors/hour) for a 45 minute CD. There are very few people that listen to an entire CD enough times within paying the purchase for it to feel worth it.
I t does not nead to be all those things. It really only neads to be as good as the rest of the project in wrapping and testing. I mean I am not going to pay 100 dollors and expect something more then the rest of the project, but for a simple hacked on feature it could still be worth it.
Maybe I wan not clear, I meant the broadcaster/reciever on the hip, with a wire rnning to the ear, kinda like a walkman.
Where you get antanna from wire running to is beyond me though.
umm doesnt bluetooth use 2G spectrum?
The one that are water logged brains are more likely to absorb? if that's what you meant by cancer.
I personally would like something that strapped to one of my hips and was shielded well on the side towards my body with a wire running up to a small ear/mouth piece combo, but I am also probably overly worried about the cancer risk and at the same time overly naive to think that there isn't so much cancerous radio transmission in the air already to think it matters.
Anyway I do agree with your comments that got you modded as flame bait (I want more damned gadgets here in America, yet they don't come).
Obviously these people wouldl not go through the trouble of liting themself in a directory that had the purpose of setting up mini contracts, or mention such an interest on there webpage.
/. article I don't use google, I use /.'s search, and guess on the catagory.
The projects that would like money for feature add stuff should mention it on their webpage, and should list with such a directory. *duh*
Anyway as to the guy that said is this not a lesser google?
So what, it would already be hyper focusses on relavancy, no nead to add OSS Open source type stuff to your search, and it could have other nifty stuff. It could be catagorized, it could have a monatary interest range, a whick liscence option, all that narrow the search, probably even to the point that you browse a list of projects all matching exactly your interest no nead to even search.
I know that when I am interested in an old
Again I don't think this is rocket science, A good project feature for hire sight would be good, and people that don't want any money for feature can either list as strait charity recepients, or not list at all.
Even I think more than that before I post and look at my sig.
I gave them some money, but I don't think they weill make the goal. I am writing this on 6/21 around 3:00 est, and the slashdotting seams only to have gotten them another 8000 EUR. That is certainly not very promissing. Maybe if the article came up on a weekday there would have been more traffic (I would imagine there is more workday browsing then non workday browsing). Unless they can get a signifigent chunk from Linux software companies or the investors holding the IP decide well, you only raised xxxx EUR I guess that's all we can get then we are screwed.
from the looks of it onle 1 or 2 thousand slashdotters were even touched by this (assuming average donation in the 5 to 10 dollor range, it's probably closer to 15 but who knows). I think this is very unfortunate, and anyone teatering should just plunk down the 10 dollors for the community. 5000 readers gave 5.00 EUR that would be 1/4 of the neaded money, all from slashdot, and with 200+k registered users that should be realativly easy.
C'mon people help out here.
I would think that reports of abductions under different names have been happening for thousands of years.
How many times were nubile young virgins taken by "gods" in greek mythology?
Or am I to assume that it is not the same phenominon?
PS, I think that most believers (in real contact) are wack jobs, and the rest are just wrong, but I do think that abductions by the paranormal have existed for a long time.
Yeah it's possible.
Do a search for zelda on slashdot.
fifth result "Rewriting the past..."
This is a game based on a hacked Zelda.
As far as playing on a console, I have an snes emulator for my Dreamcast, but it can't do 100% speed on many games, and all games have a frameskip of 1 at least.
Hope this helped
If you are truley that poor what is the tax deduction going to do?
You get what, maybe 10 dollors back in 10 months?
why not just check the couch cushuns every time your at a party?
Primarily, I was being a shit.
I am would assume that not knowing enough english to vote, probably means not knowing enough to know anything about the canadates. Of course there are probably fairly intelligent people who have an alright english comprehension in spoken, but not written form. I would suspect that even they would be able to pick a canidate or ask for assistance (heavan forbid).
I am truly for letting everybody, no matter how dumb, or lacking in english abilities to vote, but I do think that the desicion must be made by someone capable of communication with the rest of the world at the spoken level.
Here's my recipe for caffinated orange juice.
1) By No-Doze
2) Take with OJ, not water
I actually do this in the morning (Cofe gives me the shits)
Not only do I think the fear of immatation is silly, but by not releasing on Linux it is more likly to happen. If there was photoshop Linux would we have the Gimp?, if there was MS Office for Linux would we have Koffice?, maybe or maybe not, but I think deffinatly companies are taking a far bigger risk on the immatation factor by not releasing Linux releases.
I would say that it should have a pal interface in simple mode. there should be a few apps with fairly big and descriptive icons. Icons should be able to exist in multiple catagories so that you have your default that pops up with these apps:
Office suite of your choice (preferably each part with its own icon, the whole integrated office thing is confusing).
Web Browser of your choice, probably should be Mozilla, Opera, or Netscape). I really like konq, but people might accidently end up on their local drive.
All apps should be configured to save and load from the same directory (a.k.a. My Documents).
maybe
There should be an option to switch catagories like the palm to games, office (more apps other suites?), Web (other browsers?), others?.
You should be able to have sub folders in this starting window, so the games could have a solitare folder, an arcade folder etc.
you should have an app finder that basically searches a small database for key words so people can download and isntall an app into this system (it should file appropiatly, this is just a confidence builder so you don't nead a long list, just stuff people will be happy is free).
I am willing to help on the design and testing, if you would like, just email me.
"Hehehe.. yeah. I agree.. but then, I also think voting should be conducted in english only. See.. maybe I'm an elitist prick, but I figure if you love this country enough to choose the people who run it, you at *LEAST* oughtta learn the national language while you are at it. "
Except there is no national language in America.
No you fool, he said "adverage" not "average". Anyway, going by his usage "adverage" means median. Because 100 IQ is the 50ith percentile is the median.
funny, Opera's website doesn't list download.com as one of the hosts to choose.
I wonder where most people go for opera?
I have a problem 6.
How about user accounts?
What if they can't even use the modem by default?
What if it starts with them having to add a user?
These are things I want to know
I LOVE BeOS, but I will not agree that it is so easy and intuitive. I found it too is a little rough around the edges (every OS is).
I will grant it was fast as all hell. Very stable (I ounce had the same mp3 playing approx 30 times simulteaniously without my computer PIII 450) crashing, and still operable with the files playing 5 times simulteaniously).
Things people won't like about it are the thing in the top right (tracker?) disapearing all the time (not always on top). I could imagine someone making that happen and phoning for tech support. Also I found the menu to be a little confusing, there was applications and something else (system?) and the something else was full of what I found to be sub par system setup type tools.
I found the dialer in BeOS to be terrible (refuses to connect to my university, both DUN and WVdial work fine).
I do really like Be though, and the driver instalation was SWEET. Uncompress file, which produces a folder. In that folder there is a driver and a link, drag driver onto link.
I apologize for painting doctors with such a wide brush, but medicine is a large and very established (well organized) industry. As such it has many currupt people floating to the top and running things. I believe history is full of examples of large, long standing orginizations eventually becoming run by currupt individules. It is the very nature of humanity, once there is power to be had running something the power hungry will strive to run it. It is what our government has been reduced to, and being demonstrated by many of our major corporations.
I don't believe that there are not large quantities of good doctors, what I believe is that they are not the ones that are going to be in control of how any new technology is used. I also believe that many (if not most) of the good doctors are too busy healing people (many times for free or very little) to fight against the curruption on top.
I didn't say unregulated, I just don't think you nead a full fledged Doctor that knows every nook and cranny of the eye to due it. I wouldn't think there would be a booth next to piercing pagoda, but I would imagine it could be as simple as getting a haircut. Call, make appointment, go in, drive home. And could easily cost around 500 dollors (less then an hour of time, no dangerous anestetic). Optomitrists want to be allowed to do this (hell , they want to be allowed to perscribe contacts again), but it will never happen due to the interests of eye-doctors.
The surgery was invented in Russia as a cost saving messure for the state run Medical offices, not as a way for the more wealthy to have easier lives.
Note: the comment about contacts may be state, and not national, and obviously I am USian.
I bet software like this is made illegal for anyone but doctors to use for that reason. My Grandfather was an optomitrist, that had his ability to distribute contact lenses taken away. Why? because the bonafied MDs lobbied to make it so only they could perscribe them.
Laser surgery is relativly easy to perform, and was invented as a CHEAP alternitive to glasses, yet it is locked up for use at huge prices by only MDs.
This technology could litterly be used for relativly accurate internet diagnosis (if the certainty was under a certain percent you simply refer to a "real doctor to prevent mis-diagnosis). Or you could have specialy trained people that simply do the diagnosing and streamline the medical prosses.
What I see happening is doctors lobby to be the only ones with access. Then instead of fearing it, and slamming it, they advertise it as an added service. spend less time working with a patient and charging MORE for the added service.
Ever heard of Falcon's eye? It is a NetHack front end with a nice isometric view. The graphics are pretty good in quality, and very clean IMHO. It is available here:http://falconseye.sourceforge.net/
. jp g is a random screenshot. Unfortunaly some of it looks like I shit it out due to the fact it is 800 x 600 scaled down.
here:http://www.hut.fi/~jtpelto2/nhscreen_big05
I'snt that rocket guys general idea (see interviews, I am a lazy fuck not willing to post a link).? He wants to use a pnumatic launcher of some type?
quote from AC:"Do tune2fs -j /dev/ext2_hd_dev and find out...creates a journal for ext2. Just change your fstab to try it."
You might also want to make sure you compiled ext3 support into your kernel. Not trying to be a jackass, but not everyone has the latst kernel, I just upgraded from 2.2.17 for ext3 personally. Giving sloppy advice like that to somebody could be bad. Shame on you.