Setting up your fstab file during the install could be improved a great deal. If you go straight through the install you'll end up with one root partition and a swap partition.
The other problem is that if you can't load a module for your ethernet card, the install wont go through the network setup for you.
Not that these problems can't be easily fixed - if you have some idea of what you are doing. I know you can select an alternate menu option to initilaize another linux partition...but its not obvious for a Debian newbie.
Same with with networking; I know its as easy as compiling a new kernel with ne2000 support (since the install modules have never liked any of my ethernet cards, yes I did specify io and irq's), adding one line to/etc/networking/interfaces (if I want to run dhcp, gets much more complex for static) and doing/etc/init.d/networking restart.
I know this after several installs and looking at/etc files on a machine that was already running Debian. But I wonder how many new users will try to install it a couple of times and switch to Redhat because they can't get networking set up or because they spent 45 minutes selecting packages to install in dselect, only to have it die a few hours later when the downloading debs fill up your root partition because you don't have/var/cache mounted seperatly.
but is it really slashdot worthy considering the next version of debian won't be released for at least another year unless we're really, really lucky? I don't think so.
Because Woody is a current Debian distribution (although unstable) and has been available for months.
If Apple released MacOS X on Intel, and it was truly a good OS, then I would buy it, and try it out, and use it.
Good for you, give yourself a pat on the back. However, for every person like you, probably 1000 more would simply pirate it, buy either borrowing a cd or downloading and burning an iso.
The only reason Microsoft makes any money off of selling client operating systems is because they come installed on virtually every pc shipped. Apple, not having twisted the arms of OEM's for 20 years, would have no such luck.
Otherwise, they lose my business, because I'm not buying their proprietary, overpriced hardware
Troll. Name once peice of Apple hardware that is proprietary. Ummm, PCI, nope....AGP, nope....USB, Firewire, ATA, SCSI.....nope nope nope.
And Apple hardware is not overpriced, for an OEM. Of course you can get more parts for your money from www.bargainbasement.com, but the same would be true for Dell or Gateway.
Their processor is woefully underpowered, due to Apple's agreements with IBM (no 1Ghz levels of speed, even though it's possible)
Actually, those problems would be from Motorola's ownership of AltiVec. I'm sure IBM would be happy to sell 850 mhz PowerPC's to Apple, but Apple wants the chips to have AltiVec after spending the last year hyping it.
(Want a fast 3D card? Which one?)
Um, the Radeon? Its not quite as fast as a Geforce 2, but it is faster than a V5. Its a good card.
Also, in the not-too-distant future, everyone will be porting to a new hardware platform. Windows and a lot of major Unix flavors, including Linux, will be available. Will Apple be there?
What hardware platform are you speaking of? IA64?
Aside from Apple's open source site, you might cruise over to Open Packages where Apple is at the top of the list of sponsors. That must be a real sore spot with you.
Note: I'm an experienced Debian user, so when I mention shortcomings in what follows, I do so as someone who has experienced them through 2.5 years.
Well, you have me beat by half a year then.....:)
Not just like FreeBSD. The Debian support for auto-managing dependencies does not extend to source. If you don't have the packages required to build the source, it will simply fail.
The problem with FreeBSD's port system is that it has no central server, and sometimes the links are bad. The first time I installed FreeBSD, I tried installing wget, less, sudo and screen from the ports tree, and it failed on three out of the four of them!
The ports tree's emphasis is on building from source, and it simply whoops apt/dpkg's ass at this.
It kind of defeats the purpose of having a ports section if you have to scoot over to Freshmeat to download the source yourself...... At least with Debian, you just do an "apt-get update" and your package list is sycronized with the mirror of your choice.
Also, I think FreeBSDs development model (e.g. the base OS/ports split) lends itself to more frequent, high quality stable releases for the basic system, and fairly up to date additional packages.
Aye laddie, it would be nice if Debian would do the same.......I'm hoping they do that interm distro, somewhere between stable and unstable.
Everyone is so quick to call stallman a looney because he is standing up for freedom. He is TRYING to protect all of our freedoms by being consistent in his views.
Stallman doesn't stand for freedom, he stands for pure open-source software, preferably under his license. You have every right to use only open-source software, but my right to write and release closed source software and charge however much I want for it is just as important.
After you mount your swap and root partitions, I think the next action by defualt is to install the kernel, but alternatively you can select "initilialize another linux partition". It'll format the partition and then ask you where you want to mount it. Not very intuitive, but once you know what option to use its easy to set up seperate partitions for/var/cache or/home, et al.
Is there some page out there that shows you all of the security vulnerablities when first installing, and how to get rid of them?
New bugs are posted on the main page, or you can check out Debian's security page for more information. As for holes in default installation, welcome to the beauty of Debian. Edit your/etc/apt/sources.list to include the mirror of your choice, then do "apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade" as root. Presto, all your packages are current.
Yes. There were several times when apt would kick up its legs and thrash in dependancy errors on me, and it would take a few days before I could fix it. A couple of times a dist-upgrade would hose perl and apt so bad I had to reinstall.
Not that I'm not a card carring Debian Nazi, even with those two reinstalls it was soooooooo much nicer than running Red Hat.
I personaly would like them to use 'nonthreatening' and 'threatening' instead of 'free' and 'nonfree'. It would simply be a lot more understandable.
How so.....then you have to explain why organizations and/or companies that release closed source software that they spent time and money creating with a license of their choosing is more disturbing than labeling it as a threat because you prefer open-source software.
Being an zealot, an elitist or a xenophobe is a waste of time. Other than that, your post was on target.:)
The author of the article sounds like a politcian running for office: he thumps his fist and makes impressive sounding attacks, but they fall apart when you look at the details.
Last month, when the punk-rock band the Offspring started selling T-shirts featuring the Napster logo, for example, Napster promptly sent the group a cease-and-desist order, backing off only after some Web sites commented on the apparent hypocrisy of the move.
As some one else pointed out, there is a big difference between trademark (Offspring using Napster logo) and copyright law (sharing music). If the offspring t-shirts were about general mp3 sharing with links to www.napster.com, www.cutemx.com etc, Napster the company would be thrilled, but by using a trademark logo Offspring left the company no choice but to issue a cease and desist.
More significantly, the company repeatedly has tried to stymie independent software developers working on Napster-compatible software and Web sites. While these programs could benefit the millions of music fans that Napster claims are its only constituency, they might also diminish the commercial potential of Napster itself.
First time I've heard about this....it was my understanding that the company was quietly supportive of the Linux console client and even had a link to a Mac client on its front page (still have the link on the downloads page).
The company has refused to share technical information about its software code
And its perfectly okay for them to do so. To hell with Stallman, nobody has a "right" to software code. You DO have every right to ask for open code, and the developer has every right to laugh in your face and tell you off. If you only want to use open source software, more power to you, but don't think its an affront to your personal liberty if some software you want to use is closed.
Besides, isn't this a non-issue since the protocol was reverse engeneered about a year go?
and has blocked computers from outside music sites from accessing Napster's database of hundreds of thousands of songs.
But there is one new Internet sharing technology that Mr. Barry didn't mention to the senators, and of which Napster will have no part. These are "bots," or "agents,"
Blocking the use of 3d party clients and restricting how their servers are used are two entierly seperate issues. Napster has every right to decide how people access their own servers; if search companies like AngryCoffe want to make indexes of mp3's, they can knock themselves out on gnutella.
And Napster blocks bots and Napigator so the servers aren't overloaded. Under their current load ballancing setup, users first connect to server.napster.com, which in turn connects them to a sub server which handles all the indexing and sharing, and isn't connected to any other sub servers. If everybody used Napigator, people would tend to connect to the most populated servers, overwhelming them while leaving others virtually empty.
Napster has said they are working on indexing all the servers, making Napigator only usefull for connecting to Opennap servers.
And as for all the frumping about Shawn Fanning having a "mere" six percent in the company, he's lucky to have that much, and its probably due to his uncle having the largest stake. If he was a well known programmer like Alan Cox or Larry Wall in a startup, I'm sure he could have gotten a MUCH larger stake in the company. But a typical no name college drop out would probably paid a few thousand dollars for his idea and be forgotten.
wrong, nope, no way no how, will never happen
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Can you say Racial Supremacy Complex, and a huge, ironic Hitler parallel?
For such a parallel to exist, Mags would have to want to kill off non-mutants, which has never, ever been his intention (even during his most insane moments). For one thing, that would have have meant killing people like his wife, his parents and his first daughter, who were all normal humans.
Magnus (his middle name, and what people close to him call him, not Erik) sees basically two options: either play nice and and face persecution and even death, or fight so the nations of the world and the rest of humanity wont do that.
Turning the leaders of the world into mutants is one of the least bloodless paths you could take. But the Magneto of the comics would never kill an innocent 16 year old girl to power his mutating gizmo. That's what caused him to reform and even lead the X-Men for a time - in a big fight with the X-Men, he thought he killed Kitty Pryde, who was 14 at the time. Shocked that he would do such a thing (to a fellow jew no less), he stopped fighting and left to reconsider his methods.
Mags can manipulate far more than just metal, its just that metal is the easiest material for him to manipulate. I wondered why he bothered with the helicopter at the train station, when he could have easily picked up Rouge and his henchmen and flew away.
He can do other cool stuff with his powers, like form an air bubble around himself and fly into space w/o a suit (in the comic he built at least two space stations) and has used molecular dispersion to get rid of a couple of bad guys.
It's the best Magneto-as-noble-villan issue ever. Everyone involved has well thought out plans and motivations and intelligent tactics are used by both sides. It'll probably cost you eight to ten dollars or more, but its worth it. Other good stuff: the Age of Apocalypse (alternate universe fyi) and X-Men 1-3 (X-Men, not Uncanny X-Men, different titles).
Hey, this is the guy after all, that pulled Wolverine's adamantium out of his bones a couple of years ago.
Nevermind that the use of Magneto's powers causes him brain damage, drving him insane....and for this story, he was made insanley powerful so he could kick everyone's ass (hmm, maybe his insanely powerful powers will drive him insanely insane?). Nevermind that in their last encounter, that the X-Men went and attacked him even though he didn't wish to fight him, and Wolverine almost eviscerated him. Nevermind that Bob Harrashole (editor in chief of Marvel) made Scot Lobdel (writer of that particular series, Fatal Attractions) rewrite one of the issues four or five times "because Magneto wasn't evil enough."
But your point is valid, this was probably to make it clear to the masses that he was the main bad guy.
Too bad they felt the need to do that. They could have played up the Malcom X/Martin Luther King analogy that so many people draw....same goal, strongly disagree on how to accomplish it.......
What *are* his eyebeams? They are not lasers because the don't cut or reflect. They seem to be an impact weapon that breaks/bashes.
Probably depends on the size of the beam....kinda like you could take the same amount of metal and make either a bat or a sword; one will bash and the other will slash.
That's the only explanation for the fact that there was a Sabretooth/Magneto at the end of the movie.
Not necesarily. Sabretooth has the same mutant healing factor as Wolverine, only his is generally stronger. Strong enough that he could recover from a big hole through his body if it didn't kill him instantly; it would take him a while, but you'd probably want to make youself veeerrrrry scarce afterwords.
As for Magneto, he can normally deflect Cyke's optic blasts in his sleep, and at least in the comics his costume is chain mail armor reinforced by his powers. Only reason Cyke's blast had any effect is becase Mags was weakened from giving his powers to Rouge and he was using his remaining strength to keep Wolverine from slashing his gizmo.
Wolverine, the world's first canadian superhero first entered the world of marvel when he fought this yeti type creature, which had a name (but I forget what it was).
The name of the monster was Wendigo. As I recall, it was a curse put on hikers in mountians if they turned to canibalism to survive.
Also, Wolverine's first appearance was in Hulk...a brief glimpse in 181 and his first full appearance in 182 (give or take an issue).
If Clint Eastwood were a bit stockier and younger, he'd be perfect for the part of wolverine: he's got Logan's face.
Yup....too damn old though.
good for fans, good for anime companies
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As they can fit both dubbed and subtitles on a single DVD, it will save the anime companies money from not having to make two VHS versions. The lowered prices (and the additional copyright protections on DVD's) should lessen piracy, which means more money for the companies and hopefully to more titles.
Some of my favorite anime series are Lodoss War and Slayers. I haven't bought any of the tapes, only rented them or watched my friends copies (many of which are pirated), because I juat can't afford to spend $20 on a two episode tape, when the series might have 12 or more episodes.
I've seen some of the benifits already- instead of spending over $100 on the Lodoss War VHS series, I could get it on DVD for about $40. The first four tapes of the Evangelion series have been combined into a single DVD, saving the fan a good chunk of change (and a lot of annoying tape switching). And of course with DVD they can keep both the subbed and dubbed fans happy.
look at the title of the story guys....."Has Linux Development Become Too Political?"
My post wasn't about the specific instance at hand, but it was about politics in the Linux development and user community.....hope you get smacked by some M2's.
You forgot to cite your support for this. What percentage of uses of the word are as in "free of charge" as compared to "free the hostages", "free range", "free will", "free press" etc. etc. ? Please cite or sorce for the relevant statistics.
We aren't talking about hostages or freedom of the press, we're talking about code and software, which are tangible objects on some form of storage. And when talking about tangible objects, name me something or some instance were the word free does NOT mean "free of charge."
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that, and Debian kicks much ass
:-)
Oh, I never said Debian sucks, just the installer.
My IM screen name is Debian Nazi.
Setting up your fstab file during the install could be improved a great deal. If you go straight through the install you'll end up with one root partition and a swap partition.
/etc/networking/interfaces (if I want to run dhcp, gets much more complex for static) and doing /etc/init.d/networking restart.
/etc files on a machine that was already running Debian. But I wonder how many new users will try to install it a couple of times and switch to Redhat because they can't get networking set up or because they spent 45 minutes selecting packages to install in dselect, only to have it die a few hours later when the downloading debs fill up your root partition because you don't have /var/cache mounted seperatly.
The other problem is that if you can't load a module for your ethernet card, the install wont go through the network setup for you.
Not that these problems can't be easily fixed - if you have some idea of what you are doing. I know you can select an alternate menu option to initilaize another linux partition...but its not obvious for a Debian newbie.
Same with with networking; I know its as easy as compiling a new kernel with ne2000 support (since the install modules have never liked any of my ethernet cards, yes I did specify io and irq's), adding one line to
I know this after several installs and looking at
but is it really slashdot worthy considering the next version of debian won't be released for at least another year unless we're really, really lucky? I don't think so.
Because Woody is a current Debian distribution (although unstable) and has been available for months.
That, and the current installer really sucks.
Good for you, give yourself a pat on the back. However, for every person like you, probably 1000 more would simply pirate it, buy either borrowing a cd or downloading and burning an iso.
The only reason Microsoft makes any money off of selling client operating systems is because they come installed on virtually every pc shipped. Apple, not having twisted the arms of OEM's for 20 years, would have no such luck.
Otherwise, they lose my business, because I'm not buying their proprietary, overpriced hardware
Troll. Name once peice of Apple hardware that is proprietary. Ummm, PCI, nope....AGP, nope....USB, Firewire, ATA, SCSI.....nope nope nope.
And Apple hardware is not overpriced, for an OEM. Of course you can get more parts for your money from www.bargainbasement.com, but the same would be true for Dell or Gateway.
Their processor is woefully underpowered, due to Apple's agreements with IBM (no 1Ghz levels of speed, even though it's possible)
Actually, those problems would be from Motorola's ownership of AltiVec. I'm sure IBM would be happy to sell 850 mhz PowerPC's to Apple, but Apple wants the chips to have AltiVec after spending the last year hyping it.
(Want a fast 3D card? Which one?)
Um, the Radeon? Its not quite as fast as a Geforce 2, but it is faster than a V5. Its a good card.
Also, in the not-too-distant future, everyone will be porting to a new hardware platform. Windows and a lot of major Unix flavors, including Linux, will be available. Will Apple be there?
What hardware platform are you speaking of? IA64?
Aside from Apple's open source site, you might cruise over to Open Packages where Apple is at the top of the list of sponsors. That must be a real sore spot with you.
Just pop open a command line and poke around to your hearts content.
Note: I'm an experienced Debian user, so when I mention shortcomings in what follows, I do so as someone who has experienced them through 2.5 years.
Well, you have me beat by half a year then.....:)
Not just like FreeBSD. The Debian support for auto-managing dependencies does not extend to source. If you don't have the packages required to build the source, it will simply fail.
The problem with FreeBSD's port system is that it has no central server, and sometimes the links are bad. The first time I installed FreeBSD, I tried installing wget, less, sudo and screen from the ports tree, and it failed on three out of the four of them!
The ports tree's emphasis is on building from source, and it simply whoops apt/dpkg's ass at this.
It kind of defeats the purpose of having a ports section if you have to scoot over to Freshmeat to download the source yourself...... At least with Debian, you just do an "apt-get update" and your package list is sycronized with the mirror of your choice.
Also, I think FreeBSDs development model (e.g. the base OS/ports split) lends itself to more frequent, high quality stable releases for the basic system, and fairly up to date additional packages.
Aye laddie, it would be nice if Debian would do the same.......I'm hoping they do that interm distro, somewhere between stable and unstable.
Everyone is so quick to call stallman a looney because he is standing up for freedom. He is TRYING to protect all of our freedoms by being consistent in his views.
Stallman doesn't stand for freedom, he stands for pure open-source software, preferably under his license. You have every right to use only open-source software, but my right to write and release closed source software and charge however much I want for it is just as important.
Purity is not freedom.
You can find "Using Samba" here. They also have an online version of Learning Debian/GNU Linux.
After you mount your swap and root partitions, I think the next action by defualt is to install the kernel, but alternatively you can select "initilialize another linux partition". It'll format the partition and then ask you where you want to mount it. Not very intuitive, but once you know what option to use its easy to set up seperate partitions for /var/cache or /home, et al.
Is there some page out there that shows you all of the security vulnerablities when first installing, and how to get rid of them?
/etc/apt/sources.list to include the mirror of your choice, then do "apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade" as root. Presto, all your packages are current.
New bugs are posted on the main page, or you can check out Debian's security page for more information. As for holes in default installation, welcome to the beauty of Debian. Edit your
No VM
Actually, the Mac OS has had vm for at least four or five years.
no memory protection between processes
Starting with 8.6, Apple introduced some memory protection....not as good as the Linux or Win2k kernels, but its about even with Win 98.
no multitasking
Funny, I distinctly remember running multitple applications at once back in '88. It has some pre-emptive multitasking, again starting with 8.6.
Or you could just wait for the OS X beta to come out in September, and then you'll have BSD vm, multitasking and memory protection.
I have no biases
Nope, you just throw out incorrect and inflamatory statements.
Sieg Ackermann!!!
huh?
Is this sort of release really neccessary?
Yes. There were several times when apt would kick up its legs and thrash in dependancy errors on me, and it would take a few days before I could fix it. A couple of times a dist-upgrade would hose perl and apt so bad I had to reinstall.
Not that I'm not a card carring Debian Nazi, even with those two reinstalls it was soooooooo much nicer than running Red Hat.
I personaly would like them to use 'nonthreatening' and 'threatening' instead of 'free' and 'nonfree'. It would simply be a lot more understandable.
:)
How so.....then you have to explain why organizations and/or companies that release closed source software that they spent time and money creating with a license of their choosing is more disturbing than labeling it as a threat because you prefer open-source software.
Being an zealot, an elitist or a xenophobe is a waste of time. Other than that, your post was on target.
The author of the article sounds like a politcian running for office: he thumps his fist and makes impressive sounding attacks, but they fall apart when you look at the details.
Last month, when the punk-rock band the Offspring started selling T-shirts featuring the Napster logo, for example, Napster promptly sent the group a cease-and-desist order, backing off only after some Web sites commented on the apparent hypocrisy of the move.
As some one else pointed out, there is a big difference between trademark (Offspring using Napster logo) and copyright law (sharing music). If the offspring t-shirts were about general mp3 sharing with links to www.napster.com, www.cutemx.com etc, Napster the company would be thrilled, but by using a trademark logo Offspring left the company no choice but to issue a cease and desist.
More significantly, the company repeatedly has tried to stymie independent software developers working on Napster-compatible software and Web sites. While these programs could benefit the millions of music fans that Napster claims are its only constituency, they might also diminish the commercial potential of Napster itself.
First time I've heard about this....it was my understanding that the company was quietly supportive of the Linux console client and even had a link to a Mac client on its front page (still have the link on the downloads page).
The company has refused to share technical information about its software code
And its perfectly okay for them to do so. To hell with Stallman, nobody has a "right" to software code. You DO have every right to ask for open code, and the developer has every right to laugh in your face and tell you off. If you only want to use open source software, more power to you, but don't think its an affront to your personal liberty if some software you want to use is closed.
Besides, isn't this a non-issue since the protocol was reverse engeneered about a year go?
and has blocked computers from outside music sites from accessing Napster's database of hundreds of thousands of songs.
But there is one new Internet sharing technology that Mr. Barry didn't mention to the senators, and of which Napster will have no part. These are "bots," or "agents,"
Blocking the use of 3d party clients and restricting how their servers are used are two entierly seperate issues. Napster has every right to decide how people access their own servers; if search companies like AngryCoffe want to make indexes of mp3's, they can knock themselves out on gnutella.
And Napster blocks bots and Napigator so the servers aren't overloaded. Under their current load ballancing setup, users first connect to server.napster.com, which in turn connects them to a sub server which handles all the indexing and sharing, and isn't connected to any other sub servers. If everybody used Napigator, people would tend to connect to the most populated servers, overwhelming them while leaving others virtually empty.
Napster has said they are working on indexing all the servers, making Napigator only usefull for connecting to Opennap servers.
And as for all the frumping about Shawn Fanning having a "mere" six percent in the company, he's lucky to have that much, and its probably due to his uncle having the largest stake. If he was a well known programmer like Alan Cox or Larry Wall in a startup, I'm sure he could have gotten a MUCH larger stake in the company. But a typical no name college drop out would probably paid a few thousand dollars for his idea and be forgotten.
For such a parallel to exist, Mags would have to want to kill off non-mutants, which has never, ever been his intention (even during his most insane moments). For one thing, that would have have meant killing people like his wife, his parents and his first daughter, who were all normal humans.
Magnus (his middle name, and what people close to him call him, not Erik) sees basically two options: either play nice and and face persecution and even death, or fight so the nations of the world and the rest of humanity wont do that.
Turning the leaders of the world into mutants is one of the least bloodless paths you could take. But the Magneto of the comics would never kill an innocent 16 year old girl to power his mutating gizmo. That's what caused him to reform and even lead the X-Men for a time - in a big fight with the X-Men, he thought he killed Kitty Pryde, who was 14 at the time. Shocked that he would do such a thing (to a fellow jew no less), he stopped fighting and left to reconsider his methods.
Mags can manipulate far more than just metal, its just that metal is the easiest material for him to manipulate. I wondered why he bothered with the helicopter at the train station, when he could have easily picked up Rouge and his henchmen and flew away.
He can do other cool stuff with his powers, like form an air bubble around himself and fly into space w/o a suit (in the comic he built at least two space stations) and has used molecular dispersion to get rid of a couple of bad guys.
It's the best Magneto-as-noble-villan issue ever. Everyone involved has well thought out plans and motivations and intelligent tactics are used by both sides. It'll probably cost you eight to ten dollars or more, but its worth it. Other good stuff: the Age of Apocalypse (alternate universe fyi) and X-Men 1-3 (X-Men, not Uncanny X-Men, different titles).
Nevermind that the use of Magneto's powers causes him brain damage, drving him insane....and for this story, he was made insanley powerful so he could kick everyone's ass (hmm, maybe his insanely powerful powers will drive him insanely insane?). Nevermind that in their last encounter, that the X-Men went and attacked him even though he didn't wish to fight him, and Wolverine almost eviscerated him. Nevermind that Bob Harrashole (editor in chief of Marvel) made Scot Lobdel (writer of that particular series, Fatal Attractions) rewrite one of the issues four or five times "because Magneto wasn't evil enough."
But your point is valid, this was probably to make it clear to the masses that he was the main bad guy.
Too bad they felt the need to do that. They could have played up the Malcom X/Martin Luther King analogy that so many people draw....same goal, strongly disagree on how to accomplish it.......
There's also Mag's line to Storm, "are you sure you saw what you saw."
And even if he's not, don't you think the rest of my statement would probably be correct?
Why not? Assuming the mutation didn't kill them, they are going to reevaluate any "Mutant Registration Acts" pretty damned quickly.
Probably depends on the size of the beam....kinda like you could take the same amount of metal and make either a bat or a sword; one will bash and the other will slash.
That's the only explanation for the fact that there was a Sabretooth/Magneto at the end of the movie.
Not necesarily. Sabretooth has the same mutant healing factor as Wolverine, only his is generally stronger. Strong enough that he could recover from a big hole through his body if it didn't kill him instantly; it would take him a while, but you'd probably want to make youself veeerrrrry scarce afterwords.
As for Magneto, he can normally deflect Cyke's optic blasts in his sleep, and at least in the comics his costume is chain mail armor reinforced by his powers. Only reason Cyke's blast had any effect is becase Mags was weakened from giving his powers to Rouge and he was using his remaining strength to keep Wolverine from slashing his gizmo.
The name of the monster was Wendigo. As I recall, it was a curse put on hikers in mountians if they turned to canibalism to survive.
Also, Wolverine's first appearance was in Hulk...a brief glimpse in 181 and his first full appearance in 182 (give or take an issue).
If Clint Eastwood were a bit stockier and younger, he'd be perfect for the part of wolverine: he's got Logan's face.
Yup....too damn old though.
As they can fit both dubbed and subtitles on a single DVD, it will save the anime companies money from not having to make two VHS versions. The lowered prices (and the additional copyright protections on DVD's) should lessen piracy, which means more money for the companies and hopefully to more titles.
Some of my favorite anime series are Lodoss War and Slayers. I haven't bought any of the tapes, only rented them or watched my friends copies (many of which are pirated), because I juat can't afford to spend $20 on a two episode tape, when the series might have 12 or more episodes.
I've seen some of the benifits already- instead of spending over $100 on the Lodoss War VHS series, I could get it on DVD for about $40. The first four tapes of the Evangelion series have been combined into a single DVD, saving the fan a good chunk of change (and a lot of annoying tape switching). And of course with DVD they can keep both the subbed and dubbed fans happy.
look at the title of the story guys....."Has Linux Development Become Too Political?"
My post wasn't about the specific instance at hand, but it was about politics in the Linux development and user community.....hope you get smacked by some M2's.
We aren't talking about hostages or freedom of the press, we're talking about code and software, which are tangible objects on some form of storage. And when talking about tangible objects, name me something or some instance were the word free does NOT mean "free of charge."