Sadly enough this is showing how weak their justification of the name change is. Film Gimp is the damned thing's name, and CinePaint really does sound too much like MS Paint to take seriously. Shoulda kept Film Gimp or went with Film-Fu. Morons.
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Take away Amazon's web site, and what do you have?
I disagree, spying on and *stealing* German scientists and tech (through clandestine means) is what gave the Allies a good push in technological advancement. The spy game was a lot more important in WW2 than people seem to give credit for. Its not really 'the bomb' that pushed advancement and developement of technology, it was breaking German cryptography that brought a real need for the advanced development of a mechanical/electrical computer.
In almost lame slashdot irony, read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and you can get a feel for the spy game of WW2. Its very fictional, but it has a lot of real information about the going ons of places like Bletchely park during the war, and just how much the spy game affected tech advancement.
The bomb is really what epitamizes (is that even a word I can use here?, im just trying to sound smart) most 'tech' discussions about 1938-1945, especially in our context of war. Both the US and the Germans had the ideas of how to build the bomb. But nobody knew what the hell would happen when they tried to set it off. Kinda like some folks just KNOW God exists, but won't really know until they die. Doom of death from war, which is a long and annoying quote in the first place, sorry, would sure as hell make ME think and work harder and faster than usual, and thats what I'm getting at. People will work much differently with a threath like that in their face. The insane amount of resources thrown at the situation allowed for plenty of mistakes through trial and error. When resources are limited, a lot more time is put into verification and perfection, b/c without war you are allowed to take your time and be more patient, wouldn't you agree?
on a similar note, you probably would not find it funny if I jabbed a pen into your face, while the not-so-silent majority of us would laugh. heartily.
Those rapid technology advancements were due to the impending doom of death from war. The overall technology advancements themselves were thanks to governments spying on and stealing tech from each other. We are not at war, nor should we be.
the open secrets site seems to have a subconscious agenda of its own and they need to be careful about spending too much time exposing just one shady ass organization
dont hook the goddamn thing to the internet and you'll be fine, its not any more or less susceptible to hacks then the current system... when someone or enough someones put their mind to it, anything can get hacked.
last time i checked, slashdot was the perfect example. after all, slashdot is the site that tends to SLASHDOT OTHERS. You will probably never know who really uses debain in teh back end, b/c debian is a commercial venture that waves the PR flag "we just sold 1000 seats to American Airlines, buy our stock and make us rich"...
try living in Jacksonville, Florida all your life and it might not be so easy.
ps- Remember many months ago during the Southern Baptist convention when the Baptist Minister claimed that Mohammed was a demonic possessed pedophile? That was Dr. Vines (laugh at his formal title) of First Baptist Church, the most influential, politically charged organization here. I just hope to god your not a hard line republican. The concept of a Christian Republican just boggles the mind until you're numb to the hypocrisy.
bashing debian? using the default theme for postnuke for their entire site (oh yeah, they did replace the original postnuke logo.gif didnt they)? looking for 'pageviews' with shady articles? bothersome for a site proclaiming 'the voice of linux'
Maybe its just me, but when I'm "looking for something" I have a pretty good idea what category of things to look under, otherwise I'm just blindly grabbing cool looking software packages on a whim. But logic would be too convenient, wouldn't it.
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ALL HAIL SEAN K and CIMMERIAN, for they shall lead us to the promise land. TFtAN is a great show and unfortunately SeanKTFM had to stop making them for a while b/c like most of us he's too broke to put in the time and effort required to make them as kick ass as they are. Maybe a few good slashdot posts linking them will inspire.
when you serve more users? come on. if its about doing it for the sake of doing it, thats all good and well, but Rusty has walked himself into a corner on this. perhaps rant isnt as big as soma, but if it takes *$20,000* to only cover 85% of the operating costs of a free, not for profit web radio station with no commercials, perhaps you should take a step back, look at what your doing and realize that all that money is essentially disappearing for a glorified hobby. How hard would it be to use your community resources instead of hard cash to run most of the station? With the big money comes big greed.
I dont know him and you do, and this is just my ill informed opinion on him and I certainly don't know the entire situation. I'm only bothering to post on this article because I was running one of the really tiny not for profit streams for a while, and the deal Rusty took part in did not provide relief to anyone like me and its no 'starting point' at all for those of us with a whopping 12 listeners. Am I the only person who thinks ANY royalties for small, never for profit stations are wrong?
I've been listening to rantradio for years and they sure as hell don't need "$20,000 a year" in donations to operate. Actually, they do it full time as a hobby and lose money anyway, but not tons of money. Cimmerian, the station manager, is perfectly capable of going out getting help and 'bandwidth donations' in a split second.
Hodges of SomaFM is full of shit. I liked SomaFM, I really did, but its blatantly obvious that the $$$ signs are all Hodges is seeing now.
correction on your hypothetical situation: the plant is genetically engineered not to reproduce and to start dying after two years. the kitten is actually a feral cat and can hunt and survive and reproduce on its own
hey genius, do you have any idea what freedom is? the EULA is restricting your rights as individual and its actually restricting you from doing something completely unrelated to the use of the program. THAT is f-king insane, BK deserves the bad press for this one. Looks like they let their lawyers determine their software strategy a little to much.
my ip address is like my physical 'domain', its the space I am occupying at the moment. scanning and probing my ports is the equivalent of reaching into my pants pockets. if you are SEARCHING for a specific law breaking item (such as DMCA violating data) without my permission or a court order, you are violating my constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure, be you a government official, representative of a corporation, or a private citizen.
Don't you people know anything?! Let's be ready, unlike everyone else in all the movies. have a high yield nuke on standby 'just in case' and plenty of marines ready to chopper in and kick their asses doom style. Wait a minute... is this all a part of iD software's marketing plan for doom 3... ?
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Sadly enough this is showing how weak their justification of the name change is. Film Gimp is the damned thing's name, and CinePaint really does sound too much like MS Paint to take seriously. Shoulda kept Film Gimp or went with Film-Fu. Morons.
Take away Amazon's web site, and what do you have?
Walmart.
I disagree, spying on and *stealing* German scientists and tech (through clandestine means) is what gave the Allies a good push in technological advancement. The spy game was a lot more important in WW2 than people seem to give credit for. Its not really 'the bomb' that pushed advancement and developement of technology, it was breaking German cryptography that brought a real need for the advanced development of a mechanical/electrical computer.
In almost lame slashdot irony, read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and you can get a feel for the spy game of WW2. Its very fictional, but it has a lot of real information about the going ons of places like Bletchely park during the war, and just how much the spy game affected tech advancement.
The bomb is really what epitamizes (is that even a word I can use here?, im just trying to sound smart) most 'tech' discussions about 1938-1945, especially in our context of war. Both the US and the Germans had the ideas of how to build the bomb. But nobody knew what the hell would happen when they tried to set it off. Kinda like some folks just KNOW God exists, but won't really know until they die. Doom of death from war, which is a long and annoying quote in the first place, sorry, would sure as hell make ME think and work harder and faster than usual, and thats what I'm getting at. People will work much differently with a threath like that in their face. The insane amount of resources thrown at the situation allowed for plenty of mistakes through trial and error. When resources are limited, a lot more time is put into verification and perfection, b/c without war you are allowed to take your time and be more patient, wouldn't you agree?
on a similar note, you probably would not find it funny if I jabbed a pen into your face, while the not-so-silent majority of us would laugh. heartily.
rejoice.
Those rapid technology advancements were due to the impending doom of death from war. The overall technology advancements themselves were thanks to governments spying on and stealing tech from each other. We are not at war, nor should we be.
just a while guess, but could it be...
Duke Nukem Forever
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looks like u didnt travel back far enough
shatner's response :: *stabs you in the face*
hey what are you trying to say about guys named Matt? do you know me or something? ;P
the adverse affects of the cable company dont affect the governments spy satellite programs. THAT is why.
and this is new because... ?
the open secrets site seems to have a subconscious agenda of its own and they need to be careful about spending too much time exposing just one shady ass organization
dont hook the goddamn thing to the internet and you'll be fine, its not any more or less susceptible to hacks then the current system... when someone or enough someones put their mind to it, anything can get hacked.
last time i checked, slashdot was the perfect example. after all, slashdot is the site that tends to SLASHDOT OTHERS. You will probably never know who really uses debain in teh back end, b/c debian is a commercial venture that waves the PR flag "we just sold 1000 seats to American Airlines, buy our stock and make us rich"...
try living in Jacksonville, Florida all your life and it might not be so easy.
ps- Remember many months ago during the Southern Baptist convention when the Baptist Minister claimed that Mohammed was a demonic possessed pedophile? That was Dr. Vines (laugh at his formal title) of First Baptist Church, the most influential, politically charged organization here. I just hope to god your not a hard line republican. The concept of a Christian Republican just boggles the mind until you're numb to the hypocrisy.
bashing debian? using the default theme for postnuke for their entire site (oh yeah, they did replace the original postnuke logo.gif didnt they)? looking for 'pageviews' with shady articles? bothersome for a site proclaiming 'the voice of linux'
Maybe its just me, but when I'm "looking for something" I have a pretty good idea what category of things to look under, otherwise I'm just blindly grabbing cool looking software packages on a whim. But logic would be too convenient, wouldn't it.
ALL HAIL SEAN K and CIMMERIAN, for they shall lead us to the promise land. TFtAN is a great show and unfortunately SeanKTFM had to stop making them for a while b/c like most of us he's too broke to put in the time and effort required to make them as kick ass as they are. Maybe a few good slashdot posts linking them will inspire.
-=sNake
when you serve more users? come on. if its about doing it for the sake of doing it, thats all good and well, but Rusty has walked himself into a corner on this. perhaps rant isnt as big as soma, but if it takes *$20,000* to only cover 85% of the operating costs of a free, not for profit web radio station with no commercials, perhaps you should take a step back, look at what your doing and realize that all that money is essentially disappearing for a glorified hobby. How hard would it be to use your community resources instead of hard cash to run most of the station? With the big money comes big greed.
I dont know him and you do, and this is just my ill informed opinion on him and I certainly don't know the entire situation. I'm only bothering to post on this article because I was running one of the really tiny not for profit streams for a while, and the deal Rusty took part in did not provide relief to anyone like me and its no 'starting point' at all for those of us with a whopping 12 listeners. Am I the only person who thinks ANY royalties for small, never for profit stations are wrong?
RANTRADIO.COM
I've been listening to rantradio for years and they sure as hell don't need "$20,000 a year" in donations to operate. Actually, they do it full time as a hobby and lose money anyway, but not tons of money. Cimmerian, the station manager, is perfectly capable of going out getting help and 'bandwidth donations' in a split second.
Hodges of SomaFM is full of shit. I liked SomaFM, I really did, but its blatantly obvious that the $$$ signs are all Hodges is seeing now.
correction on your hypothetical situation: the plant is genetically engineered not to reproduce and to start dying after two years. the kitten is actually a feral cat and can hunt and survive and reproduce on its own
hey genius, do you have any idea what freedom is? the EULA is restricting your rights as individual and its actually restricting you from doing something completely unrelated to the use of the program. THAT is f-king insane, BK deserves the bad press for this one. Looks like they let their lawyers determine their software strategy a little to much.
forget 'their own levels', it was the GRAPPLING HOOK that kicked the most ass...
grapple to the camper from across screen, fly across map at them pulling out your rocket launcher and they're giblets by the time u get to 'em
Its a trick, get an axe.
my ip address is like my physical 'domain', its the space I am occupying at the moment. scanning and probing my ports is the equivalent of reaching into my pants pockets. if you are SEARCHING for a specific law breaking item (such as DMCA violating data) without my permission or a court order, you are violating my constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure, be you a government official, representative of a corporation, or a private citizen.
Its a gateway to hell!
Don't you people know anything?! Let's be ready, unlike everyone else in all the movies. have a high yield nuke on standby 'just in case' and plenty of marines ready to chopper in and kick their asses doom style. Wait a minute... is this all a part of iD software's marketing plan for doom 3... ?