Hmm. I did have an SMP box at the time, so that may have been my problem. I just seemed to remember though that any flakiness in a 3D app would cause HARD X lockups with the "official" drivers, and wouldn't cause any problems at all with the open drivers. Probably an SMP issue.
I use KDE/CDE/GNOME/Enlightenment at work (not all at once, mind you) so I REALLY miss not having multiple desktops at home. Seriously. IT messes me up and I end up just using one or two apps at a time to compensate for messy desktop syndrome. This looks promising. I'll probably give it a shot. Thanks.
Your desktop looks cool. I got a laptop that can't seem to run anything but winders, and I'd love to get ahold of whatever you used to give yourself multiple desktops and such. Mind linking to the base software? (Hey, I don't mind paying if it works worth a crap.)
Or users install the hardware vendors drivers, have their system lock up on them four or five times a day and decide that Linux sucks. Personally, I'd rather have a slow desktop than a locked up one. NVidia was the worst at this. I finally got the point where I just quit trying the manufacturers drivers. It's not worth the hassles and lock-ups.
My argument was against the faulty reasoning of the argument made in the post I responded to. It wasn't a moral argument. It was an argument that telling people they have no right to judge that which they don't do is, well, quite frankly, fucking retarded. You can judge anything. Especially when it comes to opinion, which is all we're talking about here.
It doesn't matter whether or not I like rap music. What matters is, someone has completely faulty logic when they say, "Unless you have done it yourself, you have no right to judge." It's a canned knee-jerk response that has no merit. That's the only point I was attempting to make. If you took more away from it, check your reading comprehension.
Until you've fucked children yourself you are unqualified to say that it is wrong. Until you've killed kittens yourself, you are unqualified to say it is wrong. Until you've killed jews yourself, you are unqualified to say that it is wrong. Do you get the drift yet moron?
It seems that the moon is moving away from the Earth at approximately a quarter of an inch every year or so. Something like that. That's actual fact. Also fact is that as the moon moves further away it has less of a stabalizing effect on the Earth's "tilt". So, we could end up with the Earth's axis rotating around as much as ninety degrees. So what? Imagine if you will, the equator passing through the coldest areas and the poles being in line with the brightest/hottest areas of the planet. Problems? You might say so.
So how about we get some moron to go up there and push the moon back towards the Earth. Then, in true Hollywood disaster film fashion, they can overshoot and send the moon spiralling downward towards the surface. That'd be a nice exciting one. Stabilize that orbit motherfuckers.
What would your precious '0' be without '1'? I'll tell you, it'd be nothing. That's right, nothing. Come to think of it, it's still nothing. And belief in nothing makes one weak. So comeon. Don't be a moron. We all know one is superior to zero. How can nothing be superior to something? It's just not possible.
First off, your comment about Metallica pretty much is exactly the opposite of what I expect Metallica does these days. They've proven they give less than a shit about what their fans want and how to best give a favorable impression to their fans. And the little MP3 debacle with them means nothing to me, I'm talking of their attitude and the way they speak of their "old" fans.
Secondly, I was speaking entirely theoretically, but since you mentioned it...
Yes, you are "taxed" if you play covers in a live venue. Guess where most of that money goes? It isn't the original artist. It's the record company that holds that artists "interests" as they say. And believe me, if the RIAA could figure out a way to charge junior every time he played the latest big thing on his guitar, they would.
The point is the RIAA fears change. They see it coming. The big-name music making companies need to come up with a way to get free-music lovers back under control. I always feared the day I would need a license to play an old Metallica song through my own guitar. It seems, if that day is to come to pass, this is the perfect first step. Convince musicians that there's all kinds of good reasons to go fully digital. Soon, the amps go fully digital. Soon after that, there's a processor in your amp analyzing every note. Play the correct series and you are taxed by the RIAA for playing a cover song without prior written consent.
Sure, it's a crackpot theory, but what are the chances some RIAA good isn't salivating at the prospect of being able to crack down on illegal (i.e. unsponsored) guitar playing? Imagine if music itself becames outlawed. I fear the day my children are told that analog musical devices are no longer legal, because they cannot be properly monitored.
I think you've got that backwards. Windows does come with a DVD player. It's built into that Windows Media Player on every computer I've ever seen with WinXP and a DVD drive. However, I have yet to see a Linux system with a DVD player that works. You neglected to mention that on any and ever system with mplayer you still have to dowload and compile LibDeCss and some four thosand other dependencies, all of which conflict with half of the existing system. Unless you magically transported yourself into some future time where Linux always works out of the box.
Believe it or not, I'm a Linux supporter. But I'm not gonna lie about how difficult it is to get DVD playback on Linux. It hasn't ever worked for me, on either of my DVD enabled systems. I've tried Red Hat, Debian, and SuSE. Nadda. BTW, I've never seen anyone, anywhere, claim that simply typing mplayer with a flag will make it play DVDs. Especially without some huge string of library downloads. And even if that did work, how would anyone know that? It isn't exactly advertised. Google a little bit and all you find is about seventy different projects attempting to get DVD on Linux working, but none past the early, "This'll work if you plug your dick into a light socket, stand on three toes, hold your hand against your crotch and scream at a precise wavelength during the full moon on the seventh sunday of the New Year" stage.
See, if I want to spend three weeks screwing around with software packages and libraries and crap, maybe, just MAYBE I can watch a DVD on my system, but the sound will still be jerky because some schmuck decided to use some library for audio that is either impossible to find or incompatible with every other library on the system. The problem is, I no longer have three weeks to waste on crap like that. I tried it about four or five months ago, spent four days fucking around with it, and never DID get it to the point where it worked even remotely well enough to make it enjoyable.
Multimedia on Linux hasn't caught up. It hasn't even gotten started yet. I would kill for easy DVD playback, and good audio/video editing tools. Hell, I'd be satisfied with good audio tracking software. But, I know I can't count on Linux to ever have something usable that allows me to just get down to it. It's sad really. I despise having to go to other platforms to get work done, but that's what I'm stuck with. I can write on Linux, because text manipulation is the shit. But anything else I have to reboot. And I can't accomplish the same tasks on Windows as far as writing goes, so I have to reboot again. Makes it a pain in the ass if I want to do more than one thing a day.
The real kicker here is that, historically, the overall temperatures on the planet have gone down, down, down. Think about it. We constantly hear about how hot and muggy the entire planet was sixty-five million years ago. I think we have a LONG ways to go before we get back to that condition. Hell, maybe the planet is just balancing itself back up a bit. Or maybe it's just preparing for the next ice age by warming everything up and getting shit stirring.
Humanity hasn't been around long enough to have a CLUE how this planet's weather and climate change through time. Pretending that we do is the real crime here. It'd take centuries, possibly millenia more before we'd have enough evidence to show a real trend in weather patterns that have any effect on overall climate.
I'm not one to shut down all the alarms. I'd like to see pollution pulled back. But not because of global warming or ozone holes or any of that made up crap, but because sucking down great heaping bucketfuls of industrial smoke and sludgy water is BAD, MMMKAY? That much we do know. Fuck the false arguments, make a stand on the reality of it. Scare tactics based on tomorrows that we'll never know don't work. Telling people they'll die slow painful deaths from all the toxins in the environment may not work either, but at least that'd be true.
Maybe not. But they still act like a kitten until they are two or three. That is, unless they are in a really oppressive environment.
It's like dogs. They may look like adults, but until they hit that third birthday they still have the mind and energy of a puppy. Cats may be a bit more dignified about it, but it's the same deal.
Choices are bad, mmmkay? Choices make you think. And thinking is bad, mmmmkay? That's why schools teach us not to think, because thinking is bad. You don't wanna grow up to be one of those thinkers do you?
Because the two companies run on completely different philosophies. One is run on the philosophy of coming up with new things that are cool and interesting. A desire to make something new. The other is run on a philosophy that dictates that money is the bottom line.
One, as a company, preaches innovation. The other, touts innovation, but preaches dollars. Of course, I could get into the whole Apple doesn't make the big bucks because they don't want to argument, but I'll save that for another time.
You'd think at some point they would realize that if people aren't buying your crap, maybe it's because you don't need their crap, not because they aren't being obnoxious enough with the advertising. What the advertising should be doing is setting the seed in our minds for the day that we may need that exact bit of crap. Then we think, "Hey, I remember that witty, creative ad for *blah crap* that I saw a month or so back. Maybe I should look that up." Instead, they assume that they need to scream at us to buy it now, buy it now, regardless of whether we want it or not.
Do they really think pissing us off is going to make us want to buy their stuff any quicker?
Fuck dude, everybody hates Jon Katz. Even people that claim, "He isn't that bad" have a fucking picture of him for throwing darts at. He's like a really good villian. Even if you like him, you still hate him.
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Does anyone else find it mildly disturbing just how much thought some folks put into potential kidnapping plots around here?
Hmm. I did have an SMP box at the time, so that may have been my problem. I just seemed to remember though that any flakiness in a 3D app would cause HARD X lockups with the "official" drivers, and wouldn't cause any problems at all with the open drivers. Probably an SMP issue.
I use KDE/CDE/GNOME/Enlightenment at work (not all at once, mind you) so I REALLY miss not having multiple desktops at home. Seriously. IT messes me up and I end up just using one or two apps at a time to compensate for messy desktop syndrome. This looks promising. I'll probably give it a shot. Thanks.
Your desktop looks cool. I got a laptop that can't seem to run anything but winders, and I'd love to get ahold of whatever you used to give yourself multiple desktops and such. Mind linking to the base software? (Hey, I don't mind paying if it works worth a crap.)
Or users install the hardware vendors drivers, have their system lock up on them four or five times a day and decide that Linux sucks. Personally, I'd rather have a slow desktop than a locked up one. NVidia was the worst at this. I finally got the point where I just quit trying the manufacturers drivers. It's not worth the hassles and lock-ups.
My argument was against the faulty reasoning of the argument made in the post I responded to. It wasn't a moral argument. It was an argument that telling people they have no right to judge that which they don't do is, well, quite frankly, fucking retarded. You can judge anything. Especially when it comes to opinion, which is all we're talking about here.
It doesn't matter whether or not I like rap music. What matters is, someone has completely faulty logic when they say, "Unless you have done it yourself, you have no right to judge." It's a canned knee-jerk response that has no merit. That's the only point I was attempting to make. If you took more away from it, check your reading comprehension.
I loathe your argument.
Until you've fucked children yourself you are unqualified to say that it is wrong. Until you've killed kittens yourself, you are unqualified to say it is wrong. Until you've killed jews yourself, you are unqualified to say that it is wrong. Do you get the drift yet moron?
Red Hat? Nah, Red Hat's far too MSian to allow MS to take them over.
Don't forget the tax write-off. There's always the tax write-off to consider, when killing competition by buy-out.
It seems that the moon is moving away from the Earth at approximately a quarter of an inch every year or so. Something like that. That's actual fact. Also fact is that as the moon moves further away it has less of a stabalizing effect on the Earth's "tilt". So, we could end up with the Earth's axis rotating around as much as ninety degrees. So what? Imagine if you will, the equator passing through the coldest areas and the poles being in line with the brightest/hottest areas of the planet. Problems? You might say so.
So how about we get some moron to go up there and push the moon back towards the Earth. Then, in true Hollywood disaster film fashion, they can overshoot and send the moon spiralling downward towards the surface. That'd be a nice exciting one. Stabilize that orbit motherfuckers.
What would your precious '0' be without '1'? I'll tell you, it'd be nothing. That's right, nothing. Come to think of it, it's still nothing. And belief in nothing makes one weak. So comeon. Don't be a moron. We all know one is superior to zero. How can nothing be superior to something? It's just not possible.
First off, your comment about Metallica pretty much is exactly the opposite of what I expect Metallica does these days. They've proven they give less than a shit about what their fans want and how to best give a favorable impression to their fans. And the little MP3 debacle with them means nothing to me, I'm talking of their attitude and the way they speak of their "old" fans.
Secondly, I was speaking entirely theoretically, but since you mentioned it...
Yes, you are "taxed" if you play covers in a live venue. Guess where most of that money goes? It isn't the original artist. It's the record company that holds that artists "interests" as they say. And believe me, if the RIAA could figure out a way to charge junior every time he played the latest big thing on his guitar, they would.
The point? Let me conspiracy theory something up.
The point is the RIAA fears change. They see it coming. The big-name music making companies need to come up with a way to get free-music lovers back under control. I always feared the day I would need a license to play an old Metallica song through my own guitar. It seems, if that day is to come to pass, this is the perfect first step. Convince musicians that there's all kinds of good reasons to go fully digital. Soon, the amps go fully digital. Soon after that, there's a processor in your amp analyzing every note. Play the correct series and you are taxed by the RIAA for playing a cover song without prior written consent.
Sure, it's a crackpot theory, but what are the chances some RIAA good isn't salivating at the prospect of being able to crack down on illegal (i.e. unsponsored) guitar playing? Imagine if music itself becames outlawed. I fear the day my children are told that analog musical devices are no longer legal, because they cannot be properly monitored.
I think you've got that backwards. Windows does come with a DVD player. It's built into that Windows Media Player on every computer I've ever seen with WinXP and a DVD drive. However, I have yet to see a Linux system with a DVD player that works. You neglected to mention that on any and ever system with mplayer you still have to dowload and compile LibDeCss and some four thosand other dependencies, all of which conflict with half of the existing system. Unless you magically transported yourself into some future time where Linux always works out of the box.
Believe it or not, I'm a Linux supporter. But I'm not gonna lie about how difficult it is to get DVD playback on Linux. It hasn't ever worked for me, on either of my DVD enabled systems. I've tried Red Hat, Debian, and SuSE. Nadda. BTW, I've never seen anyone, anywhere, claim that simply typing mplayer with a flag will make it play DVDs. Especially without some huge string of library downloads. And even if that did work, how would anyone know that? It isn't exactly advertised. Google a little bit and all you find is about seventy different projects attempting to get DVD on Linux working, but none past the early, "This'll work if you plug your dick into a light socket, stand on three toes, hold your hand against your crotch and scream at a precise wavelength during the full moon on the seventh sunday of the New Year" stage.
See, if I want to spend three weeks screwing around with software packages and libraries and crap, maybe, just MAYBE I can watch a DVD on my system, but the sound will still be jerky because some schmuck decided to use some library for audio that is either impossible to find or incompatible with every other library on the system. The problem is, I no longer have three weeks to waste on crap like that. I tried it about four or five months ago, spent four days fucking around with it, and never DID get it to the point where it worked even remotely well enough to make it enjoyable.
Multimedia on Linux hasn't caught up. It hasn't even gotten started yet. I would kill for easy DVD playback, and good audio/video editing tools. Hell, I'd be satisfied with good audio tracking software. But, I know I can't count on Linux to ever have something usable that allows me to just get down to it. It's sad really. I despise having to go to other platforms to get work done, but that's what I'm stuck with. I can write on Linux, because text manipulation is the shit. But anything else I have to reboot. And I can't accomplish the same tasks on Windows as far as writing goes, so I have to reboot again. Makes it a pain in the ass if I want to do more than one thing a day.
The real kicker here is that, historically, the overall temperatures on the planet have gone down, down, down. Think about it. We constantly hear about how hot and muggy the entire planet was sixty-five million years ago. I think we have a LONG ways to go before we get back to that condition. Hell, maybe the planet is just balancing itself back up a bit. Or maybe it's just preparing for the next ice age by warming everything up and getting shit stirring.
Humanity hasn't been around long enough to have a CLUE how this planet's weather and climate change through time. Pretending that we do is the real crime here. It'd take centuries, possibly millenia more before we'd have enough evidence to show a real trend in weather patterns that have any effect on overall climate.
I'm not one to shut down all the alarms. I'd like to see pollution pulled back. But not because of global warming or ozone holes or any of that made up crap, but because sucking down great heaping bucketfuls of industrial smoke and sludgy water is BAD, MMMKAY? That much we do know. Fuck the false arguments, make a stand on the reality of it. Scare tactics based on tomorrows that we'll never know don't work. Telling people they'll die slow painful deaths from all the toxins in the environment may not work either, but at least that'd be true.
Maybe they decided to hire rusty of K5 fame as a consultant. He "fixed" them up good.
Mods on crack?
Maybe not. But they still act like a kitten until they are two or three. That is, unless they are in a really oppressive environment.
It's like dogs. They may look like adults, but until they hit that third birthday they still have the mind and energy of a puppy. Cats may be a bit more dignified about it, but it's the same deal.
Someone watched a few too many Golden Girls reruns.
Choices are bad, mmmkay? Choices make you think. And thinking is bad, mmmmkay? That's why schools teach us not to think, because thinking is bad. You don't wanna grow up to be one of those thinkers do you?
Dude, that's the most blatant attempt I've ever seen ignored by the masses. Unbelievable. You should be at +5 with ten spare +s left over by now.
Honestly, though, I just wish someone would ask the question we all really wanna know the answer to.
Kevin, do they call you the customizer?
Because the two companies run on completely different philosophies. One is run on the philosophy of coming up with new things that are cool and interesting. A desire to make something new. The other is run on a philosophy that dictates that money is the bottom line.
One, as a company, preaches innovation. The other, touts innovation, but preaches dollars. Of course, I could get into the whole Apple doesn't make the big bucks because they don't want to argument, but I'll save that for another time.
You'd think at some point they would realize that if people aren't buying your crap, maybe it's because you don't need their crap, not because they aren't being obnoxious enough with the advertising. What the advertising should be doing is setting the seed in our minds for the day that we may need that exact bit of crap. Then we think, "Hey, I remember that witty, creative ad for *blah crap* that I saw a month or so back. Maybe I should look that up." Instead, they assume that they need to scream at us to buy it now, buy it now, regardless of whether we want it or not.
Do they really think pissing us off is going to make us want to buy their stuff any quicker?
Fuck dude, everybody hates Jon Katz. Even people that claim, "He isn't that bad" have a fucking picture of him for throwing darts at. He's like a really good villian. Even if you like him, you still hate him.