Heh, good retort... but I compensate by not having a car.
I'm serious. I get by on public transportation. You CAN do it here (Rio de Janeiro). How many people in the USA live in a place where they can do the same?
The idea of people being able to physically defend themselves from the government is actually quite interesting, but how do you take into account the fact that governments now have tanks, helicopters, bazookas, planes, aircraft carriers and NUKES? Do you allow citizen militias to have that sort of hardware?
Disclaimer: I don't actually think outlawing guns is a good idea. I don't think outlawing inanimate objects is a good idea in the general case. But ownership of them should be at least as scrutinized as ownership of automobiles.
And then there's that whole Guns-Are-Cool-And-Fun-And-Patriotic zeitgeist you have. That is a problem no legislation will solve.
Could this be a Palestinian kick at the Jews they figure run Hollywood?
I'd say no (it's a "multicultural" endeavor, as they state in their site), but you can bet your ass the RIAA won't miss the opportunity to spin it that way.
What about an Atari 2600? Did you ever purchase Atari games over the counter?
I (my older sister and b-i-l, actually, I was the same age as my nephews and lived with them at the time) bought a 2600 and two games, and we joined a game-exchange club. You had to give two games, and could borrow two each week from their stock. 95% of which was bootleg copies. No software (C) law here at the time.:) This was 1983. Well, lessee...
Megamania Demon Attack Yar's Revenge River Raid Frostbite Starmaster Enduro
Those were my favorites. Ports of arcade games (Pac Man, Kong) were a big disappointment, but the ones above and others more than made up.
Amiga? Never appeared here in Brazil. Neither Comodore, nor Colecovision (my wet dream at the time).
Face it, the serious geeks are dying out
Not me, I plan to live forever.;-P
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Masters of Doom
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Everyone who was into computers 10 years ago knows about Doom. Less people are familiar with Wolf3D, and even fewer people ever played any of the Commander Keen games.
Check. Check. And check again.;)
Let's push this a bit further back, shall we?
- Prince of Persia - Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards - Alley Cat
By now we fell off the PC's time of existence, and if I wanted to go on I would have to mention Apple II games like Karateka, Conan, or Swashbuckler. But I won't.
I once read a dystopian Right-to-Read-like story in which exactly that happened. Movies would only screen after all people in their seats placed their thumbs on a fingerprint-reader to signal acceptance of the NDA.
In that story, when anybody didn't like anybody, all they had to do was denounce him to the Copyright Police, French Revolution Terror style.
Anyone has read that also? I think it was an entry into a contest or something.
Due to the change in Red Hat's release policy, we either have to move to Enterprise, or change distributions.
Ok, so upgradeability seems to be the submitter's main concern with Red Hat, but there's another solution: you can get apt for Red Hat here (more information here), and the repositories are kept by groups of volunteers -- just like Debian. Now the so-called end-of-life for Red Hat, well, isn't.
The default repository at ayo.freshrpms.net is just peachy, has all RH updates so far and a few extras. I created another source to include the mozilla RPMs from mozilla.org and that works fine too. The sky is the limit.
(Disclaimer: I don't know the exact options for disabling HTML in Outlook, but you get the gist of it)
What you say:
"Hey! You sent me an HTML message again! Please disable it by going to the Tools/Internet Options menu, clicking in the Compose tab and unchecking 'HTML Mail'!"
What your cousin reads:
"Hey! You sent me a nolprizitized fowpixmager again! Please hefoprinate it by ruteyating the 'Koblington Upermasving' in Spobulator!"
Dense cities with lots of traffic-related pollution warm up quite quickly.
Do tell. Rio de Janeiro (~ 23S) becomes Hell on Earth from November through March. Smaller cities at the same time, same latitude and same sea level, 200 km (~120 mi) away, are noticeably cooler.
BTW, it's been getting steadily worse each year. Max temps tend to be 0.5-1 degree higher than the year before, at least for the last 5 years or so.
Oh God, I feel your pain! As a platform for developing collaborative applications Notes isn't really bad, but its e-mail interface sucks donkey bollocks!
As you may have guessed, I'm stuck with it at work. Ah well, at least it won't catch viruses as easy as Outlook.
There's no limit to the collateral damage some people are willing to cause in order to get compensation for a percieved offense against oneself. The value of ME is infinite; the value of ANYTHING ELSE is zero. If someone steals $10 from me and the only way to get it back is spray Ebola over downtown Budapest, then by golly I will spray Ebola over downtown Budapest!
We Americans should just grin and bear it, and accept the fact that our "English" is nonstandard. (Like Microsoft's implementation of Java, perhaps)
Unfortunately, the situation seems more akin to Microsoft's implementation of HTML. Lots of standards-breaking garbage everybody has to support because MS says it's OK and it dominates the browser market. Gee, I really hope Mozilla-based browsers grab a significant chunk of the market. 10% would be enough.
Unlike Java, in which MS doesn't have anywhere near as powerful a say-so.
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Compare the photos by Hubble and by the UK ground-based telescope. It's like looking at PHP code vs. Perl code.
Heh, good retort... but I compensate by not having a car.
I'm serious. I get by on public transportation. You CAN do it here (Rio de Janeiro). How many people in the USA live in a place where they can do the same?
If we cut back even a little on consumption
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Ooooh, but that would be un-American!!!
</sarcasm>
Two words: encrypted filesystems.
Speaking of which, Postfix's license is the IBM Public License, which qualifies as Free Software. Is there anything wrong with it according to TdR?
The idea of people being able to physically defend themselves from the government is actually quite interesting, but how do you take into account the fact that governments now have tanks, helicopters, bazookas, planes, aircraft carriers and NUKES? Do you allow citizen militias to have that sort of hardware?
Disclaimer: I don't actually think outlawing guns is a good idea. I don't think outlawing inanimate objects is a good idea in the general case. But ownership of them should be at least as scrutinized as ownership of automobiles.
And then there's that whole Guns-Are-Cool-And-Fun-And-Patriotic zeitgeist you have. That is a problem no legislation will solve.
Could this be a Palestinian kick at the Jews they figure run Hollywood?
I'd say no (it's a "multicultural" endeavor, as they state in their site), but you can bet your ass the RIAA won't miss the opportunity to spin it that way.
What about an Atari 2600? Did you ever purchase Atari games over the counter?
:) This was 1983. Well, lessee...
;-P
I (my older sister and b-i-l, actually, I was the same age as my nephews and lived with them at the time) bought a 2600 and two games, and we joined a game-exchange club. You had to give two games, and could borrow two each week from their stock. 95% of which was bootleg copies. No software (C) law here at the time.
Megamania
Demon Attack
Yar's Revenge
River Raid
Frostbite
Starmaster
Enduro
Those were my favorites. Ports of arcade games (Pac Man, Kong) were a big disappointment, but the ones above and others more than made up.
Amiga? Never appeared here in Brazil. Neither Comodore, nor Colecovision (my wet dream at the time).
Face it, the serious geeks are dying out
Not me, I plan to live forever.
Everyone who was into computers 10 years ago knows about Doom. Less people are familiar with Wolf3D, and even fewer people ever played any of the Commander Keen games.
;)
Check. Check. And check again.
Let's push this a bit further back, shall we?
- Prince of Persia
- Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
- Alley Cat
By now we fell off the PC's time of existence, and if I wanted to go on I would have to mention Apple II games like Karateka, Conan, or Swashbuckler. But I won't.
Wow! Forget Bill O'Reilly, THAT is Fair and Balanced! Fox News should hire this woman ASAP!
I once read a dystopian Right-to-Read-like story in which exactly that happened. Movies would only screen after all people in their seats placed their thumbs on a fingerprint-reader to signal acceptance of the NDA.
In that story, when anybody didn't like anybody, all they had to do was denounce him to the Copyright Police, French Revolution Terror style.
Anyone has read that also? I think it was an entry into a contest or something.
Due to the change in Red Hat's release policy, we either have to move to Enterprise, or change distributions.
Ok, so upgradeability seems to be the submitter's main concern with Red Hat, but there's another solution: you can get apt for Red Hat here (more information here), and the repositories are kept by groups of volunteers -- just like Debian. Now the so-called end-of-life for Red Hat, well, isn't.
The default repository at ayo.freshrpms.net is just peachy, has all RH updates so far and a few extras. I created another source to include the mozilla RPMs from mozilla.org and that works fine too. The sky is the limit.
Try taking 92 shots of vodka and being stable after that.
You'll be stable all right... dead is stable ain't it?
Thay think the legal system has become so megaoligopoly-friendly that any claim that benefits one will be held valid in court, no matter how insane.
"The Constitution doesn't say anything about nerds!"
(Disclaimer: I don't know the exact options for disabling HTML in Outlook, but you get the gist of it)
What you say:
"Hey! You sent me an HTML message again! Please disable it by going to the Tools/Internet Options menu, clicking in the Compose tab and unchecking 'HTML Mail'!"
What your cousin reads:
"Hey! You sent me a nolprizitized fowpixmager again! Please hefoprinate it by ruteyating the 'Koblington Upermasving' in Spobulator!"
Dense cities with lots of traffic-related pollution warm up quite quickly.
Do tell. Rio de Janeiro (~ 23S) becomes Hell on Earth from November through March. Smaller cities at the same time, same latitude and same sea level, 200 km (~120 mi) away, are noticeably cooler.
BTW, it's been getting steadily worse each year. Max temps tend to be 0.5-1 degree higher than the year before, at least for the last 5 years or so.
Just pray to God that they don't send the Men in Mauve.
(Whoever gets that reference earns my undying respect)
Oh God, I feel your pain! As a platform for developing collaborative applications Notes isn't really bad, but its e-mail interface sucks donkey bollocks!
As you may have guessed, I'm stuck with it at work. Ah well, at least it won't catch viruses as easy as Outlook.
Also the Jetsons' dog.
There's no limit to the collateral damage some people are willing to cause in order to get compensation for a percieved offense against oneself. The value of ME is infinite; the value of ANYTHING ELSE is zero. If someone steals $10 from me and the only way to get it back is spray Ebola over downtown Budapest, then by golly I will spray Ebola over downtown Budapest!
This "jobs" excuse is lame. By that reasoning, we shouldn't be prosecuting drug traffickers and producers -- they create lots of jobs, don't they?
Won't anybody think of the ch... uh, I mean, jobs?
Suprisingly, a politican followed through.
They usually do when they promise to do evil things.
We Americans should just grin and bear it, and accept the fact that our "English" is nonstandard. (Like Microsoft's implementation of Java, perhaps)
Unfortunately, the situation seems more akin to Microsoft's implementation of HTML. Lots of standards-breaking garbage everybody has to support because MS says it's OK and it dominates the browser market. Gee, I really hope Mozilla-based browsers grab a significant chunk of the market. 10% would be enough.
Unlike Java, in which MS doesn't have anywhere near as powerful a say-so.
Gaaa. Ordering one of those from Brazil will be real bitchy!
One hundred $ S&H!!! Not to mention local taxes! No way jose, gotta have connections.
customers are used as an army of unpaid testers.
Now, this is completely wrong. Customers pay through their noses for the privilege of becoming testers!