it's sad it's gone now. i have an old Slave zine where they interviewed the people who were responsible for it. i always wanted to visit RI so i could see it for myself.
I don't know about a Slashdot, but a while back my friend made a friendster profile for Friendster. He took some photos of parties off google image search and edited in a screenshot of Friendster into the the scenes. It was pretty clever and everyone who saw it thought it was hilarious. Unfortunately, it got deleted in the first wave of weeding out the fake accounts.
Mine is almost finished, and I have to say that designing, building, and testing it was the most fun I've had in a while. It's like geek paradise, and even my non-geek friends think it (and me) are the coolest things since sliced bread.
So far it hasn't helped me get laid, but I'm working on that.
go on alt.games.mame and find a post that starts with [BURNER]. have said burner mail you a DVD with every ROM MAME supports on it.
That's what I did. My MAME cabinet has 3790 games (I have a full set for.66, I should probably upgrade). I'll never play them all but it impresses people who come over;).
is there anything like knoppix, but instead of KDE has Gnome? not a big deal, i just prefer Gnome over KDE because it's what i'm used to (and I think GTK is prettier than QT). knoppix looks interesting.
i have 4gb of pictures, none are porn. my 4.1mgpx camera turns out files that are 1-2mb in size each, and if you take pictures a lot like i do it doesn't take much time at all to accumulate a few gigs.
Gentoo has a BSD style ports system. You type a command (ie. "emerge gnome") and it downloads, configures with parameters you have set in your make.conf file, and then compiles it optimized for your system.
No other linux distro has this. So yes, this is a major feature/innovation that makes it different.
So don't buy major label crap. Do yourself a favor and support indie artists and labels and your local music scene.
A lot of people here on slashdot would talk for days about how much they hate the RIAA, but they won't do a thing about it. Discover some new music, find a new favorite band, get some friends together and go to a show, do anything but let the RIAA get bigger and bigger.
I think just about every single indie band supports it, or at least doesn't mind. The more people these bands can get their music out to the more people who will come to their shows. I know that I will look up show listings for my area, download some MP3s of the bands I haven't heard before, and make my decision as to who gets my money for that weekend.
I know I've heard a few bands say that turnout for shows in smaller cities has actually been getting better, and a lot of kids will say it's because they checked them out via MP3.
i can't even fucking remember my home phone number anymore. stupid speed dial!
my friend asked me for my home number a few days ago. i just looked at her weird wondering why anyone would ask me that. everyone knows you just hold down "1" on your phone and it dials my number..
What would be cooler? How bout you walk outside your house! It's exactly like a huge RPG with millions of people walking the street! It's fun, I've done it a few times!
Yeah exactly. I've been into indie music ever since I was a little kid. To hear non-mainstream bands in the pre-Napster era we would all trade our CDs back and forth to see who we liked and who we'd keep a look out for on tour schedules. There's so many underground bands it's impossible to keep up with what's crap and what deserves the money to go see when they come through town.
Now with MP3s it's so much easier. If I see a band I haven't heard of that's playing in my town I can grab an MP3 and decide if they're worth driving downtown and paying a couple of bucks to see. I can't count the number of CDs and other merch I've bought and shows I've been to that I wouldn't have otherwise because I heard a few MP3s.
The real reason the RIAA should hate MP3s is because of people like me and my friends. MP3s allow us to find out about and support non-RIAA bands that we never would have heard of otherwise.
I agree. Against my better judgement (hey, I'm a poor student) I bought a 128MB of PC133 for $15. I should have known better. I popped it in and it barely made it past the BIOS screen before my computer was crashing. I ran memtest86 and it confirmed it - there were errors all over the place. Now I've got to send it back and pay a restocking fee.
Make sure you get a name brand when ordering memory from a vendor on pricewatch.
I agree. It took me about an hour of looking over the PHP docs to get basic syntax down. Later that day I was writing a complex backend system for my website. PHP docs are extremely good. The function reference is so useful I wonder how I would get along without it.
Thumbs up for the people working on the PHP docs. They have made my life so much easier. I don't see why anyone would ever need a book for PHP.
Not that it matters. With the TI calcs and PDAs you can just write down all your formulas and notes (put it in the text of a program on the TI).
Every I know does this for their math classes. I know most people put all their notes, all their formulas, sometimes even with examples in their calculators. If teachers want to eliminate cheating they're going to have to get rid of calculators entirely.
What about GPLing the engine and charging for the rest of the game? You could be giving back to the community and you'd still have a way to support yourself as long as your game content is worth paying for.
I've been a Slackware user for years, and I've done LFS too.
Recently I've switched to Gentoo Linux. It's the same no crap, basic distro that Slackware is with the added benefit of everything being compiled for your specific system and knowing exactly what goes on your system like LFS.
The reason I use Gentoo over LFS now is the package system (it's like BSD ports) is genius. I would recommend Gentoo to any Slack or LFS user.. you get all the benefits of the two plus an easier way of installing and uninstalling apps.
You think it's just one guy? I went to a private Southern Baptist school for a few years and was taught in my Bible classes that cloned humans would not have souls.
The reasoning behind it was God did not will for humans to clone themselves, so he would not grant their creations a soul because only God can make life. That must mean that God wills rape and premarital sex, because I've never heard of someone produced from either of those being denied salvation in a church.
The really scary part is that I never heard a single person question it. Don't put your kids in private schools... it turns them into unthinking, unquestioning sheep.
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Marcel Duchamp took a urinal and signed the name "R. Mutt" on it.
It now sits in a museum in Europe somewhere.
I'm sure a google for "dada" will give you plenty of reasons on why this work was important.
Just because you have a narrow view of what constitutes art does not mean that something like graffiti is not art.
that's what i was thinking!
it's sad it's gone now. i have an old Slave zine where they interviewed the people who were responsible for it. i always wanted to visit RI so i could see it for myself.
I don't know about a Slashdot, but a while back my friend made a friendster profile for Friendster. He took some photos of parties off google image search and edited in a screenshot of Friendster into the the scenes. It was pretty clever and everyone who saw it thought it was hilarious. Unfortunately, it got deleted in the first wave of weeding out the fake accounts.
Mine is almost finished, and I have to say that designing, building, and testing it was the most fun I've had in a while. It's like geek paradise, and even my non-geek friends think it (and me) are the coolest things since sliced bread.
So far it hasn't helped me get laid, but I'm working on that.
go on alt.games.mame and find a post that starts with [BURNER]. have said burner mail you a DVD with every ROM MAME supports on it.
.66, I should probably upgrade). I'll never play them all but it impresses people who come over ;).
That's what I did. My MAME cabinet has 3790 games (I have a full set for
is there anything like knoppix, but instead of KDE has Gnome? not a big deal, i just prefer Gnome over KDE because it's what i'm used to (and I think GTK is prettier than QT). knoppix looks interesting.
i have 4gb of pictures, none are porn. my 4.1mgpx camera turns out files that are 1-2mb in size each, and if you take pictures a lot like i do it doesn't take much time at all to accumulate a few gigs.
"Having help doesn't make you look guilty, it makes you look prepared and intellegent."
So does having a dictionary.
Who do you order from? Most of the cheapest sites on pricewatch are notorious for sending back merchandise or not sending it at all.
Gentoo has a BSD style ports system. You type a command (ie. "emerge gnome") and it downloads, configures with parameters you have set in your make.conf file, and then compiles it optimized for your system.
No other linux distro has this. So yes, this is a major feature/innovation that makes it different.
That project does look nice, but it's nowhere near complete and you can't even download a beta to work on.
:).
I think the original poster was looking for something he could actually use
we need more people like you and me then :).
So don't buy major label crap. Do yourself a favor and support indie artists and labels and your local music scene.
A lot of people here on slashdot would talk for days about how much they hate the RIAA, but they won't do a thing about it. Discover some new music, find a new favorite band, get some friends together and go to a show, do anything but let the RIAA get bigger and bigger.
I think just about every single indie band supports it, or at least doesn't mind. The more people these bands can get their music out to the more people who will come to their shows. I know that I will look up show listings for my area, download some MP3s of the bands I haven't heard before, and make my decision as to who gets my money for that weekend.
I know I've heard a few bands say that turnout for shows in smaller cities has actually been getting better, and a lot of kids will say it's because they checked them out via MP3.
i can't even fucking remember my home phone number anymore. stupid speed dial!
my friend asked me for my home number a few days ago. i just looked at her weird wondering why anyone would ask me that. everyone knows you just hold down "1" on your phone and it dials my number..
What would be cooler? How bout you walk outside your house! It's exactly like a huge RPG with millions of people walking the street! It's fun, I've done it a few times!
Yeah exactly. I've been into indie music ever since I was a little kid. To hear non-mainstream bands in the pre-Napster era we would all trade our CDs back and forth to see who we liked and who we'd keep a look out for on tour schedules. There's so many underground bands it's impossible to keep up with what's crap and what deserves the money to go see when they come through town.
Now with MP3s it's so much easier. If I see a band I haven't heard of that's playing in my town I can grab an MP3 and decide if they're worth driving downtown and paying a couple of bucks to see. I can't count the number of CDs and other merch I've bought and shows I've been to that I wouldn't have otherwise because I heard a few MP3s.
The real reason the RIAA should hate MP3s is because of people like me and my friends. MP3s allow us to find out about and support non-RIAA bands that we never would have heard of otherwise.
This looks interesting for use in a web kiosk. Has anyone played with this? What kind of effort would be involved in adding software to it?
I agree. Against my better judgement (hey, I'm a poor student) I bought a 128MB of PC133 for $15. I should have known better. I popped it in and it barely made it past the BIOS screen before my computer was crashing. I ran memtest86 and it confirmed it - there were errors all over the place. Now I've got to send it back and pay a restocking fee.
Make sure you get a name brand when ordering memory from a vendor on pricewatch.
Same thing just happened to me. My 8.0 ISO finished and I hit slackware.com to look something up and I see the announcement for 8.1.
Oh the joys of downloading large files many times..
I agree. It took me about an hour of looking over the PHP docs to get basic syntax down. Later that day I was writing a complex backend system for my website. PHP docs are extremely good. The function reference is so useful I wonder how I would get along without it.
Thumbs up for the people working on the PHP docs. They have made my life so much easier. I don't see why anyone would ever need a book for PHP.
Not that it matters. With the TI calcs and PDAs you can just write down all your formulas and notes (put it in the text of a program on the TI).
Every I know does this for their math classes. I know most people put all their notes, all their formulas, sometimes even with examples in their calculators. If teachers want to eliminate cheating they're going to have to get rid of calculators entirely.
What about GPLing the engine and charging for the rest of the game? You could be giving back to the community and you'd still have a way to support yourself as long as your game content is worth paying for.
I've been a Slackware user for years, and I've done LFS too.
Recently I've switched to Gentoo Linux. It's the same no crap, basic distro that Slackware is with the added benefit of everything being compiled for your specific system and knowing exactly what goes on your system like LFS.
The reason I use Gentoo over LFS now is the package system (it's like BSD ports) is genius. I would recommend Gentoo to any Slack or LFS user.. you get all the benefits of the two plus an easier way of installing and uninstalling apps.
You think it's just one guy? I went to a private Southern Baptist school for a few years and was taught in my Bible classes that cloned humans would not have souls.
The reasoning behind it was God did not will for humans to clone themselves, so he would not grant their creations a soul because only God can make life. That must mean that God wills rape and premarital sex, because I've never heard of someone produced from either of those being denied salvation in a church.
The really scary part is that I never heard a single person question it. Don't put your kids in private schools... it turns them into unthinking, unquestioning sheep.