So what if the kernel is at least partially BSD. If I can't get a command-line, recompile the kernel, or even add some odd piece of hardware, Mac OS will get no more attention from me than it has since I left the printing industry.
Well, according to Apple and other sources, the kernel is 100% BSD+mach, you can recompile, you do get a command line (if you want it... optional install), etc. The IO driver structure (called IOKit) is open source, so you can add all the hardware you want, as long as you can write a driver for it:)
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Actually, the problem is related to the BSD roots. In all the *BSD's I've used, you have to be a member of the wheel group in order to su to root. So, you just need to make your user account a member of the wheel group and su will work without difficulty. Most likely, though, the average user won't run into this, because if I were Apple, I'd make it so the graphical config tools used a graphical su app that dealt with all of those things.
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This question is based on an invalid assumption: namely, that the financial rewards for writing Mac software are lower than for Windows. Perhaps suprisingly, this is not true. Most Mac software makes more money than Windows versions of the same software. Why, when the market is much smaller? Because developing Mac software is much easier and therefore cheaper for one thing. For another, you can safely charge much more for a MacOS release than for the Windows version. And lastly, often the proportions are not the same: that is, a higher percentage of Mac users will buy a given piece of software than PC users.
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a.) weren't what you see in movies. They were *much* smaller than movie swords, and not usually called a "broadsword." Movie swords are usually "War swords" "Riding swords" or nonexistent.
b.) did *NOT* weigh 40-50lbs! No sword (I'm sure some fan of ancient Celtic culture is going to contradict me) weighed anywhere near that much! Ten pounds would be about the maximum weight for a sword meant to be used on foot... even that is a little ridiculous.
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Without a doubt, absolutely the best anime I have ever seen (and I've seen a lot...) is Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou. It makes me laugh, it makes me cry, it's simply the best thing I've ever seen on a television, period. It's coming out on DVD and VHS here in the US soon, too, if it's not out already. Be forewarned, though, it's not action-heavy... it's a pure love story, if done a little spastically. Everyone in the world should watch it. Right now.
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I'm afraid this is completely incorrect. Darwin == MacOS X - Quartz and everything on top. For reference, I suggest you look at: Apple's Public Source website, Apple's MacOS X website, this block diagram and page, and Fred Sanchez's Advogato diary. The gist of all that is that MacOS X kernel developers and Darwin developers use the same CVS sources. The kernel is identical. Also, all of Darwin is included with MacOS X, as the underlying foundation.
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so you could change it with the permission of the author.
I just felt I should point out that it doesn't matter what license something is under if the original copyright holder agrees to change it. That is to say: the original copyright holder decides what the license is, no matter what the license may have been in the past. So, if the code in question were closed source under a typical EULA, and the author decided that he suddenly wanted to GPL it, he could! So, obviously, if you, as the copyright holder, want to allow someone to change the license, they can do so.
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This comment contains so much absurdity, I don't know where to start... Let's try with this:
Government, on the other hand, has practically no direct obligations to taxpayers
Uh... what? That is blatantly false. If my representatives don't do what I want, I don't vote for them. The government does not decide who runs for president, corporations (money money money, man!) do. The government exists only in that it has a responsibility to taxpayers. Have you ever actually read the Declaration of Independence? Have you ever even seen a copy of the Constitution? I think you must not have. Have you ever voted? Ever? If not, STOP FUCKING COMPLAINING. The government answers directly to the voters.
Finally, the government has the power to tax, and the power to tax is the power to destroy
Can you justify this statement in any meaningful way? I suspect you can't, because it isn't true. The power to tax is the power to provide you with safety, security, benfits like public libraries. It is the power to provide your children with education. It is the power to prevent invasion by dictators. It is the power to protect and grow, not the power to destroy. And paying taxes is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A CITIZEN! To shirk that responsibility is to deny the society that gave you birth. You, and people like you, disgust me. I'm sorry.
The government has a military. Whenever someone tells me that government acts for the public interest, I look at our foreign policy.
That is evidence of the government acting for the public interest! The "public interest" refers, in this case, to citizens of the United States of America, not to citizens of any other country. Those people aren't paying taxes to the government of the US, so they don't get their interest served! It's pretty simple. The military of the US exists to defend the lawful, taxpaying citizens of the US. However, there certainly exist multi-national corporations with military might, too, and they don't have any such responsibilty.
Most importantly, most of the obnoxious things corporations have done were done using the power of the state
As I've said before, this is because the government forces corporations to work through legal means, not because the government empowers the corporations! If you take away the power of the state, that leaves only the power of the corporations. If you reduce the power of the government, you reduce it's ability to restrain the corporate might. All the things the corps have done through government pale in comparison to what they'd do without government.
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MPAA ad nauseum are only protecting what the government declares their rights to be.
The government declared that because the MPAA paid them to. That's not even secret! It's called "Special interest groups." Government (in the US) is not inherently evil. It only reflects the interests of the group shoving the most money at it at the moment. If you genuinely think the US government is out to get you, I suggest you move somewhere else (like a mental institution). You're right, the corps only have power because they have more money. Well... how the hell else do you measure power in this world?! If you have money, you can buy weapons, so military might is directly connected to money... hmm... I guess more money is what determines it! Gee! Thanks for proving my point! Do you honestly believe that the government is more likely to have you killed than a corporation? I personally know some people who have been threatened by corporations and their mafia ties, but I don't personally know anyone who has been threatened with death by the government. And if you think that corporations get their money purely through "voluntary economic transactions" you're stupider than I could have imagined. Thanks to corporate special interest groups, the government gives corporations vast amounts of our tax money. Also, how voluntary is it when my choice is "buy food from corporations or starve to death"? "Buy a car or not work"? Lemme tell you something: the only money I'm happy about giving out of my pocket is taxes. At least that I know is buying me more than my money's worth. When I walk the street and don't worry about being shot because of the cops on the corner, I get my money's worth. When I go to the public library and read a million good books, I know I get my money's worth. When I study here in my public university, I know I'm getting my tax money good worth. When I buy a POS bag of chips from Frito-Lay, on the other hand, I'm being ripped off. That's all I have to say for now, I'm getting to angry.
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So to the extent that corporations are a threat to our liberty, the answer is *still* to reduce the government to its constitutional limits. Once we do that, the power of Big Business will go away with it.
This is pure, uncontaminated BULLSHIT. The power of the govenment is 100% of the tiny, small shield that does exist between us and Big Business. If you take the power away from the government, you are NOT going to give it to the people. Reduce the power of the govenment, and you will see a direct increase in the power of Big Business. The reason the corps work through the govenment is not because it's easier, but because they have to. The power of govenment ensures that the businesses cannot directly take away your rights. The government forces the companies to work through legal, constitutional means, which they otherwise would not be constrained to. If you reduce the power of the government, you let loose the only leash on the businesses. The corporate soldiers will arrive to enforce their policies on you, and you won't have ANY say in it, not even the amount of say a vote gives you in government. I dread the day... and it's coming, if we don't do something about it. The government is the only power I have any part of. I don't own stock, I can't afford stock, and therefore the corporations don't have to listen to me. And I can't afford not to eat or live, either, so I can't afford to vote with my dollars. The corporations are NOT looking out for your best interest, and there's NOTHING you can do about it. If my representative in congress doesn't at least give a microsecond of thought to my best interest, I won't vote for him/her. Small difference sure, but a difference nonetheless. I guess that's enough out of me. I'm probably gonna lose Karma over this, because it isn't the same old "libertarian" (read "Anti-government paranoid," as opposed to my anti-corp paranoia) nonesense.
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I have seen ALL of Lain, on DVD, and it only gets worse as it goes along. It becomes more and more contrived. The story becomes ever more vapid. And the conclusion, frankly, blows chunks. I can think of a million endings that would have been much, much better, and I'm not a very good author. Again, I repeat, I have seen ALL of Lain, and I am a Computer Science kind of guy, and I still think it was bad. It wasn't weird... it was trying to be weird, and that just offends me.
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My feelings towards Sailor Moon aside, how is butchering anime just so parents' groups can breathe easier actually a Good Thing(tm)? All you get when you cut out cultural refs and things considered bad for kids (like what's-his-name-y'know-that-evil-guy's [EDITOR'S NOTE: His name was Zoicite] "sex change" in Sailor Moon to not show homosexuality and DBZ's glasses of cold brown water (with a head of foam, no less) to not promote drinking) is either confusing crap or yet another American cartoon.
Oh, it's not the butchering that is good. That is bad. What's good is that it's coming on TV at all. It's important that the general public be exposed to anime, any way possible, even watered down anime. It's good that they're putting animation-that-doesn't-suck on TV. C'mon, even with the dubbing and cutting, Sailor Moon is better than anything put out by Hanna Barbera in a long time, maybe ever (though that would be heretical, I suppose). And, the Cartoon Network is sponsering this... and Tenchi! On the Cartoon Network! With the new Boomerang network starting up, my prediction is that the Cartoon Network will become the Anime Network sometime about a year and a half from now.
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As I've already said, but wish to reiterate as much as possible... hey, wait, you have a CSLab webpage... that means you've been watching that stuff at VTAS too! Anyway, then, I still want to say again: KAREKANO IS THE BEST SHOW I HAVE EVER SEEN PERIOD. And I haven't said this before, but I have to agree: Cowboy Bebop and Card Captor Sakura (can't wait for Captor Nikki! NOT) are really, really good.
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Evangelion was also created by one seriously emotinally-whacked guy, and it shows. Notice how like the kids dont't have parents? Wierd man, wierd.
Well, Ano is pretty messed up, yeah, but have you seen Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou? WOW! It's Ano's next project after Eva, and it's very different. It's THE BEST television show I've ever seen, hands down period. Anyway, about the kids in Evangelion not having parents... how much of the show have you seen? That's a major part of the plot, not just weirdness... not to say it isn't weird, but in case you haven't seen the whole thing, I'll leave it at that.
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Sorry, this is not really ontopic... but... I can't resist. How many people out there actually like Lain? In my opinion, it was terrible. Now, I love a brainfsck as much as the next guy, ala Evangelion, but this was just too contrived. It felt like somebody watched Eva while stoned and said, "Hey, I can do more weird than that!" The whole time I was watching it, I had the feeling it wasn't nearly so deep as it seemed, and was just intentionally trying to be confusing. Turns out I was right, too.
Just to be ontopic a little bit, Star Blazers is pretty cool. Speaking of badly dubbed anime, here's a scoop for you: the same company that brought you two seasons of Sailor Moon (butchered, oh, the humanity) is now officially bringing you 77 more episodes! That's right, all of Bishojou Senshi Sailormoon S and Bishojou Senshi Sailormoon SS, brutally butchered for American television! I can't wait! Actually, I'm sure this sounds sarcastic, but this is actually a good thing. Anyway, I've blabbered enough...
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This is probably gonna turn into flamebait by the end of it... You are a^H^H^H^H^H have never watched Babylon 5. That's the only conclusion I can draw... you don't otherwise seem like an idiot. Babylon 5 did NOT "die off," it ended, as planned by it's creator from the beginning. Maybe, if you'd only seen a couple episodes here and there, I could understand that you would think it was bad. Maybe. But the fact is that show ranks with anything written by the sci-fi masters. Now, you couldn't really tell that by watching any one episode: you have to see them all. Missing any is exactly like skipping a chapter in a book... of course it's going to be confusing! Anyway, just felt I had to defend the best thing that's ever been on American television (the best thing on television ever anywhere, of course, was/is Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou, but that's another matter altogether...)
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Both Yellow Dog and LinuxPPC distributions are based on Red Hat, so so they support Gnome better than KDE (quite a few KDE utlities are missing and so on). Suse should be better for those of us who prefer KDE over Gnome.
Well... as a Yellow Dog CS 1.2 user, this isn't true. Yellow Dog defaults to KDE, not GNOME. Especially with the 1.2 release, Yellow Dog seems to be outgrowing it's RedHat origins. SuSE would be coming from a different angle though, who knows what they would bring to the table? I'm looking forward to it, though, because I've always been a SuSE man for my x86 machines. I love YaST!
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You know, have a fully legal hardware DVD solution on my computer, and it works perfectly (and legally) under Linux. This is Creative's Dxr2, which, alas, they don't make anymore. Not only is it legal and works under Linux, the drivers and player software are GPL'd! How can they get away with this? Well, it's simple: the Dxr2 card does CSS authentication in hardware. This means the software never touches it. Everything works happy, and GPL'd to boot! Go Creative! Now, more people should have done this with their MPEG2 decoder cards. If they had, we wouldn't have this problem...
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Yet somehow Intel is going to jerk the rug out from under AMD's feet in the next four weeks. If you doubt it, you can just ask them
You know, I think we're dealing with a completely different definition of "available" here. I was using the strict definition, where "available" means "somebody outside of Intel can own one," whilst you were apparently using "More dealers than AMD." Obviously, these are completely incompatible definitions. But, my point stands: there will be 1GHz PIIIs listed on Pricewatch by the end of the month. Nowhere did I say they were going to be more common than Athlon 800's... that's absurd, of course not! By the way, I'm an AMD fan, I just hate to see poorly researched flames.
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Well, maybe not vaporware, but the announcement is pretty hokey. Think about it: They "announce" that they have a 1 GHz CPU, but then quietly say that they won't have actual systems out until the third quarter. So why not "announce" their CPU when people can actually buy the damn things?!?
*sigh...* I suppose it really is just too difficult to actually read the article, isn't it? This announcement is that 1GHz PIII systems will be available, actually available, by the end of the month. They really, honestly have 1GHz PIIIs right now in the hands of HP, IBM, and somebody else... I forget who. The point I'm trying to make is, if you're going to blast someone, at least blast them for real reasons. The "third quarter" bit refers to when systems will be available for coporate volume purchases. "People" will be able to buy "the damn things" by the end of the month.
All that said, the Athlon really is a much better chip than the PIII. I just hate to see people insulted and cussed at without grounds.
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Put a floppy in the drive. Find a large file and start copying it to the floppy. While the copy is in progress reply to this comment in your Netscape window.
Easily enough done. You've been able to copy in the background since MacOS 8 came out. Of course, lots of recent Mac users would have a problem carrying this out, since they don't have floppy drives;)
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ext3 is ext2. You can even mount an ext3 partition as ext2, with no danger. The only difference is that ext3 is aware of the journal file... So, ext3 is pretty safe, as such things go. And it does full journaling, not just metadata journaling, so data corruption is highly unlikely in the event of a crash.
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Ah, but I'm using ext3fs, and my system takes about a minute to boot no matter what. That's why journalling is so cool. Granted, I lose 10MB of disk space per partition for the journal file, and writes are a little slower due to duplication of data, but it's been worth it... ext3 is great, it's not nearly as alpha as people seem to believe.
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If you care about the unstable series, you'll know about new versions anyway. I see this opinion expressed whenever a new dev kernel is posted to slashdot. But you know what? I don't think it's true. For instance, I care about the unstable series, but the first I heard about the new release was here on Slashdot. Maybe I'm out of the loop in some weird way, but nonetheless, there exist people who care about it who don't already know.
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... students on campus don't really buy CDs anymore, which I know many of you can confirm. That we don't like the actions of the RIAA doesn't mean we can't see objectively on the matter.
As a student on campus, I can confirm that this is absolutely false! Students around here (Va Tech, where we have ethernet connected to the internet via five T1s and three T3s... it's fast) are buying more CD's than ever. They then rip the CD's for convenience's sake. They do not return them. They keep them. So, I don't know where you get that above statement from... at least at this major university, it simply isn't true.
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So what if the kernel is at least partially BSD. If I can't get a command-line, recompile the kernel, or even add some odd piece of hardware, Mac OS will get no more attention from me than it has since I left the printing industry.
Well, according to Apple and other sources, the kernel is 100% BSD+mach, you can recompile, you do get a command line (if you want it... optional install), etc. The IO driver structure (called IOKit) is open source, so you can add all the hardware you want, as long as you can write a driver for it :)
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Actually, the problem is related to the BSD roots. In all the *BSD's I've used, you have to be a member of the wheel group in order to su to root. So, you just need to make your user account a member of the wheel group and su will work without difficulty. Most likely, though, the average user won't run into this, because if I were Apple, I'd make it so the graphical config tools used a graphical su app that dealt with all of those things.
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a.) weren't what you see in movies. They were *much* smaller than movie swords, and not usually called a "broadsword." Movie swords are usually "War swords" "Riding swords" or nonexistent.
b.) did *NOT* weigh 40-50lbs! No sword (I'm sure some fan of ancient Celtic culture is going to contradict me) weighed anywhere near that much! Ten pounds would be about the maximum weight for a sword meant to be used on foot... even that is a little ridiculous.
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Without a doubt, absolutely the best anime I have ever seen (and I've seen a lot...) is Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou. It makes me laugh, it makes me cry, it's simply the best thing I've ever seen on a television, period. It's coming out on DVD and VHS here in the US soon, too, if it's not out already. Be forewarned, though, it's not action-heavy... it's a pure love story, if done a little spastically. Everyone in the world should watch it. Right now.
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The Darwin project is distinct from MacOSX.
I'm afraid this is completely incorrect. Darwin == MacOS X - Quartz and everything on top. For reference, I suggest you look at: Apple's Public Source website, Apple's MacOS X website, this block diagram and page, and Fred Sanchez's Advogato diary. The gist of all that is that MacOS X kernel developers and Darwin developers use the same CVS sources. The kernel is identical. Also, all of Darwin is included with MacOS X, as the underlying foundation.
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so you could change it with the permission of the author.
I just felt I should point out that it doesn't matter what license something is under if the original copyright holder agrees to change it. That is to say: the original copyright holder decides what the license is, no matter what the license may have been in the past. So, if the code in question were closed source under a typical EULA, and the author decided that he suddenly wanted to GPL it, he could! So, obviously, if you, as the copyright holder, want to allow someone to change the license, they can do so.
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This comment contains so much absurdity, I don't know where to start... Let's try with this:
Government, on the other hand, has practically no direct obligations to taxpayers
Uh... what? That is blatantly false. If my representatives don't do what I want, I don't vote for them. The government does not decide who runs for president, corporations (money money money, man!) do. The government exists only in that it has a responsibility to taxpayers. Have you ever actually read the Declaration of Independence? Have you ever even seen a copy of the Constitution? I think you must not have. Have you ever voted? Ever? If not, STOP FUCKING COMPLAINING . The government answers directly to the voters.
Finally, the government has the power to tax, and the power to tax is the power to destroy
Can you justify this statement in any meaningful way? I suspect you can't, because it isn't true. The power to tax is the power to provide you with safety, security, benfits like public libraries. It is the power to provide your children with education. It is the power to prevent invasion by dictators. It is the power to protect and grow, not the power to destroy. And paying taxes is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A CITIZEN! To shirk that responsibility is to deny the society that gave you birth. You, and people like you, disgust me. I'm sorry.
The government has a military. Whenever someone tells me that government acts for the public interest, I look at our foreign policy.
That is evidence of the government acting for the public interest! The "public interest" refers, in this case, to citizens of the United States of America, not to citizens of any other country. Those people aren't paying taxes to the government of the US, so they don't get their interest served! It's pretty simple. The military of the US exists to defend the lawful, taxpaying citizens of the US. However, there certainly exist multi-national corporations with military might, too, and they don't have any such responsibilty.
Most importantly, most of the obnoxious things corporations have done were done using the power of the state
As I've said before, this is because the government forces corporations to work through legal means, not because the government empowers the corporations! If you take away the power of the state, that leaves only the power of the corporations. If you reduce the power of the government, you reduce it's ability to restrain the corporate might. All the things the corps have done through government pale in comparison to what they'd do without government.
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MPAA ad nauseum are only protecting what the government declares their rights to be.
The government declared that because the MPAA paid them to. That's not even secret! It's called "Special interest groups." Government (in the US) is not inherently evil. It only reflects the interests of the group shoving the most money at it at the moment. If you genuinely think the US government is out to get you, I suggest you move somewhere else (like a mental institution). You're right, the corps only have power because they have more money. Well... how the hell else do you measure power in this world?! If you have money, you can buy weapons, so military might is directly connected to money... hmm... I guess more money is what determines it! Gee! Thanks for proving my point! Do you honestly believe that the government is more likely to have you killed than a corporation? I personally know some people who have been threatened by corporations and their mafia ties, but I don't personally know anyone who has been threatened with death by the government. And if you think that corporations get their money purely through "voluntary economic transactions" you're stupider than I could have imagined. Thanks to corporate special interest groups, the government gives corporations vast amounts of our tax money. Also, how voluntary is it when my choice is "buy food from corporations or starve to death"? "Buy a car or not work"? Lemme tell you something: the only money I'm happy about giving out of my pocket is taxes. At least that I know is buying me more than my money's worth. When I walk the street and don't worry about being shot because of the cops on the corner, I get my money's worth. When I go to the public library and read a million good books, I know I get my money's worth. When I study here in my public university, I know I'm getting my tax money good worth. When I buy a POS bag of chips from Frito-Lay, on the other hand, I'm being ripped off. That's all I have to say for now, I'm getting to angry.
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So to the extent that corporations are a threat to our liberty, the answer is *still* to reduce the government to its constitutional limits. Once we do that, the power of Big Business will go away with it.
This is pure, uncontaminated BULLSHIT . The power of the govenment is 100% of the tiny, small shield that does exist between us and Big Business. If you take the power away from the government, you are NOT going to give it to the people. Reduce the power of the govenment, and you will see a direct increase in the power of Big Business. The reason the corps work through the govenment is not because it's easier, but because they have to. The power of govenment ensures that the businesses cannot directly take away your rights. The government forces the companies to work through legal, constitutional means, which they otherwise would not be constrained to. If you reduce the power of the government, you let loose the only leash on the businesses. The corporate soldiers will arrive to enforce their policies on you, and you won't have ANY say in it, not even the amount of say a vote gives you in government. I dread the day... and it's coming, if we don't do something about it. The government is the only power I have any part of. I don't own stock, I can't afford stock, and therefore the corporations don't have to listen to me. And I can't afford not to eat or live, either, so I can't afford to vote with my dollars. The corporations are NOT looking out for your best interest, and there's NOTHING you can do about it. If my representative in congress doesn't at least give a microsecond of thought to my best interest, I won't vote for him/her. Small difference sure, but a difference nonetheless. I guess that's enough out of me. I'm probably gonna lose Karma over this, because it isn't the same old "libertarian" (read "Anti-government paranoid," as opposed to my anti-corp paranoia) nonesense.
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I have seen ALL of Lain, on DVD, and it only gets worse as it goes along. It becomes more and more contrived. The story becomes ever more vapid. And the conclusion, frankly, blows chunks. I can think of a million endings that would have been much, much better, and I'm not a very good author. Again, I repeat, I have seen ALL of Lain, and I am a Computer Science kind of guy, and I still think it was bad. It wasn't weird... it was trying to be weird, and that just offends me.
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My feelings towards Sailor Moon aside, how is butchering anime just so parents' groups can breathe easier actually a Good Thing(tm)? All you get when you cut out cultural refs and things considered bad for kids (like what's-his-name-y'know-that-evil-guy's [EDITOR'S NOTE: His name was Zoicite] "sex change" in Sailor Moon to not show homosexuality and DBZ's glasses of cold brown water (with a head of foam, no less) to not promote drinking) is either confusing crap or yet another American cartoon.
Oh, it's not the butchering that is good. That is bad. What's good is that it's coming on TV at all. It's important that the general public be exposed to anime, any way possible, even watered down anime. It's good that they're putting animation-that-doesn't-suck on TV. C'mon, even with the dubbing and cutting, Sailor Moon is better than anything put out by Hanna Barbera in a long time, maybe ever (though that would be heretical, I suppose). And, the Cartoon Network is sponsering this... and Tenchi! On the Cartoon Network! With the new Boomerang network starting up, my prediction is that the Cartoon Network will become the Anime Network sometime about a year and a half from now.
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As I've already said, but wish to reiterate as much as possible... hey, wait, you have a CSLab webpage... that means you've been watching that stuff at VTAS too! Anyway, then, I still want to say again: KAREKANO IS THE BEST SHOW I HAVE EVER SEEN PERIOD. And I haven't said this before, but I have to agree: Cowboy Bebop and Card Captor Sakura (can't wait for Captor Nikki! NOT) are really, really good.
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Evangelion was also created by one seriously emotinally-whacked guy, and it shows. Notice how like the kids dont't have parents? Wierd man, wierd.
Well, Ano is pretty messed up, yeah, but have you seen Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou? WOW! It's Ano's next project after Eva, and it's very different. It's THE BEST television show I've ever seen, hands down period. Anyway, about the kids in Evangelion not having parents... how much of the show have you seen? That's a major part of the plot, not just weirdness... not to say it isn't weird, but in case you haven't seen the whole thing, I'll leave it at that.
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Sorry, this is not really ontopic... but... I can't resist. How many people out there actually like Lain? In my opinion, it was terrible. Now, I love a brainfsck as much as the next guy, ala Evangelion, but this was just too contrived. It felt like somebody watched Eva while stoned and said, "Hey, I can do more weird than that!" The whole time I was watching it, I had the feeling it wasn't nearly so deep as it seemed, and was just intentionally trying to be confusing. Turns out I was right, too.
Just to be ontopic a little bit, Star Blazers is pretty cool. Speaking of badly dubbed anime, here's a scoop for you: the same company that brought you two seasons of Sailor Moon (butchered, oh, the humanity) is now officially bringing you 77 more episodes! That's right, all of Bishojou Senshi Sailormoon S and Bishojou Senshi Sailormoon SS, brutally butchered for American television! I can't wait! Actually, I'm sure this sounds sarcastic, but this is actually a good thing. Anyway, I've blabbered enough...
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shit like Babylon 5
This is probably gonna turn into flamebait by the end of it... You are a^H^H^H^H^H have never watched Babylon 5. That's the only conclusion I can draw... you don't otherwise seem like an idiot. Babylon 5 did NOT "die off," it ended, as planned by it's creator from the beginning. Maybe, if you'd only seen a couple episodes here and there, I could understand that you would think it was bad. Maybe. But the fact is that show ranks with anything written by the sci-fi masters. Now, you couldn't really tell that by watching any one episode: you have to see them all. Missing any is exactly like skipping a chapter in a book... of course it's going to be confusing! Anyway, just felt I had to defend the best thing that's ever been on American television (the best thing on television ever anywhere, of course, was/is Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou, but that's another matter altogether...)
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Both Yellow Dog and LinuxPPC distributions are based on Red Hat, so so they support Gnome better than KDE (quite a few KDE utlities are missing and so on). Suse should be better for those of us who prefer KDE over Gnome.
Well... as a Yellow Dog CS 1.2 user, this isn't true. Yellow Dog defaults to KDE, not GNOME. Especially with the 1.2 release, Yellow Dog seems to be outgrowing it's RedHat origins. SuSE would be coming from a different angle though, who knows what they would bring to the table? I'm looking forward to it, though, because I've always been a SuSE man for my x86 machines. I love YaST!
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You know, have a fully legal hardware DVD solution on my computer, and it works perfectly (and legally) under Linux. This is Creative's Dxr2, which, alas, they don't make anymore. Not only is it legal and works under Linux, the drivers and player software are GPL'd! How can they get away with this? Well, it's simple: the Dxr2 card does CSS authentication in hardware. This means the software never touches it. Everything works happy, and GPL'd to boot! Go Creative! Now, more people should have done this with their MPEG2 decoder cards. If they had, we wouldn't have this problem...
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You know, I think we're dealing with a completely different definition of "available" here. I was using the strict definition, where "available" means "somebody outside of Intel can own one," whilst you were apparently using "More dealers than AMD." Obviously, these are completely incompatible definitions. But, my point stands: there will be 1GHz PIIIs listed on Pricewatch by the end of the month. Nowhere did I say they were going to be more common than Athlon 800's... that's absurd, of course not! By the way, I'm an AMD fan, I just hate to see poorly researched flames.
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*sigh...* I suppose it really is just too difficult to actually read the article, isn't it? This announcement is that 1GHz PIII systems will be available, actually available, by the end of the month. They really, honestly have 1GHz PIIIs right now in the hands of HP, IBM, and somebody else... I forget who. The point I'm trying to make is, if you're going to blast someone, at least blast them for real reasons. The "third quarter" bit refers to when systems will be available for coporate volume purchases. "People" will be able to buy "the damn things" by the end of the month.
All that said, the Athlon really is a much better chip than the PIII. I just hate to see people insulted and cussed at without grounds.
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Easily enough done. You've been able to copy in the background since MacOS 8 came out. Of course, lots of recent Mac users would have a problem carrying this out, since they don't have floppy drives ;)
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Ah, but I'm using ext3fs, and my system takes about a minute to boot no matter what. That's why journalling is so cool. Granted, I lose 10MB of disk space per partition for the journal file, and writes are a little slower due to duplication of data, but it's been worth it... ext3 is great, it's not nearly as alpha as people seem to believe.
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I see this opinion expressed whenever a new dev kernel is posted to slashdot. But you know what? I don't think it's true. For instance, I care about the unstable series, but the first I heard about the new release was here on Slashdot. Maybe I'm out of the loop in some weird way, but nonetheless, there exist people who care about it who don't already know.
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As a student on campus, I can confirm that this is absolutely false! Students around here (Va Tech, where we have ethernet connected to the internet via five T1s and three T3s... it's fast) are buying more CD's than ever. They then rip the CD's for convenience's sake. They do not return them. They keep them. So, I don't know where you get that above statement from... at least at this major university, it simply isn't true.
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