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Sept. 15 2023. With overwhelming support from both sides of the House, Congress, bowing to interantional pressure, on this day repealed the 1st Amendment.
Now, I understand that it is meant funny... But I wonder if the First Amendement (Free Speech, isn't it?) hasn't become null and void due to the harsch legal system in place in American. I mean, as soon as you say something, that someone doesn't like, you can get sued and have to pay a fortune (if you lose, of course). Technically, America has the worst censorship possible: auto-censorship out of fear (for legal action).
I'm not American, and it could just be my biased view (media coverage etc...) of the American society that gives me this impression and I hope for all Americans that my view on the situation is flawed.
Similar setup here (GeForce2 MX with Peanut Linux distribution, I think it is based on Slackware), no success either. At least you got as far to install it correctly, from your post I assume you made X running (even unstable). I first tried to make it run with XFree86 3.3.6, but I gave up on that. Installed XFree 4.0.1, no success either: this night I'll try to integrate the NVidia binary drivers. Wish me luck:-/
MiniDisc is a no-hassle system. You still have to rip and convert to burn on CD-R and whatever.... I do have to record real-time to a MiniDisc, that is true...but whatever! I'm making a mix of songs I like, don't you think the hassle of listening one to them is a big time? No not at all:-) MiniDisc is not like your CD-R(W), it is like a casette, I tought I made my point in the previous post about that. If Sony would see a commercial use to faster dubbing (digital-in to MD) they would do it....remember Casette Desks had that function years ago!
I think those brands are able to produce MiniDisc players because they have licensed the technology from Sony. As you know the slashdot crowd, it not completely a fan of licenses (there goes my Karma!) if it isn't the GPL license.
But you are right, the technology is wildely spread and I think Sony knows very well that it should keep it's licensing regulations reasonable because some other company might just try to kick them from their throne with better or other technology (remember the Philips DCC).
I actually use exclusively TDK MiniDiscs (because they are produced in my country, and my have help my economy a bit) and have a Portable Sharp MiniDisc player and a Sony Hifi with MiniDisc. The Sharp was very affordable, by the way:-)
MiniDisc may be proprietary, but I actually like the concept. I mean, a nice protected disc (plastic around it, no scratsches!) that is re-recordable. I wished some of my CD's had such a protection. It is excellent to make mixes from your CD collection (that's legal, isn't it?) without having to go over the process of ripping each single track (I hate mixes with 2 songs coming form the same source CD) to your harddisk and then write it to a CD. Once you get sick of your mix, you have to throw away your CD, but the MiniDisc is just erase, and re-record. As for final, the players are very small and not as combersome as portable CD players....they *do* drain a bit more power. Very shake-steady by the way. From my point of view, the MiniDisc is a very viable *digital* replacement for the audio-cassette.
Please don't bash a product because it is proprietary, but judge it on it's merits.
You have a nice User ID number, but I do not know how in Gods name you got +4,Informative for your post. I took the liberty to do a Google search on professor zoller chernobyl , and guess what...none of the links seem to have any importance. If your professor is worth anything, he should stand up and yell it out to the world...For the rest I do not believe a word you say (as other posted, the films would have been exposed if the people died)
Besides, I recently saw an interview with some guy that was a grue-driver (not sure of the exact words) during the cleanup in Soviet times, and he now said he was a volunteer...he now has cancer and he said he would do it again because someone had to do it. Now that are true heroes. I don't think your photographers ever died, you're just a plain old troll, a successful one, but nothing much more.
It wholly depends on your vision of "Personal", if it is like mine: lightweight, easy to install, handy, complete. On my quest for small GUI-enabled Linux Distro's I stumbeled over Peanut Linux and I think it rocks. Since it is downloadable easily over slow connections it fitted perfectly to my needs. Yes, it comes with sendmail, a websever and a telnetserver, which I immediately kicked out of inetd. The installation is a bit awkward at first but doable if not a complete moron (read: I just a moderate moron).
I think it will be this kind of distributions that have a chance to move towards the desktop.
(Moderators, this thread has gone Offtopic,-1 Sorry)
The W3C is still in charge, but it keeps the vision of the original www. Don't forget that webpages weren't ment to look the same on any platform but they were ment to show the relevant information on any platform. Cascading Style Sheets will help in future, but don't count on it in a near future.
I understand that the marketing types that work for your clients (and mine too by the way) want their corporate identity perfectly represented on the web. They see flash and say "wow", but the web is not about flash it is about content. The best way is to explain this and try to find appropriate tradeoffs. Oh, by the way...did you ever had to explain why the color of the company logo looked different on my monitor than on their monitor just because I had set my brightness quite low. Ehm, not easy, because they realised that on no computer their logo would look the same... sad, isn't it?
I didn't say I coudn't be logged because of the redirection link. Of course I am logged, and they will know I visited slashdot.org. (And I just don't care, let them fire me;-) ) They may know what sites I frequent, I just kept this link for fun after some discussions in slashdot about those *evil* redirector links that came standard with Internet Explorer (and Netscape too of course)
I just thought, it could be a circumvention for filtering software, but then I admit I never had to cope with filtering software. Someone who is blocked by filtering software should just test it and then post it here:-)
I was just wondering if redirecting links could be used to trick filtering software. You know, like http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=linux &target=http://slashdot.org Well at least it is the URL I use at work, but we are just being monitored, not cencored.
Besides "Microsoft Smart Filter" in one sentence...either word combined with "Smart" sounds weird to me;-)
I'm can't exactly pinpoint when Video Games became cool, but I can remember well that when I was a kid there were only a few kids that had consoles (mostly Sega or Nintendo) and it wasn't really considered cool....just on the egde of nerdy. I think the real coolness of consoles must have been around the release of the Playstation 1....but I'm not completely sure
PC Games on the other hand are just 'cool' since about the release of "Doom", or even rather "Quake II". How long was that ago, just 5 years.
The whole "gaming and information culture" still is just a subculture. Teenagers get hooked up faster to the internet and it is considered cool (now, in my days....), but they tend to use it superficially. The young generation is not more interested in technology than it was 10 years ago, no, they are interested in the fun they can have...nothing more nothing less.
Of course you could argue that "older" people don't hook up to technology (gaming and internet) but that is because most people tend to stay with what they know well. My mom is more likely to take a pen and paper to write someone than simply email it....tough I teached her how to write an email. I still have to meet the mom that fires up Quake III to have a "good time".;-)
Point is: nothing has changed, it just evolves....and it's how it should be. Someday our kids will think we are foolish to use email, because they think that some cool-new-thingy is better.
Maybe this will at least rekindle some of the exploratory and fun aspects of computing that have been lost since the ditching of the likes of GW-BASIC. Then, just maybe, kids will actually learn and explore instead of clicking and drooling.
I fear you are mistaken on that point. They just want to click and drool. Unfortunately the kids of today see the fancy applications/games and they think that if they start programming, they will create just as beautifull programs as they are used to. We didn't have such references when we started. Back when WordStar was great, I was proud of my programs in textmode. It was a good way to learn programming. Now they want to start program directly with windows and mouse and 3D graphics, which of course puts the start-programming-treshold higher.... They just give up faster because their dreams are schattered.
This reminds me of a friend om my sister who came and asked me what he needed to learn Java. I guess he was expecting some answer like "JBuilder" or "Visual Age" or whatever your favorite builder is. His face changed to scheer terror when I replied: "The JDK and notepad". He didn't realise that source-code is just text. I think I scared him: he never asked me a computer related question anymore.
Oh, and if you think I'm a ranting old frustarated 50 year old programmer, I'm only 24 and started programming at 12. Makes me realise time flies fast when you code.
Most people don't store their porn bookmarks in their regular bookmarks? He? Am I that abnormal then? In my Netscape bookmarks I created two folders one called "Hmmmm, Guess?" and another which is called "Red Checkout". The first folder contains my regular porn sites, the second contains the ones I need to check out.
As for staying on topic: I don't know bookmarking habits op most people, but actually 50% of my bookmarks are sites which I saw but did not have the time to explore. The days I have time, I explore the sites decide if they are interesting enough to keep and put them in a bookmark folder that represents a category (like "Humour", "Computers", "TV", "Programming" etc...) I think that a search-engine based on bookmarks has potential, but I fear that most people do not organize their bookmarks well enough and that many many links in it will be out of date.
As a final note: remember that such an engine will be very biased to the "default" bookmarks that are provided by the browser manufacturers. I know most slashdotters clear those on first sight, but a normal user often doens't bother and just adds his own to the existing ones. I saw some bookmarks/favourites that took up the whole screen when openend. They mostly don't even know how to remove broken bookmarks, sad but true. The weakness of such search engines is that it relies on human input and we are far from perfect, aren't we?
Well, I don't really care at which page my browser starts. As default I have it on my ISP's (which is not AOL, I don't think we have AOL here anyway), not because it is really pretty or usefull, but I normally start on very different sites according to the tasks/searches I want to do. All I need it my bookmarks and be able to see that my connection is up and running (hence that it is not a blank page).
I think the "home" button in browsers is largely overrated:-)
I think "Letzeburgisch" would be the best textual representation of how it is pronounced, yes. I'm still batteling with myself how to best bring it over by text because it is more pronounced like "letze-bu-ish" (you don't hear the "r"), but it looks so silly if you write it that way.
I shoudn't have used "Luxembourgisch" in my original post, you are entirely right.
For the record: I do speak Letzeburgisch along with some other languages. You are probably dutch, considering your nick that is very close to Hyronimus Bosch a dutch poet. Right guess?
That would be "Luxembourg" or "Luxemburg". As for your statement, it is not entirely true: German is still widely used here. Actually the public schools are required to teach both geman and french. Mostly in primary schools german is give priority because it it closer to the local language "Luxembourgisch". Later on in high school more priority is given in french.
As for Belgium: there is still a whole province that is german-speaking. Belgium has three official languages: dutch, french and german.
If vote for 'mail' too, but that probably is related to the fact that I'm not a native english speaker. I use the english word 'mail' to indicate email and use my native language word for snailmail. Native english speakers don't have that luxury of course.
I already heard reports of native english speakers who got confused if you say "send it by mail", where you assumed that mail == email.
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Actually you comment quite well how I feel about this topic. The guy says that a computer should need everything to make anyone productive.
What does this mean for real? I want to write Enterprise Java Beans, but you you are (I'm guessing it is hypothetical) are webdesigner and need Frontpage and Photoshop, now the next guy is a 3D modeller and needs 3DMax studio. I can go on this way. According to this guy, any computer should come with all these applications....even the computer my mom uses for Email.
No, this guy is wrong....simply! The power in computers lies into customization. You customize your PC to your needs, I agree that a "common denominator" can be found that should cover the needs of John Sixpack but it is just a customization of an OS. Customization is what PC's make different from any consumer products like VCR's, TV or cars. An OS stays for me the layer between the hardware and the applications. Simple.
Hmmmm,...*today* it could be done, yes...granted. Back in those days (we are talking history, you know...), I don't think DR-Dos was around (it's from Novell, and I think I first heared of it when MS-Dos was at version 4). The two flavours we had were MS-Dos and PC-Dos (instead of MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS you had IBMDOS.COM and IBMBIOS.COM I believe)
Of course today you could burn a CD with Doom Legacy and any flavour of DOS you like. I don't think Microsoft tries to hunt down pirates of MS-Dos (any version) today. Back in those days, MS-Dos was state of the art (*ahum*) and I think that any vendor including it with it's game would have got a lawyer on its back in no-time.
The point was just that back in the old days there *existed* games that were purely bootable and OS-independent for the PC.
...read the article: it is about LAN's. Instead of making cables run trough you living room to connect two PC's you use wireless technology. (My mom would love it...she hates my network cables) It has nothing to do with cell-phones and the like.
You are right that cell-phone communication is quite expensive, but it is completely offtopic here. WAP is a joke...:-)
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Now, I understand that it is meant funny... But I wonder if the First Amendement (Free Speech, isn't it?) hasn't become null and void due to the harsch legal system in place in American. I mean, as soon as you say something, that someone doesn't like, you can get sued and have to pay a fortune (if you lose, of course). Technically, America has the worst censorship possible: auto-censorship out of fear (for legal action).
I'm not American, and it could just be my biased view (media coverage etc...) of the American society that gives me this impression and I hope for all Americans that my view on the situation is flawed.
Similar setup here (GeForce2 MX with Peanut Linux distribution, I think it is based on Slackware), no success either. At least you got as far to install it correctly, from your post I assume you made X running (even unstable). :-/
I first tried to make it run with XFree86 3.3.6, but I gave up on that. Installed XFree 4.0.1, no success either: this night I'll try to integrate the NVidia binary drivers. Wish me luck
MiniDisc is a no-hassle system. You still have to rip and convert to burn on CD-R and whatever.... I do have to record real-time to a MiniDisc, that is true...but whatever! I'm making a mix of songs I like, don't you think the hassle of listening one to them is a big time? No not at all :-)
MiniDisc is not like your CD-R(W), it is like a casette, I tought I made my point in the previous post about that. If Sony would see a commercial use to faster dubbing (digital-in to MD) they would do it....remember Casette Desks had that function years ago!
I think those brands are able to produce MiniDisc players because they have licensed the technology from Sony. As you know the slashdot crowd, it not completely a fan of licenses (there goes my Karma!) if it isn't the GPL license. :-)
But you are right, the technology is wildely spread and I think Sony knows very well that it should keep it's licensing regulations reasonable because some other company might just try to kick them from their throne with better or other technology (remember the Philips DCC).
I actually use exclusively TDK MiniDiscs (because they are produced in my country, and my have help my economy a bit) and have a Portable Sharp MiniDisc player and a Sony Hifi with MiniDisc. The Sharp was very affordable, by the way
MiniDisc may be proprietary, but I actually like the concept. I mean, a nice protected disc (plastic around it, no scratsches!) that is re-recordable. I wished some of my CD's had such a protection.
It is excellent to make mixes from your CD collection (that's legal, isn't it?) without having to go over the process of ripping each single track (I hate mixes with 2 songs coming form the same source CD) to your harddisk and then write it to a CD.
Once you get sick of your mix, you have to throw away your CD, but the MiniDisc is just erase, and re-record. As for final, the players are very small and not as combersome as portable CD players....they *do* drain a bit more power. Very shake-steady by the way.
From my point of view, the MiniDisc is a very viable *digital* replacement for the audio-cassette.
Please don't bash a product because it is proprietary, but judge it on it's merits.
You have a nice User ID number, but I do not know how in Gods name you got +4,Informative for your post. I took the liberty to do a Google search on professor zoller chernobyl , and guess what...none of the links seem to have any importance. If your professor is worth anything, he should stand up and yell it out to the world...For the rest I do not believe a word you say (as other posted, the films would have been exposed if the people died)
Besides, I recently saw an interview with some guy that was a grue-driver (not sure of the exact words) during the cleanup in Soviet times, and he now said he was a volunteer...he now has cancer and he said he would do it again because someone had to do it. Now that are true heroes. I don't think your photographers ever died, you're just a plain old troll, a successful one, but nothing much more.
It wholly depends on your vision of "Personal", if it is like mine: lightweight, easy to install, handy, complete. On my quest for small GUI-enabled Linux Distro's I stumbeled over Peanut Linux and I think it rocks. Since it is downloadable easily over slow connections it fitted perfectly to my needs. Yes, it comes with sendmail, a websever and a telnetserver, which I immediately kicked out of inetd. The installation is a bit awkward at first but doable if not a complete moron (read: I just a moderate moron).
I think it will be this kind of distributions that have a chance to move towards the desktop.
The W3C is still in charge, but it keeps the vision of the original www. Don't forget that webpages weren't ment to look the same on any platform but they were ment to show the relevant information on any platform. Cascading Style Sheets will help in future, but don't count on it in a near future.
I understand that the marketing types that work for your clients (and mine too by the way) want their corporate identity perfectly represented on the web. They see flash and say "wow", but the web is not about flash it is about content. The best way is to explain this and try to find appropriate tradeoffs.
Oh, by the way...did you ever had to explain why the color of the company logo looked different on my monitor than on their monitor just because I had set my brightness quite low. Ehm, not easy, because they realised that on no computer their logo would look the same... sad, isn't it?
I just thought, it could be a circumvention for filtering software, but then I admit I never had to cope with filtering software. Someone who is blocked by filtering software should just test it and then post it here :-)
I was just wondering if redirecting links could be used to trick filtering software. You know, like http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=linux &target=http://slashdot.org ;-)
Well at least it is the URL I use at work, but we are just being monitored, not cencored.
Besides "Microsoft Smart Filter" in one sentence...either word combined with "Smart" sounds weird to me
All my sympathy! Same here. Worst of it: it's a Sony! (I actually like Sony, yes I use MiniDisc, yes this is offtopic)
PC Games on the other hand are just 'cool' since about the release of "Doom", or even rather "Quake II". How long was that ago, just 5 years.
The whole "gaming and information culture" still is just a subculture. Teenagers get hooked up faster to the internet and it is considered cool (now, in my days....), but they tend to use it superficially. The young generation is not more interested in technology than it was 10 years ago, no, they are interested in the fun they can have...nothing more nothing less.
Of course you could argue that "older" people don't hook up to technology (gaming and internet) but that is because most people tend to stay with what they know well. My mom is more likely to take a pen and paper to write someone than simply email it....tough I teached her how to write an email. I still have to meet the mom that fires up Quake III to have a "good time". ;-)
Point is: nothing has changed, it just evolves....and it's how it should be. Someday our kids will think we are foolish to use email, because they think that some cool-new-thingy is better.
I fear you are mistaken on that point. They just want to click and drool. Unfortunately the kids of today see the fancy applications/games and they think that if they start programming, they will create just as beautifull programs as they are used to.
We didn't have such references when we started. Back when WordStar was great, I was proud of my programs in textmode. It was a good way to learn programming. Now they want to start program directly with windows and mouse and 3D graphics, which of course puts the start-programming-treshold higher.... They just give up faster because their dreams are schattered.
This reminds me of a friend om my sister who came and asked me what he needed to learn Java. I guess he was expecting some answer like "JBuilder" or "Visual Age" or whatever your favorite builder is. His face changed to scheer terror when I replied: "The JDK and notepad". He didn't realise that source-code is just text. I think I scared him: he never asked me a computer related question anymore.
Oh, and if you think I'm a ranting old frustarated 50 year old programmer, I'm only 24 and started programming at 12. Makes me realise time flies fast when you code.
As for staying on topic: I don't know bookmarking habits op most people, but actually 50% of my bookmarks are sites which I saw but did not have the time to explore. The days I have time, I explore the sites decide if they are interesting enough to keep and put them in a bookmark folder that represents a category (like "Humour", "Computers", "TV", "Programming" etc...) I think that a search-engine based on bookmarks has potential, but I fear that most people do not organize their bookmarks well enough and that many many links in it will be out of date.
As a final note: remember that such an engine will be very biased to the "default" bookmarks that are provided by the browser manufacturers. I know most slashdotters clear those on first sight, but a normal user often doens't bother and just adds his own to the existing ones. I saw some bookmarks/favourites that took up the whole screen when openend. They mostly don't even know how to remove broken bookmarks, sad but true.
The weakness of such search engines is that it relies on human input and we are far from perfect, aren't we?
I say, brunettes are for girls, blondes are for beer.
By the risk of getting Irish moderators on my back....honestly! It is *not* confusing, it is just *true*: Guinness Beer Really Sucks!
Well, I don't really care at which page my browser starts. As default I have it on my ISP's (which is not AOL, I don't think we have AOL here anyway), not because it is really pretty or usefull, but I normally start on very different sites according to the tasks/searches I want to do. All I need it my bookmarks and be able to see that my connection is up and running (hence that it is not a blank page). :-)
I think the "home" button in browsers is largely overrated
I shoudn't have used "Luxembourgisch" in my original post, you are entirely right.
For the record: I do speak Letzeburgisch along with some other languages. You are probably dutch, considering your nick that is very close to Hyronimus Bosch a dutch poet. Right guess?
As for Belgium: there is still a whole province that is german-speaking. Belgium has three official languages: dutch, french and german.
So decline? What decline?
Oh, I did not know that :-) You learn something everyday.
And before you mod me down for this stupid translation, it actually means 'nitpicking', but you guessed that...
If vote for 'mail' too, but that probably is related to the fact that I'm not a native english speaker. I use the english word 'mail' to indicate email and use my native language word for snailmail. Native english speakers don't have that luxury of course.
I already heard reports of native english speakers who got confused if you say "send it by mail", where you assumed that mail == email.
What does this mean for real? I want to write Enterprise Java Beans, but you you are (I'm guessing it is hypothetical) are webdesigner and need Frontpage and Photoshop, now the next guy is a 3D modeller and needs 3DMax studio. I can go on this way. According to this guy, any computer should come with all these applications....even the computer my mom uses for Email.
No, this guy is wrong....simply! The power in computers lies into customization. You customize your PC to your needs, I agree that a "common denominator" can be found that should cover the needs of John Sixpack but it is just a customization of an OS. Customization is what PC's make different from any consumer products like VCR's, TV or cars.
An OS stays for me the layer between the hardware and the applications. Simple.
Of course today you could burn a CD with Doom Legacy and any flavour of DOS you like. I don't think Microsoft tries to hunt down pirates of MS-Dos (any version) today. Back in those days, MS-Dos was state of the art (*ahum*) and I think that any vendor including it with it's game would have got a lawyer on its back in no-time.
The point was just that back in the old days there *existed* games that were purely bootable and OS-independent for the PC.
...read the article: it is about LAN's. Instead of making cables run trough you living room to connect two PC's you use wireless technology. (My mom would love it...she hates my network cables) It has nothing to do with cell-phones and the like. :-)
You are right that cell-phone communication is quite expensive, but it is completely offtopic here. WAP is a joke...