They are both complete fucking assclowns and nitwits. I cringe at seeing them say anything because it's always so horrendously stupid, and I shudder to think one of them will be leading our country. ---
Those are not significant differences. They are the same. The same laws and shit will or won't get passed regardless of who is elected. The only thing that matters with respect to those issues is who's funding the congress. The only question is, which one would screw up foreign policy the least?
I'd say Cheney. Lieberman's a jew. We know Isreal is fucking nuts. Who knows what they'd try with a jew vice president. ---
Anyone who thinks it is a Good Idea to vote for either Bush or Gore is far, far, more ignorant or stupid than the person sitting on their couch watching Ally McBeal. ---
The people saying to vote Nader to 'scare' the two big parties are wrong. That will not scare them at all. Why? Your vote doesn't count. The electoral college votes. They're not going to vote for a third party candidate at all, and they're sure as hell not going to elect one president. The electoral college has gone against the popular choice before and if you think it won't do it again and again you are terribly, terribly mistaken. ---
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Ultima VII originally was meant to run at 2-3 fps. Imagine what could be done today with such a low average framerate requirement? Certainly, some situations in Diablo II can reduce the framerate to that much (lots of monsters + revives + frozen orbs). But Diablo II is really more of an action game than a role playing game, in that it emphasises quick reflexes in combat rather than plot or character development (other than combat stats). As such, wildly varying framerates are the accepted norm. But take a more static world like that of Ultima VII. Imagine an engine similar in detail level and complexity designed for today's hardware, with a good 500-300 ms available to render each frame. ---
Frankly I don't see what the big deal is. If Microsoft is forced to take an agreement they don't like, they'll simply move to another country. Then won't the Americans be sorry!
I can't see how Microsoft is a monopoly. There are plenty of other operating systems, word processors, e-mail programs. Hell, they don't even have an instant messenger monopoly! Microsoft is pretty pathetic when you think of it. Forcing them to split up could destroy that fragile company. I mean, think about it, they don't actually even make anything, just imaginary 1's and 0's.
Whatever happened to American entrepeneurship and free-market capitalism? ---
is who spends this much money and time watching TV that they'd by one of these things? They are just glorified VCRs, after all. Come on, can you really justify paying $700 for what a $50 VCR could easily accomplish?
Oooh.. it runs Linux! It has a harddrive!.. these companies are just taking the techie market for a ride and getting rich off of it, much like Digital Convergence. By creating so much controversy about the CueCat, everyone in the tech community is going out to get their barcode scanner to hack and "keep the man down", but they continue to use the original software, giving DC lots of business. ---
As a computer science student, I've seen more than my fair share of CS grad students who can't speak coherent English, write an intelligible (or at least properly formatted) resume, or even understand simple data structures concepts.
Frankly, with employers being flooded with this kind of assclownery, I think my prospects for finding and keeping a good job are high. ---
We often criticize Windows for being "bloatware", but, come on, do we really need RSA included with our operating systems? It's a 3-second download. All the linux distros keep including surreal quantities of insecure crap in the default install. A 2GB drive provides barely enough room to install the latest Redhat w/ a swap partition. That is completely insane. Then of course, there's all kinds of fun exploits on 90% of the installed programs, most of which are useless crap. I mean, chargen? WTF needs that? The latest wuftpd SITE EXEC vulnerability (again, default) is just another example of how insecure this half-assed written, feature-driven evolution of open source software of today is. ("Ooh, it would be neat if you could execute remote commands via FTP! Who needs a TERMINAL when you've got FTP??")
Notice the closed source NIX's like SunOS and IRIX don't have this problem. And a default install of any version of Windows doesn't either! And it never could! Why? Because random crap is not included with Windows the way it is with Linux distros. I can see why by default, say, xpdf is installed, but, Apache?! No wonder the open source alternatives are lagging behind in terms of desktop use vs. server use. Maybe once someone realizes that in order to properly market open source software, they need to go in and take out all the "that would be cool" half-assed written crap, and maybe then, consumers can begin to respect Linux/FreeBSD for security, reliability, and ease of use, as they should. ---
When will Slashdot realize that they're doing themselves and the Linux community great harm?
When Slashdot becomes embroiled in a legal battle against Microsoft (that Kerberos thing cut it pretty close) and it becomes publicized so Microsoft and Microsoft's controlled press (ZDNet) begins spouting anti-Linux/OSS/Slashdot nonsense that convinces the general public that Linux/OSS are the "bad guys" and Microsoft are the "good guys" (because everyone loves a good dualistic system!) and then Slashdot will be preoccupied with defending themselves from Microsoft hype, and somebody will realize they are no longer receiving news of Star Wars Origami or Open Source Mindstorms untainted by anti-ms/pro-linux hype and say, "WHAT HAPPENED? WHERE DID MY NEWS FOR NERDS, STUFF THAT MATTERS GO? HOW DID SLASHDOT BECOME THIS WARTORN BATTLEGROUND OF ANTI-MS?". And then everyone will go read Kuroshin (no '5', because, admit it, that's just gay). ---
I would install an encrypting filesystem but for concerns of data integrity, performance, and validity.
What if my filesystem were to go down? I could never recover my data. In addition performance would be hindered severly by the blocking overhead of the encryption and decryption (which is essentially the same exponential operation backwards and forwards).
Until someone develops a hardware solution, I have to say, "no thank you."
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So his son is representing Microsoft. So what? What if it were his grandson? His father? His brother? His cousin? His neighbor? His 2nd-cousin? His butler? Where do we draw the line?
That is why this whole thing is rediculous. So what if he's his son. It's not like his son is paying him to sympathize with Microsoft. A lawyer's job is to represent his client; not to create empathy in the judge/jury.
Really, I think we need to grow up about these kinds of things. ---
Cackling in his grave...
If he were alive today, he would be a/. troll. Primarily he would post disgusting stories he wrote and links to graphic images for shock value. But then every once in a while he would post an encoded message just because he knew people would try to decode it. ---
Oops, I just realized that while "dot-coms" are intended to make money, they do not. Thus this is probably really stupid and completely worthless. Go back to IRC. ---
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Why doesn't it show up on SourceForgery now? You don't have to let anyone else work on it until you are finished, and the CVS repository is a great way to make backups. (-as well as perform version control, duh). ---
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They are both complete fucking assclowns and nitwits. I cringe at seeing them say anything because it's always so horrendously stupid, and I shudder to think one of them will be leading our country.
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I'd say Cheney. Lieberman's a jew. We know Isreal is fucking nuts. Who knows what they'd try with a jew vice president.
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Anyone who thinks it is a Good Idea to vote for either Bush or Gore is far, far, more ignorant or stupid than the person sitting on their couch watching Ally McBeal.
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The people saying to vote Nader to 'scare' the two big parties are wrong. That will not scare them at all. Why? Your vote doesn't count. The electoral college votes. They're not going to vote for a third party candidate at all, and they're sure as hell not going to elect one president. The electoral college has gone against the popular choice before and if you think it won't do it again and again you are terribly, terribly mistaken.
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Uh oh, looks like Taco's getting a visit from the secret service.
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Ultima VII originally was meant to run at 2-3 fps. Imagine what could be done today with such a low average framerate requirement? Certainly, some situations in Diablo II can reduce the framerate to that much (lots of monsters + revives + frozen orbs). But Diablo II is really more of an action game than a role playing game, in that it emphasises quick reflexes in combat rather than plot or character development (other than combat stats). As such, wildly varying framerates are the accepted norm. But take a more static world like that of Ultima VII. Imagine an engine similar in detail level and complexity designed for today's hardware, with a good 500-300 ms available to render each frame.
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Huh? I heard my name.
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Now I can test my lan!
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I can't see how Microsoft is a monopoly. There are plenty of other operating systems, word processors, e-mail programs. Hell, they don't even have an instant messenger monopoly! Microsoft is pretty pathetic when you think of it. Forcing them to split up could destroy that fragile company. I mean, think about it, they don't actually even make anything, just imaginary 1's and 0's.
Whatever happened to American entrepeneurship and free-market capitalism?
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Oooh.. it runs Linux! It has a harddrive!.. these companies are just taking the techie market for a ride and getting rich off of it, much like Digital Convergence. By creating so much controversy about the CueCat, everyone in the tech community is going out to get their barcode scanner to hack and "keep the man down", but they continue to use the original software, giving DC lots of business.
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This happens to be somethng I feel strongly about. If it happens to come out seeming like flamebait, then fine -- I guess it's flamebat.
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I went there to steal some code and it's taking FOREVER. It may just be faster to write it myself!
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..my CueCat is covered with the stuff!
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Frankly, with employers being flooded with this kind of assclownery, I think my prospects for finding and keeping a good job are high.
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We often criticize Windows for being "bloatware", but, come on, do we really need RSA included with our operating systems? It's a 3-second download. All the linux distros keep including surreal quantities of insecure crap in the default install. A 2GB drive provides barely enough room to install the latest Redhat w/ a swap partition. That is completely insane. Then of course, there's all kinds of fun exploits on 90% of the installed programs, most of which are useless crap. I mean, chargen? WTF needs that? The latest wuftpd SITE EXEC vulnerability (again, default) is just another example of how insecure this half-assed written, feature-driven evolution of open source software of today is. ("Ooh, it would be neat if you could execute remote commands via FTP! Who needs a TERMINAL when you've got FTP??") Notice the closed source NIX's like SunOS and IRIX don't have this problem. And a default install of any version of Windows doesn't either! And it never could! Why? Because random crap is not included with Windows the way it is with Linux distros. I can see why by default, say, xpdf is installed, but, Apache?! No wonder the open source alternatives are lagging behind in terms of desktop use vs. server use. Maybe once someone realizes that in order to properly market open source software, they need to go in and take out all the "that would be cool" half-assed written crap, and maybe then, consumers can begin to respect Linux/FreeBSD for security, reliability, and ease of use, as they should.
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When Slashdot becomes embroiled in a legal battle against Microsoft (that Kerberos thing cut it pretty close) and it becomes publicized so Microsoft and Microsoft's controlled press (ZDNet) begins spouting anti-Linux/OSS/Slashdot nonsense that convinces the general public that Linux/OSS are the "bad guys" and Microsoft are the "good guys" (because everyone loves a good dualistic system!) and then Slashdot will be preoccupied with defending themselves from Microsoft hype, and somebody will realize they are no longer receiving news of Star Wars Origami or Open Source Mindstorms untainted by anti-ms/pro-linux hype and say, "WHAT HAPPENED? WHERE DID MY NEWS FOR NERDS, STUFF THAT MATTERS GO? HOW DID SLASHDOT BECOME THIS WARTORN BATTLEGROUND OF ANTI-MS?". And then everyone will go read Kuroshin (no '5', because, admit it, that's just gay).
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What if my filesystem were to go down? I could never recover my data. In addition performance would be hindered severly by the blocking overhead of the encryption and decryption (which is essentially the same exponential operation backwards and forwards).
Until someone develops a hardware solution, I have to say, "no thank you."
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That is why this whole thing is rediculous. So what if he's his son. It's not like his son is paying him to sympathize with Microsoft. A lawyer's job is to represent his client; not to create empathy in the judge/jury.
Really, I think we need to grow up about these kinds of things.
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Cackling in his grave... /. troll. Primarily he would post disgusting stories he wrote and links to graphic images for shock value. But then every once in a while he would post an encoded message just because he knew people would try to decode it.
If he were alive today, he would be a
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I don't think I'll ever be the same again. Again following that link at all costs. I'm not even kidding.
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that link was very informative. Thanks.
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Woah.. AOL 7 is out? Where's my CD?!
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Oops, I just realized that while "dot-coms" are intended to make money, they do not. Thus this is probably really stupid and completely worthless. Go back to IRC.
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Why doesn't it show up on SourceForgery now? You don't have to let anyone else work on it until you are finished, and the CVS repository is a great way to make backups. (-as well as perform version control, duh).
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Napster isn't scalable. Why do you think they have separate, non-connected servers?
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