What are you talking about? It's funny when someone else gets kicked in the crotch. Haven't you seen America's Funniest Home Videos? It's half an hour worth of crotch injuries every week.
Your entire argument is invalidated by the fact that I never mentioned Windows 9x in my original post. I have several boxen at home as well including one that I have installed various flavors of Linux on. I can't make any claims as to it's uptime because, to be honest, I don't turn it on all that often. The PC's I use the most are and Athlon 800 running WinME and an Athlon 1000 running Win2K.
To be honest with you, I would prefer Linux for a web/file server, but the article does not discuss Linux for this purpose, the point of the article was to discuss the merits of Linux, with a focus on WINE, as a desktop/gaming system. One day, Linux may become a valid option for such a system, but unless you *really* like solitare and limited functionality, that day is a few years off at best.
"It gives you the power to do what you need done, quickly and painlessly. We don't live with the limitations of Linux, we live with the freedom of Linux. There's a difference."
As long as you don't "need" to do high end image editing, playback or edit more than a few obsolete video codecs, use a USB or IEEE-1394 device, use the latest video cards, use a professional word processor or spreadsheet suite or play *good* games it should do just about anything you'd need, right?
Really? I wasn't aware that Microsoft was in the market of supporting other vendor's software. Perhaps you should contact the manufacturer of your card for the latest drivers, idiot. I've got nothing against Lunix, but if you don't know how to use Windows, you shouldn't blame user error on faulty design.
Go to CDROM.com or download.com and search for Netlab for Windows. It does whois, traceroutes, ping, finger, portscan and several other helpful features. It's a free download.
"Is there a company out there that makes a Wine-like tool for using Linux apps under Windows?"
Now why on earth would anyone want to do that? Please name for me one Linux application that does not have a superior Windows-based counterpart. You can't and there aren't.
Okay, I know this'll instantly be modded down as flamebait, but I just don't understand you people. You Linux zealots are constantly complaining about how horrible and unstable Windows is, but then you turn around and try and make your so-called superior operating system to look and act as much like Windows as possible. You even go so far as to use Microsoft's.dll and.vxd files to help you since you apparently can't figure out how to write your own drivers. Why don't you just save yourself the trouble, wipe your hard disk and install Win2K. Oh, and quit whining.
"You don't own the right to do what the hell you like with them. "
Yes, I do. I do because that is fair use - to do anything I want with the cd and the music on it, short of distributing it to other people. That's protected by copyright law. Anything else is free game."
So let me get this straight, you can do "anything" you want with a CD except distribute it to others.
So basically what you're saying is that you don't own the right to do what the hell you like with them.
"100 years from now (sooner I hope, but hey..), a space colony decides it no longer wants to have anything to do with ole Mother Earth any longer. They cease to pay taxes, 'nationalize' any local holdings of earth-based corporations, and generally declare themselves a new entity.
I've never seen any of the movies you mentioned, but the reason the "thought police", as you phrase it, have been unsucessful in banning movies, magazines, and books is that most of the media you have previously mentioned have at least some redeeming aspects or artistic value, while Anime does not.
I'm normally not one to speak out against the articles posted here, but I feel the need to voice my moral objection to Akira and similar Japanese filth in a public forum. I do not do this for the intent of angering or alienating any Slashdot readers, but merely to make my views heard and perhaps sway other's away from such morally degrading media.
While I've never actually seen any of the Akira series, I have (regretablly) had the opportunity to view several other "anime" movies, and I must say how horrified I was at some of the gruesome scenes depicted thoughout. I for one, certainly hopes that Slashdot's self proclaimed "geek" readership has enough sense to see past the flashy martial arts, bone-shaking explosions and poorly dubbed voiceovers and realize that foul degrading filth such as this has no place in the homes of God-fearing Christian Americans. Scenes such as fecalfilia, gang rape, and the senseless murder of innocent caucasians. I am appaled that a culture that prides itself upon it's knowledge and refinement would consider something like this to be entertainment and I can only hope that now that our nation is under the strong leadership of George W. Bush, such despicable filth will soon be banned and owners and advocates of anime will be arrested.
There are also rocks on pluto. If you think about it, what are the rest of the planets? Hunks of rock and ice. What should make pluto any different. And pluto has a diameter of 1375 miles (2200 km), not 2500 miles.
First of all, the title of this article is *extremely* misleading. This company is not selling "clicks" or any other type of advertising to children, nor are they providing confidential, or individually traceable information to advertisers. What they are doing, is selling statistical information about the surfing preferences of kids to potential advertisers. This article was written to intentionally put a shady, dishonest spin on N2H2's legitimate business practices and to try and spread Taco's own paranoid propaganda.
What N2H2 is really doing here, is neither illegal, or immoral, but a perfectly reasonable business practice. Here's a fact: More children than ever are surfing the web these days. N2H2 is simply providing advertisers with a list of children's web-surfing habits and tendancies. They are in no way providing any information that could be used to trace individual surfers in any way. Television networks have been using this type of targeted advertising geared towards children for years. This is why commercials for cereal and action figures come on during Saturday morning cartoons. I am deeply offended that Taco would try to spread these slanderous lies!
Interesting. I saw an episode of Dateline (I know, not the best source of tech news) a while back where some scientists have created software to design microprocessors through trial and error. Essentially, they would "learn" through their mistakes. After a few months of running this program, the computer came up with a basic design that used fewer gates than anything the researchers could come up with to do the same task. They couldn't even figure out why it worked, but apparently the computer knew that it would. Creepy!
Where you live, maybe, but the age of consent varies by state. Here in Virginia, it's 18. (no, I'm not a pedaphile. A close friend of mine served some time for it, though). I believe it's as low as 15 in one of the Carolinas (?)
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Um.. cause it's a Japanese show, maybe?
What are you talking about? It's funny when someone else gets kicked in the crotch. Haven't you seen America's Funniest Home Videos? It's half an hour worth of crotch injuries every week.
I guess that explains the appeal in porn.
I'm sure Hemos would too.
Yeah... That'll solve all their problems. Everyone knows that goatse.cx is the only gross picture on the Internet.
To be honest with you, I would prefer Linux for a web/file server, but the article does not discuss Linux for this purpose, the point of the article was to discuss the merits of Linux, with a focus on WINE, as a desktop/gaming system. One day, Linux may become a valid option for such a system, but unless you *really* like solitare and limited functionality, that day is a few years off at best.
As long as you don't "need" to do high end image editing, playback or edit more than a few obsolete video codecs, use a USB or IEEE-1394 device, use the latest video cards, use a professional word processor or spreadsheet suite or play *good* games it should do just about anything you'd need, right?
Really? I wasn't aware that Microsoft was in the market of supporting other vendor's software. Perhaps you should contact the manufacturer of your card for the latest drivers, idiot. I've got nothing against Lunix, but if you don't know how to use Windows, you shouldn't blame user error on faulty design.
Go to CDROM.com or download.com and search for Netlab for Windows. It does whois, traceroutes, ping, finger, portscan and several other helpful features. It's a free download.
Now why on earth would anyone want to do that? Please name for me one Linux application that does not have a superior Windows-based counterpart. You can't and there aren't.
Okay, I know this'll instantly be modded down as flamebait, but I just don't understand you people. You Linux zealots are constantly complaining about how horrible and unstable Windows is, but then you turn around and try and make your so-called superior operating system to look and act as much like Windows as possible. You even go so far as to use Microsoft's .dll and .vxd files to help you since you apparently can't figure out how to write your own drivers. Why don't you just save yourself the trouble, wipe your hard disk and install Win2K. Oh, and quit whining.
Yes, I do. I do because that is fair use - to do anything I want with the cd and the music on it, short of distributing it to other people. That's protected by copyright law. Anything else is free game."
So let me get this straight, you can do "anything" you want with a CD except distribute it to others.
So basically what you're saying is that you don't own the right to do what the hell you like with them.
Do ya think we're just going to let them go?"
You're british aren't you.
Itanium is Intel's next generation 64 bit processor. Surely you meant to say Iridium.
I'll take credit for it. hehehe.
"You will gain money by an illegal action."
I've never seen any of the movies you mentioned, but the reason the "thought police", as you phrase it, have been unsucessful in banning movies, magazines, and books is that most of the media you have previously mentioned have at least some redeeming aspects or artistic value, while Anime does not.
While I've never actually seen any of the Akira series, I have (regretablly) had the opportunity to view several other "anime" movies, and I must say how horrified I was at some of the gruesome scenes depicted thoughout. I for one, certainly hopes that Slashdot's self proclaimed "geek" readership has enough sense to see past the flashy martial arts, bone-shaking explosions and poorly dubbed voiceovers and realize that foul degrading filth such as this has no place in the homes of God-fearing Christian Americans. Scenes such as fecalfilia, gang rape, and the senseless murder of innocent caucasians. I am appaled that a culture that prides itself upon it's knowledge and refinement would consider something like this to be entertainment and I can only hope that now that our nation is under the strong leadership of George W. Bush, such despicable filth will soon be banned and owners and advocates of anime will be arrested.
Thank you for listening.
They must have adopted the Amazon.com business model.
There are also rocks on pluto. If you think about it, what are the rest of the planets? Hunks of rock and ice. What should make pluto any different. And pluto has a diameter of 1375 miles (2200 km), not 2500 miles.
What N2H2 is really doing here, is neither illegal, or immoral, but a perfectly reasonable business practice. Here's a fact: More children than ever are surfing the web these days. N2H2 is simply providing advertisers with a list of children's web-surfing habits and tendancies. They are in no way providing any information that could be used to trace individual surfers in any way. Television networks have been using this type of targeted advertising geared towards children for years. This is why commercials for cereal and action figures come on during Saturday morning cartoons. I am deeply offended that Taco would try to spread these slanderous lies!
Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine graduated from Harvard Law School before turning to a career of music and thuggery.
Interesting. I saw an episode of Dateline (I know, not the best source of tech news) a while back where some scientists have created software to design microprocessors through trial and error. Essentially, they would "learn" through their mistakes. After a few months of running this program, the computer came up with a basic design that used fewer gates than anything the researchers could come up with to do the same task. They couldn't even figure out why it worked, but apparently the computer knew that it would. Creepy!
Where you live, maybe, but the age of consent varies by state. Here in Virginia, it's 18. (no, I'm not a pedaphile. A close friend of mine served some time for it, though). I believe it's as low as 15 in one of the Carolinas (?)
Well, you certainly don't want to look at Slash if you're looking for well-written, easy to read code.