No, he didn't back up the claim that what he did had an effect that was the inverse of what happends on the wider Internet, to use his exact words. I never implied what he did was not bringing together a community. I think what he did was great. He simply made a sweeping claim that I disagree with.
...the freenet has resulted in new form s of interaction and strenthened ties within his own local community (the inverse of what happends on the wider Internet)
Ahem, would you care to back this up? I know someone who was afraid to leave the house for a long time. After talking with people on the internet, he began to feel less disconnected from the world and began to venture out into the world again. I had long thought of the internet as something that kept people behind closed doors, but now I'm not so sure. I'd like to see some evidence before I'll believe the kind of sweeping factoids that the person who posted this article just made.
I don't think that's what would happen. Instead, we would see only the highest volume companies stay in business, along with fewer choices. This may be where it's headed anyway.
I wonder why Exodus is going out of business. Is it because they aren't charging enough for their services? If so, I've been thinking, maybe there's too many free/cheap services available on the internet and in order for a company to survive, they need to really charge what they're worth.
Seeing things like this happen though, I think it's good for the internet in the long run. Things can't go along at a crazed pace forever. Things need to get shaken up. When the dust settles, we can see where we're at, and move on again.
Slow down there. I wasn't knocking the show. In fact I probably liked it more than most of the other people here, judging by the criticism I've seen. I was only referring to the many posts about the heat shield thing, in case you didn't read the parent post. You know, the one I was replying to?
Well, the actress that played her clearly was, though there may have not been any explicit reference on the show to it. I also saw her later in a very B movie in which she was a cop and became partner with this typical hetero male who constantly hit on her. He was shocked halfway through the film to learn she was a lesbian.
The Next Generation had a lesbian on board, now I forget her character's name, she and Data got it on once while under the influence of some outer space strangeness. Of course, they killed her off later and replace her with Warf.
I can't believe how many people are posting about this. While watching Star Trek, does anyone take the physics seriously? This is prime time entertainment, nothing more. Get a life, you slobbering geeks.
Not very much, about this subject. The ports collection is not software for FreeBSD only. It's a packaging system that takes care of dependencies, in some ways similar to Debian's dpkg.
I don't know how many times I wanted to do this, but always got bogged down in the details. The OpenPackages project has had their system working on Linux for a while now. However, OpenPackages departs from the FreeBSD ports collection and takes a lot from OpenBSD and NetBSD as well. And it's not finished yet. Work seems to have slowed down on it too, unfortunately.
I'm pretty sure that when birds fly, they shape their wings in such a way that they reduce drag on the upstroke. Just like when humans swim, we cup our hands to "grab" the water when propelling ourselves forward, but when the stroke is done, we make the hand go limp to reduce drag as we pull it back into position for the next forward stroke. I think birds do a similar thing in the air. A rigid airplane wing would presumably have difficulty doing that.
It seems like a big problem with this type of machine would be that the upstroke would tend to push the plane downwards. So, even if the structure was powerful enough to push the plane upwards on the downstroke, each upstroke of the wings would push the plane back down for a net effect of zero lift. The solution in my mind would be to have the wings tilt on the upstroke so they slice through the air and then flatten out on the downstroke.
Mind you, I'm not an engineer. But as a kid, I did build a pair of wings to strap on to my arms. I was really convinced it would work. I imagined how impressed my neighbors would be when they saw me soaring overhead. Alas, when I jumped off our doghouse with the wings strapped to my arms, the dream came to an end.
It doesn't matter how sophisticated the equipment is; you can use a bag of specially sanctified stones, a deck of magical cards, or you can use the world's most powerful supercomputer. The fact remains that meteorologists are the soothsayers of our time.
I agree that the GNU project has an in your face attitude about many things. For example, not long ago there was an announcement about the progress of the Hurd on some website I've now forgotten. Somoeone posted a comment asking if Hurd had any Linux binary compatibility. A GNUer responded that it wasn't wanted because it would only be of use for running non-free software which had no source available. Talk about throwing away a practical idea for purely political reasons. The GNU position that "man" is obsolete is a good example of an arbitrary idea that GNU people like to throw around. There doesn't even seem to be a political agenda behind that one.
BTW, "man" is totally unaware of any vi movement commands. Your $PAGER is what deals with that. Someone could write a pager that would do emacs commands. Maybe someone already has.
After hearing a number of/.ers praising Squeak and Smalltalk, I decided to try it, and I think it's kinda yucky. Its gui is even uglier than java. And it's just a plain funky way to write programs. Besides, if you write a program with it, who will use it? Virtually nobody has the runtime system installed on their machine.
Mozilla has definitely progressed a great deal recently. However, check their page for system requirements: 64 fucking megs of ram! For those of use who like the idea of a small, fast standalone browser, dillo is the browser to watch. It now supports tables, and although it's still quite buggy, as fast as development is moving, I think within a year they may have a usable product, which at this stage is blazingly fast.
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If there are Gods, there are other Gods besides Allah, and Allah is not the same God as the God of the Christians and Jews.
Please. The Muslim religion comes from the roots of Judaism and Christianity. They believe in the One God concept, as much as Christians and Jews claim to. Just because they happen to pronounce the word "god" as "allah" instead of "jehovah" or "yahweh" doesn't make it a different entity.
Maybe Mohammed was evil, I don't know that much about him. But regardless of how it originated, Islam is a religion followed by many millions of people worldwide, and I would imagine its followers are sustained by this religion in the same way that Jews or Christians are sustained by their religions. Please don't confuse "Muslim" with "Terrorist". I'm quite sure that the majority of Muslims in the world are not terrorists, and many have publicly condemned the actions that took place in the US this week.
I am a US citizen and I agree wholeheartedly. It should be common knowledge by now that violence breeds violence. That isn't to say that the responsible party should go unpunished. But going to war is to attack many innocent people.
We don't even know who did it yet. I'm already seeing anti Middle Eastern sentiments popping up around me. It makes me sick. I'm also sickened and horrified by the destruction that took place. Still, I think the best thing to do is to remain as calm as possible, and not place blame on the "turban heads" (somebody actually said that to me this morning) or anyone else.
I'm really happy with the way KDE is coming along. It is now very usable. I love how I can click on an mp3 or an mpeg video and it will immediately start playing. Or I can click on a pdf file from Konqueror, and Konqueror immediately turns into a pdf viewer. It's all tightly integrated.
I see a problem with getting it to be more tightly integrated with the OS, like they mentioned with the filesystem issue. If KDE runs on every distro of Linux and BSD and Solaris, it will be impossible to make it a tighter part of the OS because there are so many possible ways which the filesystem or other parts of the kernel can behave. So they are forced to make it behave in a generic manner to make everyone happy. I don't like this aspect of software portability. I think it's really cool to have a GUI that utilizes the underlying kernel features.
From the sounds of the article, wine hasn't progressed much beyond the last time I used it a year ago or so. That's disappointing. When I used it, it definitely needed windows to run anything at all and it sounds like that's still the case.
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No, he didn't back up the claim that what he did had an effect that was the inverse of what happends on the wider Internet, to use his exact words. I never implied what he did was not bringing together a community. I think what he did was great. He simply made a sweeping claim that I disagree with.
Ahem, would you care to back this up? I know someone who was afraid to leave the house for a long time. After talking with people on the internet, he began to feel less disconnected from the world and began to venture out into the world again. I had long thought of the internet as something that kept people behind closed doors, but now I'm not so sure. I'd like to see some evidence before I'll believe the kind of sweeping factoids that the person who posted this article just made.
I wonder why Exodus is going out of business. Is it because they aren't charging enough for their services? If so, I've been thinking, maybe there's too many free/cheap services available on the internet and in order for a company to survive, they need to really charge what they're worth.
Seeing things like this happen though, I think it's good for the internet in the long run. Things can't go along at a crazed pace forever. Things need to get shaken up. When the dust settles, we can see where we're at, and move on again.
Oops, I didn't see where he said 66Mhz pci slots. My bad.
And, having researched this board before, I know it has 4 64 bit pci slots.
Slow down there. I wasn't knocking the show. In fact I probably liked it more than most of the other people here, judging by the criticism I've seen. I was only referring to the many posts about the heat shield thing, in case you didn't read the parent post. You know, the one I was replying to?
Well, the actress that played her clearly was, though there may have not been any explicit reference on the show to it. I also saw her later in a very B movie in which she was a cop and became partner with this typical hetero male who constantly hit on her. He was shocked halfway through the film to learn she was a lesbian.
Yes, there was a "cool" moment. That was when they grabbed that pod near the Helix and the pilot ejected out of it. Definitely very cool.
The Next Generation had a lesbian on board, now I forget her character's name, she and Data got it on once while under the influence of some outer space strangeness. Of course, they killed her off later and replace her with Warf.
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Yeah, I've tried it and it definitely has potential. Once they're a little more mature, I'll probably trade Debian for it.
What do I know though?
Not very much, about this subject. The ports collection is not software for FreeBSD only. It's a packaging system that takes care of dependencies, in some ways similar to Debian's dpkg.
I don't know how many times I wanted to do this, but always got bogged down in the details. The OpenPackages project has had their system working on Linux for a while now. However, OpenPackages departs from the FreeBSD ports collection and takes a lot from OpenBSD and NetBSD as well. And it's not finished yet. Work seems to have slowed down on it too, unfortunately.
I'm pretty sure that when birds fly, they shape their wings in such a way that they reduce drag on the upstroke. Just like when humans swim, we cup our hands to "grab" the water when propelling ourselves forward, but when the stroke is done, we make the hand go limp to reduce drag as we pull it back into position for the next forward stroke. I think birds do a similar thing in the air. A rigid airplane wing would presumably have difficulty doing that.
Mind you, I'm not an engineer. But as a kid, I did build a pair of wings to strap on to my arms. I was really convinced it would work. I imagined how impressed my neighbors would be when they saw me soaring overhead. Alas, when I jumped off our doghouse with the wings strapped to my arms, the dream came to an end.
It doesn't matter how sophisticated the equipment is; you can use a bag of specially sanctified stones, a deck of magical cards, or you can use the world's most powerful supercomputer. The fact remains that meteorologists are the soothsayers of our time.
BTW, "man" is totally unaware of any vi movement commands. Your $PAGER is what deals with that. Someone could write a pager that would do emacs commands. Maybe someone already has.
After hearing a number of /.ers praising Squeak and Smalltalk, I decided to try it, and I think it's kinda yucky. Its gui is even uglier than java. And it's just a plain funky way to write programs. Besides, if you write a program with it, who will use it? Virtually nobody has the runtime system installed on their machine.
Mozilla has definitely progressed a great deal recently. However, check their page for system requirements: 64 fucking megs of ram! For those of use who like the idea of a small, fast standalone browser, dillo is the browser to watch. It now supports tables, and although it's still quite buggy, as fast as development is moving, I think within a year they may have a usable product, which at this stage is blazingly fast.
Please. The Muslim religion comes from the roots of Judaism and Christianity. They believe in the One God concept, as much as Christians and Jews claim to. Just because they happen to pronounce the word "god" as "allah" instead of "jehovah" or "yahweh" doesn't make it a different entity.
Maybe Mohammed was evil, I don't know that much about him. But regardless of how it originated, Islam is a religion followed by many millions of people worldwide, and I would imagine its followers are sustained by this religion in the same way that Jews or Christians are sustained by their religions. Please don't confuse "Muslim" with "Terrorist". I'm quite sure that the majority of Muslims in the world are not terrorists, and many have publicly condemned the actions that took place in the US this week.
We don't even know who did it yet. I'm already seeing anti Middle Eastern sentiments popping up around me. It makes me sick. I'm also sickened and horrified by the destruction that took place. Still, I think the best thing to do is to remain as calm as possible, and not place blame on the "turban heads" (somebody actually said that to me this morning) or anyone else.
I see a problem with getting it to be more tightly integrated with the OS, like they mentioned with the filesystem issue. If KDE runs on every distro of Linux and BSD and Solaris, it will be impossible to make it a tighter part of the OS because there are so many possible ways which the filesystem or other parts of the kernel can behave. So they are forced to make it behave in a generic manner to make everyone happy. I don't like this aspect of software portability. I think it's really cool to have a GUI that utilizes the underlying kernel features.
From the sounds of the article, wine hasn't progressed much beyond the last time I used it a year ago or so. That's disappointing. When I used it, it definitely needed windows to run anything at all and it sounds like that's still the case.
That's really stupid, I have to say. That's like blocking *.com because it has a lot of porn sites.
Nice try, fuckbreath. I always check the URL at the bottom of my screen before clicking.