I rather prefer that the RIAA would attack people's home machines; it would cause less problems for those of us smart enough to stay up-to-date on our security.
I've noticed a bunch of people complaining about how 'make install' leaves a bunch of crap behind, and I'm not entirely sure what is meant by that. After all, one can always look throught the makefile and physically remove whatever files were placed in/usr/lib,/usr/local/lib, or whatever. A lot of packages usually include a handy "make uninstall-" in the cases where this exists, does this usually do a good job?
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I have two girlfriends.
Wait. Scratch that.
I have two girls that I'm banging on a regular basis, one of which _was_ my girlfriend until I decided I wasn't ready for monogamy.
Hey. I'm 18, just going into college. This is normal.
I understand about the alcohol thing, but the analogy is flawed, because being drunk, in and of itself, doesn't put images of violence into a child's brain. During the glory days of Half-Life, there were seriously times when I'd go to school feeling naked without my MP-40, and my first reaction going around corners was to bounce a grenade around the wall to kill whatever might be there... Of course I understood the difference between fantasy and reality, but the ideas were there... Some children might have a problem with that.
There's also the issue of desensitization. I'm very much a pacifist, and the idea of real-life violence genuinely disgusts me, but I don't even notice the blood and gore in video games anymore, because I'm too busy either running for my life or chasing down more punk bitches to kill. I once had a girlfriend who was upset because I watched the scene in Dancer in the Dark where she bludgeons him to death with a bank box, without even flinching. I don't know what kind of effect that has on me, but it has had an effect, and I don't think anyone really knows what kind of effect that sort of desensitization has. It's possible it may very from person to person.
Of course, there's the obligatory argument about how children should be raised by their parents rather than legislators and censors...
Am I the only one here who genuinely wonders whether Katz would pass a Turing test?
Wouldn't it be nice if we could just moderate Katz down like the karma-whore he is? (-1, Katz?)
Seriously, though, the staggering number of false parallels he draws should be worth of some kind of award. I mean, I support OSS as much as the next guy, but I dual-boot 98 and I run non-free software like Unreal Tournament and RCTW as well.
The last thing I need after four hours of sleep is to sit down to the computer in yearbook class and see Katz incoherently ranting about disjointed subjects. If I wanted to here a pedantic diatribe about the advantages of some kind of globalistic socialism, I'll get it from one of the (high school) freshmen wandering the halls with a copy of the Communist Manifesto in their back pockets.
And to think I consider buying a subscription...
There's an idea! We could pay for the aforementioned privelege of moderating the headlines. That could raise an entirely new dynamic on slashdot. Anyone reading this?
Hate to pick nits, but 'color' and similarly bastardized spellings came about through an effort on the part of Webster and others to distinguish American English from British shortly after the revolution.
This could actually be a good thing. It seems like the next rational step would be a national driver's license/ID card. This would eliminate the vast disparities in states' requirements for driver licensing (here in Texas, when I got my license at the ripe old age of 16, I didn't have to take any test, written or "behind the wheel"), and it would go a long way toward preventing the use of out-of-state licenses as fakes (as someone who's worked at any establishment which sells tobacco or alcohol will tell you, an out-of-state driver's license is a good tip-off of a fake ID - this works this well, because I for one have no idea what, say, a New York driver's license is supposed to look like).
Man, what I wouldn't give for a good fake ID so I could buy alcohol. It was hell trying to get cigarettes before I was 18, too.
Ahh. Oh well. On the other hand, we'd all have to pay our out-of-state speeding tickets...
I thought EASY CD-CREATOR was made by Adaptec. Is it licensed under some sort of OEM thing, or what?
In any case, it's not the best burning software out there; I made many coasters using it under Windows. Now, using Linux, cdrecord works for me with no complaints whatsoever, despite the hassle involved in setting up SCSI emulation for my Sony burner. If there were an easier way to set that up (hint hint, for major distro packagers), CD Audio ripping/encoding/whatever, with the availability of great programs like CDParanoia that ignore copy protection and CDrecord,seems to be one of Linux's major strong points-- i wonder why more major distributions don't set this up out of the box. X-CD-Roast, from what I've heard, does a fine job of integrating it all. Maybe not on the level of a 'killer app' for linux, but a definite advantage over MS... Of course, apple is going to be tough competition, but within the scope of X86 hardware...
That's because P2P provided significant, tangible benefits to the end-luser. How many 14-yr-old girls on dialup with napster downloading n*sync and brittney spears know, care, or want to know about the technical issues of networking? TCP/IP? huh? What's that?
Most of my friends are the same way. I hate it when they ask me stupid questions about how to fix their Windows boxen. I worked in a chip-testing lab once. I tell them to reinstall and not bother me with it.
I don't know about the vast majority of/. readers, but I can safely say that the introductory CS class I'm taking this year (not AP) isn't actually TEACHING me anything. We're allegedly learning C++, in the "C with cout" form mentioned earlier. However, since the teacher, who was hired about 3 weeks after the beginning of school, doesn't actually know how to code C or C++, and has only limited experience with Pascal, we have yet to learn anything useful. This is somewhat upsetting to me; I had hoped to gain at least a working introductory knowledge of programming. So far, all I've learned has been from reading my dad's C books (the class is taught in C++, but I'm still unclear on the difference, other than the ability to use cout - I still don't actually know what this OO business is all about). The teacher says he'll get around to pointers and arrays once he figures them out... The moral of this story is that public education should not be involving itself with CS; the pathetically low salaries and the school districts' reluctance in providing decent software (yay for Microsuck VC++ - I can barely write out int main(); and I still feel more at home with Emacs) preclude any decent education in the field. Also, note that my experience might be different from that of others; I CHOSE to attend a Liberal Arts magnet program, and this might just be the consequences I'm suffering for my awesome AP Art History class.
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what's wrong with this guy's brain, that he embeds an obnoxious looping sound file into his HTML?
Is there a way to disable sound in mozilla?
wow, no posts so far, and it's already slashdotted.
That's gotta be a record.
Not that it matters, but the Miller brewery is actually on the outskirts of Ft. Worth, Texas. You pass by it coming up I-35 from Austin/San Antonio
I rather prefer that the RIAA would attack people's home machines; it would cause less problems for those of us smart enough to stay up-to-date on our security.
and you're shitty for not tipping well. 20% is good. A dollar is minimum, period. i don't care if it's a 2 dollar double espresso, leave a dollar tip
third post. mod this down. it deserves it.
I've noticed a bunch of people complaining about how 'make install' leaves a bunch of crap behind, and I'm not entirely sure what is meant by that. After all, one can always look throught the makefile and physically remove whatever files were placed in /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, or whatever. A lot of packages usually include a handy "make uninstall-" in the cases where this exists, does this usually do a good job?
I have two girlfriends.
Wait. Scratch that.
I have two girls that I'm banging on a regular basis, one of which _was_ my girlfriend until I decided I wasn't ready for monogamy.
Hey. I'm 18, just going into college. This is normal.
Michael Jordan owns the damn team. He'd do whatever he damn well felt like, and the coach would _like it_.
Do it for the children. They like it, I swear.
I understand about the alcohol thing, but the analogy is flawed, because being drunk, in and of itself, doesn't put images of violence into a child's brain. During the glory days of Half-Life, there were seriously times when I'd go to school feeling naked without my MP-40, and my first reaction going around corners was to bounce a grenade around the wall to kill whatever might be there... Of course I understood the difference between fantasy and reality, but the ideas were there... Some children might have a problem with that.
There's also the issue of desensitization. I'm very much a pacifist, and the idea of real-life violence genuinely disgusts me, but I don't even notice the blood and gore in video games anymore, because I'm too busy either running for my life or chasing down more punk bitches to kill. I once had a girlfriend who was upset because I watched the scene in Dancer in the Dark where she bludgeons him to death with a bank box, without even flinching. I don't know what kind of effect that has on me, but it has had an effect, and I don't think anyone really knows what kind of effect that sort of desensitization has. It's possible it may very from person to person.
Of course, there's the obligatory argument about how children should be raised by their parents rather than legislators and censors...
Am I the only one here who genuinely wonders whether Katz would pass a Turing test?
Wouldn't it be nice if we could just moderate Katz down like the karma-whore he is? (-1, Katz?)
Seriously, though, the staggering number of false parallels he draws should be worth of some kind of award. I mean, I support OSS as much as the next guy, but I dual-boot 98 and I run non-free software like Unreal Tournament and RCTW as well.
The last thing I need after four hours of sleep is to sit down to the computer in yearbook class and see Katz incoherently ranting about disjointed subjects. If I wanted to here a pedantic diatribe about the advantages of some kind of globalistic socialism, I'll get it from one of the (high school) freshmen wandering the halls with a copy of the Communist Manifesto in their back pockets.
And to think I consider buying a subscription...
There's an idea! We could pay for the aforementioned privelege of moderating the headlines. That could raise an entirely new dynamic on slashdot. Anyone reading this?
I thought I was the only one who did that. I feel vindicated.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
All your N*Sync video are belong to us.
We could run Linux on these and show MTV who's boss.
There now....
Hate to pick nits, but 'color' and similarly bastardized spellings came about through an effort on the part of Webster and others to distinguish American English from British shortly after the revolution.
This could actually be a good thing. It seems like the next rational step would be a national driver's license/ID card. This would eliminate the vast disparities in states' requirements for driver licensing (here in Texas, when I got my license at the ripe old age of 16, I didn't have to take any test, written or "behind the wheel"), and it would go a long way toward preventing the use of out-of-state licenses as fakes (as someone who's worked at any establishment which sells tobacco or alcohol will tell you, an out-of-state driver's license is a good tip-off of a fake ID - this works this well, because I for one have no idea what, say, a New York driver's license is supposed to look like).
Man, what I wouldn't give for a good fake ID so I could buy alcohol. It was hell trying to get cigarettes before I was 18, too.
Ahh. Oh well. On the other hand, we'd all have to pay our out-of-state speeding tickets...
I thought EASY CD-CREATOR was made by Adaptec. Is it licensed under some sort of OEM thing, or what?
In any case, it's not the best burning software out there; I made many coasters using it under Windows. Now, using Linux, cdrecord works for me with no complaints whatsoever, despite the hassle involved in setting up SCSI emulation for my Sony burner. If there were an easier way to set that up (hint hint, for major distro packagers), CD Audio ripping/encoding/whatever, with the availability of great programs like CDParanoia that ignore copy protection and CDrecord,seems to be one of Linux's major strong points-- i wonder why more major distributions don't set this up out of the box. X-CD-Roast, from what I've heard, does a fine job of integrating it all. Maybe not on the level of a 'killer app' for linux, but a definite advantage over MS... Of course, apple is going to be tough competition, but within the scope of X86 hardware...
That's because P2P provided significant, tangible benefits to the end-luser. How many 14-yr-old girls on dialup with napster downloading n*sync and brittney spears know, care, or want to know about the technical issues of networking? TCP/IP? huh? What's that?
Most of my friends are the same way. I hate it when they ask me stupid questions about how to fix their Windows boxen. I worked in a chip-testing lab once. I tell them to reinstall and not bother me with it.
if this is true, the parent needs to be modded up.
How is that album, anyway? I'm probably gonna buy it either way, but I'd like to know.
I don't know about the vast majority of /. readers, but I can safely say that the introductory CS class I'm taking this year (not AP) isn't actually TEACHING me anything. We're allegedly learning C++, in the "C with cout" form mentioned earlier. However, since the teacher, who was hired about 3 weeks after the beginning of school, doesn't actually know how to code C or C++, and has only limited experience with Pascal, we have yet to learn anything useful. This is somewhat upsetting to me; I had hoped to gain at least a working introductory knowledge of programming. So far, all I've learned has been from reading my dad's C books (the class is taught in C++, but I'm still unclear on the difference, other than the ability to use cout - I still don't actually know what this OO business is all about). The teacher says he'll get around to pointers and arrays once he figures them out... The moral of this story is that public education should not be involving itself with CS; the pathetically low salaries and the school districts' reluctance in providing decent software (yay for Microsuck VC++ - I can barely write out int main(); and I still feel more at home with Emacs) preclude any decent education in the field. Also, note that my experience might be different from that of others; I CHOSE to attend a Liberal Arts magnet program, and this might just be the consequences I'm suffering for my awesome AP Art History class.
Maybe I'll go see it. Apparently the llamas are cute. On the other hand, if I wanted to see llamas, I'd go play TFC or Q3A on any pub server...