Hmmn . . . that's fairly foolish, since the international version has more functionality. It's not inhibited by the MIT legal kludge. Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Yes, doesn't that rule? It's like an obligatory source license for cryptography! Why anyone would want to use a piece of cryptographic software whose source they couldn't see, anyway, I wouldn't know. It's almost guaranteed to be insecure. But this way it's impossible, as long as that product is from the U.S.
There may be a group of people that seek more money, and will sacrifice personal satisfaction at the job to get it.
That's cool; we need a certain number of managers, accountants, construction workers, and so on. There are construction workers out there who are getting paid more than I (a 22-year-old system administrator in a college town, granted) make. My tai chi instructor is one.;) Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Actually, by the reasoning of the person who started this thread, Linus would clearly be our Caesar. Here we are following him with utmost devotion as he leads the way to a degenerate, entertainment-based lifestyle. Soon we'll all do nothing but write code and administer computers, and throw wild parties where we lie around watching entertaining spectacles and overeating and vomiting.
Actually, that pretty well describes my present life, except for the vomiting part. See? The degeneration is already upon us! Oh me, oh my. I never knew so much hard work would lead to degeneracy. Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Yeah, I really worry about that 3% of our society that's unemployed at a given time, too. What a bunch of bums! Why don't they get useful jobs administering Web servers?
Madonna today announced that sex is fun, and noted chef Paul Purdom, taking his queue from Madonna and Linus, affirmed his conviction that eating is fun. Journalists and sociologists everywhere were stunned by the news. "So this explains why people spend so much time hacking, eating, and doing the nasty with each other!" said noted techno-journalist Jon Katz. "I knew there had to be some kind of motivator." Katz added that he doesn't understand why people don't spend more time "doing the nasty" with robots, since he considers this activity to be fun, as well. Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
I agree, and I won't be buying one of these until they do release the source. Folks, let's our money where our mouths are: If there isn't an open-source driver available, don't buy the hardware. There are plenty of good alternatives to this thing (like the Yamaha OPL3-SA2 on my motherboard)! Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Can you say "Mega-marketable Linux niche?" One of these days, an OEM will get off its butt and start shipping Linux-based information appliances for a few hundred bucks. If I had a few hundred spare bucks, I'd be building one for myself right now. Why buy a separate receiver, TV, DVD player, MP3 player, and VCR when you could have them all in one nifty little box for so much less money? Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
In Boston, famous free software champion Richard Stallman, head of the FSF, contracted with local zookeepers to have a herd of wild gnus trample over thousands of CDs of proprietary software. When asked where he obtained funding for such a venture, Stallman replied, "We couldn't justify spending money on proprietary software, so we just asked for donations. Fortunately, the gnus are based on free DNA code, so we were able to lease them in good conscience." Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Now that is a good idea . . . especially after they put the stained-glass Oscar Wilde in Westminster Abbey for the same reason.:)
Do they ever name bills after people over there? Here in the U.S. we ocassionally append nicknames, e.g. for the famous "Brady bill" on gun control, but the bill itself doesn't carry the celebrity's name.
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No, he was just gay. Far from partying, Turing had an interesting sense of what constituted a good time. One of his fav games was a version of chess where you had to run all the way around the house between moves.
Contrary to what other people have been saying, I think the plastic arts still have a place in the world.;) I'd like to see a statue of Turing made, and I'd be willing to contribute a few bucks^H^H^H^Hpounds to make it happen. It would be even cooler if they'd put a little prototypical Turing machine with a tape next to him.:) Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Worse would be the state of mind of a person who had mastered using it for that. Yikes!
That sounds like a great idea . . . just like real-life martial arts, where you have to be calm to fight effectively. Martial arts are a great tool for relaxation for just that reason: They force you to chill out, or face the consequences.;) (By the way, I use martial arts to deal with the God-awful muscle tension I build up at the keyboard. It works!) Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Linux runs on a small footprint and requires low system resources, making it a good match for notebooks where design space is limited and heat dissipation is a concern, said Paul McNamara, vice president of business development at Red Hat.
That's right, Linux is so cool that it actually acts as as second heatsink, reducing the temperature of your CPU. (Why do you think our mascot is a penguin?) Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
With better 3d support and more games I could delete my windows partition for EVER!;)))))
Ya know, I hear this sentiment a lot. I always wonder, why don't people just scrape up $120 and buy a Nintendo, or another gaming console of their choice? You can buy adaptors to display to your monitor, so not having a TV is not a problem. For me, it is certainly cheaper to buy an N64 than to get another hard drive (since mine is small) and a new graphics card, and then pay for Microsoft's flagshit product. I guess if you were planning to rip off games rather than buying them this might be cheaper in the long run, but who wants to do that? The newer and more exciting game companies are on shaky enough financial footing as it is, without having people use their products without pay.
Besides, given the choice between closed-source software and hardware, I'll always choose the latter. It's better-tested and more robust, and just as configurable.;) Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Don't you get it? Star Wars is postmodern. That means it gets to rip off every good SF idea before it, as well as every epic, villain, architectural style, weapon, ship, and religion!
That said, I love Star Wars. I really do think that its deliberate postmodernism is its true genius. But I do think Lucas is going a little overboard in ripping off the spice theme.:( Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Is that how long you poor sods have to wait for The Phantom Menace to come out? Ouch, that sucks! My condolences. :( Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
How about sparing yourself the agony and giving me your tickets? That way, you can have all the fun of the event--dress up in Jedi garb, camp out overnight with your friends, get first-showing tickets at midnight--and then go home and get some sleep without ever having to face the disappointment! It'll be great for everyone. Just send the tickets by bike courier to my address:
Quinn David Weaver 404 Hacker Dr., Apt T1 Chicago IL 65536
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Really? Around here managerial types use it as a verb for changing from one software infrastructure to another. Damn! It's such a buzzy buzzword that I can describe it only by using other buzzwords, like "infrastructure".
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just joking . . .
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Hmmn . . . that's fairly foolish, since the international version has more functionality. It's not inhibited by the MIT legal kludge.
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Happy day, crytographic day. :)
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That's cool; we need a certain number of managers, accountants, construction workers, and so on. There are construction workers out there who are getting paid more than I (a 22-year-old system administrator in a college town, granted) make. My tai chi instructor is one. ;)
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Actually, that pretty well describes my present life, except for the vomiting part. See? The degeneration is already upon us! Oh me, oh my. I never knew so much hard work would lead to degeneracy.
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Note HEAVY sarcasm
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Madonna today announced that sex is fun, and noted chef Paul Purdom, taking his queue from Madonna and Linus, affirmed his conviction that eating is fun. Journalists and sociologists everywhere were stunned by the news. "So this explains why people spend so much time hacking, eating, and doing the nasty with each other!" said noted techno-journalist Jon Katz. "I knew there had to be some kind of motivator." Katz added that he doesn't understand why people don't spend more time "doing the nasty" with robots, since he considers this activity to be fun, as well.
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Cold pints: $2 #Product
I agree, and I won't be buying one of these until they do release the source. Folks, let's our money where our mouths are: If there isn't an open-source driver available, don't buy the hardware. There are plenty of good alternatives to this thing (like the Yamaha OPL3-SA2 on my motherboard)!
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Can you say "Mega-marketable Linux niche?" One of these days, an OEM will get off its butt and start shipping Linux-based information appliances for a few hundred bucks. If I had a few hundred spare bucks, I'd be building one for myself right now. Why buy a separate receiver, TV, DVD player, MP3 player, and VCR when you could have them all in one nifty little box for so much less money?
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
In Boston, famous free software champion Richard Stallman, head of the FSF, contracted with local zookeepers to have a herd of wild gnus trample over thousands of CDs of proprietary software. When asked where he obtained funding for such a venture, Stallman replied, "We couldn't justify spending money on proprietary software, so we just asked for donations. Fortunately, the gnus are based on free DNA code, so we were able to lease them in good conscience."
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Totally fucked up.
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"YES!!!" --Pokey the Penguin
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Do they ever name bills after people over there? Here in the U.S. we ocassionally append nicknames, e.g. for the famous "Brady bill" on gun control, but the bill itself doesn't carry the celebrity's name.
Just curious.
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No, he was just gay. Far from partying, Turing had an interesting sense of what constituted a good time. One of his fav games was a version of chess where you had to run all the way around the house between moves.
Contrary to what other people have been saying, I think the plastic arts still have a place in the world. ;) I'd like to see a statue of Turing made, and I'd be willing to contribute a few bucks^H^H^H^Hpounds to make it happen. It would be even cooler if they'd put a little prototypical Turing machine with a tape next to him. :)
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Cold pints: $2 #Product
Worse would be the state of mind of a person who had mastered using it for that. Yikes!
That sounds like a great idea . . . just like
real-life martial arts, where you have to be
calm to fight effectively. Martial arts are
a great tool for relaxation for just that reason:
They force you to chill out, or face the consequences.
arts to deal with the God-awful muscle tension
I build up at the keyboard. It works!)
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
That's right, Linux is so cool that it actually acts as as second heatsink, reducing the temperature of your CPU. (Why do you think our mascot is a penguin?)
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Ya know, I hear this sentiment a lot. I always wonder, why don't people just scrape up $120 and buy a Nintendo, or another gaming console of their choice? You can buy adaptors to display to your monitor, so not having a TV is not a problem. For me, it is certainly cheaper to buy an N64 than to get another hard drive (since mine is small) and a new graphics card, and then pay for Microsoft's flagshit product. I guess if you were planning to rip off games rather than buying them this might be cheaper in the long run, but who wants to do that? The newer and more exciting game companies are on shaky enough financial footing as it is, without having people use their products without pay.
Besides, given the choice between closed-source software and hardware, I'll always choose the latter. It's better-tested and more robust, and just as configurable. ;)
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That said, I love Star Wars. I really do think that its deliberate postmodernism is its true genius. But I do think Lucas is going a little overboard in ripping off the spice theme. :(
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Is that how long you poor sods have to wait for The Phantom Menace to come out? Ouch, that sucks! My condolences.
:(
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" . . . especially when that turd is locked in a safe."
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Or, as the man used to say, "You can't polish a turd."
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Can you say "learned helplessness"?
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Cheers, and have fun in the line!
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Leveraging my middleware assets,
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Uhm . . . MEEPT?
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