It just seems like making kids stand up and pledge their allegiance to a country is something you'd hear about in totalitarian societies who are paranoid that their kids will grow up to be enemies of the State. Of course in communist-paranoid McCarthy-ism 1950s USA that may have been the case. It just seems out of place in todays society. Perhaps because of the disillusionment and rampant cynicism of today's people, myself included.
That said, I am glad to see the "under God" go. I'm a Catholic who goes to church every Sunday and sings in the church choir (seriously), but I'm a firm believer in the separation of church and state. And although another comment was marked Funny, I do think the "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency should be removed.
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Is Linux Dead?
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Created by Finish college student Linus Torvalds, and continually updated and improved by a loose confederation of programmers who aren't paid for their work, Linux is available without the steep licensing fees that come with commercially produced software.
Hmmmm... it seems IBM pays people to work on the Linux kernel, as we all know already.
High on the list of headaches is incompatibilities with files created with Microsoft products like Word.
Eh? OpenOffice.org reads/writes Word/Excel docs perfectly. Aside from some bullet-point font issues, Powerpoint handles perfectly as well.
I know people have said MSNBC was good at cracking back at Microsoft, but the author doesn't seem to be going anything other than spraying the same ol' FUD we've all grown obvlivious to.
Possibly. If I concentrate and try hard enough I believe it is possible. I must focus my chi energy and call on the divine wind and the spirits of the forefathers. Only then can true lameness be achieved.
Paraphrasing Marge Simpson: And if replying to my own posts and blathering about my takes on moderation is lame, then I guess I'm just a big lame.
I'll withhold my opinion on AC's who post anonymously to flame others at this moment.
Gentoo's Portage system r00lz
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Gentoo Linux uses a system called "portage" which will download, compile, and install programs from source (binary for some packages). It is fantastic. Similar to apt it will check for dependencies and get those also. But the use of source is what turns me on. I'm converting all my linux boxen to it. Even inspired me to slice up the disk on my Win2000 box and go dual-boot.
More theaters means more money. Forcing theaters to play the movie for more time means more money. Lucas is the Bill Gates of movies when it comes to dealing with theaters. I'm surprised he hasn't demanded that they charge more for his movies while they're at it. God knows the masses will pay.
Hope I didn't give him any ideas there. Naturally I assume he reads slashdot and slashdot comments.
Give me a programmable Teddy from the movie A.I. He seems more useful than a robot dog. OK given the fact that his visual and speech recognition capabilities aren't real (commercially anyway). But I'd still take a fuzzy, unassuming bear that people will think is just a stuffed toy and have him suddent sit/stand up and start walking around and looking at people. That would be fun as hell.
I highly recommend Zone Edit. Nice web interface to change anything you want, and you can update the dns when it changes by having a wget command in your ip-up.local (I'm on DSL) or in a cron or something. Plus the first 5 domains are free. Otherwise $11/year or something like that. Unlimited sub-domains etc. Check it out for yourself.
... that when I see this story posted I notice the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET banner ad on the/. front page? I don't know how long it's been running but today is the first I noticed it.
This is SBC Ameritech's pricing. I have their "Speedpath 768" home user program. 768 down/128 up, dynamic IP. They have the same rates with 5 static IPs for $65. However they also have 1500 down / 256 up with dynamic IP for $60. This is what I'm planning on moving to. This is a helluva deal if you can get it. I use Zone Edit, so dynamic DNS is no problem.
Yes Ameritech's customer service is horrible, but I don't have even have a cable modem alternative, and the local ISPs are a joke. However my DSL has been pretty reliable.
Note that the following story is real. It might seem funny, but I'm not making this up: I had this same problem with (believe it or not) Minesweeper. I had a mac laptop, but my roommate had the new Windows 95 and I sat down one day and started playing Minesweeper while waiting for a friend. I was hooked from the start. I would skip class to play Minesweeper. Seriously. It was sad. I HAD to get a better time than before. Any computer I sat down at I had to get all the best times. I still do to this point if I sit down at a friends or relatives computer, I'll 0wn their minesweeper scores.
I knew I had a problem when I was in the shower in the dorms. The showers had tile walls and tile floors. I was standing in the shower staring at the tiles and suddenly I was seeing the numbers and mines and I was playing minesweeper in my head against a tile wall with nothing on it. Granted I didn't think the mines were going to blow me up or anything, so it was a pretty mild hallucination, if it even qualifies as one.
I was able to walk away for the most part. I can still play for an hour or so if I get tired of Medal of Honor or coding.
Seriously I couldn't agree more. Just last night I installed woody. This is probably my second debian install. When it came time for me to go into dselect I got horribly lost. I accidentally hit space bar, then return and then space again (or something to this effect) and the system ended up quitting dselect and saying I was all done.
So I thought "no big deal, I'll just log in from work tomorrow and apt-get the rest". Well at work this morning I find out that the base install doesn't even include ssh or telnet servers.
Despite what you faithful readers may think I'm not a complete moron and can usually get my way around an installation program, but dselect was just horrible.
Does Ian being gay make you like LOTR less than you did before you found out? Personally I just found out last night. I said "Oh. His buddy is pretty young." and was done with it (my wife kept saying it's probably his son, denial I suppose).
His being gay shouldn't affect you at all. If it does, it's your problem, not his.
* Strider overcomes his disabilities and is able to kill Orcs using only his left foot;
Do you mean using his left foot to stand on or using it to beat his enemies with? The latter would be much more impressive. Say it was chopped off and he picked it up and starting swinging. Then afterwards he could have a hollow wooden leg in which he keeps his finest mead.
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It just seems like making kids stand up and pledge their allegiance to a country is something you'd hear about in totalitarian societies who are paranoid that their kids will grow up to be enemies of the State. Of course in communist-paranoid McCarthy-ism 1950s USA that may have been the case. It just seems out of place in todays society. Perhaps because of the disillusionment and rampant cynicism of today's people, myself included.
That said, I am glad to see the "under God" go. I'm a Catholic who goes to church every Sunday and sings in the church choir (seriously), but I'm a firm believer in the separation of church and state. And although another comment was marked Funny, I do think the "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency should be removed.
Created by Finish college student Linus Torvalds, and continually updated and improved by a loose confederation of programmers who aren't paid for their work, Linux is available without the steep licensing fees that come with commercially produced software.
... it seems IBM pays people to work on the Linux kernel, as we all know already.
Hmmmm
High on the list of headaches is incompatibilities with files created with Microsoft products like Word.
Eh? OpenOffice.org reads/writes Word/Excel docs perfectly. Aside from some bullet-point font issues, Powerpoint handles perfectly as well.
I know people have said MSNBC was good at cracking back at Microsoft, but the author doesn't seem to be going anything other than spraying the same ol' FUD we've all grown obvlivious to.
Ahhh responding to trolls. There is nothing quite as enjoyable.
By the way, my friend, the word is spelled "l-o-s-e-r", only one o. Unless you really do think I am one who "looses" things.
Keep up the good work!
Possibly. If I concentrate and try hard enough I believe it is possible. I must focus my chi energy and call on the divine wind and the spirits of the forefathers. Only then can true lameness be achieved.
Paraphrasing Marge Simpson: And if replying to my own posts and blathering about my takes on moderation is lame, then I guess I'm just a big lame.
I'll withhold my opinion on AC's who post anonymously to flame others at this moment.
lol. Moderating my post, which discussed the previous post being moderated offtopic, as offtopic is comedic genius.
3 offtopic votes? ouch tough crowd. I guess I offended the true geeks in the audience.
What is this "beach" you speak of? It sounds suspiciously like something that involves "fresh air" and "natural light".
plug.mybutt.net is gold. Don't ever lose that.
Gentoo Linux uses a system called "portage" which will download, compile, and install programs from source (binary for some packages). It is fantastic. Similar to apt it will check for dependencies and get those also. But the use of source is what turns me on. I'm converting all my linux boxen to it. Even inspired me to slice up the disk on my Win2000 box and go dual-boot.
Why haven't they put the 1.1a source up? I don't want to do all the CVS jazz (yes I know it isn't hard).
Although if your employer is paying for your home cable modem, then you're getting basic cable scot-free. Whee!
Awesome.
More theaters means more money. Forcing theaters to play the movie for more time means more money. Lucas is the Bill Gates of movies when it comes to dealing with theaters. I'm surprised he hasn't demanded that they charge more for his movies while they're at it. God knows the masses will pay.
Hope I didn't give him any ideas there. Naturally I assume he reads slashdot and slashdot comments.
All you have to do is copy some DLLs from the Java directory into the Mozilla plugin directory.
Granted it is misleading when the JDK says it will install the plugin for that browser but then doesn't, but the workaround is pretty painless.
Although I often wonder why I need to do these extra steps for Flash/Shockwave/Java. I'm assuming it is up to the plugin developers to get it to work.
Give me a programmable Teddy from the movie A.I. He seems more useful than a robot dog. OK given the fact that his visual and speech recognition capabilities aren't real (commercially anyway). But I'd still take a fuzzy, unassuming bear that people will think is just a stuffed toy and have him suddent sit/stand up and start walking around and looking at people. That would be fun as hell.
Gentoo is the one, true light.
I highly recommend Zone Edit. Nice web interface to change anything you want, and you can update the dns when it changes by having a wget command in your ip-up.local (I'm on DSL) or in a cron or something. Plus the first 5 domains are free. Otherwise $11/year or something like that. Unlimited sub-domains etc. Check it out for yourself.
... that when I see this story posted I notice the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET banner ad on the /. front page? I don't know how long it's been running but today is the first I noticed it.
Apparently our hypocrisy knows no bounds.
This is SBC Ameritech's pricing. I have their "Speedpath 768" home user program. 768 down/128 up, dynamic IP. They have the same rates with 5 static IPs for $65. However they also have 1500 down / 256 up with dynamic IP for $60. This is what I'm planning on moving to. This is a helluva deal if you can get it. I use Zone Edit, so dynamic DNS is no problem.
Yes Ameritech's customer service is horrible, but I don't have even have a cable modem alternative, and the local ISPs are a joke. However my DSL has been pretty reliable.
Wow such hostility. I didn't run it again because I had to go to bed or my wife was going to throw the computer out the window.
I never had this problem with RedHat or Mandrake installs, so there's no reason I shouldn't be able to say that Debian's installer needs some work.
Don't go making personal attacks just because I couldn't get through some stupid install. I'm sure your mom is very proud of your debian skillz.
Note that the following story is real. It might seem funny, but I'm not making this up: I had this same problem with (believe it or not) Minesweeper. I had a mac laptop, but my roommate had the new Windows 95 and I sat down one day and started playing Minesweeper while waiting for a friend. I was hooked from the start. I would skip class to play Minesweeper. Seriously. It was sad. I HAD to get a better time than before. Any computer I sat down at I had to get all the best times. I still do to this point if I sit down at a friends or relatives computer, I'll 0wn their minesweeper scores.
I knew I had a problem when I was in the shower in the dorms. The showers had tile walls and tile floors. I was standing in the shower staring at the tiles and suddenly I was seeing the numbers and mines and I was playing minesweeper in my head against a tile wall with nothing on it. Granted I didn't think the mines were going to blow me up or anything, so it was a pretty mild hallucination, if it even qualifies as one.
I was able to walk away for the most part. I can still play for an hour or so if I get tired of Medal of Honor or coding.
The Catcher in the Rye was read and carried by Mark Chapman, who shot John Lennon.
Note that Lee Harvey Oswald didn't shoot JFK. Anyone who believes so should see me about a bridge for sale.
> dselect sucks.
This is the word of God. Matthew 3:17
Seriously I couldn't agree more. Just last night I installed woody. This is probably my second debian install. When it came time for me to go into dselect I got horribly lost. I accidentally hit space bar, then return and then space again (or something to this effect) and the system ended up quitting dselect and saying I was all done.
So I thought "no big deal, I'll just log in from work tomorrow and apt-get the rest". Well at work this morning I find out that the base install doesn't even include ssh or telnet servers.
Despite what you faithful readers may think I'm not a complete moron and can usually get my way around an installation program, but dselect was just horrible.
To quote Homer (Simpson not the Greek):
"He didn't give you 'gay', did he? DID HE?!?!"
Does Ian being gay make you like LOTR less than you did before you found out? Personally I just found out last night. I said "Oh. His buddy is pretty young." and was done with it (my wife kept saying it's probably his son, denial I suppose).
His being gay shouldn't affect you at all. If it does, it's your problem, not his.
* Strider overcomes his disabilities and is able to kill Orcs using only his left foot;
Do you mean using his left foot to stand on or using it to beat his enemies with? The latter would be much more impressive. Say it was chopped off and he picked it up and starting swinging. Then afterwards he could have a hollow wooden leg in which he keeps his finest mead.