Well i'd say I listen to a lot more rap than most/.ers (the doc is blaring atm), and you _did_ know that snoop had murder charges brought against him, don't you? I assume you are listening only to the later snoop albums, which are indeed all about getting smashed and rooting women, but doggystyle and to a lesser degree the doggfather are gangster rap, and so are all his earlier appearances, such as on the chronic, one million strong, and so on...
If you want to preah about conscious rap, you're looking for KRS. Snoop is G-funk. You know what the G in g-funk stands for?
It's pretty simple the reasons violent crime are escelating in australia. It's because of the continuing rise in vietnamese and lebanese gangs, and those who emulate them. I hope eventually they'll push too far and the bikies will put them back in their place, but I don't like the chances of that happening these days... It's ok for the police to crack down on you for being a fat white man with a beard and a motorcycle, but not for being asian.
Amidst all the jokes, I'd like to post a serious reply - I understand. I feel your pain. The answer is redhat or mandrake. You know the reason geeks reccomend debian... look at them, scurrying around. they recommend it because it's fuckin hard to make it work, and that's how they like it. I recently installed RH8 on a shitty old machine, and it worked no probs, the same machine took me hours and hours in win98 due to dodgey on-board components. When you get the urge to try again (and you will), go redhat or mandrake.
Well by my quick calculations based on my own mp3 collection (a measly 11gb and 169 hours), 500gib is about 320 days playback non-stop for an mp3 collection, and although there are people who just collect mp3s like they're matchbox cars, I find it hard to believe anybody can identify 320 days worth of music they actually like.
"But my friends will laugh at me coz they think the original X is crap too!"
Oh no! we can't have that!
"I can't make my friends read the books"
Anybody who doesn't read a book recommended by a friend because there's a movie which sucked, isn't exactly a great believer of literature... But they still should be able to read/not read whatever they please for any reason...
"We won't have another movie"
So instead we should never make one, in case we made one and it was crap then we'd never get another one that might be good? So what you're saying is, the quantum good AND bad unproduced movie gives you more enjoyment than a real movie that might rule, but might suck...
Personally I always thought foundation would be the top of my list for sci-fi films i'd die to see... Then I read night's dawn... I know it's not hard-core sci-fi, and it's a space opera, but hot-damn is it good readin.... And it'd make an abosolute ass-whoopin trilogy if done right.
You do know there's a lot more than 3 books in foundation right? I've only got one of them here (forward the foundation, no 7 iirc) and I think there's one by his son, a-la the silmarillion???
"Being a huge Asimov fan I have not made up my mind if this is a good or bad thing."
FFS people who say stuff like this piss me off... How can it possibly be a bad thing if somebody makes the worst possible movie about an aasimov story.... is the Judge Dredd comic any worse because they let stallone do that *thing*? Do the original batman movie or comics suck now because of the torture that was batman forever? Is the postman suddenly a crappy book? I'm always happy when there's a sequel or a book -> film adaptation of something I like, because if it sucks like dredd, I'm no worse off (except my friends wanted to kill for saying we should see it)... but if it rules like LOTR it only heightens my enjoyment of an already great story and universe.
Why lord why, did you have to bring that up? Every self-respecting australian has been trying to smother and deny any and all reference to that horrible horrible moment in film, and you just go and bring it all back, on slashdot of all places.....
It's pretty simple the reasons why paying only for the shows you want to watch will never come in to play - the providers will make less money.
As it is now, you're paying for all your fave shows, and for some you don't like. If you only pay for the ones you don't like, they get less money. Not the best way to keep the shareholders happy.
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Plane may be a few hours faster, but if it's only a matter of 2-4 hours, I'd always take the boat, coz goddammit it's just so much more fun than a plane.
Show me one case where you can take a picture of (lz?) compressed data and somehow compress the resulting image to less size than the original data, retaining all the information.
that's the point:) an image of data complete enough to reconstruct the original data, in any way shape or form, _must_ take up more space than the data itself, or we'd have the problem of infinite compression, and the universe would disappear in a poof of smoke:)
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. If I can fit four images on a single floppy disc, what if one of those images was of the floppy drive itself... Woah
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Well i'd say I listen to a lot more rap than most /.ers (the doc is blaring atm), and you _did_ know that snoop had murder charges brought against him, don't you? I assume you are listening only to the later snoop albums, which are indeed all about getting smashed and rooting women, but doggystyle and to a lesser degree the doggfather are gangster rap, and so are all his earlier appearances, such as on the chronic, one million strong, and so on...
If you want to preah about conscious rap, you're looking for KRS. Snoop is G-funk. You know what the G in g-funk stands for?
It's pretty simple the reasons violent crime are escelating in australia. It's because of the continuing rise in vietnamese and lebanese gangs, and those who emulate them. I hope eventually they'll push too far and the bikies will put them back in their place, but I don't like the chances of that happening these days... It's ok for the police to crack down on you for being a fat white man with a beard and a motorcycle, but not for being asian.
Like the rest of the world needs to hear about everytime senator palpatine^H^H^H^H^H^H^H hollings takes a shit?
Well it shouldn't be super hard to extend dosemu with an optional flat-real-mode emulation...
That has to be the most dangerous and darwin-award-ready description of an orange cannon I've ever seen.
Amidst all the jokes, I'd like to post a serious reply - I understand. I feel your pain. The answer is redhat or mandrake. You know the reason geeks reccomend debian... look at them, scurrying around. they recommend it because it's fuckin hard to make it work, and that's how they like it. I recently installed RH8 on a shitty old machine, and it worked no probs, the same machine took me hours and hours in win98 due to dodgey on-board components. When you get the urge to try again (and you will), go redhat or mandrake.
OncoMouse: "Hooray! I can't be patented! My existence is safe! Well except for the cancers... Come along penfold, let's go back to the lab"
And how much does a jet airliner cost? 50 million? And it's probably 30 million in parts.
Yeah you're right, i forgot about stuff like jazz... I was thinking more rock/techno/hip-hop/rnb where 90% of what's released is utter shit...
As an aussie, I'm wondering do you have any idea on the local price?
Or mp3???
Well by my quick calculations based on my own mp3 collection (a measly 11gb and 169 hours), 500gib is about 320 days playback non-stop for an mp3 collection, and although there are people who just collect mp3s like they're matchbox cars, I find it hard to believe anybody can identify 320 days worth of music they actually like.
I'll sum up all the replies I got to this one:
"But my friends will laugh at me coz they think the original X is crap too!"
Oh no! we can't have that!
"I can't make my friends read the books"
Anybody who doesn't read a book recommended by a friend because there's a movie which sucked, isn't exactly a great believer of literature... But they still should be able to read/not read whatever they please for any reason...
"We won't have another movie"
So instead we should never make one, in case we made one and it was crap then we'd never get another one that might be good? So what you're saying is, the quantum good AND bad unproduced movie gives you more enjoyment than a real movie that might rule, but might suck...
...the latest version of Romeo and Juliet to be released, am I still the only person who didn't hate DiCaprio in that?
Yes.
Personally I always thought foundation would be the top of my list for sci-fi films i'd die to see... Then I read night's dawn... I know it's not hard-core sci-fi, and it's a space opera, but hot-damn is it good readin.... And it'd make an abosolute ass-whoopin trilogy if done right.
You do know there's a lot more than 3 books in foundation right? I've only got one of them here (forward the foundation, no 7 iirc) and I think there's one by his son, a-la the silmarillion???
"Being a huge Asimov fan I have not made up my mind if this is a good or bad thing."
FFS people who say stuff like this piss me off... How can it possibly be a bad thing if somebody makes the worst possible movie about an aasimov story.... is the Judge Dredd comic any worse because they let stallone do that *thing*? Do the original batman movie or comics suck now because of the torture that was batman forever? Is the postman suddenly a crappy book? I'm always happy when there's a sequel or a book -> film adaptation of something I like, because if it sucks like dredd, I'm no worse off (except my friends wanted to kill for saying we should see it)... but if it rules like LOTR it only heightens my enjoyment of an already great story and universe.
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There's not many... most of them are too busy feeling bad about the fact they were born white.
Why lord why, did you have to bring that up? Every self-respecting australian has been trying to smother and deny any and all reference to that horrible horrible moment in film, and you just go and bring it all back, on slashdot of all places.....
The PPro has, at best, a 4gb segment view of the world - Not if you have 2mb or 4mb paging turned on (as opposed to the default 4kb paging)
It's pretty simple the reasons why paying only for the shows you want to watch will never come in to play - the providers will make less money.
As it is now, you're paying for all your fave shows, and for some you don't like. If you only pay for the ones you don't like, they get less money. Not the best way to keep the shareholders happy.
The pentium pro onwards has a 40 bit address bus.
Plane may be a few hours faster, but if it's only a matter of 2-4 hours, I'd always take the boat, coz goddammit it's just so much more fun than a plane.
Show me one case where you can take a picture of (lz?) compressed data and somehow compress the resulting image to less size than the original data, retaining all the information.
that's the point :) an image of data complete enough to reconstruct the original data, in any way shape or form, _must_ take up more space than the data itself, or we'd have the problem of infinite compression, and the universe would disappear in a poof of smoke :)
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. If I can fit four images on a single floppy disc, what if one of those images was of the floppy drive itself... Woah