From living in fear of being shot to caving in to paranoia and wanting to quash free speach that doesn't sit with american ideology...
You know, I've lived in the US for every one of my 25 years including some wonderful urban areas like St. Louis and Chicago, and have never once worried about getting shot.
Hmmm... I had a different experience altogether. I have had Red Hat 5.0 installed on my computer in the past, but had so many problems getting X up and running that I nuked that partition. This was totally different. Everything autodetected fine and it partitioned my hard disk. Installation was quick and painless. My serial mouse didn't work (and never worked under RH 5.0 for some reason), but switching to the PS/2 connection worked fine. Booted into Linux, then X, then KDE, logged in and there it was. Damn slick.
Problems: I don't see what that Bootmagic program gets you that LILO doesn't except for the nice graphic interface, but you have to wait for the damn thing to load, so its not that great of a trade off. The documentation on how to modify all the things it automatically installs (the 'hide the boot process' program, etc...) seems non existant. Now I want to modify those things (I like to watch my boot messages!) and am not sure where to start.... ah well, first steps into a larger world and all that..
I have no problem with banner adds. I don't disable cookies, don't run junkbuster or any of those things. Hell, I even click on the damn things every once in a while. I just think it is silly to only put 284 words (well, that's just page 1) on a web page of actual content. That's a block of text that fills about 1/4 of my computer screen. They obviously do this just to inflate their hit counts. Think of all the bandwidth they are wasting by having to serve 5 connections to read the article rather than one.
Heck, certain domain names are already valuable and they are pretty intangible. Ask the guy who owned www.altavista.com. I think Compaq dropped at least a million for that name. What did they get for that money? A one line entry in some DNS servers. Still, makes more sense than buying an UO character.
Non tangible assets have existed for a long time, the fact that some of these exist as bits on a disk somewhere doesn't seem that revolutionary to me. Check out Goodwill on a companies Balance Sheet sometime...
Hey, there's a sucker born every minute. I'm not sure what is so scary about that though. Anyone who falls for a scam like this (even if its not real), or some of the other ones you see on the net deserve what they get.
Sites that print 3 paragraphs a page to stretch an article out to 5 pages so they get extra hits on their banner adds. Shame on you 32bitsonline. That's the first and last time I ever read anything on your site.
Now WHY ON EARTH would you not do EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER to release 3D support for your premier card under Linux before this initial Q3 release? It boggles the mind.
Oooh, Oooh, I know this one.... becuase the number of gamers who use Linux vs. Win32 is so trivial its probably not worth your time.
The mandatory hell referred to as high school will always be one of the most detrimental experiences an individual can go through until some fundamental changes take place.
Always, huh? I had a pretty good time in high school. (A better time in college, but that is beside the point). That is flawed thought #1.
Mandatory? Drop out and get your GED if your so smart. Flaw #2 for those counting at home.
What we need to understand is that the jocks, preps, and wacko administration kiss-asses do not go away once high school is over. They become the new generation of teachers, cops, judges, businessmen, etc.
So basically they become productive members of society... I'm with you so far...
They do well in life because they already have the advantage of being well-to-do, accepted by the rest of the mundane society, and "on the right track."
Plenty of other people do well in life who are not born well-to-do, accepted by society, etc.. I humbly offer up myself as a counterexample to your thesis. This is error #3.
In case anyone hasn't figured it out, high school is a training ground for the workforce. All the necessary skills of obedience, blind acceptance, kissing butt, the willingness to sacrifice 66% of your day to mind-numbing and pointless work or sleep --- these are the "job skills" that need to be learned by the innately free-willed human being to fit into our mechanical capitalist hell.
That's funny, I learned stuff in high school. Anyway, if you don't like it, opt of out the system, move somewhere else. Enjoy your workers paradise.
Of course, nothing of this has to do with the fact that our society has been running on an authoritarian structure that places a small group of people as an elite over other groups and, ultimately, all of the "masses."
Oh please....anyway, I've got to snip some of this, its just not even worth responding to.
So what are we doing whining about it on this message board? Let's overthrow the music industry with MP3's, overthrow the tech industry with free software, and overthrow the corporation-state's power monopoly through plain old internet anarchy!
Ah yes, the ultimate form of revolution, warez MP3s and unix clones. Viva revolution.
Oh and the thought that you want some plain old internet anarchary on a system that was developed by the miliatary, run by large telcoms, and is accessed by computers that are built by large corporations is very ironic in that Alanis Morisette sort of way.
Let's see here, IPv6 sounds like a standard to me, an open one at that.
And yes I read the 'in other news'. Answer me this, how many open standards has MS successfully subjegated over the years? I'm thinking a big fat zero. Sorry if I don't go for the party line paranoia, but a little rational thought is a good thing, you may want to try it sometime. It may even help your code.
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If Bush buys bushsucks.com, he should be required to actually use it.
He is using it, it goes to his web site.. am I missing something?
From living in fear of being shot to caving in to paranoia and wanting to quash free speach that doesn't sit with american ideology...
You know, I've lived in the US for every one of my 25 years including some wonderful urban areas like St. Louis and Chicago, and have never once worried about getting shot.
Besides "Private Parts" what movie has Howard Stern liked?
I define works as you can use an arbitrary DBCS under NT, and your code works as expected. Can't say the same under Linux.
"No international support" when KDE supports more countries than windoze.
Unicode support on Linux is lacking to say the least. At least it works on NT.
So what, it was a freakin' war... the idea is to kill as many of the other side as possible... geez....
mass genocide
and that kids, is why there are no more Iraqis... uh, wait a second...
learn to use the right words...
Hmmm... I had a different experience altogether. I have had Red Hat 5.0 installed on my computer in the past, but had so many problems getting X up and running that I nuked that partition. This was totally different. Everything autodetected fine and it partitioned my hard disk. Installation was quick and painless. My serial mouse didn't work (and never worked under RH 5.0 for some reason), but switching to the PS/2 connection worked fine. Booted into Linux, then X, then KDE, logged in and there it was. Damn slick.
Problems: I don't see what that Bootmagic program gets you that LILO doesn't except for the nice graphic interface, but you have to wait for the damn thing to load, so its not that great of a trade off.
The documentation on how to modify all the things it automatically installs (the 'hide the boot process' program, etc...) seems non existant. Now I want to modify those things (I like to watch my boot messages!) and am not sure where to start.... ah well, first steps into a larger world and all that..
True Notes is a technically impressive piece of work. It is a shame it is crippled with a UI that I wouldn't wish on a first poster.
I have no problem with banner adds. I don't disable cookies, don't run junkbuster or any of those things. Hell, I even click on the damn things every once in a while. I just think it is silly to only put 284 words (well, that's just page 1) on a web page of actual content. That's a block of text that fills about 1/4 of my computer screen. They obviously do this just to inflate their hit counts. Think of all the bandwidth they are wasting by having to serve 5 connections to read the article rather than one.
Heck, certain domain names are already valuable and they are pretty intangible. Ask the guy who owned www.altavista.com. I think Compaq dropped at least a million for that name. What did they get for that money? A one line entry in some DNS servers. Still, makes more sense than buying an UO character.
Non tangible assets have existed for a long time, the fact that some of these exist as bits on a disk somewhere doesn't seem that revolutionary to me. Check out Goodwill on a companies Balance Sheet sometime...
Hey, there's a sucker born every minute. I'm not sure what is so scary about that though. Anyone who falls for a scam like this (even if its not real), or some of the other ones you see on the net deserve what they get.
Sites that print 3 paragraphs a page to stretch an article out to 5 pages so they get extra hits on their banner adds. Shame on you 32bitsonline. That's the first and last time I ever read anything on your site.
No matter how decent it is, there are going to be many people who come out of the theater complaining about it until they run out of breath.
And I should care what other people think why?
Your right, these people should be out shooting children in schools.
CSS works really well for Intra / Extranet situations where you can control which clinet a user must use to access the site.
Go to school / library
Get Economics textbook
Read about Economies of Scale
You have entered a large, caverenous room.
You see a flamethrower here.
You see a shotgun here.
Deathurge has entered the room.
>Get Flamethroer
I don't see any Flamethroer here
>Get Flamethrower
You have picked up the flamethrower. It has a nice heftly and slightly warm feel to it.
>Shoot Flamethrower at Deathurge
You shoot flaming death at Deatherurge, narrowly missing him.
Deathurge hits you with his BFG 9000.
***You have died***
You have soored 0 out of 500. This gives you a rank of Cook. Would you like to restart / restore / quit?
Now WHY ON EARTH would you not do EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER to release 3D support for your premier card under Linux before this initial Q3 release? It boggles the mind.
Oooh, Oooh, I know this one.... becuase the number of gamers who use Linux vs. Win32 is so trivial its probably not worth your time.
Please, are you really telling me there are ANY cases where you could use COM where CORBA makes sense? Or visa versa?
Or am I arguing with same same idiot who called Java an open standard?
Please don't tell me you just called Java an open standard.
As for COM vs CORBA they really don't occupy the same space, since CORBA is multiplatform and COM is not.
You asked for it..
The mandatory hell referred to as high school will always be one of the most detrimental experiences an individual can go through until some fundamental changes take place.
Always, huh? I had a pretty good time in high school. (A better time in college, but that is beside the point). That is flawed thought #1.
Mandatory? Drop out and get your GED if your so smart. Flaw #2 for those counting at home.
What we need to understand is that the jocks, preps, and wacko administration kiss-asses do not go away once high school is over. They become the new generation of teachers, cops, judges, businessmen, etc.
So basically they become productive members of society... I'm with you so far...
They do well in life because they already have the advantage of being well-to-do, accepted by the rest of the mundane society, and "on the right track."
Plenty of other people do well in life who are not born well-to-do, accepted by society, etc.. I humbly offer up myself as a counterexample to your thesis. This is error #3.
In case anyone hasn't figured it out, high school is a training ground for the workforce. All the necessary skills of obedience, blind acceptance, kissing butt, the willingness to sacrifice 66% of your day to mind-numbing and pointless work or sleep --- these are the "job skills" that need to be learned by the innately free-willed human being to fit into our mechanical capitalist hell.
That's funny, I learned stuff in high school. Anyway, if you don't like it, opt of out the system, move somewhere else. Enjoy your workers paradise.
Of course, nothing of this has to do with the fact that our society has been running on an authoritarian structure that places a small group of people as an elite over other groups and, ultimately, all of the "masses."
Oh please....anyway, I've got to snip some of this, its just not even worth responding to.
So what are we doing whining about it on this message board? Let's overthrow the music industry with MP3's, overthrow the tech industry with free software, and overthrow the corporation-state's power monopoly through plain old internet anarchy!
Ah yes, the ultimate form of revolution, warez MP3s and unix clones. Viva revolution.
Oh and the thought that you want some plain old internet anarchary on a system that was developed by the miliatary, run by large telcoms, and is accessed by computers that are built by large corporations is very ironic in that Alanis Morisette sort of way.
Yawn.
A passe 90s update to the usual lame, tired 60s hippie jingoism.
Oh and I can't belive you got throught your entire lame-ass rant without mentioning The Man.
No standards yet, huh? Don't tell the people here
Let's see here, IPv6 sounds like a standard to me, an open one at that.
And yes I read the 'in other news'. Answer me this, how many open standards has MS successfully subjegated over the years? I'm thinking a big fat zero. Sorry if I don't go for the party line paranoia, but a little rational thought is a good thing, you may want to try it sometime. It may even help your code.
Well actually isn't there a monument to Oscar Wilde?