Because it's the only language they know, and they want you to bow to them for it. If you know a lot of programming languages, then you don't have to be a zealot for one. You can use the right one for the job. Perl is the right programming language for quite a few jobs, however:)
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Yes. But there are kits available. Don't you want your c0mpu73r to be 1337!?!?!
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That's why he said "TRYING to do it". There's noting interesting in the PSU anyway. Maybe you want to add a clear window, or add a different fan, but that's it. You have to want to die if you want a PSU to kill you. (i.e. plug it in and lick the capacitors. But if you want to do that, go ahead. Save the oxygen for other people:) BTW, If you're chaning the fan or something, unplug the PSU from the wall, turn on the computer, THEN take the PSU out. That should discharge the caps. Also, when working with high voltage, keep one hand behind your back. If you can only touch things with one hand, current can't go through your heart. So you may get burned, but at least you can write a nice/. journal afterwards:)
Agreed. UT2004 is a year of tweaking of an already great game (UT2004). So now we have a game that's as good as the original UT in gameplay, and as good as UT2003 in looks and new technology. Not that I didn't love UT2003, but hey. It's even better now!
I have a high-end PC, and will pay $50 for ut2004. I've NEVER had a windows install in my life. I ran MacOS up until Linux/PPC came out (and then Debian), then I converted to Debian/x86 this summer.
So, yes, I like games (actually only UT. That's all I play); and no,I don't do windows. Sorry:)
I'm not a hardcore gamer. I just like blowing people away in UT. Good stress relief (and good test of my speaker system:)
Speaking of which, I hope the UT2004 people put the proper OpenAL in this time. If not, I'll have to patch it again.
Right. M$ can't sue you for trying to get at YOUR data. It is, after all, YOUR data. If you tried to decrypt an ebook so you could have it read aloud (you're blind, perhaps), that would be illegal (unless you wrote/published the book).
I personally prefer Marshall Fields for quality. I got a few shirts there my first year of high school (they were a bit too big then), 4 years later they still look great. I have shirts from Kohls that are ruined after 3 washes or so. So sometimes more money == better product. But not always. Caveat emptor, YMMV.
How's the sound support this time around? Still OpenAL?
Hopefully the Linux version will have ALSA support this time; I had to add it myself. If you'd like ALSA support (surround sound, good shit!), visit my website and download the new OpenAL driver. Thank you, Open Source:)
You meant to say "the thread will now end". What's really funny is that your sig is making fun of everyone's spelling. But your typo completely changed the meaning of your post. Hehehe.
I don't mean this to be flamebait, but everything I've ever bought from Sony has died within a year. My friend shares the same experience. The optics may be top-notch, but the rest of the thing stops working for some reason that costs more than the camera to repair. It's kind of sad. Their products are so nice looking (looks and spec-wise) but they just don't last. Annoying.
Well, apparently OSS developers can fix these things in a day or two. Or have designed it properly the first time. I don't want to sound like an ass, but I wouldn't have made this mistake (using an unsigned variable for a pointer!) if I were coding it.
Anyway, if it takes M$ this long to fix things, then their products suck. And you shouldn't buy them. If this were exploited 4 months ago, there would be 300 MILLION spam zombies/SCO DOSers/etc. Sorry if it's hard to fix. It's your problem, and you need to be accountable for the damage that your idiocy/cost-cutting/brainfart causes, M$.
A professional tool like Windows? You may want to think that, but every day there's a new windows virus that almost brings down the internet. That's not professional. That's stupid.
Now, if M$ decided to patch vulnerabilities like OSS did (there are lots of exploits in OSS software, but they're usually fixed in an hour), then they would be professional. But they sit on the knoweledge and litigate against people that tell them there are problems. That's not professional. That's nazi.
This is going off-topic, but is MyDoom really illegal then? If I send you a legitimate program, it's legal. So shouldn't the USER be held liable for attacks this time? It's entierly their fault. (If I run while/bin/true; do wget sco.com & done; that's MY fault. How is MyDoom any different*?)
* The user doesn't know what happens. But so what. I didn't know that firing a gun at your head would kill you.
As opposed to the bottom of the IM window. Gaim had tabs and list icons before anyone else. Yes, that's right. Someone stole them from gaim. Boo fucking hoo.
> Type up a research paper in a word processor that has basic functions like a fast, keystroke-operated word count or a non-retarded means of configuring page numbers (I'm looking at you, OpenOffice).
How about M-x tex-count-words in emacs? I have that bound to C-c w. I'll bet you $100 that anyone would consider my LaTeX'd documents better looking than your word documents, too. Really!
Basically, I have one thing to say to people like you: Don't use Linux. I don't give a damn. If you don't have time to set it up and learn to use it, cry me a fucking river. Bye now. How's that MyDoom treatin' ya?
You not using Linux is your loss. Not mine. Nice troll, BTW.
Don't get me wrong, Gnome is easily on par with Windows XP as far as graphics and visual on my laptop (a relatively new P4/2Ghz/1GB-RAM). It's Mac OS X that has taken a leap forward in this area. The PDF and OpenGL based graphics rendering in Mac OS X gives an overall feel of speed, powerful, and stability that makes Windows and Linux feel like they're made of paper mache in comparison.
I always thought that Tk/Motif apps were the most stable. The uglier the UI, the more stable the app IMO. That said, Gnome2 looks fine to me. I couldn't think of anything I'd want improved (well, how about not doing 20 round-trips to open a menu. That would be nice.)
IMO, Gnome2 is much nicer than Windows any day, and mostly better than MacOS X (because Debian is about $300 less expensive than MacOS).
Well if you enjoy reading slashdot, then is it really a waste of time? Life is about enjoying it, so you might as well read slashdot if it makes you happy. You should do other things too. Maybe. Once a week. Month. Sometime. Yes....
I actually prefer my T|E over PDAs like the Zaurus. The PIM features of the T|E are absolutely wonderful. Very, very well thought-out interface. When I need to do more than PIM work (or look at a star chart, or run a quick computation in LyME, etc.), I prefer my computer anyway. It's ocassionally nice to have a full linux box in your pocket, but usually it's nicer to just have a smart pad of paper. YMMV.
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> Someday that will bite them in the ass.
In what way? I don't really see that as happening.
I think my sig provides some real-world insight into this situation:
Because it's the only language they know, and they want you to bow to them for it. If you know a lot of programming languages, then you don't have to be a zealot for one. You can use the right one for the job. Perl is the right programming language for quite a few jobs, however :)
Yes. But there are kits available. Don't you want your c0mpu73r to be 1337!?!?!
That's why he said "TRYING to do it". There's noting interesting in the PSU anyway. Maybe you want to add a clear window, or add a different fan, but that's it. You have to want to die if you want a PSU to kill you. (i.e. plug it in and lick the capacitors. But if you want to do that, go ahead. Save the oxygen for other people :) /. journal afterwards :)
BTW, If you're chaning the fan or something, unplug the PSU from the wall, turn on the computer, THEN take the PSU out. That should discharge the caps. Also, when working with high voltage, keep one hand behind your back. If you can only touch things with one hand, current can't go through your heart. So you may get burned, but at least you can write a nice
Agreed. UT2004 is a year of tweaking of an already great game (UT2004). So now we have a game that's as good as the original UT in gameplay, and as good as UT2003 in looks and new technology. Not that I didn't love UT2003, but hey. It's even better now!
Yay!
I have a high-end PC, and will pay $50 for ut2004. I've NEVER had a windows install in my life. I ran MacOS up until Linux/PPC came out (and then Debian), then I converted to Debian/x86 this summer.
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So, yes, I like games (actually only UT. That's all I play); and no,I don't do windows. Sorry
I'm not a hardcore gamer. I just like blowing people away in UT. Good stress relief (and good test of my speaker system
Speaking of which, I hope the UT2004 people put the proper OpenAL in this time. If not, I'll have to patch it again.
> 2.5 gigs of ram (that you can't do on a PC of less than a 64 bit processor
Wrong. 4 gigs of RAM can be adressed by a 32-bit processor. I could have 3G on my mobo (3x1G).
Right. M$ can't sue you for trying to get at YOUR data. It is, after all, YOUR data. If you tried to decrypt an ebook so you could have it read aloud (you're blind, perhaps), that would be illegal (unless you wrote/published the book).
I personally prefer Marshall Fields for quality. I got a few shirts there my first year of high school (they were a bit too big then), 4 years later they still look great. I have shirts from Kohls that are ruined after 3 washes or so. So sometimes more money == better product. But not always. Caveat emptor, YMMV.
Is it a USB HID device? And if not, does it work under Linux?
How's the sound support this time around? Still OpenAL?
:)
Hopefully the Linux version will have ALSA support this time; I had to add it myself. If you'd like ALSA support (surround sound, good shit!), visit my website and download the new OpenAL driver. Thank you, Open Source
You meant to say "the thread will now end". What's really funny is that your sig is making fun of everyone's spelling. But your typo completely changed the meaning of your post. Hehehe.
I don't mean this to be flamebait, but everything I've ever bought from Sony has died within a year. My friend shares the same experience. The optics may be top-notch, but the rest of the thing stops working for some reason that costs more than the camera to repair. It's kind of sad. Their products are so nice looking (looks and spec-wise) but they just don't last. Annoying.
Actually I don't want IE lusers to view my site, so I intentionally fuck them over with . Is that fixed yet, BTW?
Well, apparently OSS developers can fix these things in a day or two. Or have designed it properly the first time. I don't want to sound like an ass, but I wouldn't have made this mistake (using an unsigned variable for a pointer!) if I were coding it.
Anyway, if it takes M$ this long to fix things, then their products suck. And you shouldn't buy them. If this were exploited 4 months ago, there would be 300 MILLION spam zombies/SCO DOSers/etc. Sorry if it's hard to fix. It's your problem, and you need to be accountable for the damage that your idiocy/cost-cutting/brainfart causes, M$.
A professional tool like Windows? You may want to think that, but every day there's a new windows virus that almost brings down the internet. That's not professional. That's stupid.
Now, if M$ decided to patch vulnerabilities like OSS did (there are lots of exploits in OSS software, but they're usually fixed in an hour), then they would be professional. But they sit on the knoweledge and litigate against people that tell them there are problems. That's not professional. That's nazi.
This is going off-topic, but is MyDoom really illegal then? If I send you a legitimate program, it's legal. So shouldn't the USER be held liable for attacks this time? It's entierly their fault. (If I run while /bin/true; do wget sco.com & done; that's MY fault. How is MyDoom any different*?)
* The user doesn't know what happens. But so what. I didn't know that firing a gun at your head would kill you.
Waist, you mean? Learn to spell :D
Right, because you didn't use the mouse to select the file, right? Oh wait.
If you're using the keyboard so much you may as well open up a terminal and type "mv flie file" to fix your filename.
As opposed to the bottom of the IM window. Gaim had tabs and list icons before anyone else. Yes, that's right. Someone stole them from gaim. Boo fucking hoo.
> Type up a research paper in a word processor that has basic functions like a fast, keystroke-operated word count or a non-retarded means of configuring page numbers (I'm looking at you, OpenOffice).
How about M-x tex-count-words in emacs? I have that bound to C-c w. I'll bet you $100 that anyone would consider my LaTeX'd documents better looking than your word documents, too. Really!
Basically, I have one thing to say to people like you: Don't use Linux. I don't give a damn. If you don't have time to set it up and learn to use it, cry me a fucking river. Bye now. How's that MyDoom treatin' ya?
You not using Linux is your loss. Not mine. Nice troll, BTW.
I always thought that Tk/Motif apps were the most stable. The uglier the UI, the more stable the app IMO. That said, Gnome2 looks fine to me. I couldn't think of anything I'd want improved (well, how about not doing 20 round-trips to open a menu. That would be nice.)
IMO, Gnome2 is much nicer than Windows any day, and mostly better than MacOS X (because Debian is about $300 less expensive than MacOS).
Well if you enjoy reading slashdot, then is it really a waste of time? Life is about enjoying it, so you might as well read slashdot if it makes you happy. You should do other things too. Maybe. Once a week. Month. Sometime. Yes....
I actually prefer my T|E over PDAs like the Zaurus. The PIM features of the T|E are absolutely wonderful. Very, very well thought-out interface. When I need to do more than PIM work (or look at a star chart, or run a quick computation in LyME, etc.), I prefer my computer anyway. It's ocassionally nice to have a full linux box in your pocket, but usually it's nicer to just have a smart pad of paper. YMMV.