The open source directory may suck, but it is visually represented in cool 3D - thanks to the Canadian company Antarti.ca Systems. Directory categories appear as fully exporable geographic regions of Antarica, with sites as clickable map points. For that reason alone, osd should be given a second look.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
How many lames jokes can we squeeze out of this story? Plenty. Other than that - there is no merit to this discussion.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
High-Rise foreshadowing the future?
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First Arcology?
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I enthusiasticaly recommend J.G. Ballards High-Rise, a novel that explores what might happen in this sort of self-contained vertical society. Wicked read.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
Too bad it's not possible to install the full version FreeBSD in Linux (re: BeOS 5 or WinLinux 2000) for us lazy fuckers who don't want to backup and repartition). Is there a project in development to accomplish this very task?
Maybe I'm overtired, but this seems like a damn good idea.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
Eazel had plans for offering off-site backups for a nominal fee, and the mechanisms are already in place to sell software upgrades and other net-centric services, but I don't see them in place. This would give them a much needed source of revenue.
So far they've been offering storage space and software/dependency upgrades for free. Very cool of Nautilus, but I'd hate to see them go bankrupt because of it. IMO, Nautilus is Linux' best answer to Microsofts.NET
It's hard to believe something as promising as Eazel is close to financial collapse.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
Nautilus support for Debian would be amazing. It would make locating software in debian format easier - and be even more incentive for novices to try the distribution. Unfortunately, Eazel has a tough time supporting even mdk rpms and the Mandrake system, which is in the Redhat family.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
Main improvements are kernel >=2.4.2, KDE >=2.1, GNOME 1.4, Nautilus 1.0
Nautilus is a whore to manually install on Mandrake, so this is a godsend to the Mandrake update utility IMO. Does this mean Eazel now fully supports the Mandrake architecture, or do users continue using Redhat rpms? I notice the Nautilus installers are still for Redhat exclusively.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
You're dead on Sister. Other than a few developers like Capcom and Treasure (who authored Radiant Silvergun, the most stunning graphic engine ever seen on any console period), there wasn't alot of developers who could really exploit Saturns 2D/3D capabilities.
It's strange how the PX2 seems to be going down the same road as the Saturn, and I woudn't be surprised if Microsoft's XBox usurps the market with their developer friendly hardware and unified memory architecture.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
The hardware architecture of the TuxBox needs to be easy to work with for programmers, which was why Sony's PlayStation 1 thrashed the Saturn within an inch of it's life. If the TuxBox is programmer friendly and third party software developers can easily innovate with it, it will survive.
I'm sure there's enough of us geeks willing to support it.
Consoles live and die by third-party support (or lack thereof). Just ask Atari, Sega and 3DO.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
This pittance of a settlement (re:$12.50 against a new Iomega zip drive) isn't a punishment, it's free advertising! It may lull people into thinking Iomega is looking out for their customers when they were in reality forced to in a lawsuit settlement.
All I can say (as an owner of a defective zip 100 drive) is to not purchase an Iomega product if you don't need the hassle of returning bad hardware and waiting weeks/months for a replacement or coupon.
I found the class action proposed settlement notice in my snail mail today.I honestly don't recall registering my Zip drive when I bought it in 1995 (I never register my hardware)
I'll assume that statement isn't a line of BS, but even so, what the fuck is $12.50 towards a Zip 100 Drive? Should I be satified with that? Are you?! $12.50 is a small fraction of what I paid... and what about the ruined zip cartridges?!
Besides, this settlement (to my knowledge) only addresses US citizens, which I am not.
BTW, a friend tried to have his defective Iomega zip drive replaced and Iomega refused. The retailer from where he bought the zip drive decided to make an exception and replace it out of their own stock (which they didn't have to do). I personally don't need the hassle, but I hope others reading this will consider my experience with Iomega's zip drive before buying.
Iomega drives aren't terrible, but I don't believe they have any regard for their customers (hense the lawsuit).
My first Iomega zip 100 worked fine for several years until it started mysteriously clicking (aka: click of death) whenever I tried to read the contents of a zip cartridge. In fact, I soon learned every cartridge I inserted into the defective zip drive was also rendered unusable! Instead of trying to get my severely-out-of-warranty zip drive replaced, I opted to avoid the headache and bought a new one. I later found a site which describes step-by-step how to fix a clicking zip drive yourself.
IMO, Iomega have been pricks about fixing their overly delicate hardware, and this court ruling won't protect consumers or punish Iomega. How many people will even hear about this ruling?
I recall reading a quote from Marshall McLuhen where he predicted pornography would become more mainstream as the human race further disconnects with nature. Now with an omnipresent internet entity like Yahoo pushing porn <understatement>along with thousands+ of other sites</understatement>, I think McLuhen was right on the money - as usual.
Advertising in video games (if done right) add realism. Simulation video games should mimic real-life as closely as possible, and if the Formula 1 racing or hockey game I've bought isn't replete of advertising, I'm gonna be pissed!
However, advertising in video games directly targeted at children (ala Mario) should not have any advertising whatsoever.
In this stumbling global economy, I can see the distributed computing model used more and more to provide cheap or free internet access. Juno and the SETI@home project for example, send raw data to it's volunteers home PC's to process, then later retrieves the results. Pennypinchers may soon have to swap cpu cycles while they sleep if they want "free" internet access - not such a steep price IMO.
ISP's have to do something to offset costs, even sneaky ones like Juno.
Yeah, stop making babies. that's the answer to all 3rd world problems isn't it?
Read the whole thread shithead. Stop thinking so linear.
Maybe if our government took your laissez-faire sentiments to their logical conclusion we wouldn't have a third world dominated by officially sanctioned dictators, they would be owned by some infinitely benign corporation.
I suggested it should be a humanitarian effort. I also suggested corporations wouldn't be interested in solving this problem for said reasons. If you still don't understand, I can't help you AC.
The major reason birthrates are disproportionate with family income is because of a lack of education and access to information. That is the primary benefit of the internet - access to information, something people in socially and economically deprived countries desperately need! When a government is too negligent to supply basic infrastures and social services to it's citizens, the people have to impower themselves. Communication via the internet would allow people to assemble, exchange ideas and find solutions for their particular situations.
"...teach a man to fish" is all I'm saying Rich. Enable people to find their own solutions.
Unfortunately, there is no financial incentive for multinational corporations or wealthy countries like United States and Canada to help developing countries participate in the information age. And redundant (and just plain stupid) topics like "Is the internet growing too fast" is a bloody waste of time when all this focused brainpower - using the internet *ahem* - could be used to tackle serious global issues.
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Sure, the reported 300 million online worldwide will explode to one billion by 2005, but as internet usage increases globally, the laws of Supply and demand will kick in. However - IMO, the important question is how the populations of developing and economically crippled countries can get access to the internet.
A discussion on this topic at/. could generate alot of creative and viable solutions to this major problem.
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"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
Maybe I'm overtired, but this seems like a damn good idea.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
I dunno, but there's a metric tonne of Be software under development at Sourceforge.
A simple search using "beos" as a keyword will work.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
Bullshit. Have you ever used Nautilus?
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
So far they've been offering storage space and software/dependency upgrades for free. Very cool of Nautilus, but I'd hate to see them go bankrupt because of it.
IMO, Nautilus is Linux' best answer to Microsofts
It's hard to believe something as promising as Eazel is close to financial collapse.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
Nautilus is a whore to manually install on Mandrake, so this is a godsend to the Mandrake update utility IMO. Does this mean Eazel now fully supports the Mandrake architecture, or do users continue using Redhat rpms? I notice the Nautilus installers are still for Redhat exclusively.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
I guess that makes HTML the charred-black pot.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
It's strange how the PX2 seems to be going down the same road as the Saturn, and I woudn't be surprised if Microsoft's XBox usurps the market with their developer friendly hardware and unified memory architecture.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
I'm sure there's enough of us geeks willing to support it.
Consoles live and die by third-party support (or lack thereof). Just ask Atari, Sega and 3DO.
"come off crisp and play up to the cynic
clean and schooled right down to the minute"
This pittance of a settlement (re:$12.50 against a new Iomega zip drive) isn't a punishment, it's free advertising! It may lull people into thinking Iomega is looking out for their customers when they were in reality forced to in a lawsuit settlement.
All I can say (as an owner of a defective zip 100 drive) is to not purchase an Iomega product if you don't need the hassle of returning bad hardware and waiting weeks/months for a replacement or coupon.
I found the class action proposed settlement notice in my snail mail today.I honestly don't recall registering my Zip drive when I bought it in 1995 (I never register my hardware)
I'll assume that statement isn't a line of BS, but even so, what the fuck is $12.50 towards a Zip 100 Drive? Should I be satified with that? Are you?! $12.50 is a small fraction of what I paid... and what about the ruined zip cartridges?!
Besides, this settlement (to my knowledge) only addresses US citizens, which I am not.
BTW, a friend tried to have his defective Iomega zip drive replaced and Iomega refused. The retailer from where he bought the zip drive decided to make an exception and replace it out of their own stock (which they didn't have to do). I personally don't need the hassle, but I hope others reading this will consider my experience with Iomega's zip drive before buying.
Iomega drives aren't terrible, but I don't believe they have any regard for their customers (hense the lawsuit).
My first Iomega zip 100 worked fine for several years until it started mysteriously clicking (aka: click of death) whenever I tried to read the contents of a zip cartridge. In fact, I soon learned every cartridge I inserted into the defective zip drive was also rendered unusable! Instead of trying to get my severely-out-of-warranty zip drive replaced, I opted to avoid the headache and bought a new one. I later found a site which describes step-by-step how to fix a clicking zip drive yourself.
IMO, Iomega have been pricks about fixing their overly delicate hardware, and this court ruling won't protect consumers or punish Iomega. How many people will even hear about this ruling?
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I recall reading a quote from Marshall McLuhen where he predicted pornography would become more mainstream as the human race further disconnects with nature.
Now with an omnipresent internet entity like Yahoo pushing porn <understatement>along with thousands+ of other sites</understatement>, I think McLuhen was right on the money - as usual.
Just a brainfart.
Advertising in video games (if done right) add realism. Simulation video games should mimic real-life as closely as possible, and if the Formula 1 racing or hockey game I've bought isn't replete of advertising, I'm gonna be pissed!
However, advertising in video games directly targeted at children (ala Mario) should not have any advertising whatsoever.
In this stumbling global economy, I can see the distributed computing model used more and more to provide cheap or free internet access. Juno and the SETI@home project for example, send raw data to it's volunteers home PC's to process, then later retrieves the results.
Pennypinchers may soon have to swap cpu cycles while they sleep if they want "free" internet access - not such a steep price IMO.
ISP's have to do something to offset costs, even sneaky ones like Juno.
Stay clear of Shoeboy people. The buckshot spray from Larry's shotgun could potentially injure others!
Yeah, stop making babies. that's the answer to all 3rd world problems isn't it?
Read the whole thread shithead. Stop thinking so linear.
Maybe if our government took your laissez-faire sentiments to their logical conclusion we wouldn't have a third world dominated by officially sanctioned dictators, they would be owned by some infinitely benign corporation.
I suggested it should be a humanitarian effort. I also suggested corporations wouldn't be interested in solving this problem for said reasons. If you still don't understand, I can't help you AC.
[ A discussion on this topic at /. could generate alot of creative and viable solutions to this major problem. ]
/. lately, I'm beginning to think so too.
This is the single funniest statement I've read in days.
You know, judging by the topics and the overall cynicism at
I think your opinion comes off as a little crass.
The major reason birthrates are disproportionate with family income is because of a lack of education and access to information. That is the primary benefit of the internet - access to information, something people in socially and economically deprived countries desperately need! When a government is too negligent to supply basic infrastures and social services to it's citizens, the people have to impower themselves. Communication via the internet would allow people to assemble, exchange ideas and find solutions for their particular situations.
"...teach a man to fish" is all I'm saying Rich. Enable people to find their own solutions.
Unfortunately, there is no financial incentive for multinational corporations or wealthy countries like United States and Canada to help developing countries participate in the information age. And redundant (and just plain stupid) topics like "Is the internet growing too fast" is a bloody waste of time when all this focused brainpower - using the internet *ahem* - could be used to tackle serious global issues.
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A discussion on this topic at
Did I actually post that?
I've gotta lay off the whisky.