I would watch your back Shoeboy. Larry may "visit you" with a shotgun in one arm and the Bible in another if you continue pursuing his daughter.
You two might have to elope.
It really depends on what kind of hamsters your talking about. If your talking about normal domesticated hamsters, I would say approximately a thousand or so to move a dog sled - if it is possible at all. But if your referring to transgenic hamsters whose genes have been spliced with the physical traits of the Himalayan "grunting ox" Bos grunniens, I would say one.
At least we're getting down to serious topics now:)
Try John Woo's The Killer (my all-time fave), Henry Lee Lucas: Portrait of a Serial Killer, (disturbing as hell - true story) and Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino (a classic). The very worst in violence is Bad Taste and especially Blood sucking Freaks, which was promptly banned in 32 countries and disturbed the hell out of me. The movie is flat out evil and I don't recommend the movie to anyone with a brain.
I know this story is just/.'s interpretation of an April Fool's joke, but I thought I'd add my 2 cents anyhow.
IMO, Slashdot is the single most important english site on the internet, except when silly stories [ like this one ] are published so people can speculate about an event that will likely never happen.
This shouldn't be debated when I know so many quality reader submissions are being sumarily dismissed without a second thought. Story selections are becoming a real problem lately - alot of stories are either redundant or boring -and I can see a mass exodus to kuro5hin if the editors of/. don't allow more color and diversity.
I've seen people convert to Linux solely because of the Quake III port (which I own), so it's not just Linux users who are the target market, it's gamers in general who are looking for something a little different. As for free and/or GPL'd games which unpaid developers toil late into the night over, they are part of the equation too. Games like Jump n Bump and Car World show promise - and who knows - these uncompensated and largely ignored developers may in the future design the next big thingTM.
ifilm.com has to be on your short list. It's where you can view original films by important (and not so important) film directors and unearth some real gems. Prime examples include 405, Being Erin Brockovich and George Lucas in Love. Another multimedia mecca is Atomfilms, which has a staggering amount of bleeding-edge Shockwave and Cinema from around the world.
I haven't found/. through a search engine query, but I did manage to find Everything 2 that way. I was "polluted" at the time, so it made for a strange and lucky night.
Only a miniscule percentage of the web surfing population would actually pay cash moneyTM for an ad-free environment. Most overly sensitive surfers would rather bitch and moan and expect webmasters to take the financial hit than put money where their mouth is.
The only way I see this new Salon subscription working is if the bonus content is substantial.
I want to clearly state of the top I'm not condoning violent games for kids, but I'm also not convinced violent video games cause normal children to develop into hostile or deranged adults. I even question whether first-person shooter games like Quake/Perfect Dark/Resident Evil desensitize normally adjusted children. Most children 8 and up can clearly differenciate between reality and video games, and correctly regard video games as entertainment and not a lesson in morality.
I'm much more wary of children viewing reality television and violent movies because - to a young person's sences (visualy and audibly) - they are alot closer to representing true life than polygon, text-mapped people and environments.
Are there more benificial games than first person shooters? Obviously. Tetris and Harvest Moon come immediately to mind (since my children own them). But they also own Perfect Dark and they don't act agressively or similate violent acts because of it. They were taught long before that that behaviour is wrong.
Ratings on a box are only a small part of the equation. Parental guidance and moderation are key to safe and fun gaming for kids.
Chino Moreno, vocalist of the Deftones is a good example of a quiet, smart kid who had lot's of friends in high school. He said in an interview he was a hardcore mathhead in school and was in a math club, stayed after school to crunch numbers - the works. It all depends on the person's Emotional IQ and how they treat others.
But people that say they're freakin' geniuses and smarter than 97% of the population don't impress me one ioda. They just come off as insecure.
I think levik's post is right on the money. Yahoo has been stretched too thin acquiring much of the web - most noticable [to me] is Webring.org, which is now withering away with unmaintained and unsupported webrings. Yahoo is like the thermometer of the internet, because it's very survival relies on the wellness of other web-based companies and the general public at large. If companies aren't doing well enough to advertise on the Yahoo network, even in these times of dirt cheap advertising rates, Yahoo's bottom line will reflect it. Notice how many Yahoo banners are on Yahoo's own pages. Ditto for websurfers. If the consumer dosen't feel comfortable in this economic climate, they're less likely to click through Yahoo's many affiliate links and buy something, or use the Auction service for example. Bub-bye commissions and referral fees.
As long as the net writhes with the dotcom flu, Yahoo itself will show signs of warning.
If you want Linux to boot up fast, reconfigure the kernel. Include in the kernel only the devices you need regularly, and have any other devices as modular so you're not keeping that device in memory constantly. After doing so myself, Slackware boots up like Too much Coffee Man after a three-finger expresso, and easily kicks the snot out of W2k.
Mind you, LinuxBIOS is a great project I hope will continue to develop, but may be superflous for most dualbooters.
For those who want a kernel compiling howto for reference, try the Kernel Hacking Howto.
Banners are an inevitability and I actually enjoy the clever ones. They need to convey a message with minimal text and in record time, and I look at the effective ones as good examples of "pop art" that art collectors may one day archive for keepsake and study.
Fact is, internet advertising will likely become even more intrusive in the future, and similar to the commercials we suffer through or try desperately to avoid on television today. For example, as a download or other transfer of data is in progress, the user may be required to view a 30 second full screen promo for the download to be completed successfully. This Microsoft.NET strategy that looms like a perfect storm is an ideal environment for this new breed of advertisment.
Banners don't sound so bad now, do they?
An electrician where I work cautioned me about excessive electromagnetic radiation emissions from an overclocked cpu, and I consider him a far more reliable source than a smug reply from a nobody. Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is omnipresent - it's in your home, car and workplace - and has been linked to many of our modern day illnesses, including cancer. Considering up to 2 milligauss continual radiation exposure per hour is regarded as safe, and a computer monitor alone generates circa 28 milligauss per hour, shouldn't this be a cause for concern? This isn't taking into account photocopy machines, vehicles or cordless/mobile phones that you may have come in contact with either. If you need links to familiarize yourself with EMR, try google.com - I found plenty.
I've heard overclocking significantly increases electromagnetic radiation emissions from a computer. Granted, we're exposed to small doses of it anyway everytime we use the computer, sleep beside our digital alarm clock, or use any electrical appliance for that matter - but an overclocked cpu/mainboard is said to be at near dangerous levels. Is this true?
I recommend the always unsettling The Parking Lot is Full, Sam Brown's brilliant explodingdog and the strange urban comicstrip called diesel sweeties where Clango the robot gets it on with the ladies! Worth digging into the archives.
You can check them out here.
[rant mode | on]
Why can't software developers take it upon themselves to integrate a web filter into their browsers as a standard component? If all browsers had a content-screening feature enabled as a default, wouldn't this would keep governments at bay and empower parents who normally find it impossible to monitor everything their children see on the internet?
Would this solve everthing? Absolutely not, but modifying the vehical for which children and sensitive people view psychologically harmful material is a start.
[rant mode | off]
Circa 6 years ago i was scoping out a website on hockey fights. There was a mint picture of Bob Probert in his terrifying prime, chucking the knuckles with Tie Domi. The caption underneath read:
"Bob gives Tie a taste of rink justice".
From that point on my alias has been rinkjustice. I guess it's an homage to the hockey enforcers who make hockey such a great sport.
As long as anime has better artwork, more violence and better story lines, it will rule among the cool. The Japanese do everything with excruciating detail and precision - whether geeks watch it or not is completely irrelevant.
But the fact is (re: revenge of the nerds), geeks are now driving the cutting edge of media culture. Japanimation was never meant for children anyway. It has always been targeted to the 20 years+ audience with disposable income.
like it seems some people are. Let's face facts, the partnership of Red Hat and Eazel is an evolutionary move for both parties - and for the Linux movement in general - because it will force other commercial distributions to look for less traditional ways of servicing the customer.
The likely benefits for Red Hat would be
a better, easier mechanism for updating and installing errata, making Red Hat even more appealing to neophytes and impatient users.
Adds badly needed software on demand online services to keep in stride with MicroSofts.NET stategy.
More administrative options like remote system backups
Likewise, Eazel benefits:
Exposure to a large user base and an affiliation with a highly visible product.
Hopefully, the [tighter] integration will result in faster deployment and performance, (I find Nautilus painfully slow).
Extend it's capabilities because of it's customisation to Red Hat's architecture. One click online kernel upgrades might be an example.
As i eluded to earlier, with.NET threatening like a black storm cloud, these types of alliances need to be forged if Linux is to thrive in the next 10 years.
Slashdot Mirror
Next!
You two might have to elope.
It's a joke damnit. Chill.
At least we're getting down to serious topics now
I know this story is just
clunk, clunk
There you go.
IMO, Slashdot is the single most important english site on the internet, except when silly stories [ like this one ] are published so people can speculate about an event that will likely never happen. /. don't allow more color and diversity.
This shouldn't be debated when I know so many quality reader submissions are being sumarily dismissed without a second thought. Story selections are becoming a real problem lately - alot of stories are either redundant or boring -and I can see a mass exodus to kuro5hin if the editors of
Only a miniscule percentage of the web surfing population would actually pay cash moneyTM for an ad-free environment. Most overly sensitive surfers would rather bitch and moan and expect webmasters to take the financial hit than put money where their mouth is.
The only way I see this new Salon subscription working is if the bonus content is substantial.
I want to clearly state of the top I'm not condoning violent games for kids, but I'm also not convinced violent video games cause normal children to develop into hostile or deranged adults. I even question whether first-person shooter games like Quake/Perfect Dark/Resident Evil desensitize normally adjusted children. Most children 8 and up can clearly differenciate between reality and video games, and correctly regard video games as entertainment and not a lesson in morality.
I'm much more wary of children viewing reality television and violent movies because - to a young person's sences (visualy and audibly) - they are alot closer to representing true life than polygon, text-mapped people and environments.
Are there more benificial games than first person shooters? Obviously. Tetris and Harvest Moon come immediately to mind (since my children own them). But they also own Perfect Dark and they don't act agressively or similate violent acts because of it. They were taught long before that that behaviour is wrong.
Ratings on a box are only a small part of the equation. Parental guidance and moderation are key to safe and fun gaming for kids.
But people that say they're freakin' geniuses and smarter than 97% of the population don't impress me one ioda. They just come off as insecure.
Yahoo is like the thermometer of the internet, because it's very survival relies on the wellness of other web-based companies and the general public at large. If companies aren't doing well enough to advertise on the Yahoo network, even in these times of dirt cheap advertising rates, Yahoo's bottom line will reflect it. Notice how many Yahoo banners are on Yahoo's own pages.
Ditto for websurfers. If the consumer dosen't feel comfortable in this economic climate, they're less likely to click through Yahoo's many affiliate links and buy something, or use the Auction service for example. Bub-bye commissions and referral fees.
As long as the net writhes with the dotcom flu, Yahoo itself will show signs of warning.
Mind you, LinuxBIOS is a great project I hope will continue to develop, but may be superflous for most dualbooters.
For those who want a kernel compiling howto for reference, try the Kernel Hacking Howto.
Fact is, internet advertising will likely become even more intrusive in the future, and similar to the commercials we suffer through or try desperately to avoid on television today. For example, as a download or other transfer of data is in progress, the user may be required to view a 30 second full screen promo for the download to be completed successfully. This Microsoft .NET strategy that looms like a perfect storm is an ideal environment for this new breed of advertisment.
Banners don't sound so bad now, do they?
An electrician where I work cautioned me about excessive electromagnetic radiation emissions from an overclocked cpu, and I consider him a far more reliable source than a smug reply from a nobody.
Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is omnipresent - it's in your home, car and workplace - and has been linked to many of our modern day illnesses, including cancer. Considering up to 2 milligauss continual radiation exposure per hour is regarded as safe, and a computer monitor alone generates circa 28 milligauss per hour, shouldn't this be a cause for concern? This isn't taking into account photocopy machines, vehicles or cordless/mobile phones that you may have come in contact with either. If you need links to familiarize yourself with EMR, try google.com - I found plenty.
Granted, we're exposed to small doses of it anyway everytime we use the computer, sleep beside our digital alarm clock, or use any electrical appliance for that matter - but an overclocked cpu/mainboard is said to be at near dangerous levels.
Is this true?
You can check them out here.
[rant mode | on]
Why can't software developers take it upon themselves to integrate a web filter into their browsers as a standard component? If all browsers had a content-screening feature enabled as a default, wouldn't this would keep governments at bay and empower parents who normally find it impossible to monitor everything their children see on the internet?
Would this solve everthing? Absolutely not, but modifying the vehical for which children and sensitive people view psychologically harmful material is a start.
[rant mode | off]
"Bob gives Tie a taste of rink justice".
From that point on my alias has been rinkjustice. I guess it's an homage to the hockey enforcers who make hockey such a great sport.
http://www.hardcorelinux.com/kernel-howto.htm
But the fact is (re: revenge of the nerds), geeks are now driving the cutting edge of media culture. Japanimation was never meant for children anyway. It has always been targeted to the 20 years+ audience with disposable income.
The likely benefits for Red Hat would be
Likewise, Eazel benefits:
As i eluded to earlier, with