Thats why your generation has no Led
Zeppelin, no Who, no Rush. No great songs that you'll still be listening to in 30 years. Now, what're you going to do about it?
Not to start a flamewar here, but I think most of the innovative music today is coming out in the Rap/Hiphop scene - groups like Outkast who have a completely original sound. I still listen to their first CD constantly, which came out in the early 90's and still sounds as good and original today as it did the day it was released. I'm normally not a huge rap fan (although I do love Cypress Hill:-), but Outkast is just amazing.
The rock scene is pretty much hurting right now. With the exceptions of Rage Against The Machine and (in my opinion, which nobody else seems to share:-) Pantera, (and a few others I can't remember right now), music these days just SUCKS. It's all commercial bullshit designed to sell records, not good stuff like Pink Floyd and old Metallica. --
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ou may ask how I know these things, and I can tell you, it is because this is very parallel to the beginnings of the War on
Drugs. If the people who used drugs in the 60s weren't subcultured into the title "hippy", we might not see the kinds of
senseless wastes of taxpayer money we see putting away pot smokers who havn't committed a real crime.
I agree with your post, except for this part - the War on Drugs didn't start because hippies liked to smoke it - it started because of racism - Chinese immigrants smoked opium, and because of this they could work ungodly hours and would work for cheaper than American workers. The government didn't like this, and made opium illegal (I think this was the first drug law passed.) Then in the 1930's many Mexican immigrants moved to this country, and many of them liked to smoke pot. So in 1937 the US Government passed the first law making marijuana illegal ONLY because the Mexicans liked to smoke it (and against the advice of the American Medical Association, who, even then, saw its remarkable medical properties.)
Even today the War on Drugs is used as an excuse to keep minorities down. Blacks and Hispanics make up less than 10% of the drug using population, but more than 60% of drug users who are put in jail for their drug use. It's fucked up. --
We need to stop the government from making these laws that turn the common person in a criminal. The government should NOT uphold laws that a huge percentage of its citizens don't obey - that's usually indicative that a law is unjust. Most people would never think about murdering somebody or breaking into a store and stealing stuff, because those things are morally wrong. However, many people don't think twice about downloading an mp3 or smoking pot. Why? Because these actions don't hurt anybody (except possibly the person doing them, but that's debatable anyway). The RIAA doesn't lose any money when you download an mp3 - they just don't get a sale which probably wouldn't have happened anyway.
A good indicator of a corrupt government is the number of laws they pass - they gain a lot of power by making everybody a criminal in one form or another. Then, for example, if a group of people is peacefully protesting the government, they can shut them up by arresting them on other charges. This is a dangerous position to leave the government in. We need to speak up and have unjust laws overturned - the DCMA, UCITA, drug laws, encryption laws, and other vicimless crimes (including punching someone in the dark:-), as well as crimes which are specifically designed to protect the corporations and the media at the expense of the common citizen. --
As long as they're not tracking me using my personal information and rather doing something like "Tivo #38741 likes the Simpsons and the X-Files, show him some Simpsons ads." I don't care. I'm actually all for it. Maybe that way I'll see ads I care about rather than ads for the fucking Backstreet Boys and their deal with Burger King. --
I installed Windows 2000 Professional about 2 months ago, and it worked fine for awhile. It was as stable as NT4.0, but recently it's started crapping out on me, just like every other version of Windows. So nothing has changed. And nothing will change as long as they keep building more crap on top of an unstable base.
In case you're wondering, the only reason I have Win2k installed at all is for 3D Studio, Painter, etc. --
How come the only OS's that seem to have ports are all BSD-based? What's keeping somebody from creating a ports system for Linux? It could do wonders for cleaning up the mess that RPMs, DEBs, et al have left behind in terms of piles of incompatible package management systems.
I've only played around with FreeBSD a little bit, but the ports system was one of the coolest things I've ever seen, and a Linux version would be sweet. --
Myth II (which I hope is worth it, since I don't know much about it)
Myth II rules. The game is absolutely sweet. And if you're starting to get bored with it, go look around for plugins (I especially recommend the Civil War, WWII, and Marathon 2 plugins). --
Gasse didn't like Be too much though, you are
right on that count at least.
Oh dear god. I hope you're trolling with this post (I don't know if the rest of what you said is true.) But what the hell do you mean by "Gasse didn't like Be too much"? He was the founder and the current CEO of Be! --
I really don't see why you like those damn things (personally, I can't stand them) but they do make normal keyboards with those built in. I saw one at Best Buy last week. --
Ah, but what happens when we start to route packets to the infinite number of other planets out there that need (want) access to our hosts?
By that point they're going to have to find a different transport method rather than electricity or light anyway (who wants ping times of 2 years, anyway? hurry up with the quantum physics research.) and if they can do that, implemention IPv12 shouldn't be too much of a problem at that point:-) --
I think they need to come out with a portable Minidisc recorder like this one but with the ability to interface to the palm or a PC for data storage. Ideally, as a "backpack" or some kind of extension like modems or other palm peripherals so that it felt like "one" thing.
Too bad it was an April Fool's hoax (which I fell for, hook, line, and sinker. I suck.), but it was a good one. And it's a genius idea, Sony (or somebody) really oughta do it.
The feature list should have tipped me off - it just did too much:-) All kinds of crazy shit: playing minidiscs, interface (via USB) to a computer to act as a removable 140MB drive, everything a Palm can do (including a color model), use minidiscs as storage for the Palm, etc, etc...
... we need interfaces that teach the user. For example, how many people do you know that have been using Windows for years, yet still barely know their way around the system? That's because every time they need to do something, they hunt around in the Start Menu until they find it. This is all wrong - we need to create an interface for Linux (or build one on top of GNOME or KDE [I prefer GNOME, but that's just my opinion:-)]) which allows the newbie to work in the system, while at the same time learning how to do the same thing from the command line!. For example, create a little front end to tools such as find, locate, etc, etc, and every time the user uses them, it prints at the bottom of the window the actual command-line equivalent.
Over time, they'll find themselves using the command line more often because it takes less time to get to than searching through a Start Menu-equivalent. Once they're at the command line, they'll want to learn how to do other things from there as well. --
First of all, I love Linux and I'm not a huge FreeBSD fan. However, FreeBSD with Apache is probably a better choice for such a large site - it's known to hold up with these types of heavy loads.
Also, recommend to them to not allow CGI scripting - that would be a NIGHTMARE to support with 30,000 users. Not only would there be a huge amount of security holes, imagine the amount of server power that would take.
Of course, if you have a large amount of money to spend, get an S/390 and give each user a virtual machine running Linux:-) Then security isn't a concern, since the most they can fuck up is their own stuff. --
On top of that, students who live on campus are going to start receiving
Comcast cable, and will be billed for it whether they use it or not.
Not only that, the way I understand it, the billing is being added to the tuition bill rather than the housing bill, which is absurd. I go to UMD as well, but I live off-campus, so obviously I shouldn't be paying for cable on campus. I wouldn't see a problem with it if it was added to the housing bill, though - after all, you're paying for the ethernet access in the dorms whether or not you use it.
Barnes and Noble is the ONLY store to carry your textbooks
Ummm... that's what the Maryland Book Exchange is for (across Rt. 1 from campus). That's where I buy my books (it's cheaper).
If nothing else, Universities SHOULD be encouraged to make money off of their research rather than
resorting to milking the students like cash cows.
Of course, but UMD is hardly an example for this - it's cheap as hell. I'm an out of state student from Massachusetts, and the out of state tuition at Maryland is less than in-state tuition at many schools, and it's one of the top schools in the country for Computer Science (when I was applying a few years ago it was something like #7, I think). And campus isn't *too* commercialized. --
Did you try compiling it yourself with --enable-optimize and --disable-debug passed to the configure script? That helps a whole lot (you may also want --disable-mailnews if you only want the browser). --
I don't see why this would affect BeOS, unless they changed the structure of the VFAT filesystem. The BeOS installer, at least with the Linux-friendly version, is a boot disk, and the Be filesystem resides on the Linux ext2 filesystem. It doesn't use Linux OS services at all, and Linux isn't running. I'd imagine it works the same way under Windows. --
I'm all about legalizing drugs, but I'd rather grow my own stash then have the goverment or big corperations grow it? Why do I say this? Look at this. 400 additives in cigarettes. Imagine what the corperations would do to pot if they were the ones growing it.
Ok, good point. I'd want that too, and it looks like that's going to be the way it is in Canada real soon now... --
Leagalizing drugs will make it only easier for crackheads to sell their drugs on our streets, and to children.
No it won't, it'll make it harder, because drugs can be sold in liquor stores or Amsterdam-style hash bars at a lower price and higher quality than you can get on the streets. Pot costs about as much to grow as tomatoes, but while tomatoes sell for $2-3/lb, pot sells for thousands of dollars per pound, simply because of black-market inflation.
Libertarians also seem very anti-religious and intolerant of it. Why does everyone want to support the ACLU? The ACLU does not support freedom of religion. Why does the ACLU want to get rid of all references of the word God? They sued the state of Ohio because of mentioning God in the state motto, yet they don't sue the national treasury for printing "In God We Trust"
The ACLU does support freedom of religion, but they also support the separation of church and state. Ohio putting religious references in their state motto is mixing church and state. The ACLU sure as hell isn't going to try to shut you up for speaking your religious views, and if somebody does they might even come to your defense. --
The government has no right to interfere with people's personal freedom as it is currently doing. Smoking marijuana only has the potential to hurt the health of the user. An individual should have the right to choose to use it.
That's why I want all drugs legalized - I don't like how the government can tell me what I can and can't put into my own body. It should be the choice of consenting adults. I don't care about being able to get fucked up legally - I'm careful enough about it that there's a very low chance I'm going to get busted, since I never smoke pot anywhere but my own living room.
This is why driving while stoned should remain illegal.
I think so too, but you may actually be less likely to get into an accident if you drive stoned as compared to sober, because you tend to drive more slowly and cautiously: Obligatory Smokedot story about this:-) --
I agree with the legalizing of drugs but I definately don't want the government supplying them. There's not a single thing save defense that the government does remotely well and defense is debatable.
Ok, I agree with you here. Well, it should be done by private companies (on a related note, last night I thought of the perfect drug, and I bet if pot gets legalized, some company will make a killing off this - a genentically engineered pot plant which has nicotine and caffeine as well as THC:-) --
Ok, there's like 30-some odd comments right now (at a threshold of +1) and most of them seem to be bitching about how CmdrTaco shouldn't have used Slashdot for his political views.
Why the hell not? He uses Slashdot for his views about software, why not politics? It's his website, after all, he can do whatever the hell he wants. Rather than bitching about it, just don't click on stories you don't want to read - less pageviews means he'll be less likely to post something like that in the future. --
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Thats why your generation has no Led Zeppelin, no Who, no Rush. No great songs that you'll still be listening to in 30 years. Now, what're you going to do about it?
:-), but Outkast is just amazing.
:-) Pantera, (and a few others I can't remember right now), music these days just SUCKS. It's all commercial bullshit designed to sell records, not good stuff like Pink Floyd and old Metallica.
Not to start a flamewar here, but I think most of the innovative music today is coming out in the Rap/Hiphop scene - groups like Outkast who have a completely original sound. I still listen to their first CD constantly, which came out in the early 90's and still sounds as good and original today as it did the day it was released. I'm normally not a huge rap fan (although I do love Cypress Hill
The rock scene is pretty much hurting right now. With the exceptions of Rage Against The Machine and (in my opinion, which nobody else seems to share
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ou may ask how I know these things, and I can tell you, it is because this is very parallel to the beginnings of the War on Drugs. If the people who used drugs in the 60s weren't subcultured into the title "hippy", we might not see the kinds of senseless wastes of taxpayer money we see putting away pot smokers who havn't committed a real crime.
I agree with your post, except for this part - the War on Drugs didn't start because hippies liked to smoke it - it started because of racism - Chinese immigrants smoked opium, and because of this they could work ungodly hours and would work for cheaper than American workers. The government didn't like this, and made opium illegal (I think this was the first drug law passed.) Then in the 1930's many Mexican immigrants moved to this country, and many of them liked to smoke pot. So in 1937 the US Government passed the first law making marijuana illegal ONLY because the Mexicans liked to smoke it (and against the advice of the American Medical Association, who, even then, saw its remarkable medical properties.)
Even today the War on Drugs is used as an excuse to keep minorities down. Blacks and Hispanics make up less than 10% of the drug using population, but more than 60% of drug users who are put in jail for their drug use. It's fucked up.
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We need to stop the government from making these laws that turn the common person in a criminal. The government should NOT uphold laws that a huge percentage of its citizens don't obey - that's usually indicative that a law is unjust. Most people would never think about murdering somebody or breaking into a store and stealing stuff, because those things are morally wrong. However, many people don't think twice about downloading an mp3 or smoking pot. Why? Because these actions don't hurt anybody (except possibly the person doing them, but that's debatable anyway). The RIAA doesn't lose any money when you download an mp3 - they just don't get a sale which probably wouldn't have happened anyway.
:-), as well as crimes which are specifically designed to protect the corporations and the media at the expense of the common citizen.
A good indicator of a corrupt government is the number of laws they pass - they gain a lot of power by making everybody a criminal in one form or another. Then, for example, if a group of people is peacefully protesting the government, they can shut them up by arresting them on other charges. This is a dangerous position to leave the government in. We need to speak up and have unjust laws overturned - the DCMA, UCITA, drug laws, encryption laws, and other vicimless crimes (including punching someone in the dark
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As long as they're not tracking me using my personal information and rather doing something like "Tivo #38741 likes the Simpsons and the X-Files, show him some Simpsons ads." I don't care. I'm actually all for it. Maybe that way I'll see ads I care about rather than ads for the fucking Backstreet Boys and their deal with Burger King.
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I installed Windows 2000 Professional about 2 months ago, and it worked fine for awhile. It was as stable as NT4.0, but recently it's started crapping out on me, just like every other version of Windows. So nothing has changed. And nothing will change as long as they keep building more crap on top of an unstable base.
In case you're wondering, the only reason I have Win2k installed at all is for 3D Studio, Painter, etc.
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How come the only OS's that seem to have ports are all BSD-based? What's keeping somebody from creating a ports system for Linux? It could do wonders for cleaning up the mess that RPMs, DEBs, et al have left behind in terms of piles of incompatible package management systems.
I've only played around with FreeBSD a little bit, but the ports system was one of the coolest things I've ever seen, and a Linux version would be sweet.
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Myth II (which I hope is worth it, since I don't know much about it)
Myth II rules. The game is absolutely sweet. And if you're starting to get bored with it, go look around for plugins (I especially recommend the Civil War, WWII, and Marathon 2 plugins).
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Gasse didn't like Be too much though, you are right on that count at least.
Oh dear god. I hope you're trolling with this post (I don't know if the rest of what you said is true.) But what the hell do you mean by "Gasse didn't like Be too much"? He was the founder and the current CEO of Be!
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I really don't see why you like those damn things (personally, I can't stand them) but they do make normal keyboards with those built in. I saw one at Best Buy last week.
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Ah, but what happens when we start to route packets to the infinite number of other planets out there that need (want) access to our hosts?
:-)
By that point they're going to have to find a different transport method rather than electricity or light anyway (who wants ping times of 2 years, anyway? hurry up with the quantum physics research.) and if they can do that, implemention IPv12 shouldn't be too much of a problem at that point
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I think they need to come out with a portable Minidisc recorder like this one but with the ability to interface to the palm or a PC for data storage. Ideally, as a "backpack" or some kind of extension like modems or other palm peripherals so that it felt like "one" thing.
:-) All kinds of crazy shit: playing minidiscs, interface (via USB) to a computer to act as a removable 140MB drive, everything a Palm can do (including a color model), use minidiscs as storage for the Palm, etc, etc...
:-(
You mean like this?
Too bad it was an April Fool's hoax (which I fell for, hook, line, and sinker. I suck.), but it was a good one. And it's a genius idea, Sony (or somebody) really oughta do it.
The feature list should have tipped me off - it just did too much
Dammit, now I want one again
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... we need interfaces that teach the user. For example, how many people do you know that have been using Windows for years, yet still barely know their way around the system? That's because every time they need to do something, they hunt around in the Start Menu until they find it. This is all wrong - we need to create an interface for Linux (or build one on top of GNOME or KDE [I prefer GNOME, but that's just my opinion :-)]) which allows the newbie to work in the system, while at the same time learning how to do the same thing from the command line!. For example, create a little front end to tools such as find, locate, etc, etc, and every time the user uses them, it prints at the bottom of the window the actual command-line equivalent.
Over time, they'll find themselves using the command line more often because it takes less time to get to than searching through a Start Menu-equivalent. Once they're at the command line, they'll want to learn how to do other things from there as well.
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First of all, I love Linux and I'm not a huge FreeBSD fan. However, FreeBSD with Apache is probably a better choice for such a large site - it's known to hold up with these types of heavy loads.
:-) Then security isn't a concern, since the most they can fuck up is their own stuff.
Also, recommend to them to not allow CGI scripting - that would be a NIGHTMARE to support with 30,000 users. Not only would there be a huge amount of security holes, imagine the amount of server power that would take.
Of course, if you have a large amount of money to spend, get an S/390 and give each user a virtual machine running Linux
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On top of that, students who live on campus are going to start receiving Comcast cable, and will be billed for it whether they use it or not.
Not only that, the way I understand it, the billing is being added to the tuition bill rather than the housing bill, which is absurd. I go to UMD as well, but I live off-campus, so obviously I shouldn't be paying for cable on campus. I wouldn't see a problem with it if it was added to the housing bill, though - after all, you're paying for the ethernet access in the dorms whether or not you use it.
Barnes and Noble is the ONLY store to carry your textbooks
Ummm... that's what the Maryland Book Exchange is for (across Rt. 1 from campus). That's where I buy my books (it's cheaper).
If nothing else, Universities SHOULD be encouraged to make money off of their research rather than resorting to milking the students like cash cows.
Of course, but UMD is hardly an example for this - it's cheap as hell. I'm an out of state student from Massachusetts, and the out of state tuition at Maryland is less than in-state tuition at many schools, and it's one of the top schools in the country for Computer Science (when I was applying a few years ago it was something like #7, I think). And campus isn't *too* commercialized.
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Did you try compiling it yourself with --enable-optimize and --disable-debug passed to the configure script? That helps a whole lot (you may also want --disable-mailnews if you only want the browser).
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I don't see why this would affect BeOS, unless they changed the structure of the VFAT filesystem. The BeOS installer, at least with the Linux-friendly version, is a boot disk, and the Be filesystem resides on the Linux ext2 filesystem. It doesn't use Linux OS services at all, and Linux isn't running. I'd imagine it works the same way under Windows.
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I'm all about legalizing drugs, but I'd rather grow my own stash then have the goverment or big corperations grow it? Why do I say this? Look at this. 400 additives in cigarettes. Imagine what the corperations would do to pot if they were the ones growing it.
Ok, good point. I'd want that too, and it looks like that's going to be the way it is in Canada real soon now...
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Leagalizing drugs will make it only easier for crackheads to sell their drugs on our streets, and to children.
No it won't, it'll make it harder, because drugs can be sold in liquor stores or Amsterdam-style hash bars at a lower price and higher quality than you can get on the streets. Pot costs about as much to grow as tomatoes, but while tomatoes sell for $2-3/lb, pot sells for thousands of dollars per pound, simply because of black-market inflation.
Libertarians also seem very anti-religious and intolerant of it. Why does everyone want to support the ACLU? The ACLU does not support freedom of religion. Why does the ACLU want to get rid of all references of the word God? They sued the state of Ohio because of mentioning God in the state motto, yet they don't sue the national treasury for printing "In God We Trust"
The ACLU does support freedom of religion, but they also support the separation of church and state. Ohio putting religious references in their state motto is mixing church and state. The ACLU sure as hell isn't going to try to shut you up for speaking your religious views, and if somebody does they might even come to your defense.
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How the hell is this a troll? Boy, I can't wait for this one to come up in meta-moderation.
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If he wants to post an editorial, that's fine, but mixing an editorial in with a news story is bad journalism.
:-)
LOL. And since when has Slashdot been about good journalism?
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Slashdot needs an addition to its moderation system:
(-1, Dumbass)
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The government has no right to interfere with people's personal freedom as it is currently doing. Smoking marijuana only has the potential to hurt the health of the user. An individual should have the right to choose to use it.
:-)
That's why I want all drugs legalized - I don't like how the government can tell me what I can and can't put into my own body. It should be the choice of consenting adults. I don't care about being able to get fucked up legally - I'm careful enough about it that there's a very low chance I'm going to get busted, since I never smoke pot anywhere but my own living room.
This is why driving while stoned should remain illegal.
I think so too, but you may actually be less likely to get into an accident if you drive stoned as compared to sober, because you tend to drive more slowly and cautiously: Obligatory Smokedot story about this
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I agree with the legalizing of drugs but I definately don't want the government supplying them. There's not a single thing save defense that the government does remotely well and defense is debatable.
:-)
Ok, I agree with you here. Well, it should be done by private companies (on a related note, last night I thought of the perfect drug, and I bet if pot gets legalized, some company will make a killing off this - a genentically engineered pot plant which has nicotine and caffeine as well as THC
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No it is andovers' website. He just has editoral control
Alright, fine. He has editorial control. So he's using his powers of editorial control to post an editorial about his views on a candidate.
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Ok, there's like 30-some odd comments right now (at a threshold of +1) and most of them seem to be bitching about how CmdrTaco shouldn't have used Slashdot for his political views.
Why the hell not? He uses Slashdot for his views about software, why not politics? It's his website, after all, he can do whatever the hell he wants. Rather than bitching about it, just don't click on stories you don't want to read - less pageviews means he'll be less likely to post something like that in the future.
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