It does look like they've put an unimaginable amount of thought, time and effort into this; it's just a damned shame that they couldn't have gotten people who can actually act for it.
They decided that going for the visual resemblence of TOS cast was more important than hiring (or recruiting, I'm sure tons of people would volunteer) people who actually can act to play the parts.
Personally, I'd rather see someone who looks nothing like shatner but is able to act play the part of kirk than watch a shatner-alike ham it up.
I've heard about this before, but I wasn't able to get any clips (I think that their download site was down? I don't remember). Since i was on dialup at the time, I'm glad I didn't waste my time on it.
This is truly a service to the/. community. Now I know to give this turkey a wiiide birth.
...particularly if the community can pony up the cash to pay whatever licensing fees (no, not the teabagging one) that kept them from getting access to different hardware specs until now.
For allegedly having a "disdain" for GUIs, it's ironic that it was because of fitting both Gnome and KDE (and sources) that they had to jump to two cds, instead of one. Not to mention the fact it's one of the first to distribute (in the RC, at least) X.org as part of its' distribution (afaik, mandrake doesn't do that yes, and neither does redhat).
If it can't be accessed by the public, and isn't making the copyright holders any money, what good is it?
To the public? None. To the copyright holder? I don't know - possibly as an investment (speculation that it may generate revenue later) or possibly sentiment.
Why did Pink Floyd sit on "Vegetable Man"? It's not making them any money, so what good is it?
Is this mass outage going to make people re-examine the investment of time and energy that they put into their blogs; or will they all simply move to livejournal?
However, C++ is faster to LEARN than java
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With regards to copyright; I don't believe that being out of print is the same thing as being orphaned, particularly if the copyright holders are still alive and kicking.
I suppose you have your own little organic garden in your yard from which you pluck all of your food? That would avoid problems with GMO food and pesticides on general produce.
Might as well keep a cow and chickens in the yard to have fresh milk (without antibiotics) and eggs.
While you're at it, why buy bottled water? Why even use tap water? Just set up a reservoir in your yard and capture rain water, then distill and purify it to drink.
Generate your own electricity. Build your computers out of wood. Process raw ore to get all the metals you use for parts. Blow your own glass. Sew your own clothes! Defend yourself in court! Perform surgery on your immediate family and deliver your own children! Make your own musical instruments! Do it all yourself!
"A human being should be able to change a Diaper, Plan an invasion, Butcher a hog, Conn a ship, Design a building, Write a sonnet, Balance accounts, Build a wall, Set a bone, Comfort the dying, Take orders, Give orders, Cooperate, Act alone, Solve equasions, Analyze a new problem, Pitch Manuer, Program a computer, Cook a tasty meal, Fight efficiently, and Die gallantly.
I live in a small town -with wal*mart being our nearest retail store- and I chuckle every time I see their WiFi cards, routers, etc sitting and gathering dust.
So, let me get this right; you get arrested, have a dna sample taken and then -if youre found innocent......what happens to the dna? (how likely do you think it is that the sample will be destroyed in practice, even if thats the policy?)
If you can explain it to enough of them (and they can explain it to their friends), then hopefully we can prevent it from effecting them (and us as well).
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It does look like they've put an unimaginable amount of thought, time and effort into this; it's just a damned shame that they couldn't have gotten people who can actually act for it.
They decided that going for the visual resemblence of TOS cast was more important than hiring (or recruiting, I'm sure tons of people would volunteer) people who actually can act to play the parts.
Personally, I'd rather see someone who looks nothing like shatner but is able to act play the part of kirk than watch a shatner-alike ham it up.
I've heard about this before, but I wasn't able to get any clips (I think that their download site was down? I don't remember). Since i was on dialup at the time, I'm glad I didn't waste my time on it.
/. community. Now I know to give this turkey a wiiide birth.
This is truly a service to the
you're stuck in rush hour traffic... assuming you can't telecommute, of course.
the other is will this actually allow lower end computers to do better graphics (by virtue of having less to compute)?
What ? You want to pay evil companies money for evil hardware evil licenses ? :/
:-)
No, i want to expand the usefulness of GNU/Linux.
...particularly if the community can pony up the cash to pay whatever licensing fees (no, not the teabagging one) that kept them from getting access to different hardware specs until now.
This guy said that, I was refuting him. (Not sure if you realised that or not since your post appears after mine, and not his).
After all, how can you buy something from someone who has nothing remotely current to sell? ;-)
But are all kernels fixed? I'm not seeing anything about them releasing a fix for 2.4
For allegedly having a "disdain" for GUIs, it's ironic that it was because of fitting both Gnome and KDE (and sources) that they had to jump to two cds, instead of one. Not to mention the fact it's one of the first to distribute (in the RC, at least) X.org as part of its' distribution (afaik, mandrake doesn't do that yes, and neither does redhat).
I thought that's what developers.slashdot.org was. :-P
Does yours also involve the ponies breathing fire and crushing N'Sync under their iron hooves?
The problem seems to be that they are using the "throwing ourselves under the wheels of the juggernaut" school of social reform.
I'll agree they're pissing people off, but they don't seem to be doing so in a particularly productive manner.
...protecting the consumer's fair use rights. Too bad there's no money to be made going that route.
To the public? None. To the copyright holder? I don't know - possibly as an investment (speculation that it may generate revenue later) or possibly sentiment.
Why did Pink Floyd sit on "Vegetable Man"? It's not making them any money, so what good is it?
Is this mass outage going to make people re-examine the investment of time and energy that they put into their blogs; or will they all simply move to livejournal?
at least if you already know C.
With regards to copyright; I don't believe that being out of print is the same thing as being orphaned, particularly if the copyright holders are still alive and kicking.
Kids today.
So, I will expect 200mps DSL ...oh, let's see... on the fifth of never.
I guess it's cable for the foreseeable future.
It's been done; geeks in space ;-)
I live in a small town -with wal*mart being our nearest retail store- and I chuckle every time I see their WiFi cards, routers, etc sitting and gathering dust.
The nearest hotspot is most likely 12 miles away!
So, let me get this right; you get arrested, have a dna sample taken and then -if youre found innocent... ...what happens to the dna? (how likely do you think it is that the sample will be destroyed in practice, even if thats the policy?)
Is running windows on vmware or bochs an option for you?
If you can explain it to enough of them (and they can explain it to their friends), then hopefully we can prevent it from effecting them (and us as well).