The desktop users dont care about network transparency. DESKTOP Linux = Mandrake, Lycoris, etc etc, the Linux for people like you, Debian Linux, Redhat Linux, Slackware.
Face it, most ordinary users, in fact i'd say most linux users currently, dont care about that stuff, the corperate users and hackers are the only ones wo care.
Theres more mandrake users than theres debian and slackware users combined.
Redhat outnumbers everyone but redhats not a desktop linux.
This isnt GNU Linux, this is Beos Linux, its therefore not the same OS anymore, because the official Linux OS ia vastly diffrent and they arent compatible.
This is like saying GNU HURD is the same as GNU Linux.
No one cares about network transparecy, thats a programmer network admin thing, honestly, your average user doesnt give a damn about it, the only reason thsat would matter, is if every electronics device in their house were hooked up to some main node which interfaces with them all, but we arent there yet so why worry about that.
Directfb has a much better interface, face it. Especially when we have stuff like Gforce5s
Sure its nice if you could have it, but what you need is a nice looking gui, you dont need the x protcols esoteric features that only geeks and servers need.
Direct Frame Buffer is good, and there may be other ideas, but really, I hope linux gets rid of X, or at least the desktop linux's such as mandrake, lycoris, lindows and all of them get together and help fund directfb or berlin project or something
You dont fight evil WITH evil. You fight evil with superior instelligence.
How did the jews fight the Nazis? By changing the system so something like Nazism can never happen again.
You have to change the system from within the system, thats what minorities in the US did, thats what women did, if they all took up guns you wouldnt have a US.
This is just fucking censorship, I dont care what you say, no government, or group of people no matter who they are, has the right to control how you use what you own.
This is just wrong, what next? Microsoft going to the government claiming "Outlaw open source, its preventing us from making money on our closed source products, all programmers should have licenses so we can properly CONTROL them and we can maintain our monopoly"
You stupid fuck, cant you see? The MPAA and RIAA wants to maintain their monopoly, this is NOT and I mean NOT going to promote broadband, in fact the only reason broadband is being used at the moment is file sharing, what they are trying to do is convince the government to do a War on Sharing lik e the War on drugs.
The War on drugs, i dont agree with it, but it makes sense, you have to prevent the population from becoming a bunch of druggies, but the government isnt arresting people for using drugs, they arrest you for selling it.
I think people who copy and sell programs should go to jail, but people who share programs should have that right. If you dont profit from it, then its not stealing, if you sell something to someone that indicates they would have purchased it from the MPAA or RIAA and that is stealing.
"This really doesn't say anything, and sounds reactionary."
Look, when the leaders of the old system, purposely kill the new system by outlawing it, (Microsoft does it, the RIAA does it, the MPAA does it) It prevents innovation.
Technology is leading us in one direction, the MPAA is trying to fight the technology, Napster, peer to peer, file sharing, its innovation, it could have easily been profitable, the only diffrence is the profits wouldnt be for the RIAA and MPAA, people would still go to the movies to see movies when they first come out, people would STILL go to concerts, people would have to buy CDs to hear them they day they come out, not to mention they could have just released higher quality sound.
Face it, they dont want the consumer, the musician, and the programmer to be empowered, they want control, its all about control, its not about $$, its about control.
Oil companies want control, we could have cars running on air, water, electricity, which can run perfectly fast.
Speaking of cars, lets talk about cars, should cars be restricted to moving at 50mph by forcing all car makers to make slower cars? You'll say hell no. Should guns be made illegal because people can kill with them? No you say?
Should we order people to vote by forcing them too? Think about where this is going,
When we keep passing these laws which "CONTROL" us and remove our rights, we become exactly what we have faught against, remember the war against communism the fight for freedom, fight against nazism, etc, guess what, we are about to turn into that society.
No more libraries, say goodbye to radio, vcr, everything, all electronics will be modified, and eventually all products, books will become electronic, so no more libraries, college students wont be able to share books anymore, so rich students will have a huge advantage.The government will tell you what programs you can and cannot right, you'll need a license to write programs, no more freedom on your computer.
You'll be told what you can and cant read. You'll be told what you can and cant listen to.
Forget about having parties with loud music, soon all speakers will be outlawed to prevent sharing of sound, so prepare for headphones.
"I particularly liked one of the follow-ups to my original post, where he complained that the music industry is attempting to shift the enforcement of copyright from their own lawyers (where it belongs) to the tech sector. If the music industry wants to attack copyright infringement, then let them go out and start identifying piraters. It's their problem, not the tech industry's problem. I think this would be an excellent point to make in a letter."
Copyright infringement should be stopped only when it actually causes harm. People sharing music is not causing anyone to lose money, people copying CDs and selling them IS stealing.
Stealing money which could be going to the RIAA.
While i dont agree with selling something you dont own the rights to sell, I think its our right as humans to be able to share anything we have the ability to copy, its the RIAAs job to make it impossible for us to copy if they dont want us sharing it.
Thats like saying you cant share knowledge, yeah you know, you read a book on C programming and then you write a tutorial, should the creators of C sue you for copyright infringement because you are illegally sharing information?
I mean damn, its getting to the point where I can believe that could happen, which means its gone too far.
When will people get it through their thick skulls that petitions dont work.
Lets look at DMCA, did petitions stop it? Hell no.
Lets look at Napster, did petitions save Napster? Hell no.
Why isnt marijuana legal? People have been petitioning for it by the millions for 20 years or more now.
Face it, Petitions have never solved a thing.
Tabacco was made Legal because people didnt obey the laws, civil disobedience by the millions, and there arent enough jails to enforce it, alcohol? Alcohol was illegal once, it took the mafia and illegal activities, corruption and control of the government through the mafia, essentially terrorism tactics to make alcohol legal.
SSSCA, you arent going to stop this unless you fight, you dont have to be violent to fight, you can fight with your intelligence, programmers should write unstopable programs like freenet, rich people should support lobby groups on our side, people who are good writers should write books, articles, editorials, and give as much media attention as possible to this, public speakers should host rallies along with musicians at local colleges where other intelligent people are. Contact churches, libaries, civil rights groups, and convince them how important it is to protect our rights. Contact patriotic groups, anti government groups, and anarchist groups and explain to them how the government is trying to control them not just offline but online as well.
Contact the elderly, contact teachers, and highschool students, explain to all of these groups whats going on, hang posters in front of highschools, near libraries, near sam goody and HMV, Blockbuster and other stores which tell people about the SSSCA, use clever images, such as comparing the SSSCA to Nazism, Explain how unfair it is, use images of jail and rich CEOs, show images of locks on their computer.
If all of the people reading this did this in their towns seperately, meaning true activism on a LARGE scale, Well its simple to break it down into parts.
INFORM --- Tell the public what the SSSCA is!
Explain ---- Tell the public whats wrong with the SSSCA
Results ---- Tell them what will happen if the SSSCA passes, and what kinda society it will lead to if the trend continues
Solution ---- Tell them how to stop the SSSCA, tell them a msg similar to what I'm telling you, explain to them not to just stop the SSSCA, but to promote absolute freedom of speech online, meaning no one can control what you do with your computer, if the RIAA and MPAA does not want us to pirate stuff, they should make it impossible to pirate or undesirable to do so, if this means lowering the price so its not worth buying a CD or DVD burner, or if this means locking the DVD up, they have options, what they shouldnt do is take away our freedoms, its like saying you cant use your hands to draw a copy of a picture you like.
And PLEASE post this on slashback to replace that other lame msg.
LOTR however I dont think should have gotten that away for best makeup and visual effects, Spider man the movie has the best visual effects Ive seen done. LOTR however does deserve those other awards, Its one of the best movies of the year, its the best directed movie of the year so far, Its a really good movie.
Next year, I predict winners will be the Matrix and Terminator 3.
Diablo had a nice gothic theme, very good voice acting, and yes it DID have a good story
The return of diablo, his 3 brothers attempting to destroy the earth, etc. Bulders gate didnt have a better plot, in fact when i played it there was no clear plot, there was no way to tell who was a good guy and who was a bad guy, alot of traps and tricks, and dungeons.
I dont think i'll buy it, I wanted a game with HUGE levels where we control the size limit, portals are ok but its not really about levels, its about virtual world
AsheronsCall has millions of diffrent combinations you can use to create an avatar, they have managed to let them all swim, well not actually swim, but you can go into the water, fair enough.
First they used some 2d engine back in 96, Then they used the Quake Engine, Then on to the Quake2 Engine, The Quake 3 Engine, and Unreal Tournament Engine.
Because they were too lazy or stupid to develop their own Engine they wasted all this money and time switching throuugh other peoples Engines.
This game better be surperior to Doom 3 or else this is the END and I mean absolute END of whatever company makes Duke Nukem.
I dont care if Max Payne makes them money, let Duke fail and no one will believe in their ability to write a decent game after almost 10 years working on it.
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Everyone who cares about network transparency and X and legacy unix apps, the first thing they say.
"At my job" "At work" "When i connect to my computer at work"
You guys use linux because its a job, i bet you use windows at home, I use linux as my primary desktop, at HOME.
I dont care about network transparency at HOME, and as more people use linux, more people will begin to agree with me and less with you.
The desktop users dont care about network transparency. DESKTOP Linux = Mandrake, Lycoris, etc etc, the Linux for people like you, Debian Linux, Redhat Linux, Slackware.
Face it, most ordinary users, in fact i'd say most linux users currently, dont care about that stuff, the corperate users and hackers are the only ones wo care.
Theres more mandrake users than theres debian and slackware users combined.
Redhat outnumbers everyone but redhats not a desktop linux.
This isnt GNU Linux, this is Beos Linux, its therefore not the same OS anymore, because the official Linux OS ia vastly diffrent and they arent compatible.
This is like saying GNU HURD is the same as GNU Linux.
No one cares about network transparecy, thats a programmer network admin thing, honestly, your average user doesnt give a damn about it, the only reason thsat would matter, is if every electronics device in their house were hooked up to some main node which interfaces with them all, but we arent there yet so why worry about that.
Directfb has a much better interface, face it. Especially when we have stuff like Gforce5s
Forget about linux on the desktop, my votes going to BeOS.
They got rid of X, bold but great move
I hope the Hurd GNU OS doesnt get stuck using X
Esoteric features for people who like networking and programming.
I mean for a desktop OS, you dont really NEED X.
Sure its nice if you could have it, but what you need is a nice looking gui, you dont need the x protcols esoteric features that only geeks and servers need.
Direct Frame Buffer is good, and there may be other ideas, but really, I hope linux gets rid of X, or at least the desktop linux's such as mandrake, lycoris, lindows and all of them get together and help fund directfb or berlin project or something
Good because X11 is weak as hell
X11 cant do alpha channeling, scaling, or anything really, and its slow.
Its as good as Windows98 but its no OSX.
They have made blackholes in labs before, its not dangerous because they phase out of exsistance almost instantly because they are so small
Some have said theres a ring of fire in a black hole, in which you dont get crushed, you just get trapped.
Others claim you get crushed out of exsistance, we really dont know anything about blackholes until we send something into one.
As far as creating blackholes in labs, do they even count?
black holes have been created in labs too, so whats the point?
Marijuana Site
Looks like they are more organized than you
No, CBDPA still removes your freedom, your freedom to do what you want with your hardware, this should be a right.
You dont fight evil WITH evil. You fight evil with superior instelligence.
How did the jews fight the Nazis? By changing the system so something like Nazism can never happen again.
You have to change the system from within the system, thats what minorities in the US did, thats what women did, if they all took up guns you wouldnt have a US.
Throw our DNA into space,along with a map,
Thats like an invitation to conquer earth.
Do you understand what rights are?
This is just fucking censorship, I dont care what you say, no government, or group of people no matter who they are, has the right to control how you use what you own.
This is just wrong, what next? Microsoft going to the government claiming "Outlaw open source, its preventing us from making money on our closed source products, all programmers should have licenses so we can properly CONTROL them and we can maintain our monopoly"
You stupid fuck, cant you see? The MPAA and RIAA wants to maintain their monopoly, this is NOT and I mean NOT going to promote broadband, in fact the only reason broadband is being used at the moment is file sharing, what they are trying to do is convince the government to do a War on Sharing lik e the War on drugs.
The War on drugs, i dont agree with it, but it makes sense, you have to prevent the population from becoming a bunch of druggies, but the government isnt arresting people for using drugs, they arrest you for selling it.
I think people who copy and sell programs should go to jail, but people who share programs should have that right. If you dont profit from it, then its not stealing, if you sell something to someone that indicates they would have purchased it from the MPAA or RIAA and that is stealing.
"This really doesn't say anything, and sounds reactionary."
Look, when the leaders of the old system, purposely kill the new system by outlawing it, (Microsoft does it, the RIAA does it, the MPAA does it) It prevents innovation.
Technology is leading us in one direction, the MPAA is trying to fight the technology, Napster, peer to peer, file sharing, its innovation, it could have easily been profitable, the only diffrence is the profits wouldnt be for the RIAA and MPAA, people would still go to the movies to see movies when they first come out, people would STILL go to concerts, people would have to buy CDs to hear them they day they come out, not to mention they could have just released higher quality sound.
Face it, they dont want the consumer, the musician, and the programmer to be empowered, they want control, its all about control, its not about $$, its about control.
Oil companies want control, we could have cars running on air, water, electricity, which can run perfectly fast.
Speaking of cars, lets talk about cars, should cars be restricted to moving at 50mph by forcing all car makers to make slower cars? You'll say hell no. Should guns be made illegal because people can kill with them? No you say?
Should we order people to vote by forcing them too? Think about where this is going,
When we keep passing these laws which "CONTROL" us and remove our rights, we become exactly what we have faught against, remember the war against communism the fight for freedom, fight against nazism, etc, guess what, we are about to turn into that society.
No more libraries, say goodbye to radio, vcr, everything, all electronics will be modified, and eventually all products, books will become electronic, so no more libraries, college students wont be able to share books anymore, so rich students will have a huge advantage.The government will tell you what programs you can and cannot right, you'll need a license to write programs, no more freedom on your computer.
You'll be told what you can and cant read.
You'll be told what you can and cant listen to.
Forget about having parties with loud music, soon all speakers will be outlawed to prevent sharing of sound, so prepare for headphones.
"I particularly liked one of the follow-ups to my original post, where he complained that the music industry is attempting to shift the enforcement of copyright from their own lawyers (where it belongs) to the tech sector. If the music industry wants to attack copyright infringement, then let them go out and start identifying piraters. It's their problem, not the tech industry's problem. I think this would be an excellent point to make in a letter."
Copyright infringement should be stopped only when
it actually causes harm. People sharing music is not causing anyone to lose money, people copying CDs and selling them IS stealing.
Stealing money which could be going to the RIAA.
While i dont agree with selling something you dont own the rights to sell, I think its our right as humans to be able to share anything we have the ability to copy, its the RIAAs job to make it impossible for us to copy if they dont want us sharing it.
Thats like saying you cant share knowledge, yeah you know, you read a book on C programming and then you write a tutorial, should the creators of C sue you for copyright infringement because you are illegally sharing information?
I mean damn, its getting to the point where I can believe that could happen, which means its gone too far.
When will people get it through their thick skulls that petitions dont work.
Lets look at DMCA, did petitions stop it? Hell no.
Lets look at Napster, did petitions save Napster? Hell no.
Why isnt marijuana legal? People have been petitioning for it by the millions for 20 years or more now.
Face it, Petitions have never solved a thing.
Tabacco was made Legal because people didnt obey the laws, civil disobedience by the millions, and there arent enough jails to enforce it, alcohol? Alcohol was illegal once, it took the mafia and illegal activities, corruption and control of the government through the mafia, essentially terrorism tactics to make alcohol legal.
SSSCA, you arent going to stop this unless you fight, you dont have to be violent to fight, you can fight with your intelligence, programmers should write unstopable programs like freenet, rich people should support lobby groups on our side, people who are good writers should write books, articles, editorials, and give as much media attention as possible to this, public speakers should host rallies along with musicians at local colleges where other intelligent people are. Contact churches, libaries, civil rights groups, and convince them how important it is to protect our rights. Contact patriotic groups, anti government groups, and anarchist groups and explain to them how the government is trying to control them not just offline but online as well.
Contact the elderly, contact teachers, and highschool students, explain to all of these groups whats going on, hang posters in front of highschools, near libraries, near sam goody and HMV, Blockbuster and other stores which tell people about the SSSCA, use clever images, such as comparing the SSSCA to Nazism, Explain how unfair it is, use images of jail and rich CEOs, show images of locks on their computer.
If all of the people reading this did this in their towns seperately, meaning true activism on a LARGE scale, Well its simple to break it down into parts.
INFORM --- Tell the public what the SSSCA is!
Explain ---- Tell the public whats wrong with the SSSCA
Results ---- Tell them what will happen if the SSSCA passes, and what kinda society it will lead to if the trend continues
Solution ---- Tell them how to stop the SSSCA, tell them a msg similar to what I'm telling you, explain to them not to just stop the SSSCA, but to promote absolute freedom of speech online, meaning no one can control what you do with your computer, if the RIAA and MPAA does not want us to pirate stuff, they should make it impossible to pirate or undesirable to do so, if this means lowering the price so its not worth buying a CD or DVD burner, or if this means locking the DVD up, they have options, what they shouldnt do is take away our freedoms, its like saying you cant use your hands to draw a copy of a picture you like.
And PLEASE post this on slashback to replace that other lame msg.
Final Fantasy? Its not a very good movie
sure it has expensive effects, but they arent really the most realistic effects.
Final Fantasy could be compared to disney style effects.
Actually a movie which was great was resident evil, very good movie, very good special effects,
In my opinion, its as good as starwars once was.
LOTR however I dont think should have gotten that away for best makeup and visual effects, Spider man the movie has the best visual effects Ive seen done.
LOTR however does deserve those other awards, Its one of the best movies of the year, its the best directed movie of the year so far, Its a really good movie.
Next year, I predict winners will be the Matrix and Terminator 3.
Wrong, Humans talk naturally, its our nature to do so, thats why we all speak.
Trying to force something to be what its not is wrong, its wrong to try to force a cat to live like a human.
Whats so good about the bulders gate plot?
Diablo had a nice gothic theme, very good voice acting, and yes it DID have a good story
The return of diablo, his 3 brothers attempting to destroy the earth, etc. Bulders gate didnt have a better plot, in fact when i played it there was no clear plot, there was no way to tell who was a good guy and who was a bad guy, alot of traps and tricks, and dungeons.
Its just a diablo then.
I dont think i'll buy it, I wanted a game with HUGE levels where we control the size limit, portals are ok but its not really about levels, its about virtual world
to me at least
i dont want a hack and slash
human radomized events? Diablo was fun but limited,
What i worry about is not storyline but player interaction, actual game play.
AC has the best gameplay but the storyline is weak, Diablo has weak gameplay (hack and slash) but great story.
How can we have something which mixes BOTH.
Maybe AC2, I think NWN is headed toward a more diablo with enhanced storyline scripting.
AsheronsCall has millions of diffrent combinations you can use to create an avatar, they have managed to let them all swim, well not actually swim, but you can go into the water, fair enough.
First they used some 2d engine back in 96, Then they used the Quake Engine, Then on to the Quake2 Engine, The Quake 3 Engine, and Unreal Tournament Engine.
Because they were too lazy or stupid to develop their own Engine they wasted all this money and time switching throuugh other peoples Engines.
This game better be surperior to Doom 3 or else this is the END and I mean absolute END of whatever company makes Duke Nukem.
I dont care if Max Payne makes them money, let Duke fail and no one will believe in their ability to write a decent game after almost 10 years working on it.