The guy who's porting SC2 to linux is my buddy chris nelson. I feel especially cool because i'm the one who installed debian unstable on his laptop (toshiba something or other -- stupid not-quite-eepro100 NICs...) and got him into SDL (that took A LOT of pushing)
he was already a brilliant OpenGL programmer (luminescent is his handle on sf.net... he has some cool stuff there) but only delt with windows.
so.. if you like SC2 for linux... thank him, but thank me for getting him into linux too:)
(oh. to his credit.. he only started using linux and SDL a year ago... and loved enlightenment so much that he's stuck to it.. hehe)
they say "we're switching to the super-standards compliant Gecko rendering engine."
MS says "We're going to stick to the defacto standard."
everyone NOT under MS's belt says "we want people to shop/surf/contribute to/read news on our site... 22 million users... let's say "ALREADY COMPATIBLE WITH AOL 8.0!!! Go to our site. We do The Right Thing."
It's amazing.. but Joe Shmoe really will fall for a campaign if they think that he's "supporting standards and freedom on the internet."
hell... call it "The American Way, Freedom for all" and have a little flag flapping around and most everyone will happily say "Yeah! I'm an american! Go Dinos!"
I've been looking for pointers to what other people have learned (either the easy way or hard way).
Wow. People are really picky today. Back when I was a young'n we didn't care whether what we learned was learned the easy way or the hard way.
Now these tooty stooty youngsters are picky about what their elders have learned! Damn it! They should be happy we let them KNOW about our past apache experiences...
Now let me tell you the story of me and my Apache friend...
I am taking it a step farther... i'm teaching myself arabic so i can read the qur'an in a non-translated form. it is a long term project... but hey! we all need long term plans:)
just to see Cowboy Neal and find what poll option there is for him that time. (I would, however, be disappointed if the poll sucks... so think about that)
do you think that the Linux kernel should follow the same route as the Mozilla project. That being that when Mozilla reaches 1.0 the API will freeze and any plugins, applications that use gecko, etc. will be compatible until version 1.2 is out. Should the Linux kernel make some sort of standardized API for drivers so a driver that works with 2.4.0 will work for 2.4.20?
"Once, long ago, thousands of years before our time, the people of the world lived lives full of suffering. They fought two world wars trying to repress the aggressive forces invading their peace. The first war ended, and left all affected by the horrors of both conventional and chemical warfare. The second war ended with the use of a weapon so powerful, millions could die in a blink of an eye. After these wars, people were terrified that the proliferation and use of these newly developed weapons of mass destruction would leave their planet uninhabitable.
"So they got together with hopes of collaboration -- hopes that a new system of global regulation would end the fighting that seemed to hold such a high price. They created the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, along with many other organizations, in hopes that these initiatives would be able to distill violence, promote economic prosperity, and provide equal opportunity to all the people around the world.
"These groups worked for many, many years. They spent countless years trying to come to a consensus on what path humanity had to take to keep from destroying itself or its planet. In fact, they spoke so long that the people who had founded these initiatives, with their lofty goals, passed away and left the world's governance to a new generation. They hadn't, however, educated their youth.
"This new generation of leaders could not comprehend the horrors of global warfare. They could not see the weight of their actions as their forefathers had. They were naive, ignorant, self-indulgent and arrogant. It was a dismal time.
"For generations to come they regulated the world with economic might. The Earth's resources were depleted rapidly. Renewable resources were ignored in favor of the instant gratification rewarded by non-sustainable mining, foresting, and oil drilling. It was the era of 'capitalism,' a faith that believed in 'market regulation.'
"Capitalism did not consider that people would ever 'run the market dry.' It was never conceived that there could be a limit to what the Earth could take. At the era's height, it collapsed. The Earth died. People died.
"Billions and billions of people died. Every possible resource was used up. Animals were eaten. Fish were eaten. Insects were eaten. And, in the end, people were eaten.
"People slept on the streets, in the sewer, and in the caves. They hid and ambushed each other on hunting runs. Self-defense was a way of life.
"Then the Earth started to live again. The small groups of people who still lived started to regroup. The people worked together to find food. They moved back into the old cities and started to read the old texts. They studied the history of the world before the Great Collapse.
"They could see the error in their ancestors' ways. The cause of their desolation was clearly laid out in front of them in countless books of history, policy, and business. It horrified them.
"So they decided to start a new era. A new era of prosperity, equality, and global responsibility was established. They consolidated all the history they could find. They wrote down all the oral history they had heard. They created new societies based on self-empowerment and responsible self-governance.
"Slowly they grew. Generation by generation, they passed on their history. They promoted critical thought and it's benefits. They kept strong the appreciation of education and its essential nature.
"Now this is my job. I will tell you your history. I will tell you what happened. Today we work to keep the new sustainable way of life we've found alive. The burden is now on us. That's now our responsibility. "
"I sure wish I had one, esp to remind me of my projects and homework due."
ESP??? No wonder they're so popular...
What does one sound like in it's head? Does it sound like yourself saying "I've got a meeting now, better go." Or more like, "yo dude, you've got a f*cking meeting?"
If only I had the money...
Do the linux PDA's have ESP also? I just hope they don't open source my mind...
i agree with you "don't by 'made in china' items"... but that's because when you do buy them, you're supporting big U.S. corperations, not chinese ones.
as for human rights violations. i'll give you that. it is an area that much improve greatly.
i wouldn't mind a list of the countries you do support... so i could write what human rights violations they have made.
oh. not to mention the ones that america makes. an obvious one being going into poor countries and (practically) enslaving the people there so you can buy cheap sneakers and radios.
and how many military coups have we supported in order to not have a communist regime come into power? (pinoche ring a bell, osama bin laden ring a bell? trust me, the list goes on and on... like president diem in vietnam. he was as bad as the communists. and the nationalists in china were worse than the communists... but we supported them... and if you want to go back farther in history... oh it is sick what we did. andrew jackson's generals used to, on orders from the top, use slaughtered indians scrotums as bullet cases.. and took strips of their skin as reins for their horses. or look at our imperialistic endevours... it just keeps getting worse...)
so, i support the fight for human rights. that's why i haven't bought a peice of clothing for 3 years... and when i have to... i'll get something that i either made myself or know precisely how it was made and by whom under what conditions.
"The Chinese often have a very cold-hearted way of relating to each other. "
are you kidding? if anyone has a cold-hearted way of relating to eachother it's americans. we cut eachother off on the highway. we hold gossip supreme. we are totally self-absorbed.
i'm not saying a lot of chinese aren't like that. but they are more friendly on the whole. i remember when i lived there (white american, but grew up in china) i used to be able to walk up and down my apartment stairwell and say hey to all my co apartment habitants on my way up because they left their doors open.
they would invite me to meals. that was a big deal, meals. lunch break is long in china so the lunch can be festivious.
and people fight over who can pay. for a long time to.. and sincerely. i don't see that happen (much) in america.
china's all about loving your family and friends.
i will admit though, one of china's social problems is that they look out for their family a little too much. and unless their family is doing REALLY well... they don't go out and help at community centers or anything. (to americans credit, they do... though some may want to go home and help there some more)
"However, they have big, big problems. " agreed. "maybe 800,000,000 are uneducated peasants. " that's one of them.
"They are not close to being as influential in world thinking as developed countries"
but remember. 1,300,000,000 - 800,000,000 = 500,000,000... more educated people than america has... so they are on their way up. you don't need 1.3 billion people to be on top. look at us. maybe (being generous) 25% of our population controls alot of the world's future and wealth (for now)
example: after sept. 11th i took every chance i could to say that i was against military action overseas. (and that we are partially responsible for the events on 9/11 and we have to change our foreign policy, not our military strategy, if we hope to stop future attachs)
i recieved SO much hate (e)mail, bad looks, sneering comments, and questioning by my higher ups. like i was a terrorist or something. like i didn't feel sympathy for the people who died.
but that's total crap. i don't want it to happen again. that's why i protest military action.
but anyway. that's my opinion. and they (society) took every means to suppress it.
and it isn't a case of "but that's the nature of people. the gov't didnt' do anything," because they did.
but first, media (with a touch of gov't)
i remember one night on the alan keyes show..
i don't quite remember the guests, but i think they were two senators. one was "go war! let's kill those bastards." and the other one was "but i think that won't end the problem.. just lighten the symptoms for a little bit"
alan responded to the (peaceful) senator, "that's unamerican! to think that you would allow, even support, terrorism!"
and the senator shut up. not another anti-war peep from him. that's the pathetic entity we call our government. they think they'll lose votes.. and they fold.
and so the gov't. bush has made it all too clear that we are either "with us (him) or against us(him" which makes anyone who says "down with the american government as we know it today" or simply "no war! let us find a way to nurture mutual respect.. with the first, second, n-times until it works, steps being made by us." is unamerican. you are blacklisted. like the 50s. you're arab and you don't tatoo our flag on your body? you're blacklisted.
but it isn't unamerican. it is as american as you get. like jefferson, who held his interpretation of the constitution over everything, we have to keep the idea of free speech alive... but the current gov't disallows it.
just like china does.
oh. and how many anti-american books can you find on bn.com that don't end in "do it's not really america's fault" or "and they said sorry"? (esp. with good reviews)
"But, it's a title they claimed, and the Americanpublic has been subject to Anti Communism propaganda for so long... it's a sort of brain washing..."
which is funny.. because that is what we claim china does. (which they do.)
the funny part is that the american's are better at it. we have free speech. we have freedom of the press. but we are still pack animals.
individualism, in its true form, isn't popular here in america. we like to feign individualism a lot... but we are more content "going with the flow."
which is why it is more effective brainwashing. we actually believe what we do is of our own volition... but it isn't. it is exactly what the media, gov't, popular celebrities tell us to think. it's pathetic.
(disclaimer: there are the exceptions. but there are the exceptions in china too)
I don't get the hatred of communism either... i can understand the dislike of the chinese gov't... but they're not communist. (read marx. trust me, they're not communist. neither was USSR. n. korea isn't either.)
but i have to agree with them sometime. (i.e. one child policy... an open gov't couldn't handle 1.3 billion people.)
and if they are anything they are a largely centralized socialist government. the provide social services... with a(sometimes too) strong arm.
or is there a significant anti-china attitude in the american (general slashdot? i hope not) populace?
it is really sad... given that China is the next world superpower... and we can only bask in our ignorance, self-indulgence, arrogance, and naievete for so long....
Are there some signal amplifiers that one can get? Because, as last I heard, 802.11b only had around a 300 foot range... not 7km.
I ask because i'd love to have a good wireless setup in my college dorm... maybe with the cooperation of some other students, so we could walk around (at least parts of) campus and still have connectivity...
I've believed exactly this for quite some time now.
Secondly, this doesn't go directly against the big bang theory. the big bang created _this_ universe, yes, but before it were an infinite amount of "big bangs" and "big crunches."
Slashdot Mirror
except that i can't get libesd0 >= 0.2.27 (debian unstable has .23...)
The guy who's porting SC2 to linux is my buddy chris nelson. I feel especially cool because i'm the one who installed debian unstable on his laptop (toshiba something or other -- stupid not-quite-eepro100 NICs...) and got him into SDL (that took A LOT of pushing)
:)
he was already a brilliant OpenGL programmer (luminescent is his handle on sf.net... he has some cool stuff there) but only delt with windows.
so.. if you like SC2 for linux... thank him, but thank me for getting him into linux too
(oh. to his credit.. he only started using linux and SDL a year ago... and loved enlightenment so much that he's stuck to it.. hehe)
The power of AOL...
they say "we're switching to the super-standards compliant Gecko rendering engine."
MS says "We're going to stick to the defacto standard."
everyone NOT under MS's belt says "we want people to shop/surf/contribute to/read news on our site... 22 million users... let's say "ALREADY COMPATIBLE WITH AOL 8.0!!! Go to our site. We do The Right Thing."
It's amazing.. but Joe Shmoe really will fall for a campaign if they think that he's "supporting standards and freedom on the internet."
hell... call it "The American Way, Freedom for all" and have a little flag flapping around and most everyone will happily say "Yeah! I'm an american! Go Dinos!"
or at least i hope...
I've been looking for pointers to what other people have learned (either the easy way or hard way).
Wow. People are really picky today. Back when I was a young'n we didn't care whether what we learned was learned the easy way or the hard way.
Now these tooty stooty youngsters are picky about what their elders have learned! Damn it! They should be happy we let them KNOW about our past apache experiences...
Now let me tell you the story of me and my Apache friend...
:)
I am taking it a step farther... i'm teaching myself arabic so i can read the qur'an in a non-translated form. it is a long term project... but hey! we all need long term plans :)
just to see Cowboy Neal and find what poll option there is for him that time. (I would, however, be disappointed if the poll sucks... so think about that)
do you think that the Linux kernel should follow the same route as the Mozilla project. That being that when Mozilla reaches 1.0 the API will freeze and any plugins, applications that use gecko, etc. will be compatible until version 1.2 is out. Should the Linux kernel make some sort of standardized API for drivers so a driver that works with 2.4.0 will work for 2.4.20?
Is this a reasonable request? (doable?)
why/why not?
it says that IBM is using SuSE...
a story i wrote recently...
"Once, long ago, thousands of years before our time, the people of the world lived lives full of suffering. They fought two world wars
trying to repress the aggressive forces invading their peace. The first war ended, and left all affected by the horrors of both
conventional and chemical warfare. The second war ended with the use of a weapon so powerful, millions could die in a blink of an eye.
After these wars, people were terrified that the proliferation and use of these newly developed weapons of mass destruction would
leave their planet uninhabitable.
"So they got together with hopes of collaboration -- hopes that a new system of global regulation would end the fighting that seemed to
hold such a high price. They created the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, along with many other organizations, in
hopes that these initiatives would be able to distill violence, promote economic prosperity, and provide equal opportunity to all the
people around the world.
"These groups worked for many, many years. They spent countless years trying to come to a consensus on what path humanity had to take
to keep from destroying itself or its planet. In fact, they spoke so long that the people who had founded these initiatives, with
their lofty goals, passed away and left the world's governance to a new generation. They hadn't, however, educated their youth.
"This new generation of leaders could not comprehend the horrors of global warfare. They could not see the weight of their actions as
their forefathers had. They were naive, ignorant, self-indulgent and arrogant. It was a dismal time.
"For generations to come they regulated the world with economic might. The Earth's resources were depleted rapidly. Renewable
resources were ignored in favor of the instant gratification rewarded by non-sustainable mining, foresting, and oil drilling. It was
the era of 'capitalism,' a faith that believed in 'market regulation.'
"Capitalism did not consider that people would ever 'run the market dry.' It was never conceived that there could be a limit to what
the Earth could take. At the era's height, it collapsed. The Earth died. People died.
"Billions and billions of people died. Every possible resource was used up. Animals were eaten. Fish were eaten. Insects were
eaten. And, in the end, people were eaten.
"People slept on the streets, in the sewer, and in the caves. They hid and ambushed each other on hunting runs. Self-defense was a
way of life.
"Then the Earth started to live again. The small groups of people who still lived started to regroup. The people worked together to
find food. They moved back into the old cities and started to read the old texts. They studied the history of the world before the
Great Collapse.
"They could see the error in their ancestors' ways. The cause of their desolation was clearly laid out in front of them in countless
books of history, policy, and business. It horrified them.
"So they decided to start a new era. A new era of prosperity, equality, and global responsibility was established. They consolidated
all the history they could find. They wrote down all the oral history they had heard. They created new societies based on
self-empowerment and responsible self-governance.
"Slowly they grew. Generation by generation, they passed on their history. They promoted critical thought and it's benefits. They
kept strong the appreciation of education and its essential nature.
"Now this is my job. I will tell you your history. I will tell you what happened. Today we work to keep the new sustainable way of
life we've found alive. The burden is now on us. That's now our responsibility. "
now i'm glad that you have gained an appreciation of all the /. users who don't speak english as their first language... but it was a joke :)
"I sure wish I had one, esp to remind me of my projects and homework due."
ESP??? No wonder they're so popular...
What does one sound like in it's head? Does it sound like yourself saying "I've got a meeting now, better go." Or more like, "yo dude, you've got a f*cking meeting?"
If only I had the money...
Do the linux PDA's have ESP also? I just hope they don't open source my mind...
I'm not talking about the stupid solid water... I spend half my life in China studying china... trust me... it's the next (co)superpower.
or don't believe me... and if you're alive in 30 years... just see it
that's why i said (amerika) with a k, in the message... it showed that i was being sarcastic.
but www.thegreatestnationever.kernel.org (amerika) didn't work...
r .kernel.orgw .withusoragainstus.kernel.orgn smilebetterthanyourscan.kernel. orgs .kern el.orge rnel.org
i even tried
www.thebestnation.kernel.org
www.americaforeve
www.theonefreecountry.kernel.org
ww
www.ourpresidentca
www.ourpresidenthasmoreprivatewealththanyour
and www.thecountrywherethebestofeverythingcomesfrom.k
none of them worked!
what kind of pathetic mirror system is this? no wonder no one ever uses any of the mirrors.
stupid IT people...
i agree with you "don't by 'made in china' items"... but that's because when you do buy them, you're supporting big U.S. corperations, not chinese ones.
as for human rights violations. i'll give you that. it is an area that much improve greatly.
i wouldn't mind a list of the countries you do support... so i could write what human rights violations they have made.
oh. not to mention the ones that america makes. an obvious one being going into poor countries and (practically) enslaving the people there so you can buy cheap sneakers and radios.
and how many military coups have we supported in order to not have a communist regime come into power? (pinoche ring a bell, osama bin laden ring a bell? trust me, the list goes on and on... like president diem in vietnam. he was as bad as the communists. and the nationalists in china were worse than the communists... but we supported them... and if you want to go back farther in history... oh it is sick what we did. andrew jackson's generals used to, on orders from the top, use slaughtered indians scrotums as bullet cases.. and took strips of their skin as reins for their horses. or look at our imperialistic endevours... it just keeps getting worse...)
so, i support the fight for human rights. that's why i haven't bought a peice of clothing for 3 years... and when i have to... i'll get something that i either made myself or know precisely how it was made and by whom under what conditions.
what about all the arab men who were put into holding for questioning after 9/11 unwillingly?
(some of which are still there)
or what people say the FBI and CIA did against the American Indian Movement or the Black Panthers?
Or the internment of japanese?
or the "pennsylvania dutch" that didn't believe in the war during WWII so the gov't split them up around the country and two wound up dead.
and, of course, mccarthyism.
"The Chinese often have a very cold-hearted way of relating to each other. "
are you kidding? if anyone has a cold-hearted way of relating to eachother it's americans. we cut eachother off on the highway. we hold gossip supreme. we are totally self-absorbed.
i'm not saying a lot of chinese aren't like that. but they are more friendly on the whole. i remember when i lived there (white american, but grew up in china) i used to be able to walk up and down my apartment stairwell and say hey to all my co apartment habitants on my way up because they left their doors open.
they would invite me to meals. that was a big deal, meals. lunch break is long in china so the lunch can be festivious.
and people fight over who can pay. for a long time to.. and sincerely. i don't see that happen (much) in america.
china's all about loving your family and friends.
i will admit though, one of china's social problems is that they look out for their family a little too much. and unless their family is doing REALLY well... they don't go out and help at community centers or anything. (to americans credit, they do... though some may want to go home and help there some more)
"However, they have big, big problems. " agreed.
"maybe 800,000,000 are uneducated peasants. " that's one of them.
"They are not close to being as influential in world thinking as developed countries"
but remember. 1,300,000,000 - 800,000,000 = 500,000,000... more educated people than america has... so they are on their way up. you don't need 1.3 billion people to be on top. look at us. maybe (being generous) 25% of our population controls alot of the world's future and wealth (for now)
free speech. it is oppressed here as well.
example:
after sept. 11th i took every chance i could to say that i was against military action overseas. (and that we are partially responsible for the events on 9/11 and we have to change our foreign policy, not our military strategy, if we hope to stop future attachs)
i recieved SO much hate (e)mail, bad looks, sneering comments, and questioning by my higher ups. like i was a terrorist or something. like i didn't feel sympathy for the people who died.
but that's total crap. i don't want it to happen again. that's why i protest military action.
but anyway. that's my opinion. and they (society) took every means to suppress it.
and it isn't a case of "but that's the nature of people. the gov't didnt' do anything," because they did.
but first, media (with a touch of gov't)
i remember one night on the alan keyes show..
i don't quite remember the guests, but i think they were two senators. one was "go war! let's kill those bastards." and the other one was "but i think that won't end the problem.. just lighten the symptoms for a little bit"
alan responded to the (peaceful) senator, "that's unamerican! to think that you would allow, even support, terrorism!"
and the senator shut up. not another anti-war peep from him. that's the pathetic entity we call our government. they think they'll lose votes.. and they fold.
and so the gov't. bush has made it all too clear that we are either "with us (him) or against us(him"
which makes anyone who says "down with the american government as we know it today" or simply "no war! let us find a way to nurture mutual respect.. with the first, second, n-times until it works, steps being made by us." is unamerican. you are blacklisted. like the 50s. you're arab and you don't tatoo our flag on your body? you're blacklisted.
but it isn't unamerican. it is as american as you get. like jefferson, who held his interpretation of the constitution over everything, we have to keep the idea of free speech alive... but the current gov't disallows it.
just like china does.
oh. and how many anti-american books can you find on bn.com that don't end in "do it's not really america's fault" or "and they said sorry"? (esp. with good reviews)
"But, it's a title they claimed, and the Americanpublic has been subject to Anti Communism propaganda for so long... it's a sort of brain washing..."
which is funny.. because that is what we claim china does. (which they do.)
the funny part is that the american's are better at it. we have free speech. we have freedom of the press. but we are still pack animals.
individualism, in its true form, isn't popular here in america. we like to feign individualism a lot... but we are more content "going with the flow."
which is why it is more effective brainwashing. we actually believe what we do is of our own volition... but it isn't. it is exactly what the media, gov't, popular celebrities tell us to think. it's pathetic.
(disclaimer: there are the exceptions. but there are the exceptions in china too)
I don't get the hatred of communism either... i can understand the dislike of the chinese gov't... but they're not communist. (read marx. trust me, they're not communist. neither was USSR. n. korea isn't either.)
but i have to agree with them sometime. (i.e. one child policy... an open gov't couldn't handle 1.3 billion people.)
and if they are anything they are a largely centralized socialist government. the provide social services... with a(sometimes too) strong arm.
or is there a significant anti-china attitude in the american (general slashdot? i hope not) populace?
it is really sad... given that China is the next world superpower... and we can only bask in our ignorance, self-indulgence, arrogance, and naievete for so long....
Are there some signal amplifiers that one can get? Because, as last I heard, 802.11b only had around a 300 foot range... not 7km.
I ask because i'd love to have a good wireless setup in my college dorm... maybe with the cooperation of some other students, so we could walk around (at least parts of) campus and still have connectivity...
links?
Try Sun servers running FreeBSD and you'll be closer.
Try intel machines running FreeBSD and you'll be right.
Your choice.
AM or PM!!!! (you can't really expect me to wait 12 hours for you... you weren't THAT good.)
Lisa
I've believed exactly this for quite some time now.
Secondly, this doesn't go directly against the big bang theory. the big bang created _this_ universe, yes, but before it were an infinite amount of "big bangs" and "big crunches."
doesn't conflict, just tells the whole story.