SuSE Professional comes with the best dead tree documentation available for a distro and has payed support. For any real business enviroment that is the selling point.
Any Creationist that really believes a day in gods time is the same as a day in human time is nothing but a heretic. Any scientist believing that the laws of physics allways were the same and allways will be the same and founding all he suposes about long term earth and universe history on that assumption is being nothing but silly.
And BTW: ID "followers" actually do "believe" in evolution. Read: Know it's true. They just also believe that it is influenced by a higher power (God, in this case). The most prominent Evolutionist believing the same.
This whole debate is nothing but a heated wingflapping by people on either side making fools of themselves.
I have a list of people I know personally and have worked with and allthough I'm not the Über-developer I'd say I could come up within a month the most with a team that can pull off nearly any coding job. People who know me call me with the most remote and unusual developement problems, because they expect me to have some ace up my sleve that will bring their project up to speed. And ususaully I have.
There should be other people like this, because this is a market, as it fills the gap between the people who code all day and the people who sell the stuff they code. In large companies this is something simular to the technical account manager. In the Cyberpunk Roleplaying Game "Shadowrun" a freelance version of this type of job is called a "Fixer". I've actually come to think of myself as such a Fixer.
I'd say you recongnize one of my kind by a solid presentation (website, businesscard or simular) without any all to shallow marketing babble. They appear hard to reach on their website (because reachability is one of their main products), but once your on the line they'll start working on your problem instantly. They usually have good oral skills and probably speak 2 or more languages fluently, as this trains the brain in the way needed to pull this type of work and comes with it naturally. They appear as a jack of all trades because they usually are. If they are good, they know themselves that they are master of none and will come up with experts for the job and position themselves as mediator by themselves. (f.i. I personally am trained in Arts and have developed since the age of 16, making me an ideal mediator for any web application and RIA stuff)
Allthough my kind hate grunt work and fixing the details, I can see the ones that need to be addressed imidiately before anybody else has even thought of them. People like me can usually tell you if your project is doomed before you blow any larger amounts of money. They'll name the loopholes and bottlenecks and maybe even give advice what to look out for.
If you say this all sounds like a real consultant, it probably does. But I'd actually be insulted being called a consultant, because I've actually learned the professions I trade in, even if I don't practice them as purely as others do.
Look around for freelance professionals that advertise their conections in a reashuring manner. Don't be put of if they seem hard to reach (hard to find contact data on their website, only a mailadress, etc.). Go after them. Once you've got them on the phone you'll be able to tell quickly if their up to the job. I tell my customers imediately if they don't really need or want me and if they should look somewhere else. Another thing professional "fixers" are recognized by.
Good luck.
P.S.:I don't do usually don't do this, but if you'd actually like to get in conact with me to get on your developement problem, mail me at moira [somewhere near] demetria.de . It's the mail address of my WoW Character:-) (I hardly play with), but it's in my main mail pipeline so I see anything that shows up there and isn't spam. I'm based in germany, but as you said, that isn't really an issue nowadays.
was the whole bit about "This fine british paper" that Powell presented. A paper from, suposedly british intelligence origin, describing all the Über-Threats from Iraq and the dangers coming from them. When it hit the news that the entire paper was copy and pasted from an american students essay posted on the internet, related to Desert Storm in 1991 - copied with exact same typos and all - I was laughing my head off for half an hour. I still crack up today just writing about this. Absolutely hilarious with cheap and phony shams polititians use to try to get away with things.... The sad part is that they usually do.
"Fine british paper." An instant classic. Absolutely.
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As a matter of fact I've been laughing to tears again the last 5 minutes at the end of this post. Monthy Python really pales compared to the bizarness of this incident.
Since the MS.doc format is largely made up of binary memory dumps of the various word processors that use it, this anouncement is mostly pointless. It just might ease the process of reading them a little for those who do this allready.
Tell me when MS uses a format that is built around mutual reliable readability and not obfuscation. That would be news.
Curiously enough Rudolf Steiner once stated that the laws of physics aren't the same everywhere. According to him they gradually change the further you get away from a certain point in space. He said something like:"Very much like the gravity influence of an object declines the further away you get from it, so do the laws of physics change." This could be the proof of his statement.
Imagine the Rolling Stones, REM, Madonna (and her indipendent label) and a handfull of others saying "No go." and opening up their own music plattform with a handfull of experts and some tweaked OSS software. No, the classic "touchable media" based business is rapidly declining and the publishers have finally gotten the message. And they won't get pissy with artists either - it's to easy to turn around and go away when all you need to distribute is a good name, some rackspace and automated electronic billing.
No it's not about that. It's probably about charging different prices at different times and from different people / target groups.
Who in God's name would use an add supported Windows? Windows is the worst commodity OS there is - and it's a whole add in itself.
I would however use an add-supported enviroment like Mac OS X if it came with a load of full-blown closed-source applications of the type I use for work. Give me a sale offer of a strong Mac with widescreen, tablet, mouse a current OS X install + the entire adobe and macromedia suites, the entire Apple Video Line of Software and Lightwave, Cinema or Maya with all plugins. All of this installed and ready to run (!!) plus some offsite config backup service set up for my personal turnkey usage (my iBook HDD tanked the other week and recovering all the application configs was a pain and lost me a couple of days - aside from data backup which took 30 minutes. It royally sucked getting back to speed, even though I do regular backups).
Then you can bill me a fair amount and show me adds. And if they're intelligent, don't suck and are realted to what I actually do for a living (just look at the software I selected to see what I mean) I'll actually even look at these adds.
Adds can be cool, you know? They just need to provide the information I want - then I'll even be sold.
BTW: Something like this will come soon, when OSS has gained large mindshare and people will start paying for not having to spend weeks to build and set up a zero-hassle unix-variant, partly/wholly OSS based box and work enviroment.
My only home Audio solution for the last 10 years has been a top-line Panasonic Gettoblaster (RX DT 75). Dual-Tape (fast dub), CD, Radio, Time/Timer (for *everything*, incl. timed radio recording, timed wake-up+playback or wake-up+record from stand-by, etc...). And *everything* is remote controlled with a full-blow 40-button remote- my last main buying point. On top of that all CD drawers, display covers and tape deck slots are power driven and remote controllable.
The audio quality is great and even beats (no pun intended) installed audio, since you can - and this is the whole point - move the thing where ever you want in (or out of) the house in under 60 seconds and set it up facing the space whereever you are, giving you clear, unmuddied stereo. The three-way speakers are of good quality and tuned for standing-low-in-a-little-box performance.
One of the greates things about this solution is that - beside the power cord - you have zero cabelage. The one I have does have full-blow cinch audio in,out and through connectivity though, so I can hook it to an amp whenever needed.
There is but one downside: The thing (see picture) is ugly as hell. It's even so ugly, it actually is cool again. Anyway, despite it's sheer size for a gettoblaster (you don't want to carry this around with you for longer than 5 minutes) it is notably unobstrusive as a movable home stereo solution. And for that even a cheap one.
When my current one tanks I'll get something simular with a iPod dock as it's core component. Apple has some nice third party gettoblaster-ipod extensions on their site - you might want to consider that todays equivalent of a luxury gettoblaster.
My friend has flown to israel a few times. The people he visited have had various guests from germany over the time. Once one of the guests asked another one he only knew by first name to take his guitar back to germany as it would be to burdonsome for his stay which he wanted to extend.
At the Airport, the guy leaving for germany with said guitar was grilled. He couldn't provide satisfactory information about the origins of the guitar and it's owner and was asked to follow the guard into an interrogation room. They asked him to go ahead and closed and locked the door behind him and over intercom asked him to open the guitar case.
So much for a nice little adrenaline rush at Tel Aviv Airport.:-)
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Palladium Books.
www.palladiumbooks.com
The simple fact that they've done nothing but RPGs and survived to this very day earn my greatest respect. And they still have all the cool stuff and are regularly publishing new books. Very cool and a nice suprise for Xmas.:-)
Well isn't that cute. Nice try at a piece of Troll FUD. And you "wisely" drop the following sentence from what your quoting.
Here's the quote in context:
>>> Gaah. I don't tend to bother about slashdot, because quite frankly, the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own "insightful" comment on any random topic, whether they know anything about it or not.
[ And don't get me wrong - I follow slashdot too, exactly because it's fun
to see people argue. I'm not complaining;]
And I don't tend to worry about the Inquirer and the Register, because both of them are all about being rough and saying things in ways that might not be acceptable in other places, and that's what makes them fun to read. So when they then write something nasty about Linux (or me), hey, it goes with the territory.
So much for Linus complaining about slashdot. You trolling Sucker.:-)
He's merely doing his job as lead maintainer - which usually includes a little verbal dutch rub for the team once in a while. Getting tough is more like "Do that once more and I'll have Don Papa and his mob minions knocking at your door with a fresh set of baseball clubs!" or something like that.
1st of all, Socialisim is nothing else but a variant of Fashisim in a haphazard disguise of fake marxisim. What this guy probably is trying to say is that the concept of OSS is marxisim. That he mixes both doesn't shed a bright light on him.
Truth is that key concepts of OSS actually are marxisitc. The whole point being that marxisim utterly fails when it comes to material things (see any material-goods-economy even remotely related to marxisim) but outpaces by margins of magnitude any other concept when it comes to imaterial goods. Especially in the IT world, where copying imaterial goods is extremly easy. Here really everyone can take what they want without lessening that what others have.
OSS is marxisim with the brakes removed. Maybe that's what has SAP scared.
Then MM can be happy that it didn't do that a good job at promoting Flash as a RIA plattform. A bad Flash IDE and the large part of the customer base accustomed to building cool looking sites rather than huge functionality helped that.
But even though, Flash is still more powerfull that Ajax. And faster too. If they keep up buiding a VM for Linux it will still be my plattform of choice building RIAs. Which I, btw, do for a living.
Me, a year ago: ______ [Article: Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE] I see three scenarios: (Score:4, Insightful) by Qbertino (265505) on Tuesday November 04, @09:58AM (#7386243) 1.) Novell does a f*ck up with SuSE, goes down the drain and pulls SuSE along until they're bought out by somebody else. This is somewhat likely, as SuSE is doing very good as a Linux brand right now. It could hardly get better rather than worse. In germany (most Linux users per capita) SuSE is even synonym for Linux! All in all that would stall Linux brand recognition but probably be good news for Mandrake, the last one left.
2.) Novell has actually seen the light and plans way ahead into the future, were software won't make a buck anymore, but free software will reign and the business is in services.
3.) Novell/SuSE twitches here and there, barely surviving, taking shares from Mandrake, they all die eventually, Mickeysoft prevails and there is a 5 year setback for OSS, with only Gentoo and Debian to the rescue in the far future, when the OSS model has consumed everything.
Bottom line: I don't like this news. Sound bad. Chances are to high that this once o-so big company Novell is gonna screw up. And SuSE is my first recomendation to n00bs right now. It would be a real shame for them to go down the drain. ______
Looks like number one was a hit. Novell didn't see the light. The didn't plan ahead. They're visionless and now sqirming around probably just to prolong some classic VC money. I can just imagine the people involved summoning all efforts to pull their head out of the noose as we speak. They fallen for some hothead geeks and their buzz at Ximian as a last resort, but couldn't convey that spirit into a big business. Unlike Ximian - more or less a geeks workshop - SuSE was a *big* company with lots of disciplined fulltime professionals maintaining a frontline distro. The simple truth is that SuSE was a bigger Linux company than Novell will probably ever be, with one of the longest track records in the OSS industry. Novell on the other hand is just inflated stock and some karma and credit from a decade ago when they were big in the network business. Instead of throwing their marketing value behind SuSE and tuning low on the rebranding & bullshit strategy they did it all wrong. Nothing less than a major botch. Bad move, you stupid execs. No mercy here.
Note Number 3 above. This is what's actually going to happen. If Novell goes belly up, which I expect more than ever, that will be the end of commercial distros as we know it.
BTW: The current rise of Apple with their small, simple and cheap all-in-one appliances doesn't help the current situation for x86-OSS-as-MS-alternative either.
I'd pick KDE. KDE is more consitent than Gnome and does a better job at ridding the crappyness of the x86 Linux Desktop anachonisims, such as XFrees ancient non-existant Font management or the lack of XFree clipboard usage. Since 3.0 KDE just says "GIMME THAT! I'll take care" and gone are two major anoyances of the pure OSS Desktop. Be it that it weighs heavier than Gnome but if todays systems can take such behemoths as XP, Mac OS X, then they shure can handle KDE.
I actually find Gnome prettier and less clutsy in apperance and I dislike the fact that default KDE apes the crappiness of Windows Keybindings, but on the other hand I love KDEs easy configurability. The utility libs are, afaict, more sophisticated (example: editor widget) and KWin has evolved from a joke of a WM it was to a solid foundation for KDE. Unlike Gnome the KDE people don't change their core WM every odd month - in the end it paid off.
This is the general impression I've had about KDE/Gnome the last two years. I've actually wondered why Ubuntu uses Gnome as default. From what I can tell, the core Gnome team members are probably better at advocacy than the KDE people. That could be the reason.
One last indicator makes the last solid point: The reality is that I miss an awfull lot in a pure Gnome enviroment, but I nearly miss nothing in a pure KDE setup.
Remember the Fidonet? The Net that ruled all of the Pack (Minitel, Compuserve, whatever)? A net entirely built and controlled by citizens! Now imagine a Fidonet protokoll that supports web-like features such as easy cross-referencing and images. The quality of a network like that would be much higher than what we have as the web today.
I'd pick an entirely cititzen controlled modern asynchronous net over the web any day.
Just for the benefit of any non-Christian out there who is reading this and honestly wondering: this is not even remotely close to any standard Christian belief.
Just for the benefit of anyone wondering out there: Propaganda drivel of popular confessions and their material interests aside, there is no such thing as a "Standard Christian Belief".
However, there are - again, lets be precise - 'Popular Confessions of Christianity'.
And if you meant that the theories and reasonings I posted above are hard to find in the common lore of todays popular confessions I'd agree. It is, however, not impossible to find. And it can actually be found in various places somewhat independent of one another.
INTELLIGENT DESIGN IS NOT SCIENCE. Spend a penny of my tax money to teach it and I'm coming for your scalp. Period. Shut up you fucking moron.
You'd be suprised to hear that one of the most famous believers in ID was Darwin. He actually saw both as not contradicting in any way. I tend to agree. Just because life evolves evolutionary it doesn't mean evolution doesn't follow a plan. I do on the other hand consider it the uttermost heresy to even dare ponder the thought that a day in gods time is the same as a day in our time.
Ergo: Moderate ID pondering in unison with scientific knowledge and research results = yes Primitive crazy nuttcase USian creationisim = no
Jesus of Nazareth wasn't the Son of God in the sense it's usually understood - as being seperate from "the creator". He became one with "The Christ" at his babtisation through John. Christ not being exactly a bodily (how could you as a mere spiritual entity?) son of god but a high ranking spiritual entity that choose to seperate itself from - for the lack of a better term - "the heavens" by unifying himself with Jesus of Nazareth and thus bind himself to earth and humanity, sacrificing parts of his "deityness". What Jesus-he-who-is one-with-the-Christ meant when he said that he was "The son of god" was that he descended from the heavens and his 'older form' in order to be "reborn" as a new spiritual entity that through this sacrifice would be able to guide humanity back to the "spiritual heavens" again. He said that at some other time "No one will reach the light than through me."
The father and allmighty god people, and Jesus Christ aswell, still referred to back then was generally associated with the sun, the old egyptian sun god "Aton". The Jesus-Christ is nothing but that exact Sun God (Aton) that came to earth as human. Which, by the way, no other spiritual entity actually has done - thus Christ being special to other high ranking spiritual entities, such as for instance the ones we call the archangels Michael, Raphael, Gabriel or Uriel.
By the way(#2): Wether the highest god of the world, the Sun God Aton, would come to earth or not (by incarnation in an enlightend human ) was the major disagreement the two high priests Pharao Ramses and his half Brother Moses had. Moses wanted to prepare the descent of Aton to earth by building a more liberal society with people being able to think for themselves without being to dependant on the scholar wisdom of pharaos to function (egypt was an extremly regulated society - also due to its need to deal with flood agriculture in a disciplined manner). It was this disagreement that caused Moses to leave for more moderately climated lands. And, rumors and false bible interpretations to the contrary, he didn't need 40 years to find it. Moses was one of the smartes people back then and the egyptians generally knew their way around the mediteranian (i'd say 3 months aprox, for crossing the arabian peninsula) - it was the new society that needed 2 generations (roughly 40 years) to shake it's old egyptian habbits. Thats the reality behind the metaphor used in the bible. Thus the ten commandments weren't anything new from god, but the last remains of old egyptian rules that moses changed, modified and broke down for his confused followers who couldn't quite shake the habbit of dancing around golden calfs right away. So to speak. One can presume though that Moses, being an extremly well trained high priest and most certainly 'enlightend', propably had a little help by Aton and some of his subalterns in doing that.
That JesusHeWhoIsOneWithTheChrist (make that a singleton:-) ) is a reborn/incarnated Aton and thus related and in unison to/with him at the same time, does also show in the fact that todays "Lords Prayer" is nothing but a slightly modified "cover version" of "Atons Praise" by the Pharao Echn Aton - which curiously enough - means "Son of Aton", or, more precise, Son of God (ring a bell?). Thus some of those who believe in reincarnation (80% of humanity) subscribe to the theory that Jesus of Nazareth is nobody else than the reincarnated individual of Pharao Echn Aton. But thats a different story, albeight a not to far fetched one I'd say. Because if so, Jesus of Nazareth, the Jesus-Christ, would be the "Son of God" in two ways actually. One as the reincarnated human soul of Priest & Pharao "Echn Aton" (Son of God) and one in being the human with which Christ, the descended "Sun God" chose to unify himself. Interessting isn't it?
This was bound to happen. The DMCA is some crazy piece of sh*t sprung from the mind of people unable to think the thing all the way through. There are US american judges who even say that the DMCA is unconstitutional and thus doesn't apply where anti fair-use lobbys would like to have it.
This goes to show that even the US can only bear so much insanity in laws before people wake up and backpedal. We'll probably see a fair amount of trim-down on the DMCA until it's actually usable. Those are the big upsides of having a democracy, even if the individual democracies have their very personal system flaws.
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SuSE Professional comes with the best dead tree documentation available for a distro and has payed support. For any real business enviroment that is the selling point.
Any Creationist that really believes a day in gods time is the same as a day in human time is nothing but a heretic.
Any scientist believing that the laws of physics allways were the same and allways will be the same and founding all he suposes about long term earth and universe history on that assumption is being nothing but silly.
And BTW: ID "followers" actually do "believe" in evolution. Read: Know it's true. They just also believe that it is influenced by a higher power (God, in this case). The most prominent Evolutionist believing the same.
This whole debate is nothing but a heated wingflapping by people on either side making fools of themselves.
For instance me.
:-) (I hardly play with), but it's in my main mail pipeline so I see anything that shows up there and isn't spam. I'm based in germany, but as you said, that isn't really an issue nowadays.
I have a list of people I know personally and have worked with and allthough I'm not the Über-developer I'd say I could come up within a month the most with a team that can pull off nearly any coding job. People who know me call me with the most remote and unusual developement problems, because they expect me to have some ace up my sleve that will bring their project up to speed. And ususaully I have.
There should be other people like this, because this is a market, as it fills the gap between the people who code all day and the people who sell the stuff they code. In large companies this is something simular to the technical account manager. In the Cyberpunk Roleplaying Game "Shadowrun" a freelance version of this type of job is called a "Fixer". I've actually come to think of myself as such a Fixer.
I'd say you recongnize one of my kind by a solid presentation (website, businesscard or simular) without any all to shallow marketing babble. They appear hard to reach on their website (because reachability is one of their main products), but once your on the line they'll start working on your problem instantly. They usually have good oral skills and probably speak 2 or more languages fluently, as this trains the brain in the way needed to pull this type of work and comes with it naturally.
They appear as a jack of all trades because they usually are. If they are good, they know themselves that they are master of none and will come up with experts for the job and position themselves as mediator by themselves. (f.i. I personally am trained in Arts and have developed since the age of 16, making me an ideal mediator for any web application and RIA stuff)
Allthough my kind hate grunt work and fixing the details, I can see the ones that need to be addressed imidiately before anybody else has even thought of them. People like me can usually tell you if your project is doomed before you blow any larger amounts of money. They'll name the loopholes and bottlenecks and maybe even give advice what to look out for.
If you say this all sounds like a real consultant, it probably does. But I'd actually be insulted being called a consultant, because I've actually learned the professions I trade in, even if I don't practice them as purely as others do.
Look around for freelance professionals that advertise their conections in a reashuring manner. Don't be put of if they seem hard to reach (hard to find contact data on their website, only a mailadress, etc.). Go after them. Once you've got them on the phone you'll be able to tell quickly if their up to the job. I tell my customers imediately if they don't really need or want me and if they should look somewhere else. Another thing professional "fixers" are recognized by.
Good luck.
P.S.:I don't do usually don't do this, but if you'd actually like to get in conact with me to get on your developement problem, mail me at moira [somewhere near] demetria.de . It's the mail address of my WoW Character
was the whole bit about "This fine british paper" that Powell presented. A paper from, suposedly british intelligence origin, describing all the Über-Threats from Iraq and the dangers coming from them. When it hit the news that the entire paper was copy and pasted from an american students essay posted on the internet, related to Desert Storm in 1991 - copied with exact same typos and all - I was laughing my head off for half an hour. I still crack up today just writing about this. ... The sad part is that they usually do.
Absolutely hilarious with cheap and phony shams polititians use to try to get away with things.
"Fine british paper." An instant classic. Absolutely.
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As a matter of fact I've been laughing to tears again the last 5 minutes at the end of this post.
Monthy Python really pales compared to the bizarness of this incident.
Since the MS .doc format is largely made up of binary memory dumps of the various word processors that use it, this anouncement is mostly pointless. It just might ease the process of reading them a little for those who do this allready.
Tell me when MS uses a format that is built around mutual reliable readability and not obfuscation. That would be news.
Curiously enough Rudolf Steiner once stated that the laws of physics aren't the same everywhere. According to him they gradually change the further you get away from a certain point in space. He said something like:"Very much like the gravity influence of an object declines the further away you get from it, so do the laws of physics change."
This could be the proof of his statement.
Imagine the Rolling Stones, REM, Madonna (and her indipendent label) and a handfull of others saying "No go." and opening up their own music plattform with a handfull of experts and some tweaked OSS software. No, the classic "touchable media" based business is rapidly declining and the publishers have finally gotten the message. And they won't get pissy with artists either - it's to easy to turn around and go away when all you need to distribute is a good name, some rackspace and automated electronic billing.
No it's not about that. It's probably about charging different prices at different times and from different people / target groups.
Long answer: WHAT?
Who in God's name would use an add supported Windows? Windows is the worst commodity OS there is - and it's a whole add in itself.
I would however use an add-supported enviroment like Mac OS X if it came with a load of full-blown closed-source applications of the type I use for work.
Give me a sale offer of a strong Mac with widescreen, tablet, mouse a current OS X install + the entire adobe and macromedia suites, the entire Apple Video Line of Software and Lightwave, Cinema or Maya with all plugins. All of this installed and ready to run (!!) plus some offsite config backup service set up for my personal turnkey usage (my iBook HDD tanked the other week and recovering all the application configs was a pain and lost me a couple of days - aside from data backup which took 30 minutes. It royally sucked getting back to speed, even though I do regular backups).
Then you can bill me a fair amount and show me adds. And if they're intelligent, don't suck and are realted to what I actually do for a living (just look at the software I selected to see what I mean) I'll actually even look at these adds.
Adds can be cool, you know? They just need to provide the information I want - then I'll even be sold.
BTW:
Something like this will come soon, when OSS has gained large mindshare and people will start paying for not having to spend weeks to build and set up a zero-hassle unix-variant, partly/wholly OSS based box and work enviroment.
My only home Audio solution for the last 10 years has been a top-line Panasonic Gettoblaster (RX DT 75). Dual-Tape (fast dub), CD, Radio, Time/Timer (for *everything*, incl. timed radio recording, timed wake-up+playback or wake-up+record from stand-by, etc...).
And *everything* is remote controlled with a full-blow 40-button remote- my last main buying point.
On top of that all CD drawers, display covers and tape deck slots are power driven and remote controllable.
The audio quality is great and even beats (no pun intended) installed audio, since you can - and this is the whole point - move the thing where ever you want in (or out of) the house in under 60 seconds and set it up facing the space whereever you are, giving you clear, unmuddied stereo. The three-way speakers are of good quality and tuned for standing-low-in-a-little-box performance.
One of the greates things about this solution is that - beside the power cord - you have zero cabelage. The one I have does have full-blow cinch audio in,out and through connectivity though, so I can hook it to an amp whenever needed.
There is but one downside: The thing (see picture) is ugly as hell. It's even so ugly, it actually is cool again. Anyway, despite it's sheer size for a gettoblaster (you don't want to carry this around with you for longer than 5 minutes) it is notably unobstrusive as a movable home stereo solution. And for that even a cheap one.
When my current one tanks I'll get something simular with a iPod dock as it's core component. Apple has some nice third party gettoblaster-ipod extensions on their site - you might want to consider that todays equivalent of a luxury gettoblaster.
My 2 cents.
A friend of a friend of a friend's tale:
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My friend has flown to israel a few times. The people he visited have had various guests from germany over the time. Once one of the guests asked another one he only knew by first name to take his guitar back to germany as it would be to burdonsome for his stay which he wanted to extend.
At the Airport, the guy leaving for germany with said guitar was grilled. He couldn't provide satisfactory information about the origins of the guitar and it's owner and was asked to follow the guard into an interrogation room. They asked him to go ahead and closed and locked the door behind him and over intercom asked him to open the guitar case.
So much for a nice little adrenaline rush at Tel Aviv Airport.
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Palladium Books.
:-)
www.palladiumbooks.com
The simple fact that they've done nothing but RPGs and survived to this very day earn my greatest respect. And they still have all the cool stuff and are regularly publishing new books. Very cool and a nice suprise for Xmas.
Well isn't that cute. Nice try at a piece of Troll FUD.
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And you "wisely" drop the following sentence from what your quoting.
Here's the quote in context:
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Gaah. I don't tend to bother about slashdot, because quite frankly, the
whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with
people getting together and making their own "insightful" comment on any
random topic, whether they know anything about it or not.
[ And don't get me wrong - I follow slashdot too, exactly because it's fun
to see people argue. I'm not complaining
And I don't tend to worry about the Inquirer and the Register, because
both of them are all about being rough and saying things in ways that
might not be acceptable in other places, and that's what makes them fun to
read. So when they then write something nasty about Linux (or me), hey, it
goes with the territory.
So much for Linus complaining about slashdot.
You trolling Sucker.
He's merely doing his job as lead maintainer - which usually includes a little verbal dutch rub for the team once in a while.
Getting tough is more like "Do that once more and I'll have Don Papa and his mob minions knocking at your door with a fresh set of baseball clubs!" or something like that.
There's an offical Flash Player 7 for linux. MM even has people inside testing the Flash IDE on PC Linux/Wine.
1st of all, Socialisim is nothing else but a variant of Fashisim in a haphazard disguise of fake marxisim.
What this guy probably is trying to say is that the concept of OSS is marxisim. That he mixes both doesn't shed a bright light on him.
Truth is that key concepts of OSS actually are marxisitc. The whole point being that marxisim utterly fails when it comes to material things (see any material-goods-economy even remotely related to marxisim) but outpaces by margins of magnitude any other concept when it comes to imaterial goods. Especially in the IT world, where copying imaterial goods is extremly easy. Here really everyone can take what they want without lessening that what others have.
OSS is marxisim with the brakes removed. Maybe that's what has SAP scared.
Then MM can be happy that it didn't do that a good job at promoting Flash as a RIA plattform. A bad Flash IDE and the large part of the customer base accustomed to building cool looking sites rather than huge functionality helped that.
But even though, Flash is still more powerfull that Ajax. And faster too. If they keep up buiding a VM for Linux it will still be my plattform of choice building RIAs. Which I, btw, do for a living.
Me, a year ago:
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[Article: Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE]
I see three scenarios: (Score:4, Insightful)
by Qbertino (265505) on Tuesday November 04, @09:58AM (#7386243)
1.) Novell does a f*ck up with SuSE, goes down the drain and pulls SuSE along until they're bought out by somebody else. This is somewhat likely, as SuSE is doing very good as a Linux brand right now. It could hardly get better rather than worse. In germany (most Linux users per capita) SuSE is even synonym for Linux!
All in all that would stall Linux brand recognition but probably be good news for Mandrake, the last one left.
2.) Novell has actually seen the light and plans way ahead into the future, were software won't make a buck anymore, but free software will reign and the business is in services.
3.) Novell/SuSE twitches here and there, barely surviving, taking shares from Mandrake, they all die eventually, Mickeysoft prevails and there is a 5 year setback for OSS, with only Gentoo and Debian to the rescue in the far future, when the OSS model has consumed everything.
Bottom line:
I don't like this news. Sound bad. Chances are to high that this once o-so big company Novell is gonna screw up. And SuSE is my first recomendation to n00bs right now. It would be a real shame for them to go down the drain.
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Looks like number one was a hit. Novell didn't see the light. The didn't plan ahead. They're visionless and now sqirming around probably just to prolong some classic VC money. I can just imagine the people involved summoning all efforts to pull their head out of the noose as we speak. They fallen for some hothead geeks and their buzz at Ximian as a last resort, but couldn't convey that spirit into a big business. Unlike Ximian - more or less a geeks workshop - SuSE was a *big* company with lots of disciplined fulltime professionals maintaining a frontline distro. The simple truth is that SuSE was a bigger Linux company than Novell will probably ever be, with one of the longest track records in the OSS industry. Novell on the other hand is just inflated stock and some karma and credit from a decade ago when they were big in the network business. Instead of throwing their marketing value behind SuSE and tuning low on the rebranding & bullshit strategy they did it all wrong. Nothing less than a major botch. Bad move, you stupid execs. No mercy here.
Note Number 3 above. This is what's actually going to happen. If Novell goes belly up, which I expect more than ever, that will be the end of commercial distros as we know it.
BTW: The current rise of Apple with their small, simple and cheap all-in-one appliances doesn't help the current situation for x86-OSS-as-MS-alternative either.
UQM is "The Ur-Quan Masters" and is a great clone of Star Control.
Yes, nice, but does it run on Geforce 4600 Ti GFX Card?
I'd pick KDE. KDE is more consitent than Gnome and does a better job at ridding the crappyness of the x86 Linux Desktop anachonisims, such as XFrees ancient non-existant Font management or the lack of XFree clipboard usage. Since 3.0 KDE just says "GIMME THAT! I'll take care" and gone are two major anoyances of the pure OSS Desktop. Be it that it weighs heavier than Gnome but if todays systems can take such behemoths as XP, Mac OS X, then they shure can handle KDE.
I actually find Gnome prettier and less clutsy in apperance and I dislike the fact that default KDE apes the crappiness of Windows Keybindings, but on the other hand I love KDEs easy configurability. The utility libs are, afaict, more sophisticated (example: editor widget) and KWin has evolved from a joke of a WM it was to a solid foundation for KDE. Unlike Gnome the KDE people don't change their core WM every odd month - in the end it paid off.
This is the general impression I've had about KDE/Gnome the last two years. I've actually wondered why Ubuntu uses Gnome as default. From what I can tell, the core Gnome team members are probably better at advocacy than the KDE people. That could be the reason.
One last indicator makes the last solid point:
The reality is that I miss an awfull lot in a pure Gnome enviroment, but I nearly miss nothing in a pure KDE setup.
Remember the Fidonet? The Net that ruled all of the Pack (Minitel, Compuserve, whatever)?
A net entirely built and controlled by citizens!
Now imagine a Fidonet protokoll that supports web-like features such as easy cross-referencing and images.
The quality of a network like that would be much higher than what we have as the web today.
I'd pick an entirely cititzen controlled modern asynchronous net over the web any day.
Just for the benefit of any non-Christian out there who is reading this and honestly wondering: this is not even remotely close to any standard Christian belief.
Just for the benefit of anyone wondering out there:
Propaganda drivel of popular confessions and their material interests aside, there is no such thing as a "Standard Christian Belief".
However, there are - again, lets be precise - 'Popular Confessions of Christianity'.
And if you meant that the theories and reasonings I posted above are hard to find in the common lore of todays popular confessions I'd agree.
It is, however, not impossible to find. And it can actually be found in various places somewhat independent of one another.
INTELLIGENT DESIGN IS NOT SCIENCE. Spend a penny of my tax money to teach it and I'm coming for your scalp. Period. Shut up you fucking moron.
You'd be suprised to hear that one of the most famous believers in ID was Darwin. He actually saw both as not contradicting in any way. I tend to agree.
Just because life evolves evolutionary it doesn't mean evolution doesn't follow a plan.
I do on the other hand consider it the uttermost heresy to even dare ponder the thought that a day in gods time is the same as a day in our time.
Ergo:
Moderate ID pondering in unison with scientific knowledge and research results = yes
Primitive crazy nuttcase USian creationisim = no
Jesus was the SON Of GOD, NOT The Creator.
:-) ) is a reborn/incarnated Aton and thus related and in unison to/with him at the same time, does also show in the fact that todays "Lords Prayer" is nothing but a slightly modified "cover version" of "Atons Praise" by the Pharao Echn Aton - which curiously enough - means "Son of Aton", or, more precise, Son of God (ring a bell?). Thus some of those who believe in reincarnation (80% of humanity) subscribe to the theory that Jesus of Nazareth is nobody else than the reincarnated individual of Pharao Echn Aton. But thats a different story, albeight a not to far fetched one I'd say. Because if so, Jesus of Nazareth, the Jesus-Christ, would be the "Son of God" in two ways actually. One as the reincarnated human soul of Priest & Pharao "Echn Aton" (Son of God) and one in being the human with which Christ, the descended "Sun God" chose to unify himself.
Let's be a tad more precise, shall we?
*enter scholastic crashcourse*
Jesus of Nazareth wasn't the Son of God in the sense it's usually understood - as being seperate from "the creator".
He became one with "The Christ" at his babtisation through John. Christ not being exactly a bodily (how could you as a mere spiritual entity?) son of god but a high ranking spiritual entity that choose to seperate itself from - for the lack of a better term - "the heavens" by unifying himself with Jesus of Nazareth and thus bind himself to earth and humanity, sacrificing parts of his "deityness".
What Jesus-he-who-is one-with-the-Christ meant when he said that he was "The son of god" was that he descended from the heavens and his 'older form' in order to be "reborn" as a new spiritual entity that through this sacrifice would be able to guide humanity back to the "spiritual heavens" again. He said that at some other time "No one will reach the light than through me."
The father and allmighty god people, and Jesus Christ aswell, still referred to back then was generally associated with the sun, the old egyptian sun god "Aton". The Jesus-Christ is nothing but that exact Sun God (Aton) that came to earth as human. Which, by the way, no other spiritual entity actually has done - thus Christ being special to other high ranking spiritual entities, such as for instance the ones we call the archangels Michael, Raphael, Gabriel or Uriel.
By the way(#2): Wether the highest god of the world, the Sun God Aton, would come to earth or not (by incarnation in an enlightend human ) was the major disagreement the two high priests Pharao Ramses and his half Brother Moses had. Moses wanted to prepare the descent of Aton to earth by building a more liberal society with people being able to think for themselves without being to dependant on the scholar wisdom of pharaos to function (egypt was an extremly regulated society - also due to its need to deal with flood agriculture in a disciplined manner). It was this disagreement that caused Moses to leave for more moderately climated lands. And, rumors and false bible interpretations to the contrary, he didn't need 40 years to find it. Moses was one of the smartes people back then and the egyptians generally knew their way around the mediteranian (i'd say 3 months aprox, for crossing the arabian peninsula) - it was the new society that needed 2 generations (roughly 40 years) to shake it's old egyptian habbits. Thats the reality behind the metaphor used in the bible.
Thus the ten commandments weren't anything new from god, but the last remains of old egyptian rules that moses changed, modified and broke down for his confused followers who couldn't quite shake the habbit of dancing around golden calfs right away. So to speak. One can presume though that Moses, being an extremly well trained high priest and most certainly 'enlightend', propably had a little help by Aton and some of his subalterns in doing that.
That JesusHeWhoIsOneWithTheChrist (make that a singleton
Interessting isn't it?
This was bound to happen. The DMCA is some crazy piece of sh*t sprung from the mind of people unable to think the thing all the way through.
There are US american judges who even say that the DMCA is unconstitutional and thus doesn't apply where anti fair-use lobbys would like to have it.
This goes to show that even the US can only bear so much insanity in laws before people wake up and backpedal. We'll probably see a fair amount of trim-down on the DMCA until it's actually usable. Those are the big upsides of having a democracy, even if the individual democracies have their very personal system flaws.