As a pseudolibertarian geek, I would *love* it if the government would keep its greasy hands out of people's (and corporations') lives. However, you'll excuse my cynicism if they start a hands-off policy with the richest man in the world (maybe #2; how's Oracle doing compared to MS?). Somehow, I doubt that I will ever receive that degree of leniency from them, being rather poor....
If I had moderator points, you would have moderator points. I knew the WWW seemed... lacking, but I did not know where to find what I was missing. Thank You for the link!
Nope, I'm with you, except I love the idea, I just hate what it did to my dorm's netthroughput. My uni didn't ban Napster, the upstream provider did, and man! did the net speed up! It puts me in the position of using the fat pipe at work to get my MP3's, but hey....
Hmm. I have a similar setup: I put the disk image (image.be?) in/usr/beos,/usr being a separate partition. Booted with the boot floppy, worked great. Then I found the Installer program in the Apps directory, and did an install to an "unused" partition (sorry Hurd!), told my boot manager about it, and BAM! Works as advertised. SMP enabled, too, something I was led to believe wasn't available in the Personal Edition. It finds all my VFAT and EXT2 partitions, mounts them happily, etc. I doubt I'll use it a lot, Linux serves my needs real well (I do Java programming for school, and Be's support for Java is pre-pre-pre-alpha:( ) but if the app support comes around, I'd much rather see Be than Windows on Joe User's desktop.
Although I would really prefer not to, I have to agree with the author of one of the previous posts: A journaling filesystem is a good thing, and I'm glad to hear about it. Learn to use the Preferences page, uncheck the topics you don't want to see on MySlashDot, and live happy! Me personally? I could live happy forever without ever hearing CmdrTaco blather about some piece of Star Wars nonsensabilia, so I *uncheck* the Star Wars box! Simple! Easy! Fun!! Try it! It's *ever* so much more fun than whining. Well, probably not for you and the other semi-pro whiners....
Besides, why would a natural reaction to good news for a successful product that many power users use make people "angry". Do the story posters have to be so anti-MS?
I'm guessing the poster is referring to the inevitable knee-jerk fizzing-at-the-mouth/. reaction to the merest insinuation that someone may be running Windows without a large-caliber weapon held to their head by a jack-booted MStormtrooper.
Romero has trivialized himself with this PR abortion. The game industry has moved on so far by this point, there's no way D can break even, much less succeed. If Romero had put a little more effort into being a first-class game producer than he did into being Mr. Computer Game Rock Star, he might still be relevant to the industry. That didn't happen....
Hey, enjoy the game if it ever ships. I don't know, though, that test version they shipped a while back looked exactly like an average Q2 mod. Maybe all the *really* good stuff is what's holding up the release! Yeah....
No, it's not. It's provitamin A, converted to A in your body. Good, and good for you! Plus, it can turn you yellowish-orange, if consumed in staggering quantities.
The reading of a thermometer in space would likely be whatever the reading was *before* the thermometer was put into space. Vacuum is a good insulator.:)
I don't seem to recall the collapse of France in WWI. Perhaps you are referring to France's graceless capitulation in WWII, and their slavish bootlicking of the Nazi overlord?
I think Robert Silverberg is being unfairly excluded from this discussion. Sure, he spans the range from ignorable hack to overliterary, but there are some real gems in there. I think, especially for a younger reader, the Majipoor trilogy would be an excellent choice. Perhaps followed up by "Born with the Dead".
The Gap series? My god, as a grown man, I found the first couple of books in that series so damned *dark* I still haven't reread the series. I did find the series incredibly enjoyable, overall, and the way the story developed was truly inspiring, but I'd definitely think twice before I gave it to a kid to read.
Wonderful suggestions, they are. An uncle who gave me his copy of Dune to read on a long bus trip started my lifelong fascination with "real" science fiction. And Songs of Distant Earth, with its gentle, wistful tone, is a delightful book.
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As a pseudolibertarian geek, I would *love* it if the government would keep its greasy hands out of people's (and corporations') lives. However, you'll excuse my cynicism if they start a hands-off policy with the richest man in the world (maybe #2; how's Oracle doing compared to MS?). Somehow, I doubt that I will ever receive that degree of leniency from them, being rather poor....
If I had moderator points, you would have moderator points. I knew the WWW seemed... lacking, but I did not know where to find what I was missing. Thank You for the link!
Nope, I'm with you, except I love the idea, I just hate what it did to my dorm's netthroughput. My uni didn't ban Napster, the upstream provider did, and man! did the net speed up! It puts me in the position of using the fat pipe at work to get my MP3's, but hey....
Hmm. I have a similar setup: I put the disk image (image.be?) in /usr/beos, /usr being a separate partition. Booted with the boot floppy, worked great. Then I found the Installer program in the Apps directory, and did an install to an "unused" partition (sorry Hurd!), told my boot manager about it, and BAM! Works as advertised. SMP enabled, too, something I was led to believe wasn't available in the Personal Edition. It finds all my VFAT and EXT2 partitions, mounts them happily, etc. I doubt I'll use it a lot, Linux serves my needs real well (I do Java programming for school, and Be's support for Java is pre-pre-pre-alpha :( ) but if the app support comes around, I'd much rather see Be than Windows on Joe User's desktop.
Yes it would, and the chance that the article would be grammatical and properly spelled would be better than average.
Although I would really prefer not to, I have to agree with the author of one of the previous posts: A journaling filesystem is a good thing, and I'm glad to hear about it. Learn to use the Preferences page, uncheck the topics you don't want to see on MySlashDot, and live happy! Me personally? I could live happy forever without ever hearing CmdrTaco blather about some piece of Star Wars nonsensabilia, so I *uncheck* the Star Wars box! Simple! Easy! Fun!! Try it! It's *ever* so much more fun than whining. Well, probably not for you and the other semi-pro whiners....
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A: Doritos.
Besides, why would a natural reaction to good news for a successful product that many power users use make people "angry". Do the story posters have to be so anti-MS?
/. reaction to the merest insinuation that someone may be running Windows without a large-caliber weapon held to their head by a jack-booted MStormtrooper.
I'm guessing the poster is referring to the inevitable knee-jerk fizzing-at-the-mouth
Romero has trivialized himself with this PR abortion. The game industry has moved on so far by this point, there's no way D can break even, much less succeed. If Romero had put a little more effort into being a first-class game producer than he did into being Mr. Computer Game Rock Star, he might still be relevant to the industry. That didn't happen....
Hey, enjoy the game if it ever ships. I don't know, though, that test version they shipped a while back looked exactly like an average Q2 mod. Maybe all the *really* good stuff is what's holding up the release! Yeah....
The beauty of a sexy built-in "string" type
Uh, wasn't Pascal the language where two strings of different lengths were considered to be of different types?
If that's sexy to you.... shudder
we heer in flagstaff have them new cabel modems. i use mine to throw at sheeps.
I haven't enough data to understand why this is a disturbing development. I was under the impression that NS had nowhere to go but up.
I guess i mistook the average /.'er to be intelligent.
Newbie.
Don't forget that Quaker Oats instant oatmeal is pretty cool and fast to make too... The maple syrup kind is yummy!
It would be if they didn't *salt* it! I mean, really, who in the hell thought of sweet, maply (is that a word?) oatmeal with salt?
Broke my heart, it did.
No, it's not. It's provitamin A, converted to A in your body. Good, and good for you! Plus, it can turn you yellowish-orange, if consumed in staggering quantities.
If your site will have more recipes like that, I'm interested. *drool*
Yes, I suppose I *am* pathetic, at that....
I found myself reading the mathematics FAQ recently, and it seems to be well-accepted that 0/0 *is* equal to 1.
The reading of a thermometer in space would likely be whatever the reading was *before* the thermometer was put into space. Vacuum is a good insulator. :)
You remind me of JWZ in some strange way....
Would US modems even *work* in India? Or are telcos standardized, these days?
I don't seem to recall the collapse of France in WWI. Perhaps you are referring to France's graceless capitulation in WWII, and their slavish bootlicking of the Nazi overlord?
I think Robert Silverberg is being unfairly excluded from this discussion. Sure, he spans the range from ignorable hack to overliterary, but there are some real gems in there. I think, especially for a younger reader, the Majipoor trilogy would be an excellent choice. Perhaps followed up by "Born with the Dead".
Everything by ... Samuel Delaney
Say! Are you *the* person who actually read all of Dhalgren?
Props to you!
The Gap series? My god, as a grown man, I found the first couple of books in that series so damned *dark* I still haven't reread the series. I did find the series incredibly enjoyable, overall, and the way the story developed was truly inspiring, but I'd definitely think twice before I gave it to a kid to read.
Wonderful suggestions, they are. An uncle who gave me his copy of Dune to read on a long bus trip started my lifelong fascination with "real" science fiction. And Songs of Distant Earth, with its gentle, wistful tone, is a delightful book.