Well, here in Madison WI the cable modem activity light has been pumping for 4 days solid. So the blocked the port? Ya right whatever they say. Shouldn't have happened in the 1st place if the peanut brained admins and so call security officer would have had the 3 to 4 brains cells to dl the patch and install the silly thing. Oh, well. Maybe the CIO's will take a little heat and snap out of it. One can only hope!
Well, since my father was a cop for over 30 years and I grew up around Detectives, D.A.'s. Judges, etc... I can say that your absolutely correct. The problem is that the average has got the slightest idea about their rights and for that matter basic laws. If the BSA shows up at my door I'll tell the to get them fuck of my property. If the BSA shows up again I call the police for trespassing, disturbing the peace, and file a tort for harassment. The I contact the press to see if I can get a reporter to cover this. I doubt I'll hear from the BSA anytime soon.
This guy should be banned from/. for life. He needs to wake up so he might discover what fucking century he's living in. This isn't the 1800's and frankly if any one needs shipping anywhere it's him. Preferably to the nearest penal colony or sanitarium. Who's moderating here anyway?
Well, never was that crazy about Gnome. This cinches it. Remember that M$ got involved (at least the rumors suggest as much) with Corel to port.Net to Linux. Now, Ximian is partnering up with M$? M$ contingency plan B: If Linux shows any amount of significant market share then M$ would love nothing more than to use this platform in thier "turn the world into dummy terminals that rent thier software from M$ strategy. M$'s viral approach! I'm in medicine and let's remember what a virus does. A virus gains access to the bodies production and regulatory mechanisms and then hijacks it ot create more copies of itself. Does this sound familiar? M$ wants nothing more than to insidiously gain access to the Linux production community (especially the viable commercial end of it) in order to gain control. There are generically two types of virii, a) smart virii - they don't kill thier host, they use the host to ensure the survival of the species and therefore keep their environment viable in order to proliferate, and b) dumb virii - (e.g. HIV) that kill their host. If this breed of virus doesn't find a "portal" of exit to another host it will die with the host because its environment is no longer viable and the mechanisms the virus needs no longer functions. M$ will first adhere to the "smart" viral strategy - take over the mechanisms of the host and keep them viable. But once M$ determines that Linux and it's community no longer server their needs or concludes that an acceptible "portal" for it's products exist outside of Linux M$ will adopt the "dumb" viral strategy and kill the host - that being Linux and the community. Frankly, I think Ximian is making deals with the Devil and we all no the inherent risk in that.
I'm not a geek. I have no programming skills what so ever. I have no problem what so ever running my penguin under kde. Right now I'm running kde2.1.2 and love it. And what the h e x2-toothpicks are you talking about concerning ease of use with Winblows. I'm not running W2K, I have a dual boot SuSE 7.2/W98 box. Last time I went into W98 to play CS the damn thing locked/BSOD'ed no less than 7 times (reboots and scandisk is fun-right?). Gee, install kde2 was so hard. Let's see: dl all the files into a newly made dir (gee left click-->create-->new directory - that's hard). start Xterm and cd into new dir. Run "rpm --nodeps --force *.i386.rpm (after saving old.kde2 dir's to.kde.old) Run ldconfig (or in my case SuSEconfig). follow instructions to install WMscript. Copy.kmailrc file into now kmailrc file. THAT'S LESS EFFORT THAN INSTALLING A SIERRA GAME IN MY W98 SYS. Frame rate of games in W98 30fps, in X with kde2 = 80-90fps. I AM THE AVERAGE JOE and linux is much easier. If kde app crashes kde keeps going, IF (rarely) kde2 crashes then X automatically restarts. I spent more time trying to keep M$ products happy than dealing with linux. Ya, bit rot is fun and Windows is the way? KDE 2.2.beta1 goes in tomorrow and I'll spend more time dl'ing the files than getting the WM setup and running. I'm in medicine, I don't want to have to spend all my free time trying to keep my system up and happy - that's way the only thing I use Winblows for is to play my games (when it hasn't crashed - again).
P.S. No.vbs virii either, now the only thing left for me (THE AVERAGE JOE) is a gui to set up my firewall.
Uh, lets see Window95 - a beta for windows98 - a beta for windowsME - a beta for XP - a beta for Xp - a beta for.net. etc....
Or to be more direct. Launch program executable in Widows, program fails, Windows crashes-BSOD's, locks up = reboot = scandisk/norton scan disk for 5 - 10 minutes = pray the fs wasn't corrupt and no reinstall of previous registry (or the whole freakin' OS). KDE 2.2.beta1 - launch program from Xterm - watch script run - program fails - read start scripts - see problem where crash occurred - edit config - launch program - watch script - program runs, or if running program crash KDE then X restarts and back into KDE read error log - edit config - run program runs - no reboot (or if so Reiser fs starts up with no data loss/corruption). And I have absolutely no programing ability what so ever - I'm in medicine. Gee decisions, decisions - not really.
$350 for OXP plus $100+ for XP OS or $70 for professional version of a Linux distro - decisions, decisions? Decision made, Thank you.
Why do people still buy crap like M$? I'm not interested in BSD (even though it's more eligant) and well BeOS is nice but - just no wealth of support and development for it. Linux aint bad!
"WARNING: This email was written on an OS using the viral 'GPL' as its license. Please check with Bill Gates before"
You have been reported to the FBI and your network is now being permently monitored by the M$ law enforcment dept, er - I mean the FBI anit piracy ivenstigation subdivision. The BSA will be arriving at you place of residence at 0700 hours to conduct audit. For some unexplained reason M$ is unable to deactive your operating system and therefore must assume that you system is either using pirated software or other software forbidden by the license and the EULA.
I subpeona is being issued and charges filed for violations of M$ laws, I mean breach of contract, no wait... make that....? Oh, The M$ legal council is reviewing the case presently.
What profits? (hehe) Does Killustrator make any money? And, once again, bully tactics from the lawyers. They would most likely lose in court so they thresten the University/author with a court case that will cost large amounts to defend hoping to use the scare tactic for a settlement. $2000.00 U.S. sounds like a poultry amount. I have a hard time believing that Adobe thinks their product name is only worth $2000. This sounds very peculiar. Ya, give um 50% of little or nothing.
This will never make it passed the initial hearings phase. "Illustrator" is a common Language word and "Killustrator" was only introduced into the vocabulary after the creation of "Koffice". It's just a scare ploy and has little if any litigatory merit. I see a possible counter-suit in the making, which would mean more press. And, as one poster mentioned, good press or bad press - all press is good press.
Cheers, Curtis
OMG!!! Regional IT Director? OOOOOOOOOk'
Wish I knew what business it was so I'd no to avoid it if I ever ran into it. Hey it's their money. I especially liked answer #3 - in otherwords these genuiuses locked themselves into an M$ contract they can't get out of - Outstanding! Well, then they just have to take what they get. Regardless if they pay through the nose for it.
Actually there's good evidence to support your statement. Pain stimuli induce endorphines. Endorphines are the bodies natural opiates. Therefore, A) inducing a behavior with multisensory stimuli will reinforce a both a psychometric and physiologic dependency, B) as "tolerance" develops an individual will desire more stimuli to gain the sensation of the initial event - in otherwords they will need more juice to feel the high that they felt when they started. Yes, shock junkies. What a perfect marketing tool! Just hope no one with a pacemaker tries this - player death and lawsuits - the killer app turns into a company killer (and just a plain outright killer). They should run trials with a control group. The control group should be average players. The test group should be all the marketing and advertising execs at the company (or any corporation will do), preferablly those over 45 that lead a sedentary lifestyle.
Ya, that's the ticket!!!
=hypocracy. Gee, isn't that an open source development (ipv6)? Yes, M$ is allowed to us it. But they have to release any part to the GPL'ed code that they have modified in order for the rest of the "community" to see it. If they "bundle" or tie it to a "proprietary" software program they have the right to keep that part of it to them selves. Any company has the right to keep their proprietary software protected, but they must release any modified "GPL" software they tinker with - M$ is no exception. I don't have a problem with M$ regarding use of GPL software (and I'm no fan of M$). However, this recent discovery is proof of M$' hypocracy! To slam and spread vicious FUD about the "evils" of Open Source while all the while researching open source developments is sleazy. This is nothing new and should come as no shock. People need to be reminded of this and this should be used to illustrate that M$ relies on open source in many ways. Can you say Kerobos(excuse my spelling) protocal? The guys at MIT and Berkeley sure can, especially after the release of W2K and the M$ "proprietary version of this open standard, which was used to corner clients into upgrades of W2K. Gates, Ballmer, and company are very worried about the open source movement. Why? Because they haven't figured out a way to effectively "embrace and extend" the M$ control over it. But this doesn't stop them from attempting to hijack any relevent or useful developments that will come out of the Open Source community.
Cheers.:)
To compensate for this the humans use a primers like scenerio. They are refered to as EPSP's and IPSP's or excititory post synaptic and inhibitory post synaptic potentials. If it takes X-mV's to potential an action potential for a neuron or to actuate the NMJ (neuro-muscular junction) from one neuron to another, the neuron can be potentialized by having input from several neurons to a common neuron (e.g. the one used to actuate the muscle) and therefore it will take less of a charge (if you will) to actuate the signal. This doesn't cause the AP (action potential) to travel any faster, but it doesn't help to heighten the response of the individual. Pair this with adrenaline and you'll get a pretty quick reaction response.
This is why I stopped playing Q3A. I have a cable modem and I rarely get pings >150. But it became very apparent to me that Q3A had become a game of "my ping is better than you ping". Everytime I would win a DM its was due to my superior ping. Playing against players with a ping >150-200 was a turkey shoot, though some players seem to be able to compensate quite nicely. Railguns - ya right. I don't know how many times I had someone dead in my sites only to discover I had actually not shot them - although according to my computer it hit. Likewise, I can recall have run up to a weap, seeing it come into hand and then two or three steps later it disappears only to show up in the hand of the player that "I thought" I had beat to the weapon. Nothing like turning to blast someone with a rocket launcher only to have it morph back into the gun and also finding yourself staring down the barrel of a r-launcher you swore you picked up!
Amen. Didn't Germany just outlaw all M$ software or just the OS in government and military systems. Gee, what will all those office workers in the BundesWehr do now - Germany is rip for an invasion. And how will taxes be collected and records be kept and updated - no one is officially born or dies in Germany now that there are no longer M$ computers for all those government agencies? Oh, I know - their using Macs now - right? If only there was a stable and capable alternative to use - sigh!
Oh, wait isn't there a software company in Germany that makes an alternative OS? why yes I think there is! In fact I beleive I installed that OS in under an hour and everything worked fine out of the box (will wonders ever cease?)!
Gee, what was the name of that company -- wait, wait - let me think. OH YA - it was SuSE. Gee, think I'll have to take night classes to learn how to us it? I don't know - I'm just a dumb bachelors degree'ed R.N in America. You know American - Land of the Free, oh ya - now free and open, as in software and source, is UnAmerican - IF YOU LISTEN TO M$, THERE PAID INFORMANTS AND REPORTERES, AND CLUELESS IDIOTS LIKE HEIR REICHARD. But what do I know - I'm just a dumb end-user:)
My games kick ass on Linux - UT, Heretic2, SOF, etc. Just give it time to build up a list. Lokigames have more than doubled their catalog in less than a year. And, if you really fell like an adventure you can install M$ games in Wine - a lot of people do.
I don't have any real problem such as you are describing. That's because I mainly use KDE and I feel it's functiionality is improving quite nicely. I stopped using Gnome because of the sort of problems you talking about. Frankly, some people love Gnome but I was never really impressed. I found KDE to be a more user friendly environment. No, I don't think Linux is dead on the desktop. Consider W3.x on the desktop - it sucked. Linux is not as old as M$ and has been on a faster development track if you look at things from this perspective.
Equating Eazel with the entire Linux Desktop is silly. The guys at Eazel were obviously clueless, 11,000,000 and all they made was a file manager. Don't tell the guys at the Kompany, Gnome.org, Ximian, or XFree86.org the the Linux desktop is dead - I wouldn't want to be responsible for a the rash of suicides there.
I use KDE and It runs just fine. I'm a newbie of less than a year and I have no real problems getting things done in Gnome or KDE. Eazel was supposed to be the "killer" app for Linux. I never bought into that. I'm running SuSE 7.1 and I took me about an hour to install - all my hardware was recongized no problems. And, the GF2-MX with the lastest NV drivers kick ass - UT never looked so good. I say let Eazel die. The only ones that thiught that it was going to skyrocket Linux into the desktop arena were the mis-informed.
Lets get serious here. How much did it cost for a stick of RDRAM? What was it $400, $500, $600,...? And the benchmarks when compared to DDRAM was only "marginally" faster - sometimes. And how much more was DDRAM than SDRAM? What 10%, 15%? The only real backer RAMBUS has is Intel and they've even started making their mobos compatible for DDRAM. I know quit a few college Master degree candidates in comp sci and comp engineering that think RDRAM is a joke. I know a few system designers that think the same thing. I never had the slightest inclination in purchasing RDRAM and don't know anyone else who wanted to either. They were just desperate to lock up some market share and ran out of ideas. So, of course, the legal department can up with the sure fire solution - WE'LL SUE!!! Opps, how much did the stock price fall today - something like $19, or was it 19%... what ever. It was falling so fast they had to halt trading on it. Ya, they'll make a profit for sure!
Lets see. Man 7.1 = 2.2.14 or was it 2.2.16 (after upgrade)?, Man 7.2. was 2.2.18? SuSE 7.0 was 2.2.16 or was it later 2.2.18? Well I know that SuSE 7.1 is 2.2.18 and 2.4.0, until one upgrades via the SuSE ftp. Then it's 2.4.2-4, and 2.4.2-5. Oh and then the as yet unofficial SuSE version 2.4.3 kernel (there's that word - version again)! And RedHat version were what REVISION?
Symantics - gotta love um.
I've heard about too many problems with The RH distro's (like the gcc version in 7.0, etc). I used to use Mandrake 7.1 but it seemed a little too proprietary. I'm now using SuSE 7.1, and though it's not perfect I'm fairly pleased. I might try RH 7.1, but after reading some of the posts about it refusing to see hdd's and cdrom's, I'll wait to see what else shakes out.
Ah, the source verses prepacked fun, and then your rpm can't find the libs, etc... and won't install or you have to use the "--nodeps" or "--force" command, or both. And then you hope everything works right, sometimes yes, sometimes no. In otherwords, Gee - did anything break this time???? God only knows what's really in these packages (source or prepacked). And ya - right, I'm gonna look at the code and see malicious script??? I think not. But look, you can always trust M$ - Right? No potential back doors/spyware there!
Yes I do think there are others that can manage the information highway (or computing for that matter). Yes, M$ did a lot to help the common person use a computer and access the internet. They did it by thinking for the user who didn't want to learn how the silly thing really works (in other words keep um dumb and raise the the prices once there hooked). Then they muscled every vendor (hardware and software) to build exclusively for them, and they stand there and preach about "others" stiffling innovation. MS' consumer product is only really good for playing game, surfing the net, or getting e-mail . Do banks use M$ software, not if they're smart - Gee i think it's called "Unix". When you need security don't bank on the ware from Redmond. Linux is there yet and NT/W2K took forever to get on the scene. And don't even get me started on W9x - a little more than a toy or a glorified typewriter and file cabinet. I say level the field and lets see what falls out. And by the way, at least I have the courage to post my identity instead of being anonymous - coward.
Yes, I seem to remember there was quite a bit of controversy about the M$ version of Kerebos they release with W2K. If memory serves me they took the existing code, fix some of the protocal, patented it, and then stuck it into their W2000 serverware. Then to piss everyone off that had trouble with there versions (e.g running a Unix server), M$ told everyone they could do a couple of things - a) by a service pack/patch that would enable Unix servers to impliment the full M$ kerebos version of the protocal; b) buy W2K server to running tandem; or c)(this is where it gets good) buy both the service pack and a W2K server! I guess the more the better for M$' "bottom line". Both the guys at Berkeley and MIT were quite peeved to say the least. And if memory stills serves me - there wasn't a damn thing they could do about because M$ was granted a patent and it was all "legal".
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Well, here in Madison WI the cable modem activity light has been pumping for 4 days solid. So the blocked the port? Ya right whatever they say. Shouldn't have happened in the 1st place if the peanut brained admins and so call security officer would have had the 3 to 4 brains cells to dl the patch and install the silly thing. Oh, well. Maybe the CIO's will take a little heat and snap out of it. One can only hope!
Cheers
Well, since my father was a cop for over 30 years and I grew up around Detectives, D.A.'s. Judges, etc... I can say that your absolutely correct. The problem is that the average has got the slightest idea about their rights and for that matter basic laws. If the BSA shows up at my door I'll tell the to get them fuck of my property. If the BSA shows up again I call the police for trespassing, disturbing the peace, and file a tort for harassment. The I contact the press to see if I can get a reporter to cover this. I doubt I'll hear from the BSA anytime soon.
This guy should be banned from /. for life. He needs to wake up so he might discover what fucking century he's living in. This isn't the 1800's and frankly if any one needs shipping anywhere it's him. Preferably to the nearest penal colony or sanitarium. Who's moderating here anyway?
Well, never was that crazy about Gnome. This cinches it. Remember that M$ got involved (at least the rumors suggest as much) with Corel to port .Net to Linux. Now, Ximian is partnering up with M$? M$ contingency plan B: If Linux shows any amount of significant market share then M$ would love nothing more than to use this platform in thier "turn the world into dummy terminals that rent thier software from M$ strategy. M$'s viral approach! I'm in medicine and let's remember what a virus does. A virus gains access to the bodies production and regulatory mechanisms and then hijacks it ot create more copies of itself. Does this sound familiar? M$ wants nothing more than to insidiously gain access to the Linux production community (especially the viable commercial end of it) in order to gain control. There are generically two types of virii, a) smart virii - they don't kill thier host, they use the host to ensure the survival of the species and therefore keep their environment viable in order to proliferate, and b) dumb virii - (e.g. HIV) that kill their host. If this breed of virus doesn't find a "portal" of exit to another host it will die with the host because its environment is no longer viable and the mechanisms the virus needs no longer functions. M$ will first adhere to the "smart" viral strategy - take over the mechanisms of the host and keep them viable. But once M$ determines that Linux and it's community no longer server their needs or concludes that an acceptible "portal" for it's products exist outside of Linux M$ will adopt the "dumb" viral strategy and kill the host - that being Linux and the community. Frankly, I think Ximian is making deals with the Devil and we all no the inherent risk in that.
I'm not a geek. I have no programming skills what so ever. I have no problem what so ever running my penguin under kde. Right now I'm running kde2.1.2 and love it. And what the h e x2-toothpicks are you talking about concerning ease of use with Winblows. I'm not running W2K, I have a dual boot SuSE 7.2/W98 box. Last time I went into W98 to play CS the damn thing locked/BSOD'ed no less than 7 times (reboots and scandisk is fun-right?). Gee, install kde2 was so hard. Let's see: dl all the files into a newly made dir (gee left click-->create-->new directory - that's hard). start Xterm and cd into new dir. Run "rpm --nodeps --force *.i386.rpm (after saving old .kde2 dir's to .kde.old) Run ldconfig (or in my case SuSEconfig). follow instructions to install WMscript. Copy .kmailrc file into now kmailrc file. THAT'S LESS EFFORT THAN INSTALLING A SIERRA GAME IN MY W98 SYS. Frame rate of games in W98 30fps, in X with kde2 = 80-90fps. I AM THE AVERAGE JOE and linux is much easier. If kde app crashes kde keeps going, IF (rarely) kde2 crashes then X automatically restarts. I spent more time trying to keep M$ products happy than dealing with linux. Ya, bit rot is fun and Windows is the way? KDE 2.2.beta1 goes in tomorrow and I'll spend more time dl'ing the files than getting the WM setup and running. I'm in medicine, I don't want to have to spend all my free time trying to keep my system up and happy - that's way the only thing I use Winblows for is to play my games (when it hasn't crashed - again).
.vbs virii either, now the only thing left for me (THE AVERAGE JOE) is a gui to set up my firewall.
P.S. No
Uh, lets see Window95 - a beta for windows98 - a beta for windowsME - a beta for XP - a beta for Xp - a beta for .net. etc....
Or to be more direct. Launch program executable in Widows, program fails, Windows crashes-BSOD's, locks up = reboot = scandisk/norton scan disk for 5 - 10 minutes = pray the fs wasn't corrupt and no reinstall of previous registry (or the whole freakin' OS). KDE 2.2.beta1 - launch program from Xterm - watch script run - program fails - read start scripts - see problem where crash occurred - edit config - launch program - watch script - program runs, or if running program crash KDE then X restarts and back into KDE read error log - edit config - run program runs - no reboot (or if so Reiser fs starts up with no data loss/corruption). And I have absolutely no programing ability what so ever - I'm in medicine. Gee decisions, decisions - not really.
$350 for OXP plus $100+ for XP OS or $70 for professional version of a Linux distro - decisions, decisions? Decision made, Thank you.
Why do people still buy crap like M$? I'm not interested in BSD (even though it's more eligant) and well BeOS is nice but - just no wealth of support and development for it. Linux aint bad!
"WARNING: This email was written on an OS using the viral 'GPL' as its license. Please check with Bill Gates before"
You have been reported to the FBI and your network is now being permently monitored by the M$ law enforcment dept, er - I mean the FBI anit piracy ivenstigation subdivision. The BSA will be arriving at you place of residence at 0700 hours to conduct audit. For some unexplained reason M$ is unable to deactive your operating system and therefore must assume that you system is either using pirated software or other software forbidden by the license and the EULA.
I subpeona is being issued and charges filed for violations of M$ laws, I mean breach of contract, no wait... make that....? Oh, The M$ legal council is reviewing the case presently.
What profits? (hehe) Does Killustrator make any money? And, once again, bully tactics from the lawyers. They would most likely lose in court so they thresten the University/author with a court case that will cost large amounts to defend hoping to use the scare tactic for a settlement. $2000.00 U.S. sounds like a poultry amount. I have a hard time believing that Adobe thinks their product name is only worth $2000. This sounds very peculiar. Ya, give um 50% of little or nothing.
This will never make it passed the initial hearings phase. "Illustrator" is a common Language word and "Killustrator" was only introduced into the vocabulary after the creation of "Koffice". It's just a scare ploy and has little if any litigatory merit. I see a possible counter-suit in the making, which would mean more press. And, as one poster mentioned, good press or bad press - all press is good press. Cheers, Curtis
OMG!!! Regional IT Director? OOOOOOOOOk'
Wish I knew what business it was so I'd no to avoid it if I ever ran into it. Hey it's their money. I especially liked answer #3 - in otherwords these genuiuses locked themselves into an M$ contract they can't get out of - Outstanding! Well, then they just have to take what they get. Regardless if they pay through the nose for it.
Actually there's good evidence to support your statement. Pain stimuli induce endorphines. Endorphines are the bodies natural opiates. Therefore, A) inducing a behavior with multisensory stimuli will reinforce a both a psychometric and physiologic dependency, B) as "tolerance" develops an individual will desire more stimuli to gain the sensation of the initial event - in otherwords they will need more juice to feel the high that they felt when they started. Yes, shock junkies. What a perfect marketing tool! Just hope no one with a pacemaker tries this - player death and lawsuits - the killer app turns into a company killer (and just a plain outright killer). They should run trials with a control group. The control group should be average players. The test group should be all the marketing and advertising execs at the company (or any corporation will do), preferablly those over 45 that lead a sedentary lifestyle.
Ya, that's the ticket!!!
=hypocracy. Gee, isn't that an open source development (ipv6)? Yes, M$ is allowed to us it. But they have to release any part to the GPL'ed code that they have modified in order for the rest of the "community" to see it. If they "bundle" or tie it to a "proprietary" software program they have the right to keep that part of it to them selves. Any company has the right to keep their proprietary software protected, but they must release any modified "GPL" software they tinker with - M$ is no exception. I don't have a problem with M$ regarding use of GPL software (and I'm no fan of M$). However, this recent discovery is proof of M$' hypocracy! To slam and spread vicious FUD about the "evils" of Open Source while all the while researching open source developments is sleazy. This is nothing new and should come as no shock. People need to be reminded of this and this should be used to illustrate that M$ relies on open source in many ways. Can you say Kerobos(excuse my spelling) protocal? The guys at MIT and Berkeley sure can, especially after the release of W2K and the M$ "proprietary version of this open standard, which was used to corner clients into upgrades of W2K. Gates, Ballmer, and company are very worried about the open source movement. Why? Because they haven't figured out a way to effectively "embrace and extend" the M$ control over it. But this doesn't stop them from attempting to hijack any relevent or useful developments that will come out of the Open Source community. :)
Cheers.
To compensate for this the humans use a primers like scenerio. They are refered to as EPSP's and IPSP's or excititory post synaptic and inhibitory post synaptic potentials. If it takes X-mV's to potential an action potential for a neuron or to actuate the NMJ (neuro-muscular junction) from one neuron to another, the neuron can be potentialized by having input from several neurons to a common neuron (e.g. the one used to actuate the muscle) and therefore it will take less of a charge (if you will) to actuate the signal. This doesn't cause the AP (action potential) to travel any faster, but it doesn't help to heighten the response of the individual. Pair this with adrenaline and you'll get a pretty quick reaction response.
This is why I stopped playing Q3A. I have a cable modem and I rarely get pings >150. But it became very apparent to me that Q3A had become a game of "my ping is better than you ping". Everytime I would win a DM its was due to my superior ping. Playing against players with a ping >150-200 was a turkey shoot, though some players seem to be able to compensate quite nicely. Railguns - ya right. I don't know how many times I had someone dead in my sites only to discover I had actually not shot them - although according to my computer it hit. Likewise, I can recall have run up to a weap, seeing it come into hand and then two or three steps later it disappears only to show up in the hand of the player that "I thought" I had beat to the weapon. Nothing like turning to blast someone with a rocket launcher only to have it morph back into the gun and also finding yourself staring down the barrel of a r-launcher you swore you picked up!
Amen. Didn't Germany just outlaw all M$ software or just the OS in government and military systems. Gee, what will all those office workers in the BundesWehr do now - Germany is rip for an invasion. And how will taxes be collected and records be kept and updated - no one is officially born or dies in Germany now that there are no longer M$ computers for all those government agencies? Oh, I know - their using Macs now - right? If only there was a stable and capable alternative to use - sigh! :)
Oh, wait isn't there a software company in Germany that makes an alternative OS? why yes I think there is! In fact I beleive I installed that OS in under an hour and everything worked fine out of the box (will wonders ever cease?)!
Gee, what was the name of that company -- wait, wait - let me think. OH YA - it was SuSE. Gee, think I'll have to take night classes to learn how to us it? I don't know - I'm just a dumb bachelors degree'ed R.N in America. You know American - Land of the Free, oh ya - now free and open, as in software and source, is UnAmerican - IF YOU LISTEN TO M$, THERE PAID INFORMANTS AND REPORTERES, AND CLUELESS IDIOTS LIKE HEIR REICHARD. But what do I know - I'm just a dumb end-user
My games kick ass on Linux - UT, Heretic2, SOF, etc. Just give it time to build up a list. Lokigames have more than doubled their catalog in less than a year. And, if you really fell like an adventure you can install M$ games in Wine - a lot of people do.
I don't have any real problem such as you are describing. That's because I mainly use KDE and I feel it's functiionality is improving quite nicely. I stopped using Gnome because of the sort of problems you talking about. Frankly, some people love Gnome but I was never really impressed. I found KDE to be a more user friendly environment. No, I don't think Linux is dead on the desktop. Consider W3.x on the desktop - it sucked. Linux is not as old as M$ and has been on a faster development track if you look at things from this perspective.
Equating Eazel with the entire Linux Desktop is silly. The guys at Eazel were obviously clueless, 11,000,000 and all they made was a file manager. Don't tell the guys at the Kompany, Gnome.org, Ximian, or XFree86.org the the Linux desktop is dead - I wouldn't want to be responsible for a the rash of suicides there.
I use KDE and It runs just fine. I'm a newbie of less than a year and I have no real problems getting things done in Gnome or KDE. Eazel was supposed to be the "killer" app for Linux. I never bought into that. I'm running SuSE 7.1 and I took me about an hour to install - all my hardware was recongized no problems. And, the GF2-MX with the lastest NV drivers kick ass - UT never looked so good. I say let Eazel die. The only ones that thiught that it was going to skyrocket Linux into the desktop arena were the mis-informed.
Lets get serious here. How much did it cost for a stick of RDRAM? What was it $400, $500, $600,...? And the benchmarks when compared to DDRAM was only "marginally" faster - sometimes. And how much more was DDRAM than SDRAM? What 10%, 15%? The only real backer RAMBUS has is Intel and they've even started making their mobos compatible for DDRAM. I know quit a few college Master degree candidates in comp sci and comp engineering that think RDRAM is a joke. I know a few system designers that think the same thing. I never had the slightest inclination in purchasing RDRAM and don't know anyone else who wanted to either. They were just desperate to lock up some market share and ran out of ideas. So, of course, the legal department can up with the sure fire solution - WE'LL SUE!!! Opps, how much did the stock price fall today - something like $19, or was it 19%... what ever. It was falling so fast they had to halt trading on it. Ya, they'll make a profit for sure!
Lets see. Man 7.1 = 2.2.14 or was it 2.2.16 (after upgrade)?, Man 7.2. was 2.2.18? SuSE 7.0 was 2.2.16 or was it later 2.2.18? Well I know that SuSE 7.1 is 2.2.18 and 2.4.0, until one upgrades via the SuSE ftp. Then it's 2.4.2-4, and 2.4.2-5. Oh and then the as yet unofficial SuSE version 2.4.3 kernel (there's that word - version again)! And RedHat version were what REVISION?
Symantics - gotta love um.
I've heard about too many problems with The RH distro's (like the gcc version in 7.0, etc). I used to use Mandrake 7.1 but it seemed a little too proprietary. I'm now using SuSE 7.1, and though it's not perfect I'm fairly pleased. I might try RH 7.1, but after reading some of the posts about it refusing to see hdd's and cdrom's, I'll wait to see what else shakes out.
Ah, the source verses prepacked fun, and then your rpm can't find the libs, etc... and won't install or you have to use the "--nodeps" or "--force" command, or both. And then you hope everything works right, sometimes yes, sometimes no. In otherwords, Gee - did anything break this time???? God only knows what's really in these packages (source or prepacked). And ya - right, I'm gonna look at the code and see malicious script??? I think not. But look, you can always trust M$ - Right? No potential back doors/spyware there!
Yes I do think there are others that can manage the information highway (or computing for that matter). Yes, M$ did a lot to help the common person use a computer and access the internet. They did it by thinking for the user who didn't want to learn how the silly thing really works (in other words keep um dumb and raise the the prices once there hooked). Then they muscled every vendor (hardware and software) to build exclusively for them, and they stand there and preach about "others" stiffling innovation. MS' consumer product is only really good for playing game, surfing the net, or getting e-mail . Do banks use M$ software, not if they're smart - Gee i think it's called "Unix". When you need security don't bank on the ware from Redmond. Linux is there yet and NT/W2K took forever to get on the scene. And don't even get me started on W9x - a little more than a toy or a glorified typewriter and file cabinet. I say level the field and lets see what falls out. And by the way, at least I have the courage to post my identity instead of being anonymous - coward.
Yes, I seem to remember there was quite a bit of controversy about the M$ version of Kerebos they release with W2K. If memory serves me they took the existing code, fix some of the protocal, patented it, and then stuck it into their W2000 serverware. Then to piss everyone off that had trouble with there versions (e.g running a Unix server), M$ told everyone they could do a couple of things - a) by a service pack/patch that would enable Unix servers to impliment the full M$ kerebos version of the protocal; b) buy W2K server to running tandem; or c)(this is where it gets good) buy both the service pack and a W2K server! I guess the more the better for M$' "bottom line". Both the guys at Berkeley and MIT were quite peeved to say the least. And if memory stills serves me - there wasn't a damn thing they could do about because M$ was granted a patent and it was all "legal".