As I've said before, 95% of the readers of Slashdot are just wanna-be Linux users, who use Windows cos, Oh, using Linux on the desktop is just too tricky in todys world.
Can't someone port it to KDE/Gnome?
If your such a real hardcore linux geek, and better than 95% of the slashdot readership then surely you would be able to port it to linux yourself.
Do you think that the google search could be improved by more human decisions ?.
An example might be that goat.ce page (or whatever the url is) might get linked to a lot as example of bad taste (I seen a few pages that link to it and describe the page urging people not to visit it), which fine except that this web site is now getting linked to (or voted for which is how the google algorithm treats a link) yet it isn't a particularly good or informative website.
Even if someone was searching for something on bad taste, that page is not really an authoritive page about bad taste just an example of it.
or even if they throw a couple of people in jail for it
Just so long as it isn't you huh ?, no one should suffer if they haven't done anything wrong (of course this whole debate proves that we aren't quite sure about the morality of file sharing).
I really like The Spirits Within, it has it's problems but it deserved to make money.
The worst thing is that this will probably put the big studios off making serious feature length CGI films for the time being (and unfortunately the big studios are the only ones in the financial position to make such films, as FF:TSW proves).
Oh well, we are stuck with Toy Story and A Bugs Life for a while.
'There is a premium on sharpness of mind and the ability to accumulate money. Such people tend to have more children and have a better chance of survival,' he says. In other words, intellect - the defining characteristic of our species - is still driving our evolution.
Is this true ?, I thought that in modern western society it is the less well educated and poorer families that tend to have the larger families (maybe this is just a stereotype).
Surely we could work out the course of our evolution by looking at which parts of society have the most kids (and therefore pass on their genes and dominate the genepool). We need some kind of definitive study on modern reproduction to tell us for sure where we are going.
Also there are still people who don't pass on their genes at all, their genes are removed from the genepool. Surely this means we are still evolving, just a hell of a lot slower than in times gone past (considering that evolution is pretty slow anyway this might neglible).
I read that the xbox dvd player spins backwards so that the games can't be read on a pc (presumably to stop copying and emuation). Yet it can play normal movie dvds can't it ?. So does it spin both directions ?. How does it know which way to spin ?.
From what I understand, MS's DVD-ROM drive spins backwards, and the discs thus are written so the spiral is in the opposite direction of normal DVD discs. I don't think you'll be seeing a crack for that anytime soon.
You sure ?. I thought I read that pc's can read xbox disks in the same way that they can ps disks.
You aren't british are are you ?, there is no radio licence fee, it's paid for out of the television licence. You may think i'm being pedantic but it's worrying that americans think british people need a licence to own a radio.
I thought it was great, ok the story wasn't perfect but I thought it was enjoyable. And this summer wasn't exactly great for movies was it ?, (the only other summer movie I enjoyed was the planet of the apes remake) I really think this should have done better at the box office.
BTW in the article it says the film only took $80 million and cost $140 million, but that $140 million doesn't include the money spent on publicity which I read was at least another $20 to $30 million worldwide. So the film did very badly (even waterworld made money thru video and tv rights but it is doubtful that FFTSW ever will).
The really sad thing is it will probably put the studios off making cgi films aimed at adults as the only successful ones have been for kids (shrek, toy story, etc.). But I think the potential for a truly great cgi film with an adult film is huge.
The two are different. By abusing young boys you are hurting someone else, it's clear cut, there is a crime and a victim.
Who are you hurting by refusing to look at an ad ?. Some people (bussiness men and politicians mainly) may try to force us to look at ads but my own personal opinion is that I would like to have a choice.
Also, I'm sure this will get mentioned elsewhere, but as a 56ker I appreciate blockers that stop the ads from being downloaded as it saves me bandwidth (my bandwidth, which I have payed for).
Like a lot of people have said on the news, it would be difficult to force a pilot to fly into a building. The hijackers must have been able to fly the plane.
Sorry if this seems a little redundant, but this is the response I have seen from the chinese. I don't think they did it or anything, but I thought they the abscence of condemnation was worrying.
From the BBC Website...
Chinese President Jiang Zemin sent a message to President Bush, expressing sympathy over the attacks and "grave concern" for the safety of Chinese in the United States, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
David Cronenberg said the reason why films have stylised opening titles instead of jumping straight into the story is because they act like a vestibule between reality and the story.
I beleive the same principle is involved with a game's UI, after all the whole point of a game is that you aren't doing something normal like using a spreadsheet, your running around a castle shooting hell knights. It shouldn't look anything like using a spreadsheet.
That is strange, I live in the uk and never have a problem. However I can never access the cnn website without hitting refresh about 5 times.
It wouldn't bother me so much, but cnn run commericials (this is blue, this is blue, this is blue) here presumably to set themselves up as a credible alternative news site for europeans (who mostly use the bbc) to get their news. Except your website doesn't fucking work cnn.
ummm... no. If it was then computers would never have become faster. For some people 1.5 GHz is neccessary (I'm thinking high quality video work or graphics applications). Thats why things improve, cause there is always someone who needs it, and there are always people (the majority) who don't but want the latest kit (and what is wrong with that ?).
I don't think a dvd can hold 17gb at maximum capacity...
one operating system ?
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that will never happen, forget the linux faithful for a moment and think about how many servers run windows... proof that windows is not prefered is in the messages posted on slashdot about code red. I don't think I read a single message that said "I run a windows box and was affected". I sure someone else could come up with exact figures and berate MS software for exactly why it isn't used.
Windows is good for home users and workstations, xp is actually quite good, but there is enough reactionary backlash against MS that even if they did manage to release a perfect windows os in the next few years *nix and other os's wouldn't just dissapear overnight (or even 20 years I suspect).
Is it possible to totally secure an os ?, you never know one day it might. In this case, as long as windows doesn't crash and does what it is supposed to then I will be more than happy to live in that world.
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As I've said before, 95% of the readers of Slashdot are just wanna-be Linux users, who use Windows cos, Oh, using Linux on the desktop is just too tricky in todys world.
Can't someone port it to KDE/Gnome?
If your such a real hardcore linux geek, and better than 95% of the slashdot readership then surely you would be able to port it to linux yourself.
Some would argue that by not writing for the hardware natively you are limiting it's uses and how powerful the program could be.
Do you think that the google search could be improved by more human decisions ?.
An example might be that goat.ce page (or whatever the url is) might get linked to a lot as example of bad taste (I seen a few pages that link to it and describe the page urging people not to visit it), which fine except that this web site is now getting linked to (or voted for which is how the google algorithm treats a link) yet it isn't a particularly good or informative website.
Even if someone was searching for something on bad taste, that page is not really an authoritive page about bad taste just an example of it.
queue lots of arguments about whether it's blue or green that has the longest wavelength.
or even if they throw a couple of people in jail for it
Just so long as it isn't you huh ?, no one should suffer if they haven't done anything wrong (of course this whole debate proves that we aren't quite sure about the morality of file sharing).
I really like The Spirits Within, it has it's problems but it deserved to make money.
The worst thing is that this will probably put the big studios off making serious feature length CGI films for the time being (and unfortunately the big studios are the only ones in the financial position to make such films, as FF:TSW proves).
Oh well, we are stuck with Toy Story and A Bugs Life for a while.
'There is a premium on sharpness of mind and the ability to accumulate money. Such people tend to have more children and have a better chance of survival,' he says. In other words, intellect - the defining characteristic of our species - is still driving our evolution.
Is this true ?, I thought that in modern western society it is the less well educated and poorer families that tend to have the larger families (maybe this is just a stereotype).
Surely we could work out the course of our evolution by looking at which parts of society have the most kids (and therefore pass on their genes and dominate the genepool). We need some kind of definitive study on modern reproduction to tell us for sure where we are going.
Also there are still people who don't pass on their genes at all, their genes are removed from the genepool. Surely this means we are still evolving, just a hell of a lot slower than in times gone past (considering that evolution is pretty slow anyway this might neglible).
I read that the xbox dvd player spins backwards so that the games can't be read on a pc (presumably to stop copying and emuation). Yet it can play normal movie dvds can't it ?. So does it spin both directions ?. How does it know which way to spin ?.
From what I understand, MS's DVD-ROM drive spins backwards, and the discs thus are written so the spiral is in the opposite direction of normal DVD discs. I don't think you'll be seeing a crack for that anytime soon.
You sure ?. I thought I read that pc's can read xbox disks in the same way that they can ps disks.
You aren't british are are you ?, there is no radio licence fee, it's paid for out of the television licence. You may think i'm being pedantic but it's worrying that americans think british people need a licence to own a radio.
Anyone else really like the film ?
I thought it was great, ok the story wasn't perfect but I thought it was enjoyable. And this summer wasn't exactly great for movies was it ?, (the only other summer movie I enjoyed was the planet of the apes remake) I really think this should have done better at the box office.
BTW in the article it says the film only took $80 million and cost $140 million, but that $140 million doesn't include the money spent on publicity which I read was at least another $20 to $30 million worldwide. So the film did very badly (even waterworld made money thru video and tv rights but it is doubtful that FFTSW ever will).
The really sad thing is it will probably put the studios off making cgi films aimed at adults as the only successful ones have been for kids (shrek, toy story, etc.). But I think the potential for a truly great cgi film with an adult film is huge.
That is the fan made trailer. The real trailer doesn't have writing or sound (apart from vader breathing).
The two are different. By abusing young boys you are hurting someone else, it's clear cut, there is a crime and a victim.
Who are you hurting by refusing to look at an ad ?. Some people (bussiness men and politicians mainly) may try to force us to look at ads but my own personal opinion is that I would like to have a choice.
Also, I'm sure this will get mentioned elsewhere, but as a 56ker I appreciate blockers that stop the ads from being downloaded as it saves me bandwidth (my bandwidth, which I have payed for).
Like a lot of people have said on the news, it would be difficult to force a pilot to fly into a building. The hijackers must have been able to fly the plane.
this is probably just crap, but I have heard from a not very reliable source that the taleban are firing on bin laden's base.
Make of that what you will. Personally I reckon that the taleban might just be scared enough of US retaliation to do it.
Sorry if this seems a little redundant, but this is the response I have seen from the chinese. I don't think they did it or anything, but I thought they the abscence of condemnation was worrying.
From the BBC Website...
Chinese President Jiang Zemin sent a message to President Bush, expressing sympathy over the attacks and "grave concern" for the safety of Chinese in the United States, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
third build collapsed
this will make rescuing people harder.
Afghan Government http://www.afghan-ie.com/
= United%20Arab%20Emirates
Also this site has links to middle eastern news sites http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/reading/news.out.pl?co
The quake three interface is hardert to use. You can add your own tabs to UT, I only CTF so I have a tab that lists all the populated CTF servers.
David Cronenberg said the reason why films have stylised opening titles instead of jumping straight into the story is because they act like a vestibule between reality and the story.
I beleive the same principle is involved with a game's UI, after all the whole point of a game is that you aren't doing something normal like using a spreadsheet, your running around a castle shooting hell knights. It shouldn't look anything like using a spreadsheet.
That is strange, I live in the uk and never have a problem. However I can never access the cnn website without hitting refresh about 5 times.
It wouldn't bother me so much, but cnn run commericials (this is blue, this is blue, this is blue) here presumably to set themselves up as a credible alternative news site for europeans (who mostly use the bbc) to get their news. Except your website doesn't fucking work cnn.
you probably could...
compression is more effecient when thare is lots of predictable duplicate data right ?
Well just think about how many "Linux is great" posts on slashdot there is...
ummm... no. If it was then computers would never have become faster. For some people 1.5 GHz is neccessary (I'm thinking high quality video work or graphics applications). Thats why things improve, cause there is always someone who needs it, and there are always people (the majority) who don't but want the latest kit (and what is wrong with that ?).
I don't think a dvd can hold 17gb at maximum capacity...
that will never happen, forget the linux faithful for a moment and think about how many servers run windows... proof that windows is not prefered is in the messages posted on slashdot about code red. I don't think I read a single message that said "I run a windows box and was affected". I sure someone else could come up with exact figures and berate MS software for exactly why it isn't used.
Windows is good for home users and workstations, xp is actually quite good, but there is enough reactionary backlash against MS that even if they did manage to release a perfect windows os in the next few years *nix and other os's wouldn't just dissapear overnight (or even 20 years I suspect).
Is it possible to totally secure an os ?, you never know one day it might. In this case, as long as windows doesn't crash and does what it is supposed to then I will be more than happy to live in that world.