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Nice moderation point, ARCHville, or whoever else "has it in for me." A message stating perfectly valid summary of the article gets marked down to a troll because the parent, himself a troll, doesn't like his vague philosophical argument treaded upon.
I installed FreeBSD out of disgust with Linux.
I discovered the following:
My soundcard sounded absolutely horrible under FreeBSD and in Linux it sounds crystal clear (even better then Windows.) Is there a clear explaination for that being the case? No, and I don't care.
Second, where is the documentation for DRI and, furthermore, the user pages that would tell someone how to go about doing such? Without DRI, there is no accelerated X. The fact that BSDs are including XFree 3.3.6 is a sign that they haven't yet adopted the new architecture because there isn't any emphasis placed on making the kernel DRI friendly. Sure, it's in current, but current may or may not build. As mentioned by others, NVidia seemingly doesn't have plans for BSD, so the majority of video cards out there won't have very native support.
Lastly, ports itself is great in concept, but in actuality who wants to spend cpu cycles waiting for dependency after dependency to compile? And, without ports, the patches applied to several programs are *LOST* and thus downloading the.tar.gz file and attempting to compile is a futile one at best when the programmer is Linux centric. I witnessed this, and the patches ports provides is essential for some programs to compile.
Strength in number is also moving Linux more toward the desktop, like it or not, because of the amount of knowledgeable people out there willing to help. While there may be helpful BSD people out there they are, unfortunately, less in number. As far as the knowledgeable having an attitude toward newbies, no comment as I didn't participate/observe the community enough, but if that belief is *TRUE* BSD will find itself in trouble as, like I said earlier, resources/documentation are sparse.
This is certainly not a flame but the question posed is very redundant and seems to be asking for the typical CAT vs DOG response here! In fairness to BSD, most people consider BSD more consistent then Linux distributions. With manual pages on so many different aspects of the system like syscalls and devices and the like, why NOT consider BSD less of a desktop operating system and more of a server one? It, at the moment, obviously isn't placing an emphasis on a lot of things Linux has. Finally, there are three different BSDs, each crafted differently for a particular environment (ie. NetBSD, see how many it can get on,) with different kernels. You can't say the same about the Linux kernel; there may be forks for certain platforms *at certain times before a merge can occur*, but that is nothing compared to three free BSD's and one commercial offerring.
I hate reading trolls like this, but I feel inclined to respond because the poster fails to mention one very important thing that essentially invalidates his point completely.
Yeah, in one tongue you proclaim how great the release schedule of FreeBSD is and then and you wonder why BSD doesn't have the popularity of Linux for a lot of users out there... it's an elitist attitude that turns everyone off along with the inability to build -CURRENT kernels a great portion of the time, lack of documentation, etc.
Also, you're *wrong* about BSD having ONE sole release. You can follow -CURRENT and stay busy with a constantly broken kernel if that's your idea of fun which is a lot less then can be said for many of the linux dev kernels. And if you need a cutting edge feature for FreeBSD, it may be in current. Additionally, if you need to add a feature added you are in for a recompile and a reboot. So don't sit on a throne and claim you're immune to the stupid fucking uptime-loss syndrome, which no one other then extremists really give a shit about anymore.
Finally, no one is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to upgrade the kernel. If 2.4.0 works for you, you might as well keep with it until 2.5.
Kilborn seemed a little more sadistic and cynical, which is really what a show like that needs and thrives on. Stewart (with due respect, as he's not *awful*) seems to have this constant cloak of silliness, and, like you say, his actions always seem to have a note of self-consciousness to them.
Also, I didn't enjoy a lot of the shows interviews, mainly because they DID seem contrived; do we really want to hear from the guy who believes aliens are visiting his cow herd? Every once and awhile, though, they'd come up with a jem; one more relatively recent one standing in mind, the interview with the Polka-dancer who objected to Garfield's creator's ridicule of the pasttime (him wrestling a stuffed Garfield while in traditional wear was hilarious.)
Likely the award was given per there being so much hoopla around court room session after court room session, demand after demand, and admist all that, a show could depict it as humorous. I wasn't watching it, because the whole topic as a whole bored the living crap out of me; I decided early on the whole thing was a circus making way for the republican (the "evil will always triumph" belief shall be stated at later time.) They were also calling it "Indecision 2000" before the whole "recount" fiasco, which could be taken with grain of salt and seen as mildly prophetic.
ObObligatoryTVBelief: I don't watch TV anymore as growing up I was exposed to the advent of sensationalism evening news consistently every night. Watching such while somewhat down and out for awhile makes one see the world as a miniture police state; I learned all too late it's best to eat tablets 1-5 minutes *BEFORE* mealtime for maximum effect to counter the opiate of the masses pressed into the atmosphere by a parent who "wishes to keep up to date" with one of your own choosing. Of course, there are people out there who can stand the evening news -- what's your fucking secret?
I'm tired of hearing this argument agaisnt the
V-CHIP... that somehow the parent can involve
themselves in the life of their child to render it
a needless peice of technology. I don't especially like the idea of a V-CHIP, but for conservative parents who intend on shielding their child from the hollywood gloss and occasional reality:
How can we expect parents to constantly monitor what their children are watching on TV? Don't they work 8-5 jobs? And even on weekends, are parents supposed to be constantly checking up to make sure nothing improper is being displayed?
Another issue is friends. What "goes" under one roof may not be followed under another.
There really isn't a 100% effective way of shielding a child from the world, IMHO. I personally think the evening news is a lot worse then a lot of the "entertainment" out there. Oh, I stand corrected: The news *is* entertainment, just justified, because it's mention of every negative event happening in the world currently that can fit in a two-three hour period. What a marvelous display of hypocrisy if a parent can condemn material a child may find enticing and leave the news on during meal time.
The cold, harsh reality of a repulsive society that I have experienced first hand is a four year period shapes the rest of your life. Imagine after failing to do well at a "normal" school you find yourself in one with no social interaction whatsoever due to the once-a-week teacher only meeting. Funny, you're still an anti-social adult who loves to consider taking out a few "misdirected" people. Call me jaded, but, sorry, I don't find it suprising or upsetting when certain folks lash out; this is the balance of nature, folks, like it or not. You reap the sick harvest you sow.
I know this may seem as a trivial question, but why are we not seeing an Internet Explorer for Solaris x86 platform? Is Internet Explorer for Solaris Sparc written with something other then high level C[++] programming that would be [arguably] incompatible on the x86 platforms? Is there a small chance we'll ever see IE for x86 Solaris? Furthermore, doesn't this current state of Solaris IE availability seem uncomplimentary to the image of a company already blasted for taking strenous efforts to maintain such a tight grip on the x86 platform/market?
I saw it the night that damn black crystal feel out of my halogen lamp (you know, the Saucer ones) and touched my cut forefinger. It was *perfect* element for
horror; I was convinced I had been exposed to an element that would give me cancer (i'm not kidding! the bulb NEVER needing changing, and I think it might have been a disgruntled Taiwainese worker trying to take someone out.) In defense of my line of thoughts, I noticed a bad burning sensation in my hand and arm for weeks, along with black dust spots appearing randomly in my finger throughout that time, and the thing wasn't that hot; there was also a reddish like pattern of rough skin up my arm, but I was also on Accutane (tm) at the time. Boy, was that ever frightening. I was convinced it was some sort of a conspiracy agaisnt me. I debated making it into an amulet for magical power but decided agaisnt it; I [purposedly!] don't need the devils gifts to get the eye of someone I'd like to fuck.
There was such an abundance of loud young people in the theater (never, never, NEVER see a movie during it's popularity boom -- rule of the thumb for me from now on:) trying to move the characters with their mouths ("no! don't! oh, you're stupid!") I think that could count as hyperventilation, just not with a peice of technology, though amplified perhaps more then assistance of peice could. I think everyone my age and older felt just as disgusted. The youth was right in front of me. I didn't need to tell them to be quiet; the lamp thing had broughten me down to another level and there were plenty of people in the audience telling these little twits to STFU.
Out of the few people I once knew, no one really believed me on the lamp bit being carcinogenic. I've since dropped it.
SegaGT had just about the most akward control I've ever found in a racing game. Really, really horrible. I can't imagine enjoying that game, EVER.
Metropolis Street Racer has that damn KUDOS concept that makes it impossible to advance unless you want to kiss the games ass for hours. But, Metropolis Street Racer does have an excellent feel to it, so that makes up, partially.
Sonic Adventure has a bad camera system; reviewers have complained. and, I might add, why puzzles?? Couldn't we have had just mindless sonic action like the 16 bit days?
MDK2, while not mentioned on the above list, was highly rated, but the controls are so akward and non-customizable I didn't even bother playing it much. The directional movement is done with the buttons on the right hand side rather then the digital movement pad/button. Inane.
Other then those gripes, the DC games are solid. My favourites are in the list you mentioned. Crazi Taxi is a blast, and so was Soul Calibur. Another thing amazing about the Dreamcast is it's fullscreen MPEG playing; very impressive.
The major consensus back in the day when the Genesis and the SNES were in competiton was the Genesis was able to handle more sprites, thus quicker games, whereas the SNES was the system encountering slowdown more. So it was basically thought the Genesis had a more powerful CPU while the SNES had a better graphics one. It's easy to see, though, why the SNES may have been the victor; with better looking games that play decent, who's going to care about what magazines and other sources are saying?
I actually got a Sega Saturn. It turned out I only ended up playing the three games it came with; Virtua Cop, Virtua Fighter and Daytona USA. With the exception of a few other games, the Saturn didn't have much to its name.
I'm thinking the main reason Sega left the console market (perse, creation of consoles) and declared itself "devoted to software" is perchance with the PS2 and Nintendo's [Gamecube] work coming out the DC would show it's age, thus prompting the need for Sega to develop another system, ready or not. Mabye Sega wasn't ready to introduce a new console; like the parent is saying, you need titles to go along with the system (unless you're Sony, of course:), and Sega never seemed to have as much support as the others. It's also important to mention Sega's copy protection scheme was broken in August of 2000. The effect this may have had on sales I have never heard, but you'll find your average ware-d00d on IRC is still in high school, and schools are the ideal marketplace for pirated games. BTW, I believe PS2's has also been broken.
With encryption, is this really meaningful? It's not very difficult to make an encrypted file system or an encrypted virtual file system.
Imagine this scenario: The actual media of the hard drive is removed from the HD's enclosure/onboard circuitry and implanted in a unit without copy protection controls. Doesn't sound too unlikely as from what it sounds like the data will be in the clear and access actually controlled by a combination of software and hardware agreement.
I can't see any positive argument for this whole idea, and I disagree with it because there are lots of people who can't afford certain software with no free software equivalent (well, atleast one equal enough in terms of functionality.)
This was yet another rant from Katz under the guise of movie review. Don't you dare tell me to turn him off.
Christ, I suppose *THAT* is his justification for this movie reviews? This one's whole jist was the exit of the typical superhero with that of the hacker via the general public's preference. Baloney. Katz, care to tell us any major groundbreaking movies vested in technology that weren't shit? The movies he mentions are very weak for this argument.... Antitrust was poorely rated, Blair Witch was a low budget film (infact, mentioning technology helped the blair witch project is absolutely deeiving! WWW, TV commercials, press is press.... SGI's weren't doing any rendering for this flick, and I wouldn't consider the video camera enough to justify calling this movie technology related. Even if it was, technology probably couldn't save it...) and the Matrix wasn't particulary impressive. Hackers, The Net.... Hollywood isn't very big on technology related movies, mabye because they're self-aware they fail to do them well.
Anyway, my conclusion/point: To automatically dismiss the blow-'em-up-killing-frenzy action movie as a dying element in American culture whilist hero's working with technology rather then weapons are the new breed of movies is hogwash; we haven't seen any proof of this thus far!
"Some people say the video game market is setting it's self up for a serious crash. How can we be sure that they won't all do poorly?"
Well, there's so many people who don't game on their PC -- younger kids or people who simply don't have a powerful enough system (read: don't feel like upgrading every 6 months or so:) -- that and the fact there are so many high quality games only present on video game systems (ie Soul Calibur... that was the selling point for Dreamcast to a lot of people... which was very good, but in perfect honesty, your atypical arcade fighting game translation with unrealistic pyschics.:) The main problem with video games, IMHO, is the cost. Yes, they may be priced at what PC games are, but you have to ask, how much are you getting for what you pay? Also, the other main issue is the cost for video games doesn't coincide with the low cost nature of the system itself -- cost of system comparitively speaking, of course, PC+Geforce in mind. And a $40-$50 game isn't something a younger teenager can afford very often, only to complete it in the course of a few days and be disgusted at how much money felt wasted. The ability to rent games definately puts a dent in the industry's income, as a lot of games out there can probably be completed in the duration of the rental time. One can see where the belief the market "will crash" comes from.
I think the PS2 will pull through, more then likely, but it certainly doesn't look like Sony made the brightest decisions in its manufacture, so many developers complaining about the difficulty in developing for it. I read another article on Arts Technica saying it was so difficult to develop for because of its complexity -- I didn't really agree as I've heard the video card is the main issue which actually only contains 4 megabytes of VRAM and they're encountering slowdown issues. If that's wrong, I still think there is some other bottleneck in the system, as that's what the mass is saying. Also, it appears the PS2 isn't pirate safe.
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I wish all comic creators would have mutually agreed to a "all your base" day instead of just Foxtrot doing it. Remember the day when that one character was featured in *EVERY* comic strip? I can't recall the character... anyone know that bit of trivia?
Peanuts: Lucy lifts the football and after Charlie Brown trips: "All Your Base Are Belong To Us." (Impossible, as Schultz is dead.)
Doonesbury: Bush publically speaking about "setting up us the bombing" on IRAQ. Long pause... "All Your Base Are Belong To Us."
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I don't feel stupid. It looked and sounded pretty fake.;)
Anyway, I guess i forgot in my post about the nature of america, how the average and seemingly abundant well off american who doesn't give a shit how much their child's entertainment costs is really the video game industry's target.
Release around christmas...
And don't get me wrong, I don't think Microsoft should be allowed to enter the video game market. This is them selling PC hardware under the guise of "Video Game Console." And that doesn't seem right, considering they have a stronghold on almost everything pc related as is. Sure, "they'll be broken up," but I don't think that declaration is going to change anything.
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First, the source and it's name, purpose, etc, speaks for itself.
Someone also pointed out the grammar problems, which I took notice to. A PR/Marketing/etc employee isn't going to put anything out with mistakes like that.
The whole idea of Nintendo telling retailers to "remove the Xbox advertisements" is completely absurd. I'm suprised people are actually buying this... Money talks, and bullshit walks; I don't care how much they are actually getting paid for the placement of the posters or whatever, asking them to remove Microsoft's promotion would be quite futile.
Lastly, the argument "It hurts sales of existing products" isn't good enough because people looking to buy a system immediately or in the near immediate future don't just see an ad for a future product and [perchance after asking a sales agent how long till it is released or knowing nothing at all about when it will be] say, "Oh, forget this nicely priced $100 Dreamcast which will play all these great games being sold for less then what the N64 ones are, this coming X-box looks like a real killer... Wonder if it'll be priced at about PS2 cost when it comes out or slightly less?" Sarcasm in quoted context, needless to say...
"Finally, consider the spiritual damage living off another of God's creature does to your soul."
Oh, blow it out your ass. I have no disrespect for vegetarians or vegans, but I sure wish they'd keep their "crusade" to themselves. I can't seem to think of any religion that condemns eating meat, unless it's some new radical form of Wicca. Some unknown spiritual diety telling us what to is questionable. Putting such religious tenor to close your message composed of rampant propaganda shows how weak and unfounded your argument really is. Science has something called a foodchain, and you can prove science.
"...(or to give it its correct name `Hoof and Mouth')." They call it foot and mouth because travelers shoes can carry the disease. Making it specific to animal ("hoof") would be deceiving.
Also, according to most recent respectable sources foot and mouth is harmless to humans.
"The USA must immediately ban ALL imports of any kind from the European Union..." They have. Duh.
"Socialist disease ridden farming techniques?" Christ, you sound like a prejudiced asshole. And a trolling one at that. I hope someday you get voted off this place. You're the most negative prick I've ever been exposed to on this website. Whether it be calling Napster users "immoral criminals" or whatever else you can do to troll and piss people off, you really come off as a truly misdirected person. Mabye you should fix whatever's bothering you (sometimes you can't -- likely you're ugly.)
Lastly, "it is not `funny' and I don't intend to follow your comment to laugh." Lighten up a bit. Sometimes humour is given in serious, downtrodden times to make things seem less serious and thus take the edge of off things. No one is claiming Slashdot to be a mainstream media outlet; you shouldn't act like it is one.
This has been the case with Slashdot from almost day one. It's very simple. When a story is posted, everyone who reads Slashdot -- which might not seem like a lot based on posts but actually is because there are so many lurkers -- clicks on the link and that overwhelms the linked web server. This is even mentioned in the FAQ, including their answer on mirroring: "No."
Hey, you were the same person complaining about the religious overtone in Katz article yesterday.
If you don't like Slashdot, leave, you religious-fanatic-prude, computer illiterate troll who has nothing insightful to contribute other then voicings of his own dissatisfaction with whatever is offerred on what is becomming a peice of shit website due to needlessly present fucks like you (along with other factors that will not be discussed herein.)
Really, you're comparing apples to oranges. This is a totally new project. If you're not buying it and using it, you might as well stop condemning them. Look how long it took Linux and X-Windows to get DRI. Look how long it's taken Windows to mature -- my copy of 98 SE hard freezes all the time while Linux doesn't have a single problem (some argue that still hasn't happened w/ win2000.) Operating systems are major projects that don't just magically do everything right in less then two years, sometimes more. I don't agree with everyone flaming on the issue you are, because I've used x86 operating systems years and years old for so long that always are lacking something (be it stability or apps.)
Atleast Apple finally did IT; an operating system with cooperative multitasking needs to be put out of it's misery in todays day and age of computing.
"What's the problem? they have to make money somehow, and supposedly support is the way it should be done with open source. Support them."
The fact of the matter is a system is pratically unmanageable these days without automatic update tools. I certainly wouldn't call automatic system updates "support" -- I'd call it paying for basic necessity.
Redhat would be wise to include lifetime RHN subscription per a boxed set -- even with the most basic one that's around $30. Instead, they purpose RHN for a limited amount of time which doesn't make much sense, in my opinion.
If Redhat wants to survive past its name recognition expiration date it had better start innovating instead of playing copy-cat to an organization that offers a far better product to begin with.
Personally, I think it's really stupid when people complain about karma/modding. You know why? There's absolutely nothing that can be done about it -- is it THAT hard to realize that simple fact? For perfect proof of this general rule, look at what your post got modded down to. Moron.
Has it occurred to you that a lot of people out there bought Voodoo's because of the Linux compatibility -- TRUE compatiblity, not closed source drivers that come from an external source rather then X11 itself -- including past the 3/3000 series because the philosophy always stayed the same? Some people don't mind sacraficing performance somewhat for a given feature. Look at Matrox users; the 3D performance doesn't rank up there with NVIDIA but they have the advantage of dual head.
You're a trolling twit for making such statements and closing with a "NVIDIA 0WNZ J00."
"Gosh, and what would they do if I released a simple utility that allowed you to convert any file..." [snip, multiple purposes, blah blah, snip]
I wasn't saying they were right in asking for it to be removed. I wasn't saying I personally believed the sole use for such a utility is for circumvention of the new Napster copyright material prevention mechanism. If Napster was mentioned on its web page, then yes, certainly it's not suprising it was removed. However, if Napster wasn't mentioned, your argument stands to reason -- but in court? Just because you argue (like Napster and advocates did in the beginning... "it's just a protocol and server!") it can be used for anything may or may not hold up in court, depending on the severity of the program, of course.
I'm not the source of this whole thing. Don't troll me. I wasn't even arguing against the damn thing.
"Does anyone know what napster would have done if Aimster hadn't removed the Pig Latin encoder?"
Likely, they would have gotten the RIAA to send a C&D letter, letter stating it's purpose was for illegal activity as it furthered the distribution of copyright material on Napster via undermining the monitoring system (or atleast something to that extent.)
Or would they have sent one themselves, stating it was made for the sole purpose of furthering illegal sharing of copyright material on their servers? Doubtful, as Napster themselves have not verbally stated or written on their web page, message of the day, etc, that copyright material cannot be distributed on their servers. They just state that indirectly, now, with banning users... but that's beside the point. Also, Napster doesn't have the lawyer time to deal with trying to enforce that. They're tied up enough as it is.
It's also likely the RIAA was complaining to Napster about it and wanted them to address the problem, as the duty of monitoring files was Napster's, not the RIAA's.
Napster could have been big commercially, but record companies don't really dig selling music online in computer files. the subscription model was flawed -- sure, you could pay a fee every month, but how much worth of music could you download? A hell of a lot more then the subscription was worth, most likely. Had it truly tried to cater to the record companies it would be have no sharing and just a central server where MP3s could be "purchased" (and, perchance, previewed in a proprietary audio format like Liquid audio, the file expiring in 10 minutes [an aspect of Liquid audio -- expiration of file.].) It wouldn't be Napster, then. Anyway, too bad for Napster -- I think so much music out there nowadays (ie canned music; boybands, teeny-pobper psuedo-punk [gags], Celione Dion) is pure shit that doesn't deserve a dime if paying can be avoided, considering the massive amounts of money the artists make. That's why so many people felt backlash toward Metallica; here's a band that's made millions and millions, but they felt it so important to complain. Finally, speaking as a person who doesn't have that much money, it was a joy for me to use, obtaining songs I never would have heard otherwise and being exposed to artists and their talent.
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Nice moderation point, ARCHville, or whoever else "has it in for me." A message stating perfectly valid summary of the article gets marked down to a troll because the parent, himself a troll, doesn't like his vague philosophical argument treaded upon.
I installed FreeBSD out of disgust with Linux.
.tar.gz file and attempting to compile is a futile one at best when the programmer is Linux centric. I witnessed this, and the patches ports provides is essential for some programs to compile.
I discovered the following:
My soundcard sounded absolutely horrible under FreeBSD and in Linux it sounds crystal clear (even better then Windows.) Is there a clear explaination for that being the case? No, and I don't care.
Second, where is the documentation for DRI and, furthermore, the user pages that would tell someone how to go about doing such? Without DRI, there is no accelerated X. The fact that BSDs are including XFree 3.3.6 is a sign that they haven't yet adopted the new architecture because there isn't any emphasis placed on making the kernel DRI friendly. Sure, it's in current, but current may or may not build. As mentioned by others, NVidia seemingly doesn't have plans for BSD, so the majority of video cards out there won't have very native support.
Lastly, ports itself is great in concept, but in actuality who wants to spend cpu cycles waiting for dependency after dependency to compile? And, without ports, the patches applied to several programs are *LOST* and thus downloading the
Strength in number is also moving Linux more toward the desktop, like it or not, because of the amount of knowledgeable people out there willing to help. While there may be helpful BSD people out there they are, unfortunately, less in number. As far as the knowledgeable having an attitude toward newbies, no comment as I didn't participate/observe the community enough, but if that belief is *TRUE* BSD will find itself in trouble as, like I said earlier, resources/documentation are sparse.
This is certainly not a flame but the question posed is very redundant and seems to be asking for the typical CAT vs DOG response here! In fairness to BSD, most people consider BSD more consistent then Linux distributions. With manual pages on so many different aspects of the system like syscalls and devices and the like, why NOT consider BSD less of a desktop operating system and more of a server one? It, at the moment, obviously isn't placing an emphasis on a lot of things Linux has. Finally, there are three different BSDs, each crafted differently for a particular environment (ie. NetBSD, see how many it can get on,) with different kernels. You can't say the same about the Linux kernel; there may be forks for certain platforms *at certain times before a merge can occur*, but that is nothing compared to three free BSD's and one commercial offerring.
I hate reading trolls like this, but I feel inclined to respond because the poster fails to mention one very important thing that essentially invalidates his point completely.
Yeah, in one tongue you proclaim how great the release schedule of FreeBSD is and then and you wonder why BSD doesn't have the popularity of Linux for a lot of users out there... it's an elitist attitude that turns everyone off along with the inability to build -CURRENT kernels a great portion of the time, lack of documentation, etc.
Also, you're *wrong* about BSD having ONE sole release. You can follow -CURRENT and stay busy with a constantly broken kernel if that's your idea of fun which is a lot less then can be said for many of the linux dev kernels. And if you need a cutting edge feature for FreeBSD, it may be in current. Additionally, if you need to add a feature added you are in for a recompile and a reboot. So don't sit on a throne and claim you're immune to the stupid fucking uptime-loss syndrome, which no one other then extremists really give a shit about anymore.
Finally, no one is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to upgrade the kernel. If 2.4.0 works for you, you might as well keep with it until 2.5.
I kind of agree here...
Kilborn seemed a little more sadistic and cynical, which is really what a show like that needs and thrives on. Stewart (with due respect, as he's not *awful*) seems to have this constant cloak of silliness, and, like you say, his actions always seem to have a note of self-consciousness to them.
Also, I didn't enjoy a lot of the shows interviews, mainly because they DID seem contrived; do we really want to hear from the guy who believes aliens are visiting his cow herd? Every once and awhile, though, they'd come up with a jem; one more relatively recent one standing in mind, the interview with the Polka-dancer who objected to Garfield's creator's ridicule of the pasttime (him wrestling a stuffed Garfield while in traditional wear was hilarious.)
Likely the award was given per there being so much hoopla around court room session after court room session, demand after demand, and admist all that, a show could depict it as humorous. I wasn't watching it, because the whole topic as a whole bored the living crap out of me; I decided early on the whole thing was a circus making way for the republican (the "evil will always triumph" belief shall be stated at later time.) They were also calling it "Indecision 2000" before the whole "recount" fiasco, which could be taken with grain of salt and seen as mildly prophetic.
ObObligatoryTVBelief: I don't watch TV anymore as growing up I was exposed to the advent of sensationalism evening news consistently every night. Watching such while somewhat down and out for awhile makes one see the world as a miniture police state; I learned all too late it's best to eat tablets 1-5 minutes *BEFORE* mealtime for maximum effect to counter the opiate of the masses pressed into the atmosphere by a parent who "wishes to keep up to date" with one of your own choosing. Of course, there are people out there who can stand the evening news -- what's your fucking secret?
I'm tired of hearing this argument agaisnt the ... that somehow the parent can involve
V-CHIP
themselves in the life of their child to render it
a needless peice of technology. I don't especially like the idea of a V-CHIP, but for conservative parents who intend on shielding their child from the hollywood gloss and occasional reality:
How can we expect parents to constantly monitor what their children are watching on TV? Don't they work 8-5 jobs? And even on weekends, are parents supposed to be constantly checking up to make sure nothing improper is being displayed?
Another issue is friends. What "goes" under one roof may not be followed under another.
There really isn't a 100% effective way of shielding a child from the world, IMHO. I personally think the evening news is a lot worse then a lot of the "entertainment" out there. Oh, I stand corrected: The news *is* entertainment, just justified, because it's mention of every negative event happening in the world currently that can fit in a two-three hour period. What a marvelous display of hypocrisy if a parent can condemn material a child may find enticing and leave the news on during meal time.
The cold, harsh reality of a repulsive society that I have experienced first hand is a four year period shapes the rest of your life. Imagine after failing to do well at a "normal" school you find yourself in one with no social interaction whatsoever due to the once-a-week teacher only meeting. Funny, you're still an anti-social adult who loves to consider taking out a few "misdirected" people. Call me jaded, but, sorry, I don't find it suprising or upsetting when certain folks lash out; this is the balance of nature, folks, like it or not. You reap the sick harvest you sow.
I know this may seem as a trivial question, but why are we not seeing an Internet Explorer for Solaris x86 platform? Is Internet Explorer for Solaris Sparc written with something other then high level C[++] programming that would be [arguably] incompatible on the x86 platforms? Is there a small chance we'll ever see IE for x86 Solaris? Furthermore, doesn't this current state of Solaris IE availability seem uncomplimentary to the image of a company already blasted for taking strenous efforts to maintain such a tight grip on the x86 platform/market?
Regarding the Blair Witch project....
:) trying to move the characters with their mouths ("no! don't! oh, you're stupid!") I think that could count as hyperventilation, just not with a peice of technology, though amplified perhaps more then assistance of peice could. I think everyone my age and older felt just as disgusted. The youth was right in front of me. I didn't need to tell them to be quiet; the lamp thing had broughten me down to another level and there were plenty of people in the audience telling these little twits to STFU.
I saw it the night that damn black crystal feel out of my halogen lamp (you know, the Saucer ones) and touched my cut forefinger. It was *perfect* element for
horror; I was convinced I had been exposed to an element that would give me cancer (i'm not kidding! the bulb NEVER needing changing, and I think it might have been a disgruntled Taiwainese worker trying to take someone out.) In defense of my line of thoughts, I noticed a bad burning sensation in my hand and arm for weeks, along with black dust spots appearing randomly in my finger throughout that time, and the thing wasn't that hot; there was also a reddish like pattern of rough skin up my arm, but I was also on Accutane (tm) at the time. Boy, was that ever frightening. I was convinced it was some sort of a conspiracy agaisnt me. I debated making it into an amulet for magical power but decided agaisnt it; I [purposedly!] don't need the devils gifts to get the eye of someone I'd like to fuck.
There was such an abundance of loud young people in the theater (never, never, NEVER see a movie during it's popularity boom -- rule of the thumb for me from now on
Out of the few people I once knew, no one really believed me on the lamp bit being carcinogenic. I've since dropped it.
Flaws I noticed in some DC games:
Unreal tournament has MAJOR slowdown issues.
SegaGT had just about the most akward control I've ever found in a racing game. Really, really horrible. I can't imagine enjoying that game, EVER.
Metropolis Street Racer has that damn KUDOS concept that makes it impossible to advance unless you want to kiss the games ass for hours. But, Metropolis Street Racer does have an excellent feel to it, so that makes up, partially.
Sonic Adventure has a bad camera system; reviewers have complained. and, I might add, why puzzles?? Couldn't we have had just mindless sonic action like the 16 bit days?
MDK2, while not mentioned on the above list, was highly rated, but the controls are so akward and non-customizable I didn't even bother playing it much. The directional movement is done with the buttons on the right hand side rather then the digital movement pad/button. Inane.
Other then those gripes, the DC games are solid. My favourites are in the list you mentioned. Crazi Taxi is a blast, and so was Soul Calibur. Another thing amazing about the Dreamcast is it's fullscreen MPEG playing; very impressive.
IThe Genesis had 64 colors. SNES had 256.
The major consensus back in the day when the Genesis and the SNES were in competiton was the Genesis was able to handle more sprites, thus quicker games, whereas the SNES was the system encountering slowdown more. So it was basically thought the Genesis had a more powerful CPU while the SNES had a better graphics one. It's easy to see, though, why the SNES may have been the victor; with better looking games that play decent, who's going to care about what magazines and other sources are saying?
I actually got a Sega Saturn. It turned out I only ended up playing the three games it came with; Virtua Cop, Virtua Fighter and Daytona USA. With the exception of a few other games, the Saturn didn't have much to its name.
I'm thinking the main reason Sega left the console market (perse, creation of consoles) and declared itself "devoted to software" is perchance with the PS2 and Nintendo's [Gamecube] work coming out the DC would show it's age, thus prompting the need for Sega to develop another system, ready or not. Mabye Sega wasn't ready to introduce a new console; like the parent is saying, you need titles to go along with the system (unless you're Sony, of course:), and Sega never seemed to have as much support as the others. It's also important to mention Sega's copy protection scheme was broken in August of 2000. The effect this may have had on sales I have never heard, but you'll find your average ware-d00d on IRC is still in high school, and schools are the ideal marketplace for pirated games. BTW, I believe PS2's has also been broken.
With encryption, is this really meaningful? It's not very difficult to make an encrypted file system or an encrypted virtual file system.
Imagine this scenario: The actual media of the hard drive is removed from the HD's enclosure/onboard circuitry and implanted in a unit without copy protection controls. Doesn't sound too unlikely as from what it sounds like the data will be in the clear and access actually controlled by a combination of software and hardware agreement.
I can't see any positive argument for this whole idea, and I disagree with it because there are lots of people who can't afford certain software with no free software equivalent (well, atleast one equal enough in terms of functionality.)
Katz believes technology doesn't reign over?
This was yet another rant from Katz under the guise of movie review. Don't you dare tell me to turn him off.
Christ, I suppose *THAT* is his justification for this movie reviews? This one's whole jist was the exit of the typical superhero with that of the hacker via the general public's preference. Baloney. Katz, care to tell us any major groundbreaking movies vested in technology that weren't shit? The movies he mentions are very weak for this argument.... Antitrust was poorely rated, Blair Witch was a low budget film (infact, mentioning technology helped the blair witch project is absolutely deeiving! WWW, TV commercials, press is press.... SGI's weren't doing any rendering for this flick, and I wouldn't consider the video camera enough to justify calling this movie technology related. Even if it was, technology probably couldn't save it...) and the Matrix wasn't particulary impressive. Hackers, The Net.... Hollywood isn't very big on technology related movies, mabye because they're self-aware they fail to do them well.
Anyway, my conclusion/point: To automatically dismiss the blow-'em-up-killing-frenzy action movie as a dying element in American culture whilist hero's working with technology rather then weapons are the new breed of movies is hogwash; we haven't seen any proof of this thus far!
"Some people say the video game market is setting it's self up for a serious crash. How can we be sure that they won't all do poorly?"
:) -- that and the fact there are so many high quality games only present on video game systems (ie Soul Calibur... that was the selling point for Dreamcast to a lot of people... which was very good, but in perfect honesty, your atypical arcade fighting game translation with unrealistic pyschics. :) The main problem with video games, IMHO, is the cost. Yes, they may be priced at what PC games are, but you have to ask, how much are you getting for what you pay? Also, the other main issue is the cost for video games doesn't coincide with the low cost nature of the system itself -- cost of system comparitively speaking, of course, PC+Geforce in mind. And a $40-$50 game isn't something a younger teenager can afford very often, only to complete it in the course of a few days and be disgusted at how much money felt wasted. The ability to rent games definately puts a dent in the industry's income, as a lot of games out there can probably be completed in the duration of the rental time. One can see where the belief the market "will crash" comes from.
Well, there's so many people who don't game on their PC -- younger kids or people who simply don't have a powerful enough system (read: don't feel like upgrading every 6 months or so
I think the PS2 will pull through, more then likely, but it certainly doesn't look like Sony made the brightest decisions in its manufacture, so many developers complaining about the difficulty in developing for it. I read another article on Arts Technica saying it was so difficult to develop for because of its complexity -- I didn't really agree as I've heard the video card is the main issue which actually only contains 4 megabytes of VRAM and they're encountering slowdown issues. If that's wrong, I still think there is some other bottleneck in the system, as that's what the mass is saying. Also, it appears the PS2 isn't pirate safe.
I wish all comic creators would have mutually agreed to a "all your base" day instead of just Foxtrot doing it. Remember the day when that one character was featured in *EVERY* comic strip? I can't recall the character... anyone know that bit of trivia?
Peanuts: Lucy lifts the football and after Charlie Brown trips: "All Your Base Are Belong To Us." (Impossible, as Schultz is dead.)
Doonesbury: Bush publically speaking about "setting up us the bombing" on IRAQ. Long pause... "All Your Base Are Belong To Us."
I don't feel stupid. It looked and sounded pretty fake. ;)
Anyway, I guess i forgot in my post about the nature of america, how the average and seemingly abundant well off american who doesn't give a shit how much their child's entertainment costs is really the video game industry's target.
Release around christmas...
And don't get me wrong, I don't think Microsoft should be allowed to enter the video game market. This is them selling PC hardware under the guise of "Video Game Console." And that doesn't seem right, considering they have a stronghold on almost everything pc related as is. Sure, "they'll be broken up," but I don't think that declaration is going to change anything.
First, the source and it's name, purpose, etc, speaks for itself.
Someone also pointed out the grammar problems, which I took notice to. A PR/Marketing/etc employee isn't going to put anything out with mistakes like that.
The whole idea of Nintendo telling retailers to "remove the Xbox advertisements" is completely absurd. I'm suprised people are actually buying this... Money talks, and bullshit walks; I don't care how much they are actually getting paid for the placement of the posters or whatever, asking them to remove Microsoft's promotion would be quite futile.
Lastly, the argument "It hurts sales of existing products" isn't good enough because people looking to buy a system immediately or in the near immediate future don't just see an ad for a future product and [perchance after asking a sales agent how long till it is released or knowing nothing at all about when it will be] say, "Oh, forget this nicely priced $100 Dreamcast which will play all these great games being sold for less then what the N64 ones are, this coming X-box looks like a real killer... Wonder if it'll be priced at about PS2 cost when it comes out or slightly less?" Sarcasm in quoted context, needless to say...
"Finally, consider the spiritual damage living off another of God's creature does to your soul."
Oh, blow it out your ass. I have no disrespect for vegetarians or vegans, but I sure wish they'd keep their "crusade" to themselves. I can't seem to think of any religion that condemns eating meat, unless it's some new radical form of Wicca. Some unknown spiritual diety telling us what to is questionable. Putting such religious tenor to close your message composed of rampant propaganda shows how weak and unfounded your argument really is. Science has something called a foodchain, and you can prove science.
"...(or to give it its correct name `Hoof and Mouth')." They call it foot and mouth because travelers shoes can carry the disease. Making it specific to animal ("hoof") would be deceiving.
Also, according to most recent respectable sources foot and mouth is harmless to humans.
"The USA must immediately ban ALL imports of any kind from the European Union..." They have. Duh.
"Socialist disease ridden farming techniques?" Christ, you sound like a prejudiced asshole. And a trolling one at that. I hope someday you get voted off this place. You're the most negative prick I've ever been exposed to on this website. Whether it be calling Napster users "immoral criminals" or whatever else you can do to troll and piss people off, you really come off as a truly misdirected person. Mabye you should fix whatever's bothering you (sometimes you can't -- likely you're ugly.)
Lastly, "it is not `funny' and I don't intend to follow your comment to laugh." Lighten up a bit. Sometimes humour is given in serious, downtrodden times to make things seem less serious and thus take the edge of off things. No one is claiming Slashdot to be a mainstream media outlet; you shouldn't act like it is one.
This has been the case with Slashdot from almost day one. It's very simple. When a story is posted, everyone who reads Slashdot -- which might not seem like a lot based on posts but actually is because there are so many lurkers -- clicks on the link and that overwhelms the linked web server. This is even mentioned in the FAQ, including their answer on mirroring: "No."
Hey, you were the same person complaining about the religious overtone in Katz article yesterday.
If you don't like Slashdot, leave, you religious-fanatic-prude, computer illiterate troll who has nothing insightful to contribute other then voicings of his own dissatisfaction with whatever is offerred on what is becomming a peice of shit website due to needlessly present fucks like you (along with other factors that will not be discussed herein.)
Mabye because they wrote it from scratch?
Really, you're comparing apples to oranges. This is a totally new project. If you're not buying it and using it, you might as well stop condemning them. Look how long it took Linux and X-Windows to get DRI. Look how long it's taken Windows to mature -- my copy of 98 SE hard freezes all the time while Linux doesn't have a single problem (some argue that still hasn't happened w/ win2000.) Operating systems are major projects that don't just magically do everything right in less then two years, sometimes more. I don't agree with everyone flaming on the issue you are, because I've used x86 operating systems years and years old for so long that always are lacking something (be it stability or apps.)
Atleast Apple finally did IT; an operating system with cooperative multitasking needs to be put out of it's misery in todays day and age of computing.
"What's the problem? they have to make money somehow, and supposedly support is the way it should be done with open source. Support them."
The fact of the matter is a system is pratically unmanageable these days without automatic update tools. I certainly wouldn't call automatic system updates "support" -- I'd call it paying for basic necessity.
Redhat would be wise to include lifetime RHN subscription per a boxed set -- even with the most basic one that's around $30. Instead, they purpose RHN for a limited amount of time which doesn't make much sense, in my opinion.
If Redhat wants to survive past its name recognition expiration date it had better start innovating instead of playing copy-cat to an organization that offers a far better product to begin with.
Oh, shut up.
Are you a member of the fucking karma police?
Personally, I think it's really stupid when people complain about karma/modding. You know why? There's absolutely nothing that can be done about it -- is it THAT hard to realize that simple fact? For perfect proof of this general rule, look at what your post got modded down to. Moron.
Has it occurred to you that a lot of people out there bought Voodoo's because of the Linux compatibility -- TRUE compatiblity, not closed source drivers that come from an external source rather then X11 itself -- including past the 3/3000 series because the philosophy always stayed the same? Some people don't mind sacraficing performance somewhat for a given feature. Look at Matrox users; the 3D performance doesn't rank up there with NVIDIA but they have the advantage of dual head.
You're a trolling twit for making such statements and closing with a "NVIDIA 0WNZ J00."
"Gosh, and what would they do if I released a simple utility that allowed you to convert any file ..." [snip, multiple purposes, blah blah, snip]
I wasn't saying they were right in asking for it to be removed. I wasn't saying I personally believed the sole use for such a utility is for circumvention of the new Napster copyright material prevention mechanism. If Napster was mentioned on its web page, then yes, certainly it's not suprising it was removed. However, if Napster wasn't mentioned, your argument stands to reason -- but in court? Just because you argue (like Napster and advocates did in the beginning... "it's just a protocol and server!") it can be used for anything may or may not hold up in court, depending on the severity of the program, of course.
I'm not the source of this whole thing. Don't troll me. I wasn't even arguing against the damn thing.
"Does anyone know what napster would have done if Aimster hadn't removed the Pig Latin encoder?"
Likely, they would have gotten the RIAA to send a C&D letter, letter stating it's purpose was for illegal activity as it furthered the distribution of copyright material on Napster via undermining the monitoring system (or atleast something to that extent.)
Or would they have sent one themselves, stating it was made for the sole purpose of furthering illegal sharing of copyright material on their servers? Doubtful, as Napster themselves have not verbally stated or written on their web page, message of the day, etc, that copyright material cannot be distributed on their servers. They just state that indirectly, now, with banning users... but that's beside the point. Also, Napster doesn't have the lawyer time to deal with trying to enforce that. They're tied up enough as it is.
It's also likely the RIAA was complaining to Napster about it and wanted them to address the problem, as the duty of monitoring files was Napster's, not the RIAA's.
Napster could have been big commercially, but record companies don't really dig selling music online in computer files. the subscription model was flawed -- sure, you could pay a fee every month, but how much worth of music could you download? A hell of a lot more then the subscription was worth, most likely. Had it truly tried to cater to the record companies it would be have no sharing and just a central server where MP3s could be "purchased" (and, perchance, previewed in a proprietary audio format like Liquid audio, the file expiring in 10 minutes [an aspect of Liquid audio -- expiration of file.].) It wouldn't be Napster, then. Anyway, too bad for Napster -- I think so much music out there nowadays (ie canned music; boybands, teeny-pobper psuedo-punk [gags], Celione Dion) is pure shit that doesn't deserve a dime if paying can be avoided, considering the massive amounts of money the artists make. That's why so many people felt backlash toward Metallica; here's a band that's made millions and millions, but they felt it so important to complain. Finally, speaking as a person who doesn't have that much money, it was a joy for me to use, obtaining songs I never would have heard otherwise and being exposed to artists and their talent.