redhat has beena round for a long long time, sure they were everyone's favorite dist to talk shit about but only because they were the most popular and most proflific and represented the best chance at linux profitability, in fact this makes no sense whatsoever in light of hte fact not 3 weeks ago i was reading an article about hwo they had been turning a profit. But most damaging is that a lot of people pretty much thought RedHat was the only Linux contender with any chance against M$, and since they cameout against the SCO situation i'm wondering if any of those things were factors... anyway incoherent rambling, from a sleepless night in the new apartment so take it w/ a bowl of chronic and a shot of whiskey:p
code wasn't enough for you? They started out w/ a windows based system, if they're basically starting over i would assume it wouldn't be the easiest thing in the world to port all their existing thigns over, a few choice quotes
"The idea is for members of a platoon to be able to pass around battlefield procedural messages, graphics, alerts and other pieces of information that currently are communicated by hand signals and voice"
that seems to imply quite a bit of custom software as does this: "The Land Warrior operates in a soldier-to-soldier wireless network, for short-range data and voice transmissions. For extended communications, the CDA is connected to a SINCGARS ASIP radio. Other radios may be incorporated in the future, such as the MBITR, the PRC-117F or L-band and Iridium satellite systems."
yea the mechanics might not be difficult to port over but what about all their GUI stuff? and/or having to write drivers for hardware that might not yet be supported etc? i mean it takes a pretty big investment to scrap it and start over... and switching operating systems midstream is very very telling.
I wonder if longhorn and winfx could have changed this (i doubt it).
I already bought a brand new radeo 9800 pro 128 mb just to play hl2 and my brother just dropped almost $1k on a new system mostly for playing hl2... There are also quite a few people who have pre-orders both for the game and for the bundles w/ the video cards. I'm sure I'm not alone here and hell maybe they figure it's good for them cause now they have some of the pressure off to amke the game work better w/ existing cards while ATI/NVidia get some breathing room to plot and scheme and hold off on releasing hteir next line until the games that can actually use them are available... everyone in the industry wins from this situation because it's a given that the game will go platinum as soon as it touches the stoes regardless of any delays and thes ame came be said for Doom3.. the only people who lose are We the consumers; once again left holding the empty bag of hope...
i'll admit i never got army specific spam; but the account i used did get spammed like mad (i can't prove it was them)
Bootcamp is not worthwhile it's lame; AA follows the same concept of rainbow six which is slow boring and painful gameplay if you like that "realism" that's fine; i prefer games that are fun
no you can't just jump right in you have toplay their gay qualifying level; a huge fiasco when it was released as the level would not properlly register completion to the army servers forcing you top lay said lame map over and over and over again; no matter what side you're on the other side always looks like terrorists i dont' consider that realistic in the slightest...
the weapons maps and gameplay are all handicapped by the army trying to make it like the army... i realize that a lot of this is opinion based but i think just about anything else would have been better; hell did anyone try to contact id and see if they could get a pre-release demo of doom3 to include? that would have been impressive and given them a clear first strike against valve but that didn't happen...
Linux has several other better freer games available than AA; AA requires you to register with the army so they can send you spam and try to recruit you because that is the point of AA, in addition to making you slog your way through bootcamp and whatnot and not directly into the action which totally and completely cripples the idea of a fast loading easy playing game from a cd to test the power of a 64 bit processor w/ actual software. Where as you can get ET for free which also runs on linux... how much code re-write is necessary to take advantage of 64 bit? does it matter with something like these games? Although i'm not a fan of gentoo myself anyway when they released the disk that came with the unreal 2003 demo when it wa sbrand new i had ad isk of that handy... why team up w/ the army when all they want is to exploit the situation trying to get boys to play their game and like i well enough to do it for real. I think AA is extraordinairely underhanded, cigarette marketing is even less direct than this and our taxes paid for it's development.
you already are one; lets not forget how many presidents we have that WERE NOT ELECTED BY THE POPULAR VOTE this is probably one of hte main reasons we have such low voter turn out; becuase no one feels like their vote matters the gov't does wahtever the fuck it wants to do anyway; even the Nazi's had kangaroo courts we dont' even have those we just deport people outside the country for tortu err questioning... we live in neither a democracy nor a republic; this is an oligarchy (yes it could be spelled oilgarchy at the moment)
your comment is much like the logic of gun control and fails for the same reason; people who use their connections for illegal things and are smart about it wll continue to not get caught while all the legit people suffer...
install splash screen; i bet gates has mroe money then that lost in his couch they should just buy ALL of hte ad space and have a 40 minute ballmer monkey dance through out the entire thing while he chants things like THE GPL IS A VIRUS; MANDRAKE IS FRENCH BUY MICROSOFT BE A PATRIOT; etc
Think about america's army,the "recruitment tool" used to get kids interested in being soldiers on frontlines they can't identify on a map. I dunno how many of you have played but the other side always looks like terrorists... imagine if they mandated that kind of narrowing of the spectrum instead of doing it as coy design decision to not ever have kids shooting at americans... i wonder if fritz hollings trolls slashdot...
and then you tripped and dropped your palm on teh ground shattering it into a billion pieces; OR the battery died along w/ the backup one (assuming such a thing exists; i don't own one) and now you have a little piece of metal that isn't even heavy enough to be a doorstop.. maybe a moderate paper weight..
i had 300+ books on my laptop before the gel packed shock proof harddrive died in the last move i had to make somehow (panasonic claims that toughbooks can survive a 3 foot fall onto concrete and while i haven't tested that theory it has fallen on hardwood from said height prior w/o issue) so in conclusion; it's not necessarily better or worse just different... books don't run out of batteries and you cand rop them off the sears tower and they'll most likely survive..
and as for your biblical verse, you know how it got there? years of oral tradition; finally being collected and written down.. frankly i see no reason why any of the methods should stop being used.. there has been plenty of editing done over time to the text you referenced as it is..
i inheritted (god i just woke up and my eyes hurt so i can't spell sorry) them from my grandmothers estate years ago.. the stocks ahve split 2x since she bought htem for me when iwas like 9 and so i have like 20 shares or so
my friend just graduated college from IU as an analytical chemist; he just got a job at Lilly and having been an Indiana native (it's based here; one of the states largest employers)everyone knows about lilly (hell i even own some stock)
they required a huge background check, a stringent drug test (no detox is gonna get you outta this one) and several interviews and when they found out he had been arrested for disorderly conduct (drunk at a party) they wanted to see a copy of the police report too... the fact is that prior to this i didn't and this story i didn't know anything about their practices; that in and of itself is suspect as people who enjoy working where they work talk as much as those who don't...
now that's just what little he's told me about it; we dont' talk that often i can only imagine the rest and what it must be like working there. and to be listed #1 on the big brother list it has to be something out of an Ashcroft wet dream.
a couple years apart.. the linksys hub actually lasted abotu 3 years before it broke but in hub time that is nothing.. the only moving part is a fan as far as i know so i don't understand how one day it jus thas no power, same with the router..
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redhat has beena round for a long long time, sure they were everyone's favorite dist to talk shit about but only because they were the most popular and most proflific and represented the best chance at linux profitability, in fact this makes no sense whatsoever in light of hte fact not 3 weeks ago i was reading an article about hwo they had been turning a profit. But most damaging is that a lot of people pretty much thought RedHat was the only Linux contender with any chance against M$, and since they cameout against the SCO situation i'm wondering if any of those things were factors... anyway incoherent rambling, from a sleepless night in the new apartment so take it w/ a bowl of chronic and a shot of whiskey :p
code wasn't enough for you? They started out w/ a windows based system, if they're basically starting over i would assume it wouldn't be the easiest thing in the world to port all their existing thigns over, a few choice quotes
"The idea is for members of a platoon to be able to pass around battlefield procedural messages, graphics, alerts and other pieces of information that currently are communicated by hand signals and voice"
that seems to imply quite a bit of custom software
as does this: "The Land Warrior operates in a soldier-to-soldier wireless network, for short-range data and voice transmissions. For extended communications, the CDA is connected to a SINCGARS ASIP radio. Other radios may be incorporated in the future, such as the MBITR, the PRC-117F or L-band and Iridium satellite systems."
yea the mechanics might not be difficult to port over but what about all their GUI stuff? and/or having to write drivers for hardware that might not yet be supported etc? i mean it takes a pretty big investment to scrap it and start over... and switching operating systems midstream is very very telling.
I wonder if longhorn and winfx could have changed this (i doubt it).
(insert simpson scientist sounds here)
seriously i didn't rtfa either but really... isn't it obvious?
how do they measure efficiency and what does it mean in thsi context
you're wishing for a multibillion dollar CORPORATION to fix problems w/ the GOVERNMENT?
i'm sorry but is that not like asking charles manson to help reform jeffery dahmer?
their shuttles will explode into multiple colours... ours tend to only be one...
(duck)
I already bought a brand new radeo 9800 pro 128 mb just to play hl2 and my brother just dropped almost $1k on a new system mostly for playing hl2... There are also quite a few people who have pre-orders both for the game and for the bundles w/ the video cards. I'm sure I'm not alone here and hell maybe they figure it's good for them cause now they have some of the pressure off to amke the game work better w/ existing cards while ATI/NVidia get some breathing room to plot and scheme and hold off on releasing hteir next line until the games that can actually use them are available... everyone in the industry wins from this situation because it's a given that the game will go platinum as soon as it touches the stoes regardless of any delays and thes ame came be said for Doom3.. the only people who lose are We the consumers; once again left holding the empty bag of hope...
i'll admit i never got army specific spam; but the account i used did get spammed like mad (i can't prove it was them)
Bootcamp is not worthwhile it's lame; AA follows the same concept of rainbow six which is slow boring and painful gameplay if you like that "realism" that's fine; i prefer games that are fun
no you can't just jump right in you have toplay their gay qualifying level; a huge fiasco when it was released as the level would not properlly register completion to the army servers forcing you top lay said lame map over and over and over again; no matter what side you're on the other side always looks like terrorists i dont' consider that realistic in the slightest...
the weapons maps and gameplay are all handicapped by the army trying to make it like the army... i realize that a lot of this is opinion based but i think just about anything else would have been better; hell did anyone try to contact id and see if they could get a pre-release demo of doom3 to include? that would have been impressive and given them a clear first strike against valve
but that didn't happen...
Linux has several other better freer games available than AA; AA requires you to register with the army so they can send you spam and try to recruit you because that is the point of AA, in addition to making you slog your way through bootcamp and whatnot and not directly into the action which totally and completely cripples the idea of a fast loading easy playing game from a cd to test the power of a 64 bit processor w/ actual software. Where as you can get ET for free which also runs on linux... how much code re-write is necessary to take advantage of 64 bit? does it matter with something like these games? Although i'm not a fan of gentoo myself anyway when they released the disk that came with the unreal 2003 demo when it wa sbrand new i had ad isk of that handy... why team up w/ the army when all they want is to exploit the situation trying to get boys to play their game and like i well enough to do it for real. I think AA is extraordinairely underhanded, cigarette marketing is even less direct than this and our taxes paid for it's development.
you already are one; lets not forget how many presidents we have that WERE NOT ELECTED BY THE POPULAR VOTE this is probably one of hte main reasons we have such low voter turn out; becuase no one feels like their vote matters the gov't does wahtever the fuck it wants to do anyway; even the Nazi's had kangaroo courts we dont' even have those we just deport people outside the country for tortu err questioning... we live in neither a democracy nor a republic; this is an oligarchy (yes it could be spelled oilgarchy at the moment)
and it's impossible to only put backdoors in the chinese version? can i get an 8th of what you have?
how about those guys at NASA; i bet they'd be REAL interested in getting a failed shuttle/sattelite system to reboot in less than a second
one obvious example; i'm sure there are others
you don't need tobe charged with anything to be detained indefinitely for being a terrorist
you just have to be suspected... better not try adding wifi to your donkey
user name so i'll break it down for you
americans drink oil; lots of oil
think about it
if it meant real anonymity for the rest of us
your comment is much like the logic of gun control and fails for the same reason; people who use their connections for illegal things and are smart about it wll continue to not get caught while all the legit people suffer...
a 50 foot BSoD... poor Godzilla.. he's always getting fucked with by everyone and now this
install splash screen; i bet gates has mroe money then that lost in his couch they should just buy ALL of hte ad space and have a 40 minute ballmer monkey dance through out the entire thing while he chants things like THE GPL IS A VIRUS; MANDRAKE IS FRENCH BUY MICROSOFT BE A PATRIOT; etc
Think about america's army ,the "recruitment tool" used to get kids interested in being soldiers on frontlines they can't identify on a map. I dunno how many of you have played but the other side always looks like terrorists... imagine if they mandated that kind of narrowing of the spectrum instead of doing it as coy design decision to not ever have kids shooting at americans... i wonder if fritz hollings trolls slashdot...
and then you tripped and dropped your palm on teh ground shattering it into a billion pieces; OR the battery died along w/ the backup one (assuming such a thing exists; i don't own one) and now you have a little piece of metal that isn't even heavy enough to be a doorstop.. maybe a moderate paper weight..
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.. frankly i see no reason why any of the methods should stop being used.. there has been plenty of editing done over time to the text you referenced as it is..
i had 300+ books on my laptop before the gel packed shock proof harddrive died in the last move i had to make somehow (panasonic claims that toughbooks can survive a 3 foot fall onto concrete and while i haven't tested that theory it has fallen on hardwood from said height prior w/o issue) so in conclusion; it's not necessarily better or worse just different... books don't run out of batteries and you cand rop them off the sears tower and they'll most likely survive
and as for your biblical verse, you know how it got there? years of oral tradition; finally being collected and written down
if you were naive you would believe it
i inheritted (god i just woke up and my eyes hurt so i can't spell sorry) them from my grandmothers estate years ago.. the stocks ahve split 2x since she bought htem for me when iwas like 9 and so i have like 20 shares or so
san francisco
i guess sco owns a piece of cali now too
oh well no loss
my friend just graduated college from IU as an analytical chemist; he just got a job at Lilly and having been an Indiana native (it's based here; one of the states largest employers)everyone knows about lilly (hell i even own some stock)
they required a huge background check, a stringent drug test (no detox is gonna get you outta this one) and several interviews and when they found out he had been arrested for disorderly conduct (drunk at a party) they wanted to see a copy of the police report too... the fact is that prior to this i didn't and this story i didn't know anything about their practices; that in and of itself is suspect as people who enjoy working where they work talk as much as those who don't...
now that's just what little he's told me about it; we dont' talk that often i can only imagine the rest and what it must be like working there. and to be listed #1 on the big brother list it has to be something out of an Ashcroft wet dream.
same place.. best buy i think
a couple years apart.. the linksys hub actually lasted abotu 3 years before it broke but in hub time that is nothing.. the only moving part is a fan as far as i know so i don't understand how one day it jus thas no power, same with the router..
i don't have any trouble with my 5 computers 2 routers and switch or anything else running in my house lal the time
my openbsd box has an 80 day uptime and the last time it went down was when the power went out; i used to have a UPS, an old one, but it died too.