1) You founded Thawte, right? How come I get a broken certificate warning every time I visit bugzilla.ubuntu.com?
2) I commend your SchoolTools project, and wish it were on Ubuntu by default. (Not a conflict of interest; schools are an excellent way to propagate interest in a new free OS!) But right now Moodle is quite the poor cousin, with a woefully out-of-date version only available through the "universe" Ubuntu packages. Any chance of more educationally-oriented software bundled in the default set?
BTW, thanks for the most fun and easy to use Linux distro yet!
Enchanter Zork System Shock Myst Marathon series ZPC (post-apocalyptic messiah as zombie-killer. the best.) Resident's Bay Day on the Midway Unreal + Return to Na Pali Max Payne Unreal 2
Let me speak clearly so as not to be misunderstood:
Microsoft is to the free exchange of digital information what the Nazis were to the free exchange of genetic information. Any file format or communications protocol they cannot control, they will attempt to kill. An enemy of free speech, they are evil, and must be stopped.
I'm an Apple-booster (love Panther!), but if 99% of the world went to open-source OSes I'd be completely happy. As long as the communications protocols are open, there will be a diversity of, and therefore competition between, clients. As long as the file formats are open, there will be a similar diversity of and healthy competition between editors. Some people will pay for pre-built OSes, and some people will roll their own.
People choose between service providers based on needs for bandwidth, network storage and handholding support, with no single corporate entity capable of controlling OSes, applications, or the 'net. Democrats, Libertarians and Greens rejoice! =)
-- This.sig was generated by a team of attack kittens.
As others have pointed out, there's a bit of a non-sequitur in claiming that a single desktop will speed Linux adoption (98 -> XP, MacOS 9 -> X). If Lindows can sell an easy to use GNOME desktop and Lycoris can do the same with KDE, more power to 'em.
But most of the arguments about which is "better" (hah!) focus on look and feel. You want fast Linux adoption? I can do that one better:
drag and drop.
Not impressed? I can even do one better than that: the absolute most important step to desktop adoption:
I would go that far. I have to agree with Knife_Edge that OSS for voting systems should be mandatory--this isn't about "companies making a buck," this is about establishing democratic vote-counts.
As our friend the Peruvian senator pointed out, in a real democracy the people would have access not only to the raw data of elections but also to the software used to compute the outcome of said elections (amazingly he said this before our 2000 election debacle).
Anyone have any idea what sorts of physical voting mechanisms the Peruvians use to interact with those OSS voting systems?
You know what? The government wouldn't *have* to censor anything that showed terrorism in a positive light. We've got good Christian Jack Chick, er, Jack Valenti of the MPAA to censor it for us!
A smattering of opinions may be found linked to here. What exactly is aberrational behavior (page 5)?
As a poster noted on IMDB, the Wicker Man is probably the only movie that's ever been rated X (left unrated, essentially the same thing when it comes to movie-house or Blockbuster distribution) for its ideology: the Pagans aren't the bad guy, the Christian is.
So you've got a situation where the studios begin self-censoring, not producing movies with "controversial" stances, because they know an unkind rating will stifle distribtion. (Freedom of speech? You naive bastard! You had *fun* in high school civics, didn't you?)
So an entire classical music album is going to be four or five bucks (four or five movements in the average symphony), but I'm going to end up shelling out twenty or thirty bucks for a punk album with tons of short songs (there's a Minutemen album I really want that has 22 songs)?
They're gonna have to do some adjusting here, methinks...
I find it hard to believe that this is how adults react in such a situation?
Israel v. Palestine
England v. Ireland
India v. Pakistan
Windows v. Mac
Emacs v. vi
GNOME v. KDE
(insert ad nauseum other petty squabbles here)
You might think I'm being facetious with that list but, sadly, I'm not: all these disputes differ only in degrees of scale. Frankly, I'm always astonished when people from different walks of life manage to "agree to disagree"... Most adults do not live life like a Sly and the Family Stone song...
"First, they came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me." -Rev. Niemoller (who didn't survive Nazi Germany)
Wow that's very useful! On a completely unrelated note, did you realize that there are well over two hundred gardening catalogs that can be mailed to home, completely free of charge? Mr. Ralsky knows this, or at least, he's going to in about 4-6 weeks...
This just seemed appropriate: http://www.publicenemy.com/lyrics/lyrics/swindlers -lust.php
"A Dollar A Rhyme But We Barely Get A Dime" -Public Enemy, Swindler's Lust
The hyprocrisy of these corporate whores is astonishing. Go not gently into that dark night, let the assholes know exactly what you think, here: http://www.riaa.org/contact.cfm
Around 1995-6, I remember heaing a lot of interesting talk about the "3-D Finder" for the Mac, but the only thing that came of it was Hotsauce, a very interesting idea with a pretty clunky interface. So what would a good 3D interface look like?
The only thing my underpowered imagination could come up at the time with was a Johnny Mnemonic-inspired "well." Yes, this was assuming the VR headseat and goggles, but the headset really isn't necessary. You're floating at the top of the well, and all your work documents are arrayed out before you. Your most important projects are at the top of the well; you have to float down a bit to get to older or unimportant stuff. You would keep games, movies, music, etc. on different walls. Want to play a game? Just turn around! All your coolest games are at the top of the well.
So you wouldn't really have multiple desktops, although it would function just the same--you'd really have one desktop that scrolls 360 degrees. It's only cool if it works, but I know that powerful 3D card in my box could be doing something more useful than Return to Castle Wolfenstein...
If yer not lyin', you rock, dude! my personal best is about forty-five minutes, and that's on a machine that didn't TILT, with some serious console-liftin'!
flamebait: a quantum-mechanicist (which I am not) would argue that there's an infinite more amount of precision in any old analog pinball game than there is in any digital simulacrum... the imprecisions are precisely what make it a game, just like the differences between Wrigley Field and Candlestick Park (why home games vs. away games really matter for sports that play on natural turf). Just ask John Holland!
-Ian
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this is entertainment. classic console style. if you don't dig it, don't play it.
tripe is really gross fish, but some people dig it, I guess. go figure, some people even like sushi....
pinball, console video games, pachenko, fuck--even karaoke, geeks really do get out of the box sometimes (hypocrite--I write this from work on an unpaid Saturday afternoon!), and old analog toys are a great deal o' fun!!
my MP3's might be really rad, but I still cruise into the city to hear real vinyl get spun on real turntables weekend evenings! Me being a geek doesn't detract from my ability to enjoy old analog toys.
don't get me wrong--Quake3 Arena rocks on my iMac, and I wouldn't consider it a proper Linux distro if it didn't contain xEvil, but there's nothing wrong with racquetball, rugby, or a good-ol' goddamn game of pinball!!!
Sucks to hear about Williams, cool to hear Sega's still doin' 'em. Howsabout Bally?
Yup, Pin*Bot was onuvtha coolest talking pinball games of the day, along with Black Knight.
Although they may not be making too many new ones these days, at least they have an extended afterlife in bars, at least in (moderately) big cities such as 'frisco...
(on a sideline, I'm much more concerned about not being able to find classic video games. sure I can find ROM disk images of Sinistar or Qix or Tron for [insert your favorite emulator here], but I'd much rather plop quarters into the real beast and wrestle with the old analog controls!)
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Mod parent up ("+1 - Oblique Nietzschean Reference").
Hi Mark, 2 questions:
1) You founded Thawte, right? How come I get a broken certificate warning every time I visit bugzilla.ubuntu.com?
2) I commend your SchoolTools project, and wish it were on Ubuntu by default. (Not a conflict of interest; schools are an excellent way to propagate interest in a new free OS!) But right now Moodle is quite the poor cousin, with a woefully out-of-date version only available through the "universe" Ubuntu packages. Any chance of more educationally-oriented software bundled in the default set?
BTW, thanks for the most fun and easy to use Linux distro yet!
Enchanter
Zork
System Shock
Myst
Marathon series
ZPC (post-apocalyptic messiah as zombie-killer. the best.)
Resident's Bay Day on the Midway
Unreal + Return to Na Pali
Max Payne
Unreal 2
Let me speak clearly so as not to be misunderstood:
.sig was generated by a team of attack kittens.
Microsoft is to the free exchange of digital information what the Nazis were to the free exchange of genetic information. Any file format or communications protocol they cannot control, they will attempt to kill. An enemy of free speech, they are evil, and must be stopped.
I'm an Apple-booster (love Panther!), but if 99% of the world went to open-source OSes I'd be completely happy. As long as the communications protocols are open, there will be a diversity of, and therefore competition between, clients. As long as the file formats are open, there will be a similar diversity of and healthy competition between editors. Some people will pay for pre-built OSes, and some people will roll their own.
People choose between service providers based on needs for bandwidth, network storage and handholding support, with no single corporate entity capable of controlling OSes, applications, or the 'net. Democrats, Libertarians and Greens rejoice!
=)
--
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As others have pointed out, there's a bit of a non-sequitur in claiming that a single desktop will speed Linux adoption (98 -> XP, MacOS 9 -> X). If Lindows can sell an easy to use GNOME desktop and Lycoris can do the same with KDE, more power to 'em.
But most of the arguments about which is "better" (hah!) focus on look and feel. You want fast Linux adoption? I can do that one better:
drag and drop.
Not impressed? I can even do one better than that: the absolute most important step to desktop adoption:
copy and paste.
('nuff said!)
As our friend the Peruvian senator pointed out, in a real democracy the people would have access not only to the raw data of elections but also to the software used to compute the outcome of said elections (amazingly he said this before our 2000 election debacle).
Anyone have any idea what sorts of physical voting mechanisms the Peruvians use to interact with those OSS voting systems?
A smattering of opinions may be found linked to here. What exactly is aberrational behavior (page 5)?
As a poster noted on IMDB, the Wicker Man is probably the only movie that's ever been rated X (left unrated, essentially the same thing when it comes to movie-house or Blockbuster distribution) for its ideology: the Pagans aren't the bad guy, the Christian is.
So you've got a situation where the studios begin self-censoring, not producing movies with "controversial" stances, because they know an unkind rating will stifle distribtion. (Freedom of speech? You naive bastard! You had *fun* in high school civics, didn't you?)
So an entire classical music album is going to be four or five bucks (four or five movements in the average symphony), but I'm going to end up shelling out twenty or thirty bucks for a punk album with tons of short songs (there's a Minutemen album I really want that has 22 songs)?
They're gonna have to do some adjusting here, methinks...
You might think I'm being facetious with that list but, sadly, I'm not: all these disputes differ only in degrees of scale. Frankly, I'm always astonished when people from different walks of life manage to "agree to disagree"... Most adults do not live life like a Sly and the Family Stone song...
=(
"First, they came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me."
-Rev. Niemoller (who didn't survive Nazi Germany)
'nuff said.
Wow that's very useful! On a completely unrelated note, did you realize that there are well over two hundred gardening catalogs that can be mailed to home, completely free of charge? Mr. Ralsky knows this, or at least, he's going to in about 4-6 weeks...
http://www.publicenemy.com/lyrics/lyrics/swindler
"A Dollar A Rhyme But We Barely Get A Dime"
-Public Enemy, Swindler's Lust
The hyprocrisy of these corporate whores is astonishing. Go not gently into that dark night, let the assholes know exactly what you think, here:
http://www.riaa.org/contact.cfm
The only thing my underpowered imagination could come up at the time with was a Johnny Mnemonic-inspired "well." Yes, this was assuming the VR headseat and goggles, but the headset really isn't necessary. You're floating at the top of the well, and all your work documents are arrayed out before you. Your most important projects are at the top of the well; you have to float down a bit to get to older or unimportant stuff. You would keep games, movies, music, etc. on different walls. Want to play a game? Just turn around! All your coolest games are at the top of the well.
So you wouldn't really have multiple desktops, although it would function just the same--you'd really have one desktop that scrolls 360 degrees. It's only cool if it works, but I know that powerful 3D card in my box could be doing something more useful than Return to Castle Wolfenstein...
Just a thought.
Damn good question! (how do we make a good thing better?)
Black Knight
Pin Bot
Eight Ball
Terminator
Generically, I liked the ones that have multi-tier levels (such as the carnival-themed one)
so yer sayin' you haven't been in a bar in a real city in over 20 years....
tell me, do they still do horse-shoe tossin' in Hoeboken, NJ?
8+ hours on one quarter?
If yer not lyin', you rock, dude!
my personal best is about forty-five minutes, and that's on a machine that didn't TILT, with some serious console-liftin'!
late'
Ian
=)
flamebait:
a quantum-mechanicist (which I am not) would argue that there's an infinite more amount of precision in any old analog pinball game than there is in any digital simulacrum... the imprecisions are precisely what make it a game, just like the differences between Wrigley Field and Candlestick Park (why home games vs. away games really matter for sports that play on natural turf). Just ask John Holland!
-Ian
this is entertainment. classic console style.
if you don't dig it, don't play it.
tripe is really gross fish, but some people dig it, I guess. go figure, some people even like sushi....
pinball, console video games, pachenko, fuck--even karaoke, geeks really do get out of the box sometimes (hypocrite--I write this from work on an unpaid Saturday afternoon!), and old analog toys are a great deal o' fun!!
my MP3's might be really rad, but I still cruise into the city to hear real vinyl get spun on real turntables weekend evenings! Me being a geek doesn't detract from my ability to enjoy old analog toys.
don't get me wrong--Quake3 Arena rocks on my iMac, and I wouldn't consider it a proper Linux distro if it didn't contain xEvil, but there's nothing wrong with racquetball, rugby, or a good-ol' goddamn game of pinball!!!
be less serious!
late'
=)
Sucks to hear about Williams, cool to hear Sega's still doin' 'em. Howsabout Bally?
Yup, Pin*Bot was onuvtha coolest talking pinball games of the day, along with Black Knight.
Although they may not be making too many new ones these days, at least they have an extended afterlife in bars, at least in (moderately) big cities such as 'frisco...
(on a sideline, I'm much more concerned about not being able to find classic video games. sure I can find ROM disk images of Sinistar or Qix or Tron for [insert your favorite emulator here], but I'd much rather plop quarters into the real beast and wrestle with the old analog controls!)
I agree with all of your points about the fuzziness of natural language definitions (agrees with "Metaphors we Live by" by Lakoff and Johnson).
But consider the possible derivation of the term geek: a circus geek was someone in the sideshow who would bite the heads off of chickens and snakes.
Analagously, geeks are people willing to do difficult and unpleasant things with technology.