I had a box running on 2.2 as a web server at my old admin job.
Damn thing just refused to die. It had an uptime in excess of 500 days (my record, 523), when some moron pulled the power cord out of the back by mistake (I still blame you Nik!).
When I booted that box up, the twin towers were standing, Enron was still in business, The Taleban still ran Afganistan and The GameCube and Xbox had yet to be released.
None of the software works well together - Mozilla and Konq have no idea what software to launch when you download a file.
Yeah. If you're that fussed, tell Mozilla what to use by setting the mime type actions under preferences.
And why do I need to be root to burn a disk? Or to install the simplest apps?
That's called security. And if you really want, you can give your user the rights to do those things.
Rather than sitting around going "bitch, bitch, bitch, Linux doesn't work like Windows", why don't you take your questions to google and get the solutions.
If even that is too much effort for you, stay with Windows. Enjoy MyDoom.
It's saying that the only thing evil needs in order to triumph is for good guys to sit around going "meh", not that good guys need do nothing in order to defeat evil.
Anata no baka desu. (I'm not American, I also haven't studied Japanese for a decade. Fuck I feel old)
Anyway, if you'd taken the time to, you know, read the fucking article, you'd notice it's not hasseling the Engrish, but rather, making note that the illustrations are, in fact, quite funny.
Jumping to claims of racism. You must be fatally pollitically correct. Whoops, I mean, pollitically correct in a life-challenged manner.
For future reference, read the article before complaining about it's contents.
Though it's great to see home brew games are alive and kicking, and that the GP32 has a cult following because of it's open nature, I must say that all of the games not mentioned in the article look mediocre to terrible.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm one who'll prefer shining gameplay over shiney graphics, but most of the displayed games look like the developer haven't even tried.
Take this one for instance. In case you don't recognise what that's supposed to represent, it's a snowboard going down a mountain. This console is capable of much better.
Yeah. The least he could have done is sourced a small LCD screen and put that in place of the original screen.
Add a dual head AGP card to the mix and you can run your own sized screen and get the mac case to be a virtual fish tank or actually use it in the mix, or whatever takes your fancy. I'd be impressed with that, but this is just bleh.
The ability to show, through direct sampling, that a life friendly environment existed on Mars at one point will lead to us being able to make two conclusions.
Either this solar system is extraordinarily friendly i nterms of having life supporting environments, or, life friendly environments are common throughout the universe.
The latter will be a more popular choice, as it suggests we could be in store to come into extra terrestrail life, be it intellegent or not, at some point, should we become a fully fledged space fairing race.
Finding water on Mars will also make setting up colonies much easier, as transportation of water to extra-terrestrail bases will be expensive and tricky.
Yeah, I mean, after all, the GBA/SP is out selling the PS2 worldwide, and the GameCube is level pegging with the Xbox, so Nintendo obviously have no idea what they're doing so far as hardware goes.
2nd equal in home consoles and an iron grasp monopoly in the handheld market. When will dim witted morons like you get a clue and realise Nintendo is doing what is does best? Making games and gaming hardware. And they're making a pretty penny out of it too.
Agreed, however I keep hearing reports from the people I know at Weta, that Weta Digital lost their bid for Neo Genesis due to being too wrapped up in RoTK.
Recent redundancies at Weta Digital have resulted in most of their top talent heading back to their home countries.
Weta Workshop (the company that would have produced these pieces), is in a much better position.
"GameGossip are claiming may be called the 'Xenon', according to a job posting on Microsoft's website."
I hope Microsoft have checked with the Bitmap Brothers regarding that name, otherwise they're likely to get shuned by anyone with any respect for vertically scrolling shooters.
But this gives me something to complain about, and as someone with british heritage it's in my genes to complain, so I'll complain! And if there's a reason I shouldn't complain, I'll complain about the inability to complain. Like I'm doing now.
A new kernel release to fix a security hole is new worthy. A.0.1 release that fixes a few bugs is not new worthy. For fuck's sake.
I'm a loyal and happy Linux user, but posting a story every time a kernel is released is fucking ridiculus. I mean, maybe if it included something really way cool, like "Reliable NTFS Read/Write support" or the like, it'd be worth posting, otherwise, leave it to the people who are currently looking to recompile their kernel to check for themselves.
Yes, but Alaska was likely nowhere near it's current location 55 million years ago.
Think how fast your fingernails grow. Now think about not cutting your fingernails, if they could grow indefinately, for 55 million years. That's the distance Alaska could be from it's current sub-artic location in the timeframe you've given.
Continental drift didn't exclude the northern continents and American states.
The polar regions were not like the tropics at any point. There have been time where the polar ice caps have collapsed and times when the earth was considerably warmer than it is today, but you won't find a time when palm trees were growing at 90 dgrees north or south.
You may, however, be confusing the fact that land masses such as Gondwanaland (now Australia, South America, Africa, India and Antarctica), have drifted in and out of polar regions in the geological past (the afroementioned landmass having been located around the north pole at one point).
We will eventually outgrow the Earth (some will argue we already have). And any technological advance that forwards mankind's status as a space-faring species is only beneficial to the entire species.
Sure, it may not be solving some of the current problems, as you have brought up, but a better understanding of the universe is sure to have paybacks, even though they may not be immediate or blindingly obvious.
If the Mars rovers do find evidence of past life, however unlinkely it is, it will change everything.
Anyway, I forgot to include this;
From the Pokemon company: " We're also preparing for a surprising turn of events".
Since Pokemon is tied to Nintendo, could this also be pertaining to the new machine, or could this be indicative of company politics and expanding the Pokemon franchise to non-Nintendo consoles? That would be surprising, I must say.
Over the past few years, I have from being an over excited Nintendophile to being slightly apathetic about the whole gaming industry.
Back in 2001, I was so excited about the GameCube, I paid a lot of money to go to E3, just so I could be one of the first members of the public to play the damn thing (and I must admit, it was a whole lot of fun). All the same, since then Nintendo's up and coming announcements have not stired much with me.
This new mysterious hardware, however, is sparking my interest like nothing in the past 2 and a bit years. Not a home console or a portable? Sounds like orc mischeif, I know, but it could be one of those brilliant Nintendo gaming innovations that once revealed, has people slapping their foreheads thinking "why didn't I think of that?"
This combined with the PSP makes the months until E3 all the more irritating.
In regards to the PSP, I must say the device looks seriously cool. Despite my love of the GBA, I will certainly be looking forward to playing on the Sony machine, although Square Enix's hesitation is quite puzzling.
Lara Croft is the #1 video game whore slut. She appears on every single new game platform, mainly because Eidos find it hard to sell a Tomb Raider game these days with any competition around.
Lara, the sluttiest video game character around, now willing to spread for free.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, go away Eidos, no one cares what you think or do anymore. Maybe if you came up with something original once in a while people would be willing to give you a little respect.
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Damn thing just refused to die. It had an uptime in excess of 500 days (my record, 523), when some moron pulled the power cord out of the back by mistake (I still blame you Nik!).
When I booted that box up, the twin towers were standing, Enron was still in business, The Taleban still ran Afganistan and The GameCube and Xbox had yet to be released.
How time, up and in general, flies.
Most of your problems take just a tiny little bit of effort to overcome.
Excel beats the ever-loving crap out of Kspread.
Have you tried Open Office?
None of the software works well together - Mozilla and Konq have no idea what software to launch when you download a file.
Yeah. If you're that fussed, tell Mozilla what to use by setting the mime type actions under preferences.
And why do I need to be root to burn a disk? Or to install the simplest apps?
That's called security. And if you really want, you can give your user the rights to do those things.
Rather than sitting around going "bitch, bitch, bitch, Linux doesn't work like Windows", why don't you take your questions to google and get the solutions.
If even that is too much effort for you, stay with Windows. Enjoy MyDoom.
It's saying that the only thing evil needs in order to triumph is for good guys to sit around going "meh", not that good guys need do nothing in order to defeat evil.
Anyway, if you'd taken the time to, you know, read the fucking article, you'd notice it's not hasseling the Engrish, but rather, making note that the illustrations are, in fact, quite funny.
Jumping to claims of racism. You must be fatally pollitically correct. Whoops, I mean, pollitically correct in a life-challenged manner.
For future reference, read the article before complaining about it's contents.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm one who'll prefer shining gameplay over shiney graphics, but most of the displayed games look like the developer haven't even tried.
Take this one for instance. In case you don't recognise what that's supposed to represent, it's a snowboard going down a mountain. This console is capable of much better.
Add a dual head AGP card to the mix and you can run your own sized screen and get the mac case to be a virtual fish tank or actually use it in the mix, or whatever takes your fancy. I'd be impressed with that, but this is just bleh.
Either this solar system is extraordinarily friendly i nterms of having life supporting environments, or, life friendly environments are common throughout the universe.
The latter will be a more popular choice, as it suggests we could be in store to come into extra terrestrail life, be it intellegent or not, at some point, should we become a fully fledged space fairing race.
Finding water on Mars will also make setting up colonies much easier, as transportation of water to extra-terrestrail bases will be expensive and tricky.
2nd equal in home consoles and an iron grasp monopoly in the handheld market. When will dim witted morons like you get a clue and realise Nintendo is doing what is does best? Making games and gaming hardware. And they're making a pretty penny out of it too.
Recent redundancies at Weta Digital have resulted in most of their top talent heading back to their home countries.
Weta Workshop (the company that would have produced these pieces), is in a much better position.
It would have been there, but it was busy compiling ; )
What's wrong with wearing a turban?
That's how I feel when I forget to get dressed in the morning.
I hope Microsoft have checked with the Bitmap Brothers regarding that name, otherwise they're likely to get shuned by anyone with any respect for vertically scrolling shooters.
But this gives me something to complain about, and as someone with british heritage it's in my genes to complain, so I'll complain! And if there's a reason I shouldn't complain, I'll complain about the inability to complain. Like I'm doing now.
A new kernel release to fix a security hole is new worthy. A .0.1 release that fixes a few bugs is not new worthy. For fuck's sake.
I'm a loyal and happy Linux user, but posting a story every time a kernel is released is fucking ridiculus. I mean, maybe if it included something really way cool, like "Reliable NTFS Read/Write support" or the like, it'd be worth posting, otherwise, leave it to the people who are currently looking to recompile their kernel to check for themselves.
Think how fast your fingernails grow. Now think about not cutting your fingernails, if they could grow indefinately, for 55 million years. That's the distance Alaska could be from it's current sub-artic location in the timeframe you've given.
Continental drift didn't exclude the northern continents and American states.
You may, however, be confusing the fact that land masses such as Gondwanaland (now Australia, South America, Africa, India and Antarctica), have drifted in and out of polar regions in the geological past (the afroementioned landmass having been located around the north pole at one point).
Damn you blueZhift! Damn you and your brilliant flights of fancy!
Sure, it may not be solving some of the current problems, as you have brought up, but a better understanding of the universe is sure to have paybacks, even though they may not be immediate or blindingly obvious.
If the Mars rovers do find evidence of past life, however unlinkely it is, it will change everything.
Anyway, I forgot to include this;
From the Pokemon company: " We're also preparing for a surprising turn of events".
Since Pokemon is tied to Nintendo, could this also be pertaining to the new machine, or could this be indicative of company politics and expanding the Pokemon franchise to non-Nintendo consoles? That would be surprising, I must say.
Back in 2001, I was so excited about the GameCube, I paid a lot of money to go to E3, just so I could be one of the first members of the public to play the damn thing (and I must admit, it was a whole lot of fun). All the same, since then Nintendo's up and coming announcements have not stired much with me.
This new mysterious hardware, however, is sparking my interest like nothing in the past 2 and a bit years. Not a home console or a portable? Sounds like orc mischeif, I know, but it could be one of those brilliant Nintendo gaming innovations that once revealed, has people slapping their foreheads thinking "why didn't I think of that?"
This combined with the PSP makes the months until E3 all the more irritating.
In regards to the PSP, I must say the device looks seriously cool. Despite my love of the GBA, I will certainly be looking forward to playing on the Sony machine, although Square Enix's hesitation is quite puzzling.
That hard drive will get full at some point though : )
Anyone who replies to me saying "no, it's because Link is better than the other exclusive characters", is only strengthening my case.
Is that why the GameCube version of SCII sold more than the Xbox and PS2 versions?
Lara, the sluttiest video game character around, now willing to spread for free.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, go away Eidos, no one cares what you think or do anymore. Maybe if you came up with something original once in a while people would be willing to give you a little respect.