A friend of mine actually still runs his VAX for home automation (just get X-10...). But if anyone has one of these they want to get rid of, he could really use the parts and I could use it as a large but cool addition to my monster-sized dorm room for next year...
Did you even try to get an education or were you too busy at the shooting range? Obviously you have no idea of what brought Hitler to power. Hitler tried a violant revolution in 1922 (or thereabouts) based entirely on privately owned arms (actually he and his old army buddies from WWI started it). In the pre 1932 era he maintained a private militia of about 2 million men, the SA (which would morf into the SS a few years later).
Clearly you are an uneducated hypocrite. I would also not be surprised if you smelled bad.
Easy. Fire all current teachers and replace them with hardened criminals from our penal system. Arm them to the teeth, give them body armor, and legal impunity. This way we'll kill two birds with one stone- the next time a student tries to kill his friends he'll be rapidly disarmed, sodomized, and then murdered (and possibly eaten), and we won't have to spend billions of dollars on keeping convicts locked up. After all, inmates are one of our largest underutilized national resource.
As far as the "connection" between games like DOOM and violance, frankly it is quite obviously bullshit. For instance, I just finished playing3 hours of quake II, but you don't see me killing anyone do you! Instead I am here, holding a well reasoned discussion about this controversial topic.
The media is looking for firepower, anything they can get their hands on. The most blame I have seen placed, or rather misplaced, has been on the Gothic community. In nearly every single atricle I have read, there has been more than a passing mention that these kids Wore Black and Listened to KMFDM. Neo-Nazi Goths, as it were.
What it really comes down to is that the media will play up what is going to get them the most readers/viewers/listeners. In most cases. In others you will see some real information, and in rare cases it will be the refutation of the misinformation perpetuated by other sources.
"These kids had websites, and they sent email. Must be the work of the devil, yessir! They killed, that means anyone else using the Internet MUST be a psychotic black-clad loose cannon! Round 'em up!"
The reality is, this will likely NOT adversely affect either the Net or Goth communities as a whole. Except in its perpetuation of our own paranoia of getting persecuted. Yes, there will be some cases where individuals will feel the backlash of these lies and misinformation. However, I predict that it will not be on a grand scale, nor will it change the face of these communities as we know them.
Had these kids flaunted their Net and Gothic ties, both of which have yet to be proven on a more than passing acquaintance level, we might be in a different situation. That did not happen. So here we are, jumping at shadows, and some are forgetting to save a thought for the folks that are mired in the midst of this.
It's always been my personal opinion that Ebay and windows are alot alike-- hundreds of fun-filled security holes and error messages wrapped up in a nice GUI.
I've been on pcs for over 15 years, and just got my first mac (g3-300). I am really glad to see Slashdot, Apple and all the varied linux groups taking this opportunity to explore the options for darwin. But I wonder...why bother with an Intel port. The old CISC arch is slow, Intel has taken x86 as far as it'll go. MHz to MHz the PPC is quicker, and w/o the traditional Mac bottleneck of OS emmulation...the RISC G3 and soon G4 will eat the PIII. Is there anyone there who has specs for a Linux PIII v. a LinuxPP G3 shootout?
I guess if ya got an old 486 or something, and need it to be useful somehow, a darwin port would be a great thing. But you could write it off and donate it to a boy's/girl's club or something!
"Television in the US is censored like you would not believe, with the stark exception of the news where they have no problem showing you anything and everything."
This is where I see the problem. From my own experiences the VAST majority of children have little or no difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality. It's the reality that they see on the news what does the most damage.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the news in and of itself is a bad thing, its just the way it is presented. "Bad thing numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 happened today as well as pointless things 1, 2, and 3. But first, we bring you, LIVE, the horrific event of the week in full color!" "Excuse, me Miss, I appologize for stopping you on your way to get that nasty injury taken care of by those nice paramedics, but I really need to fill some time here, so I'm going to subject you to a fifteen minute interview while you slowly bleed to death."/* Insert fifteen minutes of horrific details told by a young woman whose family will first find out about the event when they play this, on the news because the athoraties haven't had the opportunity to notify families yet because they're still busy resolving the crisis */ "Well, there's the shocking facts folks. Now back to Bob at the studio for the the latest on sports where another superstar has gotten off scott-free after beating his wife into a coma while pumped up on illegal drugs!"
Is it any wonder why youngsters today turn to violent acts when they are desperate for attention? That's all the news media cares about, and in far to many cases, it's also the only time they get any feedback from their parents.
The entertainment industry doesn't force anything down anybody's throat. It produces what sells. If we're worried about the content, lets figure out why so many people go for violent content and fix that, not sue the entertainment industry into the stone age.
One common theme I've noticed in some of the responses is the acknowledgement that this isn't a simple (we're going BLAME this for their actions) answer or cause.
I grew up in a little "Historic District" town north of Seattle as a nerd in a pre-dominantly football/WWF/Monster truck loving town. I made explosives and homemade weapons with no intentions of using them on anything but inanimate objects (stumps, rocks and GI Joes). Like the majority of those posting to this forum, I like and play violent video games, watch violent movies... etc.
The factors that everyone has ignored is the social structure for kids growing up today. High school hasn't been about learning for f*cking years. IT was a social game when I went (90'- 92') and it's even more of one now. And sure mid-American home lifes can suck. Anything "could" be a factor but that's not going to be the solution. We have caste systems in society at all levels that are getting farther and farther apart (not to sound depressing). Naturally shit like this is going to happen.
It's not like an equation with one definitive answer and 'wholla' everything's solved.
I really think you should look at the facts, rather that relying on some half-baked idea of what you think reallity should be. According to statistics by law enforcement agencies, in every state that has concealed carry laws, violent crime has dropped *dramatically*. The number of incidents of people using concealed carry weapons illegally is almost nil.
I can't see two high school students killing a bunch of people with only the use of steak knives.
No, I can't either. It would be a lot easier to use all of those pipe bombs they had. Why does no one propose banning pipe?
What?!? Now it's the Police's Fault? Wrong, The buck stops with the parents, period. They decided to bring the kids into this world and are responsible for raising them.
It doesn't take a village, it takes responsible parents.
I do believe that someone at the school should have been trying to help them, how do we know they were not?
I can't blame a principal when the kids built 30 bombs in thier parents home. Where where the parents? How could you not know the kids had a problem?
Take responsibity for your actions and those around you, and quit blaming the Internet, Music, Guns and Media. If parents do their JOB, these other areas are of MUCH LESS concern.
I talked to the Connectix rep when he was here last week. I can not see a reason why Sony would not want this product. It can help with sales of games for the playstation. And I know that the VGS is not perfect, but it does a good job. PS: they are working on A PC version. But they are running into a hardware problem with the fact that PC users all have differnt hardware.
Most find it much easier to blame the Internet, The Media (whoever that is), Movies, Drugs, Trenchcoats, Guns, etc. Than to face the hard facts.
These kids did not just see a movie, listen to a song, hit a website and decide to kill a few people. They spent weeks planning how they were going to murder thier classmates. Where were there parents? If your kid is walking around with painted nails and a beret with the iron cross, how could you possibly ignore it? I'm not saying that automatically makes them a psyco, but certainly someone, a parent, counselor, pastor, or relative relized this kid needed some guidance.
How could you possibly construct 30 explosive devices without someone finding out or suspecting?
I'd like to see the parents placed on trial for not being responsible for thier children. And none of this "You can't control them" crap. When I was thier age, I posted on BBS's, Played Castle Wolfenstien (remember that one?) and knew how to make a pipe bomb, but you didn't see me killing a 15 classmates because I felt different.
These kids needed help, and thier parents should be held responsible. No gun law, metal detector, or tax credit is going to change the fact that 15 kids are dead due to irresponsibility.
Boy this is an old article. Hope someone can still make use of this:) In order to view Japanese characters in a program, the program appearently has to be compilied with a compilier set up to do double byte character translations. In other words, you have to download the source for gcc or whatever, and compile it on your own to include Japanese extensions. Then recompile all the programs that you want to be able to support those extensions. I have been able to get Japanese characters to display on WindowMaker menus, but have not had good luck recompiling the gnome sources. Anyway, it has been a long time since I have done that, so there may be a few more steps. I think it was mentioned above, but Debian also has a Japanese distribution. If all you want to do is send and recieve email, krxvt (kterm), cannaserver, and kinput2 was the method I was using a year or so ago. If you can read Japanese, I strongly suggest checking out what some of the Linux users are doing here in Japan. Ganbatte!
You put a tocken in it, the AOL Anywhere machine will let you surf on line for 3 minute. Doesn't anybody think this is a great idea for new phoneboot/netboot in air port and gradually most of the public area?
Of course, it wouldn't be that cheap initially. Provide that you can plug smart card in it for anonymous online purchase and a plampilot connection to download email.
No? CY
It will be hard to develop a customer segment.
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Posted by My_Favorite_Anonymous_Coward:
AOL might spread itself to thin, trying to jump on too many bandwagons at the same time. After they successfully managed to appear on almost every M$ desktop and focussing on being a consumer service organization (in contrast to being just an ISP), They were expanding in a new direction, the corporate market place (Sun/Netscape deal, AOL Anywhere campaign). Picking up Linux, introduces yet another direction - still not "professional" enough for many coorporations, and to complicated for the bulk of typical AOL end users.
Why should they try to be "professional" enough? I don't understand, is NBC professional enough? Is WB, UPN professional enough? Does NBC make any professional product per sa? (like a documentary division, or a indy film division, or a something like Industrial Light and Magic?) Does Time, newsweek professional enough. Why? why why why? As far as they can stuff a Gecko rendering engine and a word processor in a sub sub X86, its going to satisfy majority's need.
Some people just can accept the fact that the current PII's already overkilled. CY
It's a great announcement and even though I don't use aol, it'll allow those users on aol to experience linux. However, I don't think many people on AOL have even heard of linux, let alone will harness it. I think the upgrade of linux will be more benefitial to AOL itself rather then it's users.
Netscape contributed a document, and wanted it taken down. As with any other contributor (Adam Lock, port owners, etc.), we honour their right to withdraw their content, even if we'd rather have them keep it up.
If Netscape had asked us to take down someone else's content for reasons other than violations of the law (posting crypto source, unreleased source code, whatever), I've have laughed at them. And if ``The Mozilla Organisation'' had decided to take it down anyway, I'd have been out of here faster than you could say ``jay double-you zee''.
So Netscape, a Mozilla contributor, put some stuff up and then took it down. Not what I would have done, and I think it makes them look embarrassingly dumb, but that's their call. We'd have been doing the wrong thing to not take their content down when they asked us to.
As far as we at mozilla.org are concerned, anyone who wants to start a chat API project is welcome to. We've been advocating it through blue-sky and intertwingle editorialization for months. If you'd like to contribute your own chat API -- I think the Netscape guys were on the right track with abstracting the various protocols under a common interface -- I'd love to help you get started. You shouldn't derive your work from the stillborn API docs that Netscape posted, to avoid complaints of taint, but that shouldn't set you back too far.
AOL's investment in Red Hat is nothing more than an anti-Microsoft stake. If Linux is successful in challenging Microsoft on the consumer/newbie desktop, then AOL can use its muscle to get a quick Linux-AOL package together. But I'm pretty sure that won't happen soon.
As for the embedded markets, AOL definitely wants to get out there, but I think they've committed to Java, at least for the first few products. If someone else manages a solid embedded Linux product, then AOL will jump on the bandwagon. But all of their resources and people are too focused on the Sun-Java thing at the moment.
>>Better yet, please name a single counterexample from any place or time in the entire history of the human race.
Thank you for asking.
SWITZERLAND! The swiss are required to have "Assault" rifles and ammunition. They live in peace with a low crime rate and even Hitler was afraid to anger them.
>>Darwin's theory of evolution should result in several transitory fossils being found. That is, natural selection is a slow process, so as fish began to turn into land animals, there should be plenty of fossils of these fish/land animal hybrids. However, that is not the case.
Why fossils? We have living examples in reptiles, amphibians, and fish like the Siamese walking catfish.
What makes you think that we won't find the fossils of which you speak, let's just think for a moment, the oldest land animals we've found are in the hundreds of millions of years old. How deep beneath the surface of the earth do you think a 3 billion year old fossil would be? What makes you think that after 3 billion years any of the remains would be intact?
Artifacts that have been on the ocean floor for a few hundred years disintegrate after only a few hours of exposure to air. How about remains which have been under the sea for several billion years?
>> As a person who became a Christian through evidence concerning the divine origins of the Bible
Evidence, like what? Rev. Jones says so? I'm a person who became a pagan because of evidence that the Bible was written by men to serve their own means.
Perhaps the Bible and other religious texts were devinely inspired, but like all men, the people who put pen to paper added their own biases in prejudices to the work.
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Posted by realtrauma:
Are there any rumors or anything about a linux player offering an IPO?
Posted by LazarusLong:
A friend of mine actually still runs his VAX for home automation (just get X-10...). But if anyone has one of these they want to get rid of, he could really use the parts and I could use it as a large but cool addition to my monster-sized dorm room for next year...
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
Did you even try to get an education or were you too busy at the shooting range? Obviously you have no idea of what brought Hitler to power. Hitler tried a violant revolution in 1922 (or thereabouts) based entirely on privately owned arms (actually he and his old army buddies from WWI started it). In the pre 1932 era he maintained a private militia of about 2 million men, the SA (which would morf into the SS a few years later).
Clearly you are an uneducated hypocrite. I would also not be surprised if you smelled bad.
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
Easy. Fire all current teachers and replace them with hardened criminals from our penal system. Arm them to the teeth, give them body armor, and legal impunity. This way we'll kill two birds with one stone- the next time a student tries to kill his friends he'll be rapidly disarmed, sodomized, and then murdered (and possibly eaten), and we won't have to spend billions of dollars on keeping convicts locked up. After all, inmates are one of our largest underutilized national resource.
As far as the "connection" between games like DOOM and violance, frankly it is quite obviously bullshit. For instance, I just finished playing3 hours of quake II, but you don't see me killing anyone do you! Instead I am here, holding a well reasoned discussion about this controversial topic.
Posted by Siozie:
The media is looking for firepower, anything they can get their hands on. The most blame I have seen placed, or rather misplaced, has been on the Gothic community. In nearly every single atricle I have read, there has been more than a passing mention that these kids Wore Black and Listened to KMFDM. Neo-Nazi Goths, as it were.
What it really comes down to is that the media will play up what is going to get them the most readers/viewers/listeners. In most cases. In others you will see some real information, and in rare cases it will be the refutation of the misinformation perpetuated by other sources.
"These kids had websites, and they sent email. Must be the work of the devil, yessir! They killed, that means anyone else using the Internet MUST be a psychotic black-clad loose cannon! Round 'em up!"
The reality is, this will likely NOT adversely affect either the Net or Goth communities as a whole. Except in its perpetuation of our own paranoia of getting persecuted. Yes, there will be some cases where individuals will feel the backlash of these lies and misinformation. However, I predict that it will not be on a grand scale, nor will it change the face of these communities as we know them.
Had these kids flaunted their Net and Gothic ties, both of which have yet to be proven on a more than passing acquaintance level, we might be in a different situation. That did not happen. So here we are, jumping at shadows, and some are forgetting to save a thought for the folks that are mired in the midst of this.
Posted by labisso:
It's always been my personal opinion that Ebay and windows are alot alike-- hundreds of fun-filled security holes and error messages wrapped up in a nice GUI.
But maybe that's just me.
"He was dead when i got there, i swear!"
Posted by TommyGun:
Warning: Recent convert talkin'
I've been on pcs for over 15 years, and just got my first mac (g3-300). I am really glad to see Slashdot, Apple and all the varied linux groups taking this opportunity to explore the options for darwin. But I wonder...why bother with an Intel port. The old CISC arch is slow, Intel has taken x86 as far as it'll go. MHz to MHz the PPC is quicker, and w/o the traditional Mac bottleneck of OS emmulation...the RISC G3 and soon G4 will eat the PIII. Is there anyone there who has specs for a Linux PIII v. a LinuxPP G3 shootout?
I guess if ya got an old 486 or something, and need it to be useful somehow, a darwin port would be a great thing. But you could write it off and donate it to a boy's/girl's club or something!
tommygun
Posted by The Masked Miscreant >:):
/* Insert fifteen minutes of horrific details told by a young woman whose family will first find out about the event when they play this, on the news because the athoraties haven't had the opportunity to notify families yet because they're still busy resolving the crisis */ "Well, there's the shocking facts folks. Now back to Bob at the studio for the the latest on sports where another superstar has gotten off scott-free after beating his wife into a coma while pumped up on illegal drugs!"
"Television in the US is censored like you would not believe, with the stark exception of the news where they have no problem showing you anything and everything."
This is where I see the problem. From my own experiences the VAST majority of children have little or no difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality. It's the reality that they see on the news what does the most damage.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the news in and of itself is a bad thing, its just the way it is presented. "Bad thing numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 happened today as well as pointless things 1, 2, and 3. But first, we bring you, LIVE, the horrific event of the week in full color!" "Excuse, me Miss, I appologize for stopping you on your way to get that nasty injury taken care of by those nice paramedics, but I really need to fill some time here, so I'm going to subject you to a fifteen minute interview while you slowly bleed to death."
Is it any wonder why youngsters today turn to violent acts when they are desperate for attention? That's all the news media cares about, and in far to many cases, it's also the only time they get any feedback from their parents.
The entertainment industry doesn't force anything down anybody's throat. It produces what sells. If we're worried about the content, lets figure out why so many people go for violent content and fix that, not sue the entertainment industry into the stone age.
One common theme I've noticed in some of the responses is the acknowledgement that this isn't a simple (we're going BLAME this for their actions) answer or cause.
I grew up in a little "Historic District" town north of Seattle as a nerd in a pre-dominantly football/WWF/Monster truck loving town. I made explosives and homemade weapons with no intentions of using them on anything but inanimate objects (stumps, rocks and GI Joes). Like the majority of those posting to this forum, I like and play violent video games, watch violent movies... etc.
The factors that everyone has ignored is the social structure for kids growing up today. High school hasn't been about learning for f*cking years. IT was a social game when I went (90'- 92') and it's even more of one now. And sure mid-American home lifes can suck. Anything "could" be a factor but that's not going to be the solution. We have caste systems in society at all levels that are getting farther and farther apart (not to sound depressing). Naturally shit like this is going to happen.
It's not like an equation with one definitive answer and 'wholla' everything's solved.
How about Op Ivy's "Take Warning"?
I really think you should look at the facts, rather that relying on some half-baked idea of what you think reallity should be. According to statistics by law enforcement agencies, in every state that has concealed carry laws, violent crime has dropped *dramatically*. The number of incidents of people using concealed carry weapons illegally is almost nil.
No, I can't either. It would be a lot easier to use all of those pipe bombs they had. Why does no one propose banning pipe?
Posted by Mike@ABC:
Sure, speed is great. But this? You just gotta shake your head and ask "why?"
Posted by MC BoB:
What?!?
Now it's the Police's Fault?
Wrong, The buck stops with the parents, period.
They decided to bring the kids into this world and are responsible for raising them.
It doesn't take a village, it takes responsible parents.
I do believe that someone at the school should have been trying to help them, how do we know they were not?
I can't blame a principal when the kids built 30 bombs in thier parents home. Where where the parents? How could you not know the kids had a problem?
Take responsibity for your actions and those around you, and quit blaming the Internet, Music, Guns and Media. If parents do their JOB, these other areas are of MUCH LESS concern.
Posted by MFried:
I talked to the Connectix rep when he was here last week. I can not see a reason why Sony would not want this product. It can help with sales of games for the playstation. And I know that the VGS is not perfect, but it does a good job. PS: they are working on A PC version. But they are running into a hardware problem with the fact that PC users all have differnt hardware.
Posted by MC BoB:
I believe the core issue is responsibility.
Most find it much easier to blame the Internet, The Media (whoever that is), Movies, Drugs, Trenchcoats, Guns, etc. Than to face the hard facts.
These kids did not just see a movie, listen to a song, hit a website and decide to kill a few people. They spent weeks planning how they were going to murder thier classmates. Where were there parents?
If your kid is walking around with painted nails and a beret with the iron cross, how could you possibly ignore it?
I'm not saying that automatically makes them a psyco, but certainly someone, a parent, counselor, pastor, or relative relized this kid needed some guidance.
How could you possibly construct 30 explosive devices without someone finding out or suspecting?
I'd like to see the parents placed on trial for not being responsible for thier children. And none of this "You can't control them" crap. When I was thier age, I posted on BBS's, Played Castle Wolfenstien (remember that one?) and knew how to make a pipe bomb, but you didn't see me killing a 15 classmates because I felt different.
These kids needed help, and thier parents should be held responsible. No gun law, metal detector, or tax credit is going to change the fact that 15 kids are dead due to irresponsibility.
Posted by Someone@Somewhere.earth:
Have you checked www.empeg.com ?
Their working on it....
Posted by Mike Rothberg:
:)
Boy this is an old article. Hope someone can still make use of this
In order to view Japanese characters in a program, the program appearently has to be compilied with a compilier set up to do double byte character translations. In other words, you have to download the source for gcc or whatever, and compile it on your own to include Japanese extensions. Then recompile all the programs that you want to be able to support those extensions.
I have been able to get Japanese characters to display on WindowMaker menus, but have not had good luck recompiling the gnome sources. Anyway, it has been a long time since I have done that, so there may be a few more steps.
I think it was mentioned above, but Debian also has a Japanese distribution.
If all you want to do is send and recieve email, krxvt (kterm), cannaserver, and kinput2 was the method I was using a year or so ago. If you can read Japanese, I strongly suggest checking out what some of the Linux users are doing here in Japan. Ganbatte!
Posted by My_Favorite_Anonymous_Coward:
You put a tocken in it, the AOL Anywhere machine will let you surf on line for 3 minute. Doesn't anybody think this is a great idea for new phoneboot/netboot in air port and gradually most of the public area?
Of course, it wouldn't be that cheap initially. Provide that you can plug smart card in it for anonymous online purchase and a plampilot connection to download email.
No?
CY
Posted by My_Favorite_Anonymous_Coward:
AOL might spread itself to thin, trying to jump on too many bandwagons at the same time. After they successfully managed to appear on almost every M$ desktop and focussing on being a consumer service organization (in contrast to being just an ISP), They were expanding in a new direction, the corporate market place (Sun/Netscape deal, AOL Anywhere campaign). Picking up Linux, introduces yet another direction - still not "professional" enough for many coorporations, and to complicated for the bulk of typical AOL end users.
Why should they try to be "professional" enough? I don't understand, is NBC professional enough? Is WB, UPN professional enough? Does NBC make any professional product per sa? (like a documentary division, or a indy film division, or a something like Industrial Light and Magic?) Does Time, newsweek professional enough. Why? why why why? As far as they can stuff a Gecko rendering engine and a word processor in a sub sub X86, its going to satisfy majority's need.
Some people just can accept the fact that the current PII's already overkilled.
CY
Posted by synus:
It's a great announcement and even though I don't use aol, it'll allow those users on aol to experience linux. However, I don't think many people on AOL have even heard of linux, let alone will harness it. I think the upgrade of linux will be more benefitial to AOL itself rather then it's users.
There's an important distinction here:
- Netscape contributed a document, and wanted it taken down. As with any other contributor (Adam Lock, port owners, etc.), we honour their right to withdraw their content, even if we'd rather have them keep it up.
- If Netscape had asked us to take down someone else's content for reasons other than violations of the law (posting crypto source, unreleased source code, whatever), I've have laughed at them. And if ``The Mozilla Organisation'' had decided to take it down anyway, I'd have been out of here faster than you could say ``jay double-you zee''.
So Netscape, a Mozilla contributor, put some stuff up and then took it down. Not what I would have done, and I think it makes them look embarrassingly dumb, but that's their call. We'd have been doing the wrong thing to not take their content down when they asked us to.As far as we at mozilla.org are concerned, anyone who wants to start a chat API project is welcome to. We've been advocating it through blue-sky and intertwingle editorialization for months. If you'd like to contribute your own chat API -- I think the Netscape guys were on the right track with abstracting the various protocols under a common interface -- I'd love to help you get started. You shouldn't derive your work from the stillborn API docs that Netscape posted, to avoid complaints of taint, but that shouldn't set you back too far.
Posted by Mike@ABC:
AOL's investment in Red Hat is nothing more than an anti-Microsoft stake. If Linux is successful in challenging Microsoft on the consumer/newbie desktop, then AOL can use its muscle to get a quick Linux-AOL package together. But I'm pretty sure that won't happen soon.
As for the embedded markets, AOL definitely wants to get out there, but I think they've committed to Java, at least for the first few products. If someone else manages a solid embedded Linux product, then AOL will jump on the bandwagon. But all of their resources and people are too focused on the Sun-Java thing at the moment.
But hey, I could be completely wrong.
Posted by 747SP:
Grrr! Enjoying a private, self-serving and corrupt monopoly in Australia... Looks like they're keen to take the same techniques to the world at large!
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
I'm @ work right now, but I'll get the source fot eh Jefferson quote and post it.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>Better yet, please name a single counterexample from any place or time in the entire history of the human race.
Thank you for asking.
SWITZERLAND! The swiss are required to have "Assault" rifles and ammunition. They live in peace with a low crime rate and even Hitler was afraid to anger them.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>Darwin's theory of evolution should result in several transitory fossils being found. That is, natural selection is a slow process, so as fish began to turn into land animals, there should be plenty of fossils of these fish/land animal hybrids. However, that is not the case.
Why fossils? We have living examples in reptiles, amphibians, and fish like the Siamese walking catfish.
What makes you think that we won't find the fossils of which you speak, let's just think for a moment, the oldest land animals we've found are in the hundreds of millions of years old. How deep beneath the surface of the earth do you think a 3 billion year old fossil would be? What makes you think that after 3 billion years any of the remains would be intact?
Artifacts that have been on the ocean floor for a few hundred years disintegrate after only a few hours of exposure to air. How about remains which have been under the sea for several billion years?
>> As a person who became a Christian through evidence concerning the divine origins of the Bible
Evidence, like what? Rev. Jones says so? I'm a person who became a pagan because of evidence that the Bible was written by men to serve their own means.
Perhaps the Bible and other religious texts were devinely inspired, but like all men, the people who put pen to paper added their own biases in prejudices to the work.
LK