after seeing ewan play obi-wan, i thought that the next anakin should be played by Jonny Lee. think about it.
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Posted by The Incredible Mr. Limpett:
Christianity is not the only religion myth that deals with a virgin birth. It's actually quite common in relgions/creation myths etc.:
The Babylonian Ishtar, Neith in Libya, Ate in Celisia, Anaites in Armenia, Ataigates in Assyria, Ariadne in Crete, Cybele in Phrygia, Astarte in Phoenicia, Kwanyin in China, Kwan non in Japan, Aphrodite in Greece and Isis in Egypt, to name a few.
Or...is it because these religions and gods don't "count" as the "one true religion" or god so Lucas must be making a direct reference to Christianity, right?
Confirmed: - Leonardo won't be in the movie; he reportedly didn't like the script, but was absolutely offered the part. - Jar Jar Binks will be back with a larger role; Lucas is apparently sensitive to the criticism of the masses, though, and will make some adjustments. - Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) will be back, and in -action-.
Rumors: - Earliest reports describe II/III as "Braveheart with lightsabers" -- both will be filmed principally in Australia. - Darth Maul, who we did not see die, will play an important role in II/III...
As everyone knows that censorship in public locations is going to happen whether we like it or not, we have to take a look at the other side of the coin. As a student worker in the library here at college, I have a chance to debate this out with those who see what needs to be done on a frequent basis. First you have to limit (on at least one machine in the public domain) the porn. Unfortunately, this means that anyone trying to find information on health related issues such as breast cancer are also going to be limited. We need to find a way to create a filtering system that doesn't hurt the ones we are trying to protect from the people who will put anything in a meta tag to get their pages listed a bazillion times in a search engine. There has to be a way to stop the insanity before we just say, "Sorry kids, you can't use this powerful tool because it isn't made for children." I guess I won't forget to teach my little girl that the old fashioned books still work, just in case they decide to pull the plug from our children's experience with the internet and the world of information that most libraries couldn't think of holding in one place.
give me a break. slashdot is nowhere near worth what altavista is. slashdot == interesting news site, but nothing essential. altavista == absolutely essential search engine without which nothing could ever be found on the internet.
Just curious ----- how many people when compiling one of last few versions of Eterm noticed during the config script when it output the following; Checking kenny for signs of life........... none You killed kenny You bastard!!!
Yup, I've seen it, and I likewise had a good chuckle from it. (Then again, I tend to be a fan of "joke tags" in general--like the infamous "configure --with-coffee" tag in Tin configuration.;)
What's interesting...I actually happen to know the fellow who put the Dead Kenny in Eterm (the main developer of Eterm happens to be on a local LUG list I'm on). Apparently (unfortunately) he's gotten some flack from folks who apparently think compiles should be serious:P and one thing he is considering is...putting a --with-dead-kenny tag in future versions of Eterm.;)
If memory serves, he recently got hired on at VA Research, so any in-house mods for VA Research might have future "dead Kenny" easter-eggs.;)
Speaking of easter-eggs and dead Kennys in general...I've heard it rumoured that there is in fact a "dead Kenny" easter-egg in some of the later versions of the Linux kernel itself. I also have to wonder if a canonical list of easter-eggs and "funny compile options" has ever been done for Linux or other Unix-ish OS's (If not, I'm always willing to start one:)...
I for one was never against MS for their greed, nor against corporate America in general. Lest we all forget, there would be no cheap PCs, no internet, and no linux without the wintel + apple conglomerate.
No, I hate MS because their code is shit and they prevent consumers from choosing superior products via proprietary standards and other evilness.
By the same argument, why should I have to waste the space in my physical mailbox for junk mail? And I have to carry it in to my apartment. I just throw it all away, but the post office won't let me file a change-of-address form to have all mail to 'resident' returned to sender. (I asked.) I hate spam just as much as anyone else, but I'd rather just be pragmatic about it and ask for truth in labelling. I don't think we can truly get rid of it, but there are ways to make it less intrusive. Server-side mail filters would be nice too - that way I wouldn't have to D/L it all.
What has he done? Enlightenment? Install that on my machine when it's finished. They guy is turned into a hero because he wrote 1/8 of a window manager? Hmmmmmmm
I had a Geocities page. After I found out about this bullshit, I deleted the whole damn thing. I reccomend a boycott of all Yahoo and Geocities sites.
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Posted by The Famous Brett Watson:
For a change, I am able to write a brief reply. You ask, what natural rights does the GPL force anyone to give up? The answer: the right to keep your source code a secret. The GPL puts you under an obligation to provide source to any binary you distribute. This might be a good thing for the majority in the general case, but it is not freedom: it is a restriction and an encumberance, and a calculated one.
So the toner particles have a charge and are rotated by an electric field, to show the white or the black side.
Imagine using this above the 48th parallel in winter - when in an unhumidifed room you can draw a quarter-inch arc from your finger to any handy piece of metal after walking across a rug or standing up from an upholstered chair.
The black (or white) lines twisting across the page from the point where you picked it up should be quite pretty.
This is obvious discrimination. By offering "women only" scholarships the indication is that women are inferior and can't compete with men. This is utter rubbish.
I don't know many women in CS bu the majority of the ones that I do know are as sharp as tacks. They know their stuff. In fact I'd say a higher percentege of women in CS are excellent when compared to men.
Dammit, why did I have to miss the time when being a minority in CS was enough to get a full ride.
Hmm, no offense intended to the under 12 crowd; I was making reference as to maturity - like it or not, most 12 yr olds are not exactly what you consider mature adults, and the relation between the actions of people here posting AC, or even otherwise sometimes, is in direct proportion.
Things won't change around here in regards to that, and I don't mean to throw the thread right off course, however the matter is _news_. Raster got a new job. Raster is a name people know in the Linux community, and that is news; yet people in here took it upon themselves to blast it, as in "who cares", etc. If they don't care, they shouldn't show so much interest, but since they can all hide behind one collective identity, they feel the need to misuse the ability.
I'd rather be able to come here and read, just once, a thread of comments on some news article that wasn't chock full of such drivel.
We now return you to your regularily scheduled program...
In theory, any and all tyranny in a democracy is the "tyranny of the majority" -- where 52% of the population pass laws that oppress the other 48% of the population. To avoid that, democracies have constitutions, telling them what they can and cannot do, regardless of what the people happen to think. Thus, whether a government action supported by a majority is justified depends upon whether it is constitutional. Is such a federal mandate constitutional? No -- libraries are run by the states/local governments. Such a state/local decision IS constitutional and justified, because the government is simply deciding how to run its own institution. A library could (if the people voted to make it so) keep out every book with the phrase "First Amendment" in it, and it would be constitutional (though absurd and bad for library attendance).
As soon as the government starts telling ME that I can't look at porn AT HOME, that's when we're talking about tyranny.
As much as Rob and Jeff have poured their blood, sweat and other bodily fluids into creating this site, Slashdot would be nowhere without the readers.
It's in Andover's best interests to keep Slashdot the way it is. If for whatever reason, Rob and Jeff go corporate and the site begins to suck, how many of us would stick around? No one. And Andover's investment turns to crap.
So to all of those who are afraid of the corporatization of Slashdot: just keep showing up, submitting stories, and voicing your opinion. Keeping Slashdot honest will make it more successful, and making Slashdot more successful will keep it honest. It's a really beautiful loop, once you think about it.
Get off your high horse. Just because you forgot to buy a pack of trojans the ONE time you got lucky doesn't make your opinion any more valuable or relevant here.
And for your land mine analogy, I should be able to plant land mines on MY property if I want to. Teach your kids not to tresspass you dumb prick.
>You can't stop everything, but at least you can make it more difficult to accidentally trip across this stuff.
It's not accidents that they're trying to prevent. If you kid types "www.wefu*ksluts.com" into the web browser it's not an accident. That kid is looking to see some porn, if they want to see it they will see it.
I wish andover.net had just enough pull on the site now that they could atleast get Rob and Jeff to remove anonymous posting; the above are very good examples why it serves no useful purpose here, except to let the trolls hide under one central identity (birds of a feather flock together?)
If the news doesn't appeal to you, than what is the point in responding? Some people are interested in the goings on of the Linux community, and Raster is a name people know in that community. So if he moves into a new job, than there are those who like to know, to keep up to date, to just plain be happy for somebody who's doing something successful.
The average post from an AC makes me wonder if the average age of people here is below 12 yrs old.
Slashdot Mirror
Posted by fR0993R-on-Atari-5200:
I meant MB as in MegaBytes and Mb/s as in Megabits
per second. I believe I was correct with my
capitalizations, perhaps not.
So, really, it'd be 50MB * 8Mb/1MB / 1Mb/sec = 400 seconds or about 6 and a half minutes of
downloading. Not too much...
...but on the other hand...
it's a 486 that would be pretty slow at doing anything
powerfull to require 20MB of HD space for bins
and data, let alone 50.
Laters
fR0993R
..Linux needs 1/2Life...
Posted by Albert Einstein:
H TM
I wouldn't watch another SW movie if you paid me. Check out the review by my favorite reviewer: http://www.sdreader.com/ed/mv/caps/curr/STARWRSI.
Posted by skilfin:
after seeing ewan play obi-wan, i thought that the next anakin should be played by Jonny Lee. think about it.
Posted by The Incredible Mr. Limpett:
Christianity is not the only religion myth that deals with a virgin birth. It's actually quite common in relgions/creation myths etc.:
The Babylonian Ishtar, Neith in Libya, Ate in Celisia, Anaites in Armenia, Ataigates in Assyria, Ariadne in Crete, Cybele in Phrygia, Astarte in Phoenicia, Kwanyin in China, Kwan non in Japan, Aphrodite in Greece and Isis in Egypt, to name a few.
Or...is it because these religions and gods don't "count" as the "one true religion" or god so Lucas must be making a direct reference to Christianity, right?
Posted by The Future Sound of London:
Has anyone ever determined how many people have actually died as a direct result of depending on Mikrosoft technology?
How much blood is on their hands?
Posted by Ydeologi:
Confirmed:
- Leonardo won't be in the movie; he reportedly didn't like the script, but was absolutely offered the part.
- Jar Jar Binks will be back with a larger role; Lucas is apparently sensitive to the criticism of the masses, though, and will make some adjustments.
- Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) will be back, and in -action-.
Rumors:
- Earliest reports describe II/III as "Braveheart with lightsabers" -- both will be filmed principally in Australia.
- Darth Maul, who we did not see die, will play an important role in II/III...
Posted by Talancc:
As everyone knows that censorship in public locations is going to happen whether we like it or not, we have to take a look at the other side of the coin. As a student worker in the library here at college, I have a chance to debate this out with those who see what needs to be done on a frequent basis. First you have to limit (on at least one machine in the public domain) the porn. Unfortunately, this means that anyone trying to find information on health related issues such as breast cancer are also going to be limited. We need to find a way to create a filtering system that doesn't hurt the ones we are trying to protect from the people who will put anything in a meta tag to get their pages listed a bazillion times in a search engine. There has to be a way to stop the insanity before we just say, "Sorry kids, you can't use this powerful tool because it isn't made for children." I guess I won't forget to teach my little girl that the old fashioned books still work, just in case they decide to pull the plug from our children's experience with the internet and the world of information that most libraries couldn't think of holding in one place.
Posted by Justin:
I personally could care less...
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
give me a break. slashdot is nowhere near worth what altavista is. slashdot == interesting news site, but nothing essential. altavista == absolutely essential search engine without which nothing could ever be found on the internet.
Limp said:
Yup, I've seen it, and I likewise had a good chuckle from it. (Then again, I tend to be a fan of "joke tags" in general--like the infamous "configure --with-coffee" tag in Tin configuration. ;)
What's interesting...I actually happen to know the fellow who put the Dead Kenny in Eterm (the main developer of Eterm happens to be on a local LUG list I'm on). Apparently (unfortunately) he's gotten some flack from folks who apparently think compiles should be serious :P and one thing he is considering is...putting a --with-dead-kenny tag in future versions of Eterm. ;)
If memory serves, he recently got hired on at VA Research, so any in-house mods for VA Research might have future "dead Kenny" easter-eggs. ;)
Speaking of easter-eggs and dead Kennys in general...I've heard it rumoured that there is in fact a "dead Kenny" easter-egg in some of the later versions of the Linux kernel itself. I also have to wonder if a canonical list of easter-eggs and "funny compile options" has ever been done for Linux or other Unix-ish OS's (If not, I'm always willing to start one :)...
Posted by OGL:
Enlightenment has something similar, akin to "Checking for ale in -lFridge...no Ale found in refrigerator"
My question is, how do they know?
-W.W.
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
I for one was never against MS for their greed, nor against corporate America in general. Lest we all forget, there would be no cheap PCs, no internet, and no linux without the wintel + apple conglomerate.
No, I hate MS because their code is shit and they prevent consumers from choosing superior products via proprietary standards and other evilness.
Posted by The Ignominious Gnome:
By the same argument, why should I have to waste the space in my physical mailbox for junk mail? And I have to carry it in to my apartment. I just throw it all away, but the post office won't let me file a change-of-address form to have all mail to 'resident' returned to sender. (I asked.) I hate spam just as much as anyone else, but I'd rather just be pragmatic about it and ask for truth in labelling. I don't think we can truly get rid of it, but there are ways to make it less intrusive. Server-side mail filters would be nice too - that way I wouldn't have to D/L it all.
Posted by stodge:
What has he done? Enlightenment? Install that on my machine when it's finished. They guy is turned into a hero because he wrote 1/8 of a window manager? Hmmmmmmm
Posted by saintmae:
I had a Geocities page. After I found out about this bullshit, I deleted the whole damn thing. I reccomend a boycott of all Yahoo and Geocities sites.
Posted by The Famous Brett Watson:
For a change, I am able to write a brief reply. You ask, what natural rights does the GPL force anyone to give up? The answer: the right to keep your source code a secret. The GPL puts you under an obligation to provide source to any binary you distribute. This might be a good thing for the majority in the general case, but it is not freedom: it is a restriction and an encumberance, and a calculated one.
Posted by Ungrounded Lightning Rod:
So the toner particles have a charge and are
rotated by an electric field, to show the white
or the black side.
Imagine using this above the 48th parallel in
winter - when in an unhumidifed room you can
draw a quarter-inch arc from your finger to
any handy piece of metal after walking across
a rug or standing up from an upholstered chair.
The black (or white) lines twisting across the
page from the point where you picked it up
should be quite pretty.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
This is obvious discrimination. By offering "women only" scholarships the indication is that women are inferior and can't compete with men. This is utter rubbish.
I don't know many women in CS bu the majority of the ones that I do know are as sharp as tacks. They know their stuff. In fact I'd say a higher percentege of women in CS are excellent when compared to men.
Dammit, why did I have to miss the time when being a minority in CS was enough to get a full ride.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>Only a few people,sure, but they're enough to swing the entire party to a certain position if they choose.
Not at all. The left wing, country club republicans have been trying for years to get us to drop the anti-abortion plank from the party platform.
LK
Posted by 2B||!2B:
Amen!
Posted by Synsthe:
Hmm, no offense intended to the under 12 crowd; I was making reference as to maturity - like it or not, most 12 yr olds are not exactly what you consider mature adults, and the relation between the actions of people here posting AC, or even otherwise sometimes, is in direct proportion.
Things won't change around here in regards to that, and I don't mean to throw the thread right off course, however the matter is _news_. Raster got a new job. Raster is a name people know in the Linux community, and that is news; yet people in here took it upon themselves to blast it, as in "who cares", etc. If they don't care, they shouldn't show so much interest, but since they can all hide behind one collective identity, they feel the need to misuse the ability.
I'd rather be able to come here and read, just once, a thread of comments on some news article that wasn't chock full of such drivel.
We now return you to your regularily scheduled program...
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Mark Waterous (mark@projectlinux.org)
Posted by Solar Jetman:
In theory, any and all tyranny in a democracy is the "tyranny of the majority" -- where 52% of the population pass laws that oppress the other 48% of the population. To avoid that, democracies have constitutions, telling them what they can and cannot do, regardless of what the people happen to think. Thus, whether a government action supported by a majority is justified depends upon whether it is constitutional. Is such a federal mandate constitutional? No -- libraries are run by the states/local governments. Such a state/local decision IS constitutional and justified, because the government is simply deciding how to run its own institution. A library could (if the people voted to make it so) keep out every book with the phrase "First Amendment" in it, and it would be constitutional (though absurd and bad for library attendance).
As soon as the government starts telling ME that I can't look at porn AT HOME, that's when we're talking about tyranny.
Posted by Mike@ABC:
As much as Rob and Jeff have poured their blood, sweat and other bodily fluids into creating this site, Slashdot would be nowhere without the readers.
It's in Andover's best interests to keep Slashdot the way it is. If for whatever reason, Rob and Jeff go corporate and the site begins to suck, how many of us would stick around? No one. And Andover's investment turns to crap.
So to all of those who are afraid of the corporatization of Slashdot: just keep showing up, submitting stories, and voicing your opinion. Keeping Slashdot honest will make it more successful, and making Slashdot more
successful will keep it honest. It's a really beautiful loop, once you think about it.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Get off your high horse. Just because you forgot to buy a pack of trojans the ONE time you got lucky doesn't make your opinion any more valuable or relevant here.
And for your land mine analogy, I should be able to plant land mines on MY property if I want to. Teach your kids not to tresspass you dumb prick.
>You can't stop everything, but at least you can make it more difficult to accidentally trip across this stuff.
It's not accidents that they're trying to prevent. If you kid types "www.wefu*ksluts.com" into the web browser it's not an accident. That kid is looking to see some porn, if they want to see it they will see it.
Posted by Synsthe:
I wish andover.net had just enough pull on the site now that they could atleast get Rob and Jeff to remove anonymous posting; the above are very good examples why it serves no useful purpose here, except to let the trolls hide under one central identity (birds of a feather flock together?)
If the news doesn't appeal to you, than what is the point in responding? Some people are interested in the goings on of the Linux community, and Raster is a name people know in that community. So if he moves into a new job, than there are those who like to know, to keep up to date, to just plain be happy for somebody who's doing something successful.
The average post from an AC makes me wonder if the average age of people here is below 12 yrs old.
It's pretty sad people.
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Mark Waterous (mark@projectlinux.org)