Seems as long as we keep up the sarcasm and refuse to swallow the shit like good little citizens, Linux will rule.
When the last ember of the last flame war is extinguished and we start giving speeches like those found in Microsoft Press Publications (remember this the next time you read something like "For the purpose of learning C++, you must have a compiler. MS Visual Studio may be a good purchase), it's over.
A Harvard Law student presented it under his own name in 1968. Resounding applause from faculty after the speech. Then a big sucking sound when he told them who the original author was.
Then tell them you switched. Skip the multiple machine online bit if you've done that. Even tell them how to configure if possible. If they shut your connection down complain.
Might add that setup configurations are the customer's choice.
The industry, the news, the whole hierarchy wants a public of born-to-die idiots. When we tell the luser community (much more existent than the linux "community" we're all here for diff reasons) to ype man man man man we are saying anyone can learn and we hope they have a sense of humour too. The ebsalishtment don't like that.
Out of body experiences. Imagine people's personalities and life histories stored within a musical composition. Then a computer that could reconstruct the neural pathways from such information.
Problem is science comes at the cost of vision these days. Hell comes as the cost trying to pretend we still have it.
Oh well. With all due respects, most scientists within public view (striking distance?) are trained zombies with a large and funny sounding vocabulary who couldn't hack their way out of a endless loop. Simply put naturally born parallel agents dumbed down to self-ignorant myopic linear ramblers by public and professional education.
A case in point:
While going through my college biology textbook I found an article about the journey of a cancer cell from the petri dish of a researcher to somehow penetrating the Iron Curtain. Seems a woman died of a particularly aggressive strain of (if I remeber correctly) ovarian cancer and researchers decided we needed to study this beast to find out what made it so strong. Fine by me. Cancer is bad. People die.
So off it went from researcher to researcher to be pricked and prodded and observed and supervised. Soon it began hopping from petri dish to petri dish. People working on one project were actually studying the beast HeLa (named after its victim no less). Now one would think contamination would be a reason to trace the last bit of it and keep it in one place. No. They didn't.
It hopped its way across the ocean.
What irks me (I'm past fear on this one..) is that they began to argue whether it was a different species. Some said yeah. Some said no, because it was aided by humans in becoming such an achiever. Not one of them got the gist of the naysayers' remark, not even the naysayers.
Fine. Interrogate the cancer then freeze it. Don't play with the cancer. They did.
The Em-Ballmer is not going to praise anymore than he has to. Just last night I saw a newscast where someone was supposed to have spoken at a meeting about something or other but I couldn't tell what because all the footage they "chose" to put on the news went something like. "I don't know what their plan is. If you want to have change you have to, but I still can't see..."
Ballmer is kissing up to the DOJ. Think about this. Later on in the trial they'll say that Ballmer praised Apache. They'll never show the whole content of the message, it's in German newspapers, and I don't think courts recognize slashdot as being in the same league (never mind beyond) as MSNBC,NBC,CNBC,BBC,ABC,CBS,... ad newseaum. Nobody is going to go looking for the article through us, lest they be influenced by our opinions...
He'll probably say "I thought it was good". Since most people only get sound bites from actual speeches, his comment will subliminally be equivalent to a speech that includes talk of speeds, features, config wizards.
Get drunk in *.*.de and you lose your license to drive for life. A bit extreeme. Plus as much as I hate Protectionism (Not commercialism), we don't need them bastards getting organized before we get organized against them.
What you mean is you don't like someone telling through what channel you can e-mail. Must be what you really mean because you did clearly read the post you are responding to. As you probably realize by now the ISP was banning the domain side not the username side of username@domainame in username@aol.com. Perhaps you should complain to aol and see that they are held accountable. Oh and by the way there a billion or so ISP independent e-mail services that do not require a setup disk, a fee, or such nonsense, but you knew that.
Signing up is no more difficult than filling out a form. You can do that can you not?
These are examples of censorship for political, "decency for simpletons", totalitarian, etc. reasons. Search for "fan sites banned" to get a flood of more censorship.
It's ironic that the cluebie attitude to throw in disruptive (not disgusting) material into the same box with the useful and probably disgusting material that should available is identical to the attitude that says I get my freedoms for free, I can do anything I want, and the Constitution will protect me. In that attitude you are in fact asking the Constitution to be your Big brother. something it was not designed to do. If you follow the Constititution properly you would realize that biggest threat to democracy is the public itself. People who don't understand. People who would subvert democracy.
The Constitution is a device for balancing powers, you idiot. It is designed to keep distant entities from having an influence on your life without your consent which is finalized by vote.
The Constitution protects you from the force of the Federal government, a disengaged and distant entity regardless of the availabity of representation. It protects you against the force of the State, a disengaged and distant entity regardless of the availability of representation.
The Constitution does not protect you from the acts of fellow citizens. This is why we make laws. Nature gives us the basic rules of the game. Laws take care of exceptions to those rules that the public specifies. Nature says survival of the fittest. Law says homicide is illegal.
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Yanks warning yanks concerning this type of nonsense, you dolt.
There's no such thing as separate culture anymore, if ever. News flies faster than we can handle it. Politians do their best to use every crumb of information to get their way.
Or have you forgotten the fact that your upright govt banned Phantasmagoria when in fact they never played the game to see what it's about(this was admitted). Had they played the game they would have seen the option to turn of the violent cut-scenes.
I worked as a computer lab assistant and the "New Perspectives" Line of pamphlets^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htextbooks didn't even take into consideration the GUI design. They totally ignored right-cklicks and how every application is supposed to have the same things under the File, Edit, Windows menus.
By the way I hope slashdotters like to do more than rant. Administrators need to know about this.
Gauntlet vs Gnome Hack. Diablo owes its existence to Rogue type games.
As I said before any fool with some discipline can make a game. The emulators cut costs on development (if I have a game developed for an emulator I can be reasonably sure my ROM can written to a cartridge) just as mp3s and CD-Burners and the Internet cut distribution, recording, and advertising costs.
As for emulation... Hello I've seen a ton of demos of games that came out precisely for the emulators.
Should the person who sells you a piece of land be rosponsible for a murder that happens on that piece of land? I don't think so!
Unless of course they had known it was haunted, that the people would become insane and kill each other and used this as a scheme to make money because the title deed could be taken away from a house if the people in were dead especially by their own acts...
Nintendo, sony, IDSA, Euro-NAzi-IDSA need to be sued for libel, constitutional infringements, and judges need to see that protectionism, paranoia, FUD, and demonizing are an artifact of the middle ages. This needs to stop.!!!!
Rock stars also let you tape to a DAT! Get a grip. As for playing "pirated" games. If you want to go ahead and download games that are 30-50MB in size you go ahead do that on single phone line your whole household uses.
And stop saying piracy. Players are not guerilla arsonists murdering truck drivers in an ambush.
The industry is bent on convincing people that in this world there are game playing couch potatoes who couldn't tell a good story if their life depended on it, the companies who entertain and are the only ones who can make a game by some divine fortune. Oh yeah and them stinkin, ugly, murderin criminals, them pirates. Get real!
Nintendo, the International Drunken Sailors Association, and the Euro-Nazi-IDSA need to get out.
Sony doesn't give a crap about the emulators. They said they make little money from consoles. They make their money from licensing the libraries used to make games. Since BSD, Linux, etc userc get their gcc glibc libeverything should M$ or Borland/Inprise/Borland or cygnus kill them because itr gives people the capability to produce software?
Second they should understand the full meaning of open source. The fact that anyone with the brain to let the lawn mower rot and get coding and read and learn can produce large scale software projects should remind Nintendo, Sony, M$, and the rest of the world that code is a natural or rather infinite virtual resource. The hierarchy is false and artificial. Enough inforacketeering already.
Third Piracy my ass. No one ambushed a Nintendo distributors shipment to steal the consoles kill the driver and burn the truck.. Wake up.
And remind ZDNET CNN MSCNNNBCABC that there's important things than the fucking Clinton/Monica story that Littleton was a tragedy caused by two spoiled smart non-geek brats, that news stations should be held responsible for opening a channel for copycats, tthat school administrators have a responsibility to stay above paranoia, and that the ratings system has made news reporting a farce.
Ever see a KKK web site. They all have similar statements under the caption of so-called "Wisdom of the day" (does K stand for Kindergarten?)
One I'd seen said, "The reason we reproach others is so that they may learn from their mistakes."
Oh, how simple... C'mon who buys it?
I prefer a solid argument to simplicity. A lot of individuals in our society have an interest in keeping it conveniently simple for the public.
To make a point:
Copernicus' heliocentric model of the solar system was not simpler than Ptolemy's reasonably accurate geocentric model (they both agreed on where a planet would be from the point of view of the earth.) It said that each planet would have a different orbit just as Ptolemy's did. Simplicity is about how few unique elements you have in a model. However Copernicus' was more elegant. Differences in orbit could be related to one thing, the radius. Ptolemy seemed to suggest that although the distance from Earth had some significance, the differences in the twists of his orbits seemed to suggest specific planetary "personalities".
How this reflects on privacy:
We are taught to believe that specifically different roles are filled by people of specifically defined "personalities".
It's simple. Just study the role and you'll find that person's personality.
The truth:
Cops are people, thieves are people, priests are people, teachers are people, the homeless are people. No one outside of their social circle can tell how any given person would behave. I know cops I respect very much. I also have friends who tell me the bullies in their elementary schools are now cops.
As for technology, the twenty year headstart is an international standard. Second, there is a myth going around that technology is hard (hmm Barbie spreading rumors again?). Actually it seems that most developments in technology are not novel ideas but advancements in the same areas over and over again. (Faster processors ad nauseaum) The difference between the old and the new is the information gained from hindsight. You cannot have a stealth bomber without first having the original bomber. Besides no one group takes on a global task by itself. Several groups may be involved. And they might not even be aware of each other. I find it superficial to assume a technological achievement occured only once. Look at Isaac Newton and Leibnitz. Max Planck and Einstein. That simple bite-size idea is the first that occurs to most people as the basis of a model for the world around them, however.
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Seems as long as we keep up the sarcasm and refuse to swallow the shit like good little citizens, Linux will rule.
When the last ember of the last flame war is extinguished and we start giving speeches like those found in Microsoft Press Publications (remember this the next time you read something like "For the purpose of learning C++, you must have a compiler. MS Visual Studio may be a good purchase), it's over.
A Harvard Law student presented it under his own name in 1968. Resounding applause from faculty after the speech. Then a big sucking sound when he told them who the original author was.
See how that goes.
Then tell them you switched. Skip the multiple machine online bit if you've done that. Even tell them how to configure if possible. If they shut your connection down complain.
Might add that setup configurations are the customer's choice.
The industry, the news, the whole hierarchy wants a public of born-to-die idiots. When we tell the luser community (much more existent than the linux "community" we're all here for diff reasons) to ype man man man man we are saying anyone can learn and we hope they have a sense of humour too. The ebsalishtment don't like that.
Taking fire legally from the gods. Have that in the Bar exam. Seriuosly thou we need games to be dev'ed for the emu's then the tide will turn.
Out of body experiences. Imagine people's personalities and life histories stored within a musical composition. Then a computer that could reconstruct the neural pathways from such information.
Problem is science comes at the cost of vision these days. Hell comes as the cost trying to pretend we still have it.
Oh well. With all due respects, most scientists within public view (striking distance?) are trained zombies with a large and funny sounding vocabulary who couldn't hack their way out of a endless loop. Simply put naturally born parallel agents dumbed down to self-ignorant myopic linear ramblers by public and professional education.
A case in point:
While going through my college biology textbook I found an article about the journey of a cancer cell from the petri dish of a researcher to somehow penetrating the Iron Curtain. Seems a woman died of a particularly aggressive strain
of (if I remeber correctly) ovarian cancer and researchers decided we needed to study this beast to find out what made it so strong. Fine by me.
Cancer is bad. People die.
So off it went from researcher to researcher to be pricked and prodded and observed and supervised. Soon it began hopping from petri dish to petri dish. People working on one project were actually studying the beast HeLa (named after its victim no less). Now one would think contamination would be a reason to trace the last bit of it and keep it in one place. No. They didn't.
It hopped its way across the ocean.
What irks me (I'm past fear on this one..) is that they began to argue whether it was a different species. Some said yeah. Some said no, because it was aided by humans in becoming such an achiever. Not one of them got the gist of the naysayers' remark, not even the naysayers.
Fine. Interrogate the cancer then freeze it. Don't play with the cancer. They did.
The Em-Ballmer is not going to praise anymore than he has to. Just last night I saw a newscast where someone was supposed to have spoken at a meeting about something or other but I couldn't tell what because all the footage they "chose" to put on the news went something like. "I don't know what their plan is. If you want to have change you have to, but I still can't see..."
Ballmer is kissing up to the DOJ. Think about this. Later on in the trial they'll say that Ballmer praised Apache. They'll never show the whole content of the message, it's in German newspapers, and I don't think courts recognize slashdot as being in the same league (never mind beyond) as MSNBC,NBC,CNBC,BBC,ABC,CBS,... ad newseaum. Nobody is going to go looking for the article through us, lest they be influenced by our opinions...
He'll probably say "I thought it was good". Since most people only get sound bites from actual speeches, his comment will subliminally be equivalent to a speech that includes talk of speeds, features, config wizards.
Get drunk in *.*.de and you lose your license to drive for life. A bit extreeme. Plus as much as I hate Protectionism (Not commercialism), we don't need them bastards getting organized before we get organized against them.
As long as they don't release every game at the same time and expect every linux user to go on a shopping spree.
What you mean is you don't like someone telling through what channel you can e-mail. Must be what you really mean because you did clearly read the post you are responding to. As you probably realize by now the ISP was banning the domain side not the username side of username@domainame in username@aol.com. Perhaps you should complain to aol and see that they are held accountable. Oh and by the way there a billion or so ISP independent e-mail services that do not require a setup disk, a fee, or such nonsense, but you knew that.
Signing up is no more difficult than filling out a form. You can do that can you not?
http://www.aclu.org/congress/flag1999.html/ malaysia_censorship.alert i tias/unabomber.manifesto b er/hr1004_s652_s314_cato.paper
http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/alert99.html
http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/Foreign_and_local
http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/Terrorism_mil
http://www.eff.org/pub/Legislation/Bills_by_num
These are examples of censorship for political, "decency for simpletons", totalitarian, etc. reasons. Search for "fan sites banned" to get a flood of more censorship.
It's ironic that the cluebie attitude to throw in disruptive (not disgusting) material into the same box with the useful and probably disgusting material that should available is identical to the attitude that says I get my freedoms for free, I can do anything I want, and the Constitution will protect me. In that attitude you are in fact asking the Constitution to be your Big brother. something it was not designed to do. If you follow the Constititution properly you would realize that biggest threat to democracy is the public itself. People who don't understand. People who would subvert democracy.
The Constitution is a device for balancing powers, you idiot. It is designed to keep distant entities from having an influence on your life without your consent which is finalized by vote.
The Constitution protects you from the force of the Federal government, a disengaged and distant entity regardless of the availabity of representation. It protects you against the force of the State, a disengaged and distant entity regardless of the availability of representation.
The Constitution does not protect you from the acts of fellow citizens. This is why we make laws. Nature gives us the basic rules of the game. Laws take care of exceptions to those rules that the public specifies. Nature says survival of the fittest. Law says homicide is illegal.
Rob Malda should in fact delete my username cynicthe had this been a real spam flood.
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community community community slf-denial self denial self denial
That's is all.
Yanks warning yanks concerning this type of nonsense, you dolt.
There's no such thing as separate culture anymore, if ever. News flies faster than we can handle it.
Politians do their best to use every crumb of information to get their way.
Or have you forgotten the fact that your upright govt banned Phantasmagoria when in fact they never played the game to see what it's about(this was admitted). Had they played the game they would have seen the option to turn of the violent cut-scenes.
Probably comparing man pages to reading definitions out of the dictionary. way off.
Man pages often include things you need to watch out for. Some even cover large classes of software.
I worked as a computer lab assistant and the "New Perspectives" Line of pamphlets^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htextbooks didn't even take into consideration the GUI design. They totally ignored right-cklicks and how every application is supposed to have the same things under the File, Edit, Windows menus.
By the way I hope slashdotters like to do more than rant. Administrators need to know about this.
Open Source is not gratis. It's simply naked. You have no right under the GPL to put any kind of clothes on it.
Gauntlet vs Gnome Hack.
Diablo owes its existence to Rogue type games.
As I said before any fool with some discipline can make a game. The emulators cut costs on development (if I have a game developed for an emulator I can be reasonably sure my ROM can written to a cartridge) just as mp3s and CD-Burners and the Internet cut distribution, recording, and advertising costs.
As for emulation... Hello I've seen a ton of demos of games that came out precisely for the emulators.
Should the person who sells you a piece of land be rosponsible for a murder that happens on that piece of land? I don't think so!
Unless of course they had known it was haunted, that the people would become insane and kill each other and used this as a scheme to make money because the title deed could be taken away from a house if the people in were dead especially by their own acts...
Nintendo, sony, IDSA, Euro-NAzi-IDSA need to be sued for libel, constitutional infringements, and judges need to see that protectionism, paranoia, FUD, and demonizing are an artifact of the middle ages. This needs to stop.!!!!
Rock stars also let you tape to a DAT! Get a grip. As for playing "pirated" games. If you want to go ahead and download games that are 30-50MB in size you go ahead do that on single phone line your whole household uses.
And stop saying piracy. Players are not guerilla arsonists murdering truck drivers in an ambush.
The industry is bent on convincing people that in this world there are game playing couch potatoes who couldn't tell a good story if their life depended on it, the companies who entertain and are the only ones who can make a game by some divine fortune. Oh yeah and them stinkin, ugly, murderin criminals, them pirates. Get real!
Nintendo, the International Drunken Sailors Association, and the Euro-Nazi-IDSA need to get out.
Sony doesn't give a crap about the emulators. They said they make little money from consoles. They make their money from licensing the libraries used to make games. Since BSD, Linux, etc userc get their gcc glibc libeverything should M$ or Borland/Inprise/Borland or cygnus kill them because itr gives people the capability to produce software?
Second they should understand the full meaning of open source. The fact that anyone with the brain to let the lawn mower rot and get coding and read and learn can produce large scale software projects should remind Nintendo, Sony, M$, and the rest of the world that code is a natural or rather infinite virtual resource. The hierarchy is false and artificial. Enough inforacketeering already.
Third Piracy my ass. No one ambushed a Nintendo distributors shipment to steal the consoles kill the driver and burn the truck.. Wake up.
And remind ZDNET CNN MSCNNNBCABC that there's important things than the fucking Clinton/Monica story that Littleton was a tragedy caused by two spoiled smart non-geek brats, that news stations should be held responsible for opening a channel for copycats, tthat school administrators have a responsibility to stay above paranoia, and that the ratings system has made news reporting a farce.
Red Hat is just staying current. Any professional company knows not to play with undocumented fnx's.
Ever see a KKK web site. They all have similar statements under the caption of so-called "Wisdom of the day" (does K stand for Kindergarten?)
One I'd seen said, "The reason we reproach others is so that they may learn from their mistakes."
Oh, how simple... C'mon who buys it?
I prefer a solid argument to simplicity. A lot of individuals in our society have an interest in keeping it conveniently simple for the public.
To make a point:
Copernicus' heliocentric model of the solar system was not simpler than Ptolemy's reasonably accurate geocentric model (they both agreed on where a
planet would be from the point of view of the earth.) It said that each planet would have a different orbit just as Ptolemy's did. Simplicity is about how few unique elements you have in a model. However Copernicus' was more elegant. Differences in orbit could be related to one thing, the radius. Ptolemy seemed to suggest that although the distance from Earth had some significance, the differences in the twists of his orbits seemed to suggest specific planetary "personalities".
How this reflects on privacy:
We are taught to believe that specifically different roles are filled by people of specifically defined "personalities".
It's simple. Just study the role and you'll find that person's personality.
The truth:
Cops are people, thieves are people, priests are people, teachers are people, the homeless are people. No one outside of their social circle can tell how any given person would behave. I know cops I respect very much. I also have friends who tell me the bullies in their elementary schools are now cops.
As for technology, the twenty year headstart is an international standard. Second, there is a myth going around that technology is hard (hmm Barbie
spreading rumors again?). Actually it seems that most developments in technology are not novel ideas but advancements in the same areas over and
over again. (Faster processors ad nauseaum) The difference between the old and the new is the information gained from hindsight. You cannot have a stealth bomber without first having the original bomber. Besides no one group takes on a global task by itself. Several groups may be involved. And they might not even be aware of each other. I find it superficial to assume a technological achievement occured only once. Look at Isaac Newton and Leibnitz. Max Planck and Einstein. That simple bite-size idea is the first that occurs to most people as the basis of a model for the world around them, however.