IIRC, "both sides of the pond" refers to the US and Europe - specifically, jolly old England. This would be due to the fact that 'the pond' is the Atlantic Ocean, not the Pacific. I don't know whta context you'd use for the Pacific. I'd htink something along the lines of "on the other side of the world".
Star Wars was -not- originally about selling something more - it was about making something new and fresh. From where I sit, this looks to be more of the latter.
First off, Galaxies is set between Episode IV and V, so it's true to the Trilogy - catering to (you guessed it!) the older audience that actually saw the Trilogy when they were younger/growing up, not the children you speak of that bought whatever those spinoff games were from Ep1. I'm sure you'd agree that the making of, say, Pod Racer, isn't anything similar in intensity as Galaxies. I doubt that many 'children' would have the ability to pay the subscription fees, nor that many parents have the will or money to pay that for their kids to play games - though, I suspect there are many parents that would pay that for themselves.:) And the topic of whether a child would want to sit and build a character from the ground up (we're speaking, say, sub-12 years of age category here, I think - or roughly approximating) for hours and hours on end instead of playing Pod Racer is insane. The rare and far between, but really - since when has anyone gotten rich by exploiting the 'rare and far between' individuals?
I can understand your bitterness concerning Episode I - hey, we're all with you on that one. It sucked elephant. This game doesn't seem to be of the same quality; at least not yet.
Hey, techies losing their jobs, that's rough. But it's not as bad as my situation - I got laid off at the local grocery store so that they could hire a techie to do bagging!
Joking aside, the economy is fairly stagnant in general. My father's (civil) engineering company has had a difficult time finding work, because nobody wants to build anything in the slump (not like it's easy to normally find work out here - indept farmers don't exactly have a lively income).
Not to counterpoint your comments, but... when was the last time you heard of lightning being productive on a wire-based network? Last I recall, EoE (electricity over ethernet, I think?) wasn't spec'd for that kind of throughput.:)
What about cloudy days, storms, or even ice on the windows (provided the instrument is housed)? Would these things effect bandwidth? BOFH answer #556454: You can't get your files off the server right now because the cloud cover is too thick.
While we might be able to say, "competition with apple, lower prices!", this also means, "apple loses income, apple loses resources!" With apple's OSX (and their accompanying systems) being the largest contenders with MS for the desktop market, is this a good thing?
I don't think that anyone genuinely interested in linux/open source/what have you, and who doesn't have their head stuck up their own asses in conceit would honestly say that an autoconfiguration tool for the kernel is bad. Let's look at this objectively.
First, such a tool would only make linux easier for people that are not knowledgeable with computer workings, and make it a more viable option for those who don't want to mess with, or aren't knoledgeable of, the inner workings of the computer. I've run into many people (online) who don't have support for xy device with #.#.# kernel, don't want to install another distro, and need to compile a kernel.
Second, (as far as I know) this would be something fairly easy to do, provided that the device that wants to be used is already attached to the system - the kernel seems to have a decent detection system already, just have, say, a 'kernel compilation disk' which would have the kernel you want to compile, with all the possible modules compiled in, which would use your system. it'd have it's own initscript, which would have a step-by-step process, walking you through the configuration (eg., Is the kernel source tree untarred already?, Is the kernel source tree in a location other than the standard location? etc)
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm fairly unsatisfied w/ 2.4.17 - which is (was?) reputed to be quite stable and such. I get it to compile fine, etc., but I'm unable to get it to boot. It consistently stops booting after the "Loading linux........." bit. Sometimes it'll just sit there, sometimes it'll sit there and beep randomly/sequentially at me. I've tried everything, including using the default config, and disabling everything I can, to no avail. I've tried other configs that others used to make their kernels, with teh same effect. Grr. Any ideas if it's just me or my system, or what the deal might be?
Who's the goon that actually names these viruses? Is there some organization that categorizes and files them, or is it done by the antivirus companies (Symantec, McAfee, etc) that find them? I've never quite understood the odd names that are ascribed to them.
I really don't see what mental instability would promote the thought that humans - or really any sort of life - would exist on earth after that period of time. Hello, people! There's this little thing in our world called entropy - it makes stuff break. That's everything from the decay of last week's pot roast in the oven, to the atomic and molecular integrety of anything you can name.
After 7 billion years, there will be absolutely nothing left to evolve, irregardless of whether evolution is a reality or not.
Check out TheForce.net and view some of the home-brewed films. They're in quicktime, but free for download. I shit you not when I say that I enjoyed some of the 15-25 minute shorts they had on there than I enjoyed SW:Ep1! I even watched one or two of the shorts a couple times, they were so well done. Better acting, plot, story, and a less flamboiant integration of CGI and reality. All that, and with the only budgets being people's own financial donations. Now shut your mouth, you uninformed n00b, before I have to slap you.
Have you ever heard of the glock? it's not exactly made of any metalic content.
It's also relatively easy to sneak a knife aboard a plane. Fiberglass and cyramic (sp?) blades are fairly common nowadays... I once boarded with a 4" metallic blade in my picket without realizing that I'd forgotten to take it out (until I was in the connecting terminal).
On the return flight, I took the knife out and put it in the basket... and then picked it up on the other side and put it back in my pocket.
Where do you get the idea that they're self-assigned stars? All I see is a couple geeks doing things they enjoy - writing code, participating in an online community, etc. I really don't see where you get this primadonna idea from. AFIK, neither Mosfet nor Rasterman have proclaimed their own superiority. You, and other people like you, seem to have done a good even job.
My goodness. Why do people insist on comparing linux with other OSes that are entirely unlike it?
First off, the name or this article is flawed - OS X isn't any more a linux than Solaris is.
Second, people need to stop getting all pumped up over marketshare. It simply needs to be realized that the success or vitality of linux can not be determined by how many people have it installed in a dualboot configuration and use it every one in a while to 'dick around' - no matter how few people use linux, there will always be the developers that love linux, and will continue to develop for it. I'm not talking about the VMWare variety developers, I'm talking about the everybuddy, GNOME, Enlightenment, and kernel type developers - the ones that do it for love, mostly. (Yes, I know there's Cox, but he's an exception, in general.)
My service has always been capped at 1.5M down, 30M up. (Or so they claim. In practice, I get about 100kbps down, and 15kbps up... sometimes more on the down, but never more on the up. Dishonest bastards.)
On top of that, the price is probably more than anyone is used to - 40$/month. Granted, they don't monitor the network worth jack, so I can do whatever I want with that connection, and run all my systems behind it. (Like most geeks don't, right?:) )
I honestly can't see what people would do with that much downward bandwidth. I could definately use an extra 10kbps up, simply due to the fact that I share the bandwidth with my brother as well, but also because I tend to upload a substantial amount to various servers as well. I'd happily take a 25-40kbps downward bandwidth cut if I could have an extra 10kbps up.
I might not be completely clued in here, but wouldn't such a devistating, overall vulnerability be contributed to WinXP's implimentation of RAW sockets? Or am I not correct in my understanding of the full control extent that RAW sockets allow?
Does anyone know of an instruction site that tells (in depth) how to get Half-Life, CS, and the like working in linux? The configuration and compilation process of WINE (or is it best to use WineX? what's the difference? etc), proper X config, and the like, is all quite complex and involved, and more than even I feel is timeworthy for a game. I've seen one or two 'howtos' that are poorly written, but nothing that takes the topic from the ground up using the latest software versions (wine, X, etc) into consideration.
One world language, simple. It's bound to happen - progress has been made in this area for years with the near-global adoption of English as a second language.
Of course, this just meshes perfectly with the One World Government, Language, and Religion that's been prophecied for years... quite a few years.
Actually, I didn't realize that. You might want to point to http://benjamin.hodgens.net instead - the one in my slashdot profile hasn't been updated in quite a while... if you care.
I should get around to changing that, no?:)
If you ever feel like conversation, slap me up on AIM - Xcaimlas - or on Undernet, probably as Caimlas or CaimAFK... generally in #linuxhelp.
I'm not precisely sure how that would piss conservatives off, but what the hey... I'd think it'd be more likely to piss liberals off.
I improvized it from, "Jesus saves, but Buddha backs his data up." I like the improvement, myself. Paritally due to the fact that I like to step on bugs.:)
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IIRC, "both sides of the pond" refers to the US and Europe - specifically, jolly old England. This would be due to the fact that 'the pond' is the Atlantic Ocean, not the Pacific. I don't know whta context you'd use for the Pacific. I'd htink something along the lines of "on the other side of the world".
No... not slapped together. Carefully and fearfully glued together, balanced on a sharp precipice over a steep cliff, yes. :)
A troll? Maybe, but I'll bite...
:) And the topic of whether a child would want to sit and build a character from the ground up (we're speaking, say, sub-12 years of age category here, I think - or roughly approximating) for hours and hours on end instead of playing Pod Racer is insane. The rare and far between, but really - since when has anyone gotten rich by exploiting the 'rare and far between' individuals?
Star Wars was -not- originally about selling something more - it was about making something new and fresh. From where I sit, this looks to be more of the latter.
First off, Galaxies is set between Episode IV and V, so it's true to the Trilogy - catering to (you guessed it!) the older audience that actually saw the Trilogy when they were younger/growing up, not the children you speak of that bought whatever those spinoff games were from Ep1. I'm sure you'd agree that the making of, say, Pod Racer, isn't anything similar in intensity as Galaxies. I doubt that many 'children' would have the ability to pay the subscription fees, nor that many parents have the will or money to pay that for their kids to play games - though, I suspect there are many parents that would pay that for themselves.
I can understand your bitterness concerning Episode I - hey, we're all with you on that one. It sucked elephant. This game doesn't seem to be of the same quality; at least not yet.
Not necessarily. 20F weather, maybe. But 5F or so? Or lower? Doubtful.
Hey, techies losing their jobs, that's rough. But it's not as bad as my situation - I got laid off at the local grocery store so that they could hire a techie to do bagging!
Joking aside, the economy is fairly stagnant in general. My father's (civil) engineering company has had a difficult time finding work, because nobody wants to build anything in the slump (not like it's easy to normally find work out here - indept farmers don't exactly have a lively income).
Not to counterpoint your comments, but... when was the last time you heard of lightning being productive on a wire-based network? Last I recall, EoE (electricity over ethernet, I think?) wasn't spec'd for that kind of throughput. :)
What about cloudy days, storms, or even ice on the windows (provided the instrument is housed)? Would these things effect bandwidth? BOFH answer #556454: You can't get your files off the server right now because the cloud cover is too thick.
If only governments would disallow such people to breed, life on earth would be so much better.
While we might be able to say, "competition with apple, lower prices!", this also means, "apple loses income, apple loses resources!" With apple's OSX (and their accompanying systems) being the largest contenders with MS for the desktop market, is this a good thing?
I don't think that anyone genuinely interested in linux/open source/what have you, and who doesn't have their head stuck up their own asses in conceit would honestly say that an autoconfiguration tool for the kernel is bad. Let's look at this objectively.
First, such a tool would only make linux easier for people that are not knowledgeable with computer workings, and make it a more viable option for those who don't want to mess with, or aren't knoledgeable of, the inner workings of the computer. I've run into many people (online) who don't have support for xy device with #.#.# kernel, don't want to install another distro, and need to compile a kernel.
Second, (as far as I know) this would be something fairly easy to do, provided that the device that wants to be used is already attached to the system - the kernel seems to have a decent detection system already, just have, say, a 'kernel compilation disk' which would have the kernel you want to compile, with all the possible modules compiled in, which would use your system. it'd have it's own initscript, which would have a step-by-step process, walking you through the configuration (eg., Is the kernel source tree untarred already?, Is the kernel source tree in a location other than the standard location? etc)
Just some ponderings.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm fairly unsatisfied w/ 2.4.17 - which is (was?) reputed to be quite stable and such. I get it to compile fine, etc., but I'm unable to get it to boot. It consistently stops booting after the "Loading linux........." bit. Sometimes it'll just sit there, sometimes it'll sit there and beep randomly/sequentially at me. I've tried everything, including using the default config, and disabling everything I can, to no avail. I've tried other configs that others used to make their kernels, with teh same effect. Grr. Any ideas if it's just me or my system, or what the deal might be?
Who's the goon that actually names these viruses? Is there some organization that categorizes and files them, or is it done by the antivirus companies (Symantec, McAfee, etc) that find them? I've never quite understood the odd names that are ascribed to them.
Entropy isn't just inclusive of earth. It's a universal scientific property.
After 7 billion years, there will be absolutely nothing left to evolve, irregardless of whether evolution is a reality or not.
Make it better than Ep1?
ho ho ho ho!
Check out TheForce.net and view some of the home-brewed films. They're in quicktime, but free for download. I shit you not when I say that I enjoyed some of the 15-25 minute shorts they had on there than I enjoyed SW:Ep1! I even watched one or two of the shorts a couple times, they were so well done. Better acting, plot, story, and a less flamboiant integration of CGI and reality. All that, and with the only budgets being people's own financial donations. Now shut your mouth, you uninformed n00b, before I have to slap you.
Have you ever heard of the glock? it's not exactly made of any metalic content.
It's also relatively easy to sneak a knife aboard a plane. Fiberglass and cyramic (sp?) blades are fairly common nowadays... I once boarded with a 4" metallic blade in my picket without realizing that I'd forgotten to take it out (until I was in the connecting terminal).
On the return flight, I took the knife out and put it in the basket... and then picked it up on the other side and put it back in my pocket.
I'm sorry, but this is incredibly incompetent.
Where do you get the idea that they're self-assigned stars? All I see is a couple geeks doing things they enjoy - writing code, participating in an online community, etc. I really don't see where you get this primadonna idea from. AFIK, neither Mosfet nor Rasterman have proclaimed their own superiority. You, and other people like you, seem to have done a good even job.
My goodness. Why do people insist on comparing linux with other OSes that are entirely unlike it?
First off, the name or this article is flawed - OS X isn't any more a linux than Solaris is.
Second, people need to stop getting all pumped up over marketshare. It simply needs to be realized that the success or vitality of linux can not be determined by how many people have it installed in a dualboot configuration and use it every one in a while to 'dick around' - no matter how few people use linux, there will always be the developers that love linux, and will continue to develop for it. I'm not talking about the VMWare variety developers, I'm talking about the everybuddy, GNOME, Enlightenment, and kernel type developers - the ones that do it for love, mostly. (Yes, I know there's Cox, but he's an exception, in general.)
My service has always been capped at 1.5M down, 30M up. (Or so they claim. In practice, I get about 100kbps down, and 15kbps up... sometimes more on the down, but never more on the up. Dishonest bastards.)
:) )
On top of that, the price is probably more than anyone is used to - 40$/month. Granted, they don't monitor the network worth jack, so I can do whatever I want with that connection, and run all my systems behind it. (Like most geeks don't, right?
I honestly can't see what people would do with that much downward bandwidth. I could definately use an extra 10kbps up, simply due to the fact that I share the bandwidth with my brother as well, but also because I tend to upload a substantial amount to various servers as well. I'd happily take a 25-40kbps downward bandwidth cut if I could have an extra 10kbps up.
I might not be completely clued in here, but wouldn't such a devistating, overall vulnerability be contributed to WinXP's implimentation of RAW sockets? Or am I not correct in my understanding of the full control extent that RAW sockets allow?
Does anyone know of an instruction site that tells (in depth) how to get Half-Life, CS, and the like working in linux? The configuration and compilation process of WINE (or is it best to use WineX? what's the difference? etc), proper X config, and the like, is all quite complex and involved, and more than even I feel is timeworthy for a game. I've seen one or two 'howtos' that are poorly written, but nothing that takes the topic from the ground up using the latest software versions (wine, X, etc) into consideration.
One world language, simple. It's bound to happen - progress has been made in this area for years with the near-global adoption of English as a second language.
Of course, this just meshes perfectly with the One World Government, Language, and Religion that's been prophecied for years... quite a few years.
Actually, I didn't realize that. You might want to point to http://benjamin.hodgens.net instead - the one in my slashdot profile hasn't been updated in quite a while... if you care.
:)
I should get around to changing that, no?
If you ever feel like conversation, slap me up on AIM - Xcaimlas - or on Undernet, probably as Caimlas or CaimAFK... generally in #linuxhelp.
I'm not precisely sure how that would piss conservatives off, but what the hey... I'd think it'd be more likely to piss liberals off.
:)
I improvized it from, "Jesus saves, but Buddha backs his data up." I like the improvement, myself. Paritally due to the fact that I like to step on bugs.
This gives a whole new meaning to, "Oh #$%!ing #$%*&! I lost my keys!
Were I to lose such a keychain, I'd be more concerned than if my car were stolen or destroyed. Goodness, my car isn't worth that.