Sucks when you make an uninformed purchase huh? I had an old Creative gamepad that probably only sold 1000 units. Zero support for it, then and now.
It's always fun to get the latest whizbang hardware...until you find out the manufacturer doesn't give a rat's ass about linux. Thank god for Nvidia, even if they *are* closed-source drivers.
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I'm right there with you. My p3 500 is showing it's age when I get into heated battles or areas with alot of visible distance. OTOH my Geforce4 ti4200 should be able to keep up but this damn cpu is holding me back..
"While I don't condone vigilante actions, this is probably the roughest punishment the kidnapper will face. I'm sure he'll get minimal jail time."
With all the Johnny Cochrane-style lawyers running around today, the attempted kidnapper has probably already filed an assault countersuit against everyone who punched him. He'll probably make alot of money from this.
"If you haven't guessed, I'm a carless pedestrian, and I'm tired of drivers trying to run me over as they can't wait for more than 5 seconds while I cross the road."
Same way here in the US. I walk occasionally and live in a big city (Dallas). Seems like drivers feel you're inferior just because you don't have an engine and 4 wheels bolted on. The thing that gets me though is when I see some morons running across the street at an intersection and the Don't Walk sign is solid orange (which means don't fuckin walk). When I'm driving I keep a handy supply of water balloons for these people. Don't walk means don't walk and if I splatter some poor fool on the pavement because he didn't follow the rules, who's to blame?
In a word, yes. You may have been around for awhile but you obviously haven't tried Mandrake for years. They ceased being Redhat+KDE about 2 years ago.
Mandrake has steadily built a strong foundation over the years of opensource tools it readily shares with others. Rpmdrake, harddrake, drakgw (the gateway/internet sharing frontend), there are dozens of good tools.
Mandrake also tries to stay as free as possible, as in speech and as in beer. The only cash they care about now is the cash that feeds their developers. Reading the article pretty much reveals this point better than I can express it though.
So what's the big fuckin' problem here? Can't you just keep a database or a flatfile of links with dates and check to see if the URL's match? How hard is that? Gee, on August 2nd we posted an article with links to www.myass.com/hairy/cheeks.html and today we were about to do it again but the database search reminded us.
I realize this won't work for everything since you don't always put links in submissions, but I'd say it'd cut down on a great number of them.
Poor, poor George. He had a weak heart because he was too fat. Something cool happened though. Alot of his friends in Everquest got together in the shape of a heart and all held hands to mourn his death. 5 minutes later it was a massive free-for-all-brawl as the heart-makers didn't know what to do after the funeral.
They say if you enter zone 15 grasslands just before you see the chapel, you can still hear his heart beat.
I remember playing Asylum on a TRS80 in a local library when I was a kid. After waiting forever for the damn tape to load it'd frustrate the hell outta me. IIRC it was a text-based game like Zork where you were in an insane asylum and had to try and leave. God what a pain in the ass.
How can you even begin to mention 'overzealous political correctness' when you pepper your paragraphs with PC terms like 'afro-american' and 'n-word'. Later you go own to say 'black chicks', etc. Pick a side of the fence, man.
Percentage-wise, I'd be willing to wager that more blacks commit crime than people of other races. This may have more to do with predisposition than poverty, I haven't read any reports to swing my opinion either way. One sidelong glance at modern day Africa tends to skew one's view, however....
Let's say you have a 100% negro neighborhood in south Dallas or any other poverty-stricken, negro-filled neighborhood. Will there be a higher rate of teenage pregnancy, drug use/addiction, substance abuse, domestic violence, welfare mothers with dozens of children, and fatherless families? Of course there will. These are all inherent side effects of extreme poverty. These are the children of a welfare state.
Now let's say you have a 100% white neighborhood in a trailer park in Anywhere, USA. Will they suffer the same ills as the negroes in a similar situtation? Of course, and more. For some reason whites in poverty tend to be more morally bankrupt than negroes in a similar situation, hence child abuse and molestation among low income families being higher among whites than any other race.
If anything, cash flow plays the largest factor in how any group predictably acts. A middle class negro neighborhood would closely mirror a middle class white or asian neighborhood. Class reflects education (in most cases), and we all know the value of education. Education generally brings a higher quality of life through wider and more lucrative employment opportunities.
Overall, people tend to be 'classist' first and foremost, and 'racist' secondly. They're both pretty tightly integrated after all. I realize being honest about my opinion and this issue is risking Karma, but mine is pretty high and I think I present some intelligent thought.
Ack, never mind the parent. Dammit. Winfirst was starting a buildup of Fiber-to-the-home in Dallas, Austin, Houston, Denver, Phoenix and a few other cities. I guess they got bought out this year...starting your own network from scratch is expensive.
"Hospitals can easily become breedings grounds for very tough bacteria."
Labs can too. Waaayy back in High School, I had a college-level Bio2 course. We got to perform experiments with common bacteria and the effects of antibiotics.
My strain was a generic, soil-dwelling bacteria that doesn't harm people (usually). We had a few different kinds of antibiotics on paper discs. Erythromycin, doxycycline and a few others. What was my experiment? Breed a mean-ass bacteria that could resist anything we had there.
Step 1: Get bacteria, grow it on some agar.
Step 2: Drop antibiotic disc onto agar after bacteria begins to thrive.
Now, it's a funny thing the way bacteria operates. When you first drop the disc in, the next day there's a huge dead ring around the disc for about an inch in all directions. It's just agar, the bacteria gave up the ghost. The day after that? It gets interesting. A ring of bacteria forms a little closer to the disc. A day later, another, thicker ring inches closer. Eventually you have bacteria grow all the way to the disc.
What does that tell you? The bacteria, through a few generations, developed an immunity. The disc no longer kills it.
Step 3: Try another disc of a different antibiotic.
Well, wash, rinse, repeat. In just under 4 weeks my particular strain of common dirt bacteria was immune to everything in the lab. You could take a sample of the strain and expose it to anything we had, nothing would phase it. It was tough as hell. Now you can see how easily this can happen anywhere, like, say, your local hospital. There are strains of strep that'll kill you. Don't even whisper 'staph' in a hospital, everyone will freak.
At any rate, in some cases, there's just no replacement for the good ol' unassisted human immune system.
Ebola and AIDS are unique, however, in the respect that they kill their hosts. Most virii don't last long enough to destroy the host, only long enough to propagate to another host and continue. I'm sure any decent med student or pathologist could list 400 more like Ebola that ultimately kill the host but in the greater world of human-infecting virii, they're a minority.
"This includes gays, infact, if AIDS was for gays, they may be the first to develop resistance."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to survive an ailment before you develop immunity? Add to that the homosexual community, by default, just doesn't reproduce. How can you pass on a gene when your activities dictate that you don't reproduce?
As for Africa, well...savages will be savages. It's strange that for a country as rich in resources as Africa, they really haven't made much for themselves. They are very good at continuing poverty, war, and the spread of communicable diseases, most notably AIDS. Education may be helpful but money has to get to the educators first. Who's preventing that? Local warlords. Africa, IMHO, will always be wild along with it's inhabitants.
India on the other hand has plenty of cash in a *few* spots. The rest of the country is dirt poor. Poorness in and of itself doesn't hurt/help the spread of AIDS but lack of education can lead to further outbreaks.
China? Don't know alot about that. I know that in most of Asia prostitution isn't verboten, it's that dirty little public secret that everyone does and nobody talks about.
There's hope for some countries but others are just SOL.
I'll take a clone of myself, headless, with some gene corrections (eyesight), created when I hit about 20 years old. By the time I'm 40 I'll have somewhat fresh 20 year old parts to choose from.
Maybe in a few hundred years there'll be Soylent Green style warehouses with tons of headless clones, ready to be harvested. Creepy isn't it?
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Sucks when you make an uninformed purchase huh? I had an old Creative gamepad that probably only sold 1000 units. Zero support for it, then and now.
It's always fun to get the latest whizbang hardware...until you find out the manufacturer doesn't give a rat's ass about linux. Thank god for Nvidia, even if they *are* closed-source drivers.
I'm right there with you. My p3 500 is showing it's age when I get into heated battles or areas with alot of visible distance. OTOH my Geforce4 ti4200 should be able to keep up but this damn cpu is holding me back..
Oh well, I gotta upgrade for doom3 anyway.
"While I don't condone vigilante actions, this is probably the roughest punishment the kidnapper will face. I'm sure he'll get minimal jail time."
With all the Johnny Cochrane-style lawyers running around today, the attempted kidnapper has probably already filed an assault countersuit against everyone who punched him. He'll probably make alot of money from this.
"If you haven't guessed, I'm a carless pedestrian, and I'm tired of drivers trying to run me over as they can't wait for more than 5 seconds while I cross the road."
Same way here in the US. I walk occasionally and live in a big city (Dallas). Seems like drivers feel you're inferior just because you don't have an engine and 4 wheels bolted on. The thing that gets me though is when I see some morons running across the street at an intersection and the Don't Walk sign is solid orange (which means don't fuckin walk). When I'm driving I keep a handy supply of water balloons for these people. Don't walk means don't walk and if I splatter some poor fool on the pavement because he didn't follow the rules, who's to blame?
"Am I the only one?"
In a word, yes. You may have been around for awhile but you obviously haven't tried Mandrake for years. They ceased being Redhat+KDE about 2 years ago.
Mandrake has steadily built a strong foundation over the years of opensource tools it readily shares with others. Rpmdrake, harddrake, drakgw (the gateway/internet sharing frontend), there are dozens of good tools.
Mandrake also tries to stay as free as possible, as in speech and as in beer. The only cash they care about now is the cash that feeds their developers. Reading the article pretty much reveals this point better than I can express it though.
Bottom line: Mandrake != Redhat+KDE.
Eric was playing games and his solution was technically superior. Done deal.
...Eric's Solitaire? (bu dum-pssssh)
Lemme guess...
Thank you, I'll be here all week. Remember to tip your waittress.
IMHO, the only secure IIS server is one that's not running.
Sounds like it's time to change the name of his company to "CounterIntuitive".
Hugging it won't help, the only thing that can save it now is a simple command:
apachectl stop
So what's the big fuckin' problem here? Can't you just keep a database or a flatfile of links with dates and check to see if the URL's match? How hard is that? Gee, on August 2nd we posted an article with links to www.myass.com/hairy/cheeks.html and today we were about to do it again but the database search reminded us.
I realize this won't work for everything since you don't always put links in submissions, but I'd say it'd cut down on a great number of them.
Poor, poor George. He had a weak heart because he was too fat. Something cool happened though. Alot of his friends in Everquest got together in the shape of a heart and all held hands to mourn his death. 5 minutes later it was a massive free-for-all-brawl as the heart-makers didn't know what to do after the funeral.
They say if you enter zone 15 grasslands just before you see the chapel, you can still hear his heart beat.
Probably the same people that love to nmap anything posted here. I've seen my logs, I know what happens.
I remember playing Asylum on a TRS80 in a local library when I was a kid. After waiting forever for the damn tape to load it'd frustrate the hell outta me. IIRC it was a text-based game like Zork where you were in an insane asylum and had to try and leave. God what a pain in the ass.
Uh, would this qualify as funny if I was british? I get the Monty Python-esque humor but maybe this guy is too topical.
Point taken. My bad. :(
So what's Eastern Europe's excuse? What's Asia and the Middle East's excuse? Are westerners oppressing all these countries?
How can you even begin to mention 'overzealous political correctness' when you pepper your paragraphs with PC terms like 'afro-american' and 'n-word'. Later you go own to say 'black chicks', etc. Pick a side of the fence, man.
Percentage-wise, I'd be willing to wager that more blacks commit crime than people of other races. This may have more to do with predisposition than poverty, I haven't read any reports to swing my opinion either way. One sidelong glance at modern day Africa tends to skew one's view, however....
Let's say you have a 100% negro neighborhood in south Dallas or any other poverty-stricken, negro-filled neighborhood. Will there be a higher rate of teenage pregnancy, drug use/addiction, substance abuse, domestic violence, welfare mothers with dozens of children, and fatherless families? Of course there will. These are all inherent side effects of extreme poverty. These are the children of a welfare state.
Now let's say you have a 100% white neighborhood in a trailer park in Anywhere, USA. Will they suffer the same ills as the negroes in a similar situtation? Of course, and more. For some reason whites in poverty tend to be more morally bankrupt than negroes in a similar situation, hence child abuse and molestation among low income families being higher among whites than any other race.
If anything, cash flow plays the largest factor in how any group predictably acts. A middle class negro neighborhood would closely mirror a middle class white or asian neighborhood. Class reflects education (in most cases), and we all know the value of education. Education generally brings a higher quality of life through wider and more lucrative employment opportunities.
Overall, people tend to be 'classist' first and foremost, and 'racist' secondly. They're both pretty tightly integrated after all. I realize being honest about my opinion and this issue is risking Karma, but mine is pretty high and I think I present some intelligent thought.
Oh man, where are my mod points today...this has to be one of the most insightful posts I've read today.
Ack, never mind the parent. Dammit. Winfirst was starting a buildup of Fiber-to-the-home in Dallas, Austin, Houston, Denver, Phoenix and a few other cities. I guess they got bought out this year...starting your own network from scratch is expensive.
Shit.
Check out http://www.winfirst.com. They're pioneers in this field and it's available in a few towns already.
"Hospitals can easily become breedings grounds for very tough bacteria."
Labs can too. Waaayy back in High School, I had a college-level Bio2 course. We got to perform experiments with common bacteria and the effects of antibiotics.
My strain was a generic, soil-dwelling bacteria that doesn't harm people (usually). We had a few different kinds of antibiotics on paper discs. Erythromycin, doxycycline and a few others. What was my experiment? Breed a mean-ass bacteria that could resist anything we had there.
Step 1: Get bacteria, grow it on some agar.
Step 2: Drop antibiotic disc onto agar after bacteria begins to thrive.
Now, it's a funny thing the way bacteria operates. When you first drop the disc in, the next day there's a huge dead ring around the disc for about an inch in all directions. It's just agar, the bacteria gave up the ghost. The day after that? It gets interesting. A ring of bacteria forms a little closer to the disc. A day later, another, thicker ring inches closer. Eventually you have bacteria grow all the way to the disc.
What does that tell you? The bacteria, through a few generations, developed an immunity. The disc no longer kills it.
Step 3: Try another disc of a different antibiotic.
Well, wash, rinse, repeat. In just under 4 weeks my particular strain of common dirt bacteria was immune to everything in the lab. You could take a sample of the strain and expose it to anything we had, nothing would phase it. It was tough as hell. Now you can see how easily this can happen anywhere, like, say, your local hospital. There are strains of strep that'll kill you. Don't even whisper 'staph' in a hospital, everyone will freak.
At any rate, in some cases, there's just no replacement for the good ol' unassisted human immune system.
Ebola and AIDS are unique, however, in the respect that they kill their hosts. Most virii don't last long enough to destroy the host, only long enough to propagate to another host and continue. I'm sure any decent med student or pathologist could list 400 more like Ebola that ultimately kill the host but in the greater world of human-infecting virii, they're a minority.
"This includes gays, infact, if AIDS was for gays, they may be the first to develop resistance."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to survive an ailment before you develop immunity? Add to that the homosexual community, by default, just doesn't reproduce. How can you pass on a gene when your activities dictate that you don't reproduce?
As for Africa, well...savages will be savages. It's strange that for a country as rich in resources as Africa, they really haven't made much for themselves. They are very good at continuing poverty, war, and the spread of communicable diseases, most notably AIDS. Education may be helpful but money has to get to the educators first. Who's preventing that? Local warlords. Africa, IMHO, will always be wild along with it's inhabitants.
India on the other hand has plenty of cash in a *few* spots. The rest of the country is dirt poor. Poorness in and of itself doesn't hurt/help the spread of AIDS but lack of education can lead to further outbreaks.
China? Don't know alot about that. I know that in most of Asia prostitution isn't verboten, it's that dirty little public secret that everyone does and nobody talks about.
There's hope for some countries but others are just SOL.
Good eye, I wanted to fix it after I posted it. Ack.
I'll take a clone of myself, headless, with some gene corrections (eyesight), created when I hit about 20 years old. By the time I'm 40 I'll have somewhat fresh 20 year old parts to choose from.
Maybe in a few hundred years there'll be Soylent Green style warehouses with tons of headless clones, ready to be harvested. Creepy isn't it?
Dude, just run an rpm based distro or use Alien. Companies like to issue rpm's because the majority of people are using rpm-based distros.