Well I should think that the deck was decidedly stacked against the Matrix. Many other movies were nominated for as many as 10(?) and Matrix won all 4 that it was nominated for. I would like to believe that it would have easily won cinematography had it been nominated for that (Robbery that it wasnt!!!). Anyway American Beauty was an excellent movie and it did deserve best picture =)
It seems like the announcements from Loki are coming faster and faster. I know they have probably hired more people since they started but I was wondering on the turnaround time on porting one of these games. I hope they keep up the great work!
Microsoft creates and has *full control* over all the software they package and ship with their OS. Not true with RedHat. RedHats entire business is built around packaging and marketing linux based products. If they can make this model work, more power to them! They can *NOT* violate the GPL so any fear of embrace and extend from RedHat is fairly benign.
The article doesnt seem to make any mention of how much space these babies can hold. I recall them being very good storage per physical space but the last time I had heard about them was a few years ago(?) and magnetic storage has come a long way since then. Anyone got some details?
I find it interesting that 2 out of the 5 stores you can purchase these things from are Amazon and Etoys, stores that we are "supposed to be boycotting". With the current rate of patent idiocy and general corporate rudeness on the internet, how long before there are no places left for us to buy from because they all inspire moral objections? Just a thought...
An intelligent signal was detected by a Windows user in Memphis last month but was kept quiet by SETI. They knew it was a message from an alien race but they could not decode what it meant. An encryption specialist who knew someone at distributed.net handed the message over to them and unbeknownst to users, the message was inserted into the key-cracking server. Early this morning the message was cracked and experts were amazed at the significance and wisdom the contacting race had bestowed upon us. The NWO wanted to keep this to themselves and control the rest of the world however with the release of Kevin Mitnick this morning this was impossible. Kevin broke into Top Security systems at NASA and stole this incredible piece of knowledge and has now given it to the world. Without further hesitation, the message:
Its nice that there are distro[s] out there using pgcc to get the performance boost but I work with a guy who has tried several versions of Mandrake on different machines, and when he compiles the kernel it invariably causes some problem. It may go weeks or even months without problem but then just crashes for no apparent reason. The linux-kernel guys say not to use pgcc on the kernel because its known to be unstable when you do. However if this is the compiler that comes with Mandrake how are you expected to safely upgrade your system?!
This is Slashdot, land of no-sense-of-humor. This is Slashdot, land of literalist jerks. This is Slashdot, place where a single typo means you must be a complete moron.
usenet may be dying but the assholes didnt go away, they just found a new medium
Hate to burst your innocent little bubble but Slashdot hardly operates for free these days. AFAIK every coder, story poster, etc are *paid employees* of Andover. Paid WELL for very little work. I for one am not about to spend my time contributing to a bunch of bigot sellouts with a IPO fan-club.
Im less concerned with their stock value and more concerned with the overall view of "this linux thing". Id rather not have morons like this fscking it up for everyone by trying to make a quick buck. I hope they get what they deserve.
The Fool mentions this as being the best April Fools joke of the year but if LinuxOne can actually pull of a cashing-in of the hype and hold their value for 6 months (unlikely but possible) and then cash out, we all become the April Fool. Its sad and disgusting and I only hope they dont damage the credibility of honest companies trying to help the community when their fit hits the shan.
How about a big _UN_nomination for *NET #linux*. In my experience, just about every network that has a channel starting in #linux is filled with sarcastic elistest jerks who do more to convince people to keep using Windows than any sort of help. Its a shame really, since its (imho) the most obvious place to look. The only exception I can think of offhand is #linuxhelp on openprojects.net (It seems most people on OPN are pretty friendly)
T's what im sayin! Since they didn't have a zero, there was no 0 B.C. or 0 A.D. IIRC that means it must be 1 A.D. Poor kid musta always been a grade ahead of where he should have been, but then again, he was the Son of God(tm) so I bet he was a NHS geek anyway;)
This keeps getting asked but the reason is purely historical. The Romans had no concept of the number zero so the first year after Jesus of Nazareth's birth was assigned the number 1. You could argue that the first day of a month is not day 0 however you dont go around saying the first day of July is June 30th now do you;)
You're right. It begins *on* Jan01, 2001.;) But despite the fact that everyone seems to know and accept this, no one really seems to care. I cant help but wonder what next year will be like. "Lets bring in the new Millennium... again!". People are weird.
Looks like this is another one of those things Microsoft is doing to help out Apple. I mean, come on. Microsoft's OS's have required a reboot after changing network settings for years! Its about time Apple caught up;)
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Well I should think that the deck was decidedly stacked against the Matrix. Many other movies were nominated for as many as 10(?) and Matrix won all 4 that it was nominated for. I would like to believe that it would have easily won cinematography had it been nominated for that (Robbery that it wasnt!!!). Anyway American Beauty was an excellent movie and it did deserve best picture =)
Disintegrate IE? Now thats a solution that would make me happy! ;)
It seems like the announcements from Loki are coming faster and faster. I know they have probably hired more people since they started but I was wondering on the turnaround time on porting one of these games. I hope they keep up the great work!
Microsoft creates and has *full control* over all the software they package and ship with their OS. Not true with RedHat. RedHats entire business is built around packaging and marketing linux based products. If they can make this model work, more power to them! They can *NOT* violate the GPL so any fear of embrace and extend from RedHat is fairly benign.
Well you know ESR is kinda fond of his leafy greens ergo the 420 ;) j/k
The article doesnt seem to make any mention of how much space these babies can hold. I recall them being very good storage per physical space but the last time I had heard about them was a few years ago(?) and magnetic storage has come a long way since then. Anyone got some details?
1.21 Gigawatts!! Of course =)
Sounds like the body shops in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age. Just watch, next week they'll announce head-implantable machine guns.
Did anyone notice that "Transmeta Crusoe" anagrams to "A consumer's treat"? Pretty cool :)
Anyway it'd be nice to see Darwin on other architectures. Choice is Power.
I find it interesting that 2 out of the 5 stores you can purchase these things from are Amazon and Etoys, stores that we are "supposed to be boycotting". With the current rate of patent idiocy and general corporate rudeness on the internet, how long before there are no places left for us to buy from because they all inspire moral objections? Just a thought...
An intelligent signal was detected by a Windows user in Memphis last month but was kept quiet by SETI. They knew it was a message from an alien race but they could not decode what it meant. An encryption specialist who knew someone at distributed.net handed the message over to them and unbeknownst to users, the message was inserted into the key-cracking server. Early this morning the message was cracked and experts were amazed at the significance and wisdom the contacting race had bestowed upon us. The NWO wanted to keep this to themselves and control the rest of the world however with the release of Kevin Mitnick this morning this was impossible. Kevin broke into Top Security systems at NASA and stole this incredible piece of knowledge and has now given it to the world. Without further hesitation, the message:
FIRST POST!!!!
So whos gonna make the CHS q3a level? If the media is going to blame games and movies we may as well humor them >=)
Its nice that there are distro[s] out there using pgcc to get the performance boost but I work with a guy who has tried several versions of Mandrake on different machines, and when he compiles the kernel it invariably causes some problem. It may go weeks or even months without problem but then just crashes for no apparent reason. The linux-kernel guys say not to use pgcc on the kernel because its known to be unstable when you do. However if this is the compiler that comes with Mandrake how are you expected to safely upgrade your system?!
This is Slashdot, land of no-sense-of-humor.
This is Slashdot, land of literalist jerks.
This is Slashdot, place where a single typo means you must be a complete moron.
usenet may be dying but the assholes didnt go away, they just found a new medium
Hate to burst your innocent little bubble but Slashdot hardly operates for free these days. AFAIK every coder, story poster, etc are *paid employees* of Andover. Paid WELL for very little work. I for one am not about to spend my time contributing to a bunch of bigot sellouts with a IPO fan-club.
Im less concerned with their stock value and more concerned with the overall view of "this linux thing". Id rather not have morons like this fscking it up for everyone by trying to make a quick buck. I hope they get what they deserve.
The Fool mentions this as being the best April Fools joke of the year but if LinuxOne can actually pull of a cashing-in of the hype and hold their value for 6 months (unlikely but possible) and then cash out, we all become the April Fool. Its sad and disgusting and I only hope they dont damage the credibility of honest companies trying to help the community when their fit hits the shan.
How about a big _UN_nomination for *NET #linux*. In my experience, just about every network that has a channel starting in #linux is filled with sarcastic elistest jerks who do more to convince people to keep using Windows than any sort of help. Its a shame really, since its (imho) the most obvious place to look. The only exception I can think of offhand is #linuxhelp on openprojects.net (It seems most people on OPN are pretty friendly)
There is no spoon!
T's what im sayin! Since they didn't have a zero, there was no 0 B.C. or 0 A.D. IIRC that means it must be 1 A.D. Poor kid musta always been a grade ahead of where he should have been, but then again, he was the Son of God(tm) so I bet he was a NHS geek anyway ;)
This keeps getting asked but the reason is purely historical. The Romans had no concept of the number zero so the first year after Jesus of Nazareth's birth was assigned the number 1. You could argue that the first day of a month is not day 0 however you dont go around saying the first day of July is June 30th now do you ;)
You're right. It begins *on* Jan01, 2001. ;)
But despite the fact that everyone seems to know and accept this, no one really seems to care. I cant help but wonder what next year will be like. "Lets bring in the new Millennium... again!". People are weird.
Yes but you got First Reply to First Post to First Article of the Millenium. Must count for something =)
First Post of First Article of the Millennium! or something.
Looks like this is another one of those things Microsoft is doing to help out Apple. I mean, come on. Microsoft's OS's have required a reboot after changing network settings for years! Its about time Apple caught up ;)