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I fondly recall geeking out all night playing with the Appleworks database (cataloging my paper route customers, videotapes, and comic books), then writing wierd fiction in the word processor after filling my head with Tales from the Darkside and Friday the 13th: The Series.
A straight port of Appleworks to *nix console would be great. I was a much more productive writer when I was staring at a green monochrome screen waiting to receive my words -- without the distraction of a web browser, instant messenger, xterms with MUD/MOO windows open...
Why should the press be allowed access denied to normal citizens? Should a little fedora with a PRESS slip in it give me top secret police access?
Crime scenes can't be trampled upon, and we can (or should be able to)/expect/ the police to act accordingly. We can't expect "the press" to respect the crime scene and its evidence.
Nevermind someone claiming to be a member of "the press" (whatever the hell that is) sneaking in and removing evidence, planting bombs, whatever.
Diablo II is one of the most successful games of all time. Personally, I consider it an almost perfect game-as-drug. Quick play, a variety of rewards, pure hack/slashing satisfaction. For its genre (which isn't RPG), I'd call it the very best.
In any case, it's no "stinker" in any objective sense.
I've never done any graphics programming, but my ignorant approach would start by backing the photos with a unique color. Assuming that color is "unique enough" (and scans as such, ignoring variances in the background medium's texture), one should be able to extract the images with greater ease and speed.
After no TV for months, I watched the tomb opening on FOX and was disgusted at the quick-cut hip-hop in-your-face commercials and the robotically insincere "we care" talking heads on the local news!
Before the special started, I was telling my wife I'd like to get cable at the new house, just for TLC, Discovery, and the other "edutainment" channels, but after that barrage of primetime pablum, I'd changed my mind.
Sure, one can always turn the channel, but why? Why force yourself to find something else to/watch/, when there are other things to/do/?
I still miss classic movies on AMC and TMC, but beyond that, I can get all the entertainment I need from broadband and DVD.
I've also had problems after Debian's default X11 install. Getting rid of the "UseFBDev" Option in XF86Config usually gets me up and running. I assume it's some kind of accelerating option (it isn't included in the XF86Config-4 manpage), but it's only ever caused me trouble.
I keep an XEmacs open for ongoing edits, such as code, scratch pads, documentation, and so forth.
However, vi is great for spontaneous edits. Even though I have gnuclient/emacsclient (and could just pop open another XEmacs frame to do a quick edit), vi is what feels right.
Linux just isn't in the same league as OS X. I installed Debian/Woody on my Duron earlier this week, and thus got a glimpse of the latest KDE and GNOME desktops. While not awful by any means, they still don't feel like a solid desktop environment. (Whatever that means.) OS X/does/, and it's beautiful, and it's Unix underneath.
I use Linux with Windowmaker, Mozilla, XEmacs, and an xterm, because those are all I need and it works great. However, if I weren't a geek hacker, and didn't have an unnatural attachment to the IA32 line, I'd use MacOS X.
I've been bashing Apple for years, but it's always been about their operating system. They've not only "fixed" it, but I'd say they now have the best all-round OS out there.
I was thinking the same thing. What idea was that string of words intended to convey?
Someone please answer.
"How can we understand Polish if we can't understand That 70's Show?"
"If I translate Polish literally, I can't understand That 70's Show?"
Here's a serious attempt at restructure:
In 2002, when we can't even understand "That 70's Show," how can we expect aliens to understand a Polish greeting memorialized as "Welcome, creatures from beyond the outer world?"
But I can understand "That 70's Show" just fine, and why would aliens need to literally translate Polish into English?
There are pictures of homo sapiens and equations and shit on that gold record. What's so bad about it? If someone found it, they'd know it was created by some kind of intelligence. They may not understand the literal "message" (which is trivial anyway), but they'll get the/point./
The Onion used to be funny, until one realizes it's become just a "Mad Libs" kinda story generating machine. These days, my remaining Onion kicks come from the H-Dawg Kornfeld, stoner dude, and Fashion Bug Plus characters, and occasionally an absurd outburst from a WDYT panel.
I've heard about Alexis, but only just yesterday in THE WEEK, in a little story with the same gist as this article.
I think there's a case to be made that the Smart abduction is more shocking than the Patterson case:
Patterson was abducted on her way to school. Tragic, but relatively (and sadly) "common."
Smart was taken from the safety of her home, in a presumably safe neighborhood. How many kids are abducted from their homes as they sleep?
On the other hand, when I heard the Smart case bubble to the top of the news, I wondered, "Why the hell do I care?" and my next thought was, "Oh great, another Jon Benet."
I agree. Since this is a "magic" button, I assume it will kill him instantly and painlessly, simply causing him to cease to exist, so what's the dilemma? I consider doing so much less "sinful" than what we regularly tolerate-- rape, violent murder, intimidation, terrorism.
The affirmative answer/seems/ shocking to those who believe life has some inherent value, that all life is sacred, that even the most despicable criminal deserves to live, but not to those of us who've given a little thought to the situation.
Anandtech, at least, uses (and has been using for several months) the upcoming Unreal Tournament 2003 engine for its benchmarks. (In addition to the "older" Return to Castle Wolfenstein/Q3A, Serious Sam, and Jedi Knight 2.)
Except that poor "culturally deprived" whites aren't the oppressors. They're just as much disenfranchised "victims" as poor "culturally different" [sic] blacks.
Frankly, the usage of "redneck" in this case is classically racist! The author has no knowledge whatsoever of the individuals purchasing these computers, and is making broad generalizations as to what types of people shop at Walmart. (I suppose the "niggers" shop at K-Mart, eh?)
It would be more appropriate and acceptable to yell "Fucking goddamned nigger!" at a baggy-pants black youth crossing on a green light. Or if it was a dumpy white lady, "You fucking fat-ass bitch!" Or an Asian, "Me rikey you go faster, cross walk long time!!"
Cultural hot-words can be used to express displeasure with an/individual/ without making one a racist.
However, the article summary's use of "redneck" lambasts the very market most Linux zealots pretend to want to conquer -- the common working man. And it appears it was done merely as a way to demean other people via the use of a loophole in politically correct dogma.
I've been using DreamSNES for the past few weeks, getting a lot of good use out of my old "dead" Dreamcast with 50+ games burnt onto a single CD.
Chrono Trigger, the early Final Fantasy titles, Shadowrun, enough RPG to keep me busy for a long, long time. And, of course, all the krazy puzzle games like Bust a Move and Dr. Mario!
There are also MAME, Genesis, and other emulators which are pretty simply burnt to a DC-bootable CD.
I'll have to disagree wrt Half-Life. Though it had one of the best overall FPS storylines ever, the end-game was pretty disappointing. Once I was tossed into that gooey giant microbe dimension, I pretty much lost interest, pulled out the cheat codes, and rushed to finish up the game.
If you like CRPG, then Arcanum is definitely worth the cash. IMO, it's one of the best (and most original) computer role-playing games ever, right up there with Wasteland and Fallout.
If you have a spare box running off a broadband connection, connecting the DC's modem to it is fairly simple. I have an extra IP for my DSL connection (*), so the setup was actually trivial. Pop in a modem, start up pppd on my Linux box, plug the phone cord from the DC into it.
(* Without an extra IP, things get more difficult. You'd have to do IP Masquerading, with special accomodations for some UDP DC stuff, which plenty of people have done, but I thankfully was able to avoid altogether.)
The only trick is manually HUP'ing pppd to answer the phone when I start a blind-dial on the Dreamcast, and some games (Ooga Booga?) don't give you the option of dialing without a tone, but I can surely browse the web, have downloaded some VMU files, and played Worms World Party.
A search for "Dreamcast Linux ppd" should bring up a HOWTO.
You can retrieve the data associated with a certain problem set using a search engine, but a post to a highly populated site such as/. gets you a lot of real user opinions in addition to that raw data.
Real live bleeding people are still a better source of info than databases, and a forum such as this (in which people like to strut their knowledge and experience, and post ill-thought on a whim) can be more useful even than the people input from a Usenet search.
If you can't afford $50/month for broadband, maybe you don't need broadband?:)
I remember when cablemodems first came to Rochester. At the time, the only broadband I knew of was exhorbitantly expensive T1 lines, like the one at our office. It was a/dream come true/ to pay $50 for such tremendous access! Just a few years earlier I was paying half that for my measly 1200bps modem access!
So, maybe "these kids today" are just a bit spoiled, expecting everything on the cheap. And, of course, the megacorps are greedy bastards, but come on-- like another poster asked, "How much do you value your broadband?"
People toss wads all over for overpriced movies (hypocritical MPAA whores!), alcohol, cigarettes, and all manner of pleasure devices. If you want broadband, pay for it. The price hasn't gone/up/ from what I've seen. It's still an incredible bargain.
Maybe broadband is something we should expect, maybe it's under the purview of an acceptable socialist hand-out. Whatever. That issue aside, the price is reasonable.
Availability, well, it's fickler than it should be, especially in the strange masochistic world of DSL subscribers, but my experience (more than just a handful, mind you) with connected users has been that they "can" get it, they just don't want to PAY the $50/month for it.
In what way does Time Warner "suck," though? Even a heavily restricted cablemodem account is probably going to be better than a dialup. Here in Rochester, Roadrunner is down to ~$20-30/month! That's an awesome deal for bandwidth which would have cost thousands just a few years ago.
I'll admit I was a bit harsh in my original post, but that was of course an intentional troll to bring out the people too cheap to buy good connectivity.
And before anyone accuses me of being a rich prick-- we don't have cable TV, but we do have broadband. Broadband is cheaper, and, IMHO, more entertaining! Sure, I sorta miss Skinemax, but there's plenty of pr0n out there online.
There are half a dozen choices for broadband here in Rochester, NY. My brother, in a little town in my home state of West Virginia, has broadband. Nearly ever connected person to whom I speak has broadband/available/, if not at the price they want.
What's holding it up? Nothing, cheap-ass. Call up your phone or cable company and get it.
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I fondly recall geeking out all night playing with the Appleworks database (cataloging my paper route customers, videotapes, and comic books), then writing wierd fiction in the word processor after filling my head with Tales from the Darkside and Friday the 13th: The Series.
A straight port of Appleworks to *nix console would be great. I was a much more productive writer when I was staring at a green monochrome screen waiting to receive my words -- without the distraction of a web browser, instant messenger, xterms with MUD/MOO windows open...
Why should the press be allowed access denied to normal citizens? Should a little fedora with a PRESS slip in it give me top secret police access?
/expect/ the police to act accordingly. We can't expect "the press" to respect the crime scene and its evidence.
Crime scenes can't be trampled upon, and we can (or should be able to)
Nevermind someone claiming to be a member of "the press" (whatever the hell that is) sneaking in and removing evidence, planting bombs, whatever.
Diablo II is one of the most successful games of all time. Personally, I consider it an almost perfect game-as-drug. Quick play, a variety of rewards, pure hack/slashing satisfaction. For its genre (which isn't RPG), I'd call it the very best.
In any case, it's no "stinker" in any objective sense.
I've never done any graphics programming, but my ignorant approach would start by backing the photos with a unique color. Assuming that color is "unique enough" (and scans as such, ignoring variances in the background medium's texture), one should be able to extract the images with greater ease and speed.
After no TV for months, I watched the tomb opening on FOX and was disgusted at the quick-cut hip-hop in-your-face commercials and the robotically insincere "we care" talking heads on the local news!
/watch/, when there are other things to /do/?
:)
Before the special started, I was telling my wife I'd like to get cable at the new house, just for TLC, Discovery, and the other "edutainment" channels, but after that barrage of primetime pablum, I'd changed my mind.
Sure, one can always turn the channel, but why? Why force yourself to find something else to
I still miss classic movies on AMC and TMC, but beyond that, I can get all the entertainment I need from broadband and DVD.
Oh, and the wife, of course.
I've also had problems after Debian's default X11 install. Getting rid of the "UseFBDev" Option in XF86Config usually gets me up and running. I assume it's some kind of accelerating option (it isn't included in the XF86Config-4 manpage), but it's only ever caused me trouble.
I keep an XEmacs open for ongoing edits, such as code, scratch pads, documentation, and so forth.
However, vi is great for spontaneous edits. Even though I have gnuclient/emacsclient (and could just pop open another XEmacs frame to do a quick edit), vi is what feels right.
Linux just isn't in the same league as OS X. I installed Debian/Woody on my Duron earlier this week, and thus got a glimpse of the latest KDE and GNOME desktops. While not awful by any means, they still don't feel like a solid desktop environment. (Whatever that means.) OS X /does/, and it's beautiful, and it's Unix underneath.
I use Linux with Windowmaker, Mozilla, XEmacs, and an xterm, because those are all I need and it works great. However, if I weren't a geek hacker, and didn't have an unnatural attachment to the IA32 line, I'd use MacOS X.
I've been bashing Apple for years, but it's always been about their operating system. They've not only "fixed" it, but I'd say they now have the best all-round OS out there.
I was thinking the same thing. What idea was that string of words intended to convey?
/point./
Someone please answer.
"How can we understand Polish if we can't understand That 70's Show?"
"If I translate Polish literally, I can't understand That 70's Show?"
Here's a serious attempt at restructure:
In 2002, when we can't even understand "That 70's Show," how can we expect aliens to understand a Polish greeting memorialized as "Welcome, creatures from beyond the outer world?"
But I can understand "That 70's Show" just fine, and why would aliens need to literally translate Polish into English?
There are pictures of homo sapiens and equations and shit on that gold record. What's so bad about it? If someone found it, they'd know it was created by some kind of intelligence. They may not understand the literal "message" (which is trivial anyway), but they'll get the
I don't think this word means what you think it means.
The Onion used to be funny, until one realizes it's become just a "Mad Libs" kinda story generating machine. These days, my remaining Onion kicks come from the H-Dawg Kornfeld, stoner dude, and Fashion Bug Plus characters, and occasionally an absurd outburst from a WDYT panel.
I've heard about Alexis, but only just yesterday in THE WEEK, in a little story with the same gist as this article.
I think there's a case to be made that the Smart abduction is more shocking than the Patterson case:
Patterson was abducted on her way to school. Tragic, but relatively (and sadly) "common."
Smart was taken from the safety of her home, in a presumably safe neighborhood. How many kids are abducted from their homes as they sleep?
On the other hand, when I heard the Smart case bubble to the top of the news, I wondered, "Why the hell do I care?" and my next thought was, "Oh great, another Jon Benet."
I agree. Since this is a "magic" button, I assume it will kill him instantly and painlessly, simply causing him to cease to exist, so what's the dilemma? I consider doing so much less "sinful" than what we regularly tolerate-- rape, violent murder, intimidation, terrorism.
/seems/ shocking to those who believe life has some inherent value, that all life is sacred, that even the most despicable criminal deserves to live, but not to those of us who've given a little thought to the situation.
The affirmative answer
And, hey-- I get a million dollars!
Anandtech, at least, uses (and has been using for several months) the upcoming Unreal Tournament 2003 engine for its benchmarks. (In addition to the "older" Return to Castle Wolfenstein/Q3A, Serious Sam, and Jedi Knight 2.)
Except that poor "culturally deprived" whites aren't the oppressors. They're just as much disenfranchised "victims" as poor "culturally different" [sic] blacks.
/individual/ without making one a racist.
Frankly, the usage of "redneck" in this case is classically racist! The author has no knowledge whatsoever of the individuals purchasing these computers, and is making broad generalizations as to what types of people shop at Walmart. (I suppose the "niggers" shop at K-Mart, eh?)
It would be more appropriate and acceptable to yell "Fucking goddamned nigger!" at a baggy-pants black youth crossing on a green light. Or if it was a dumpy white lady, "You fucking fat-ass bitch!" Or an Asian, "Me rikey you go faster, cross walk long time!!"
Cultural hot-words can be used to express displeasure with an
However, the article summary's use of "redneck" lambasts the very market most Linux zealots pretend to want to conquer -- the common working man. And it appears it was done merely as a way to demean other people via the use of a loophole in politically correct dogma.
heehheeh lomaolf!!!!
I never have mod points when I need them.
The parent isn't flamebait at all, you politically correct fuckhole of a moderator.
I've been using DreamSNES for the past few weeks, getting a lot of good use out of my old "dead" Dreamcast with 50+ games burnt onto a single CD.
Chrono Trigger, the early Final Fantasy titles, Shadowrun, enough RPG to keep me busy for a long, long time. And, of course, all the krazy puzzle games like Bust a Move and Dr. Mario!
There are also MAME, Genesis, and other emulators which are pretty simply burnt to a DC-bootable CD.
I'll have to disagree wrt Half-Life. Though it had one of the best overall FPS storylines ever, the end-game was pretty disappointing. Once I was tossed into that gooey giant microbe dimension, I pretty much lost interest, pulled out the cheat codes, and rushed to finish up the game.
If you like CRPG, then Arcanum is definitely worth the cash. IMO, it's one of the best (and most original) computer role-playing games ever, right up there with Wasteland and Fallout.
If you don't like RPG, well, what the fuck.
If you have a spare box running off a broadband connection, connecting the DC's modem to it is fairly simple. I have an extra IP for my DSL connection (*), so the setup was actually trivial. Pop in a modem, start up pppd on my Linux box, plug the phone cord from the DC into it.
(* Without an extra IP, things get more difficult. You'd have to do IP Masquerading, with special accomodations for some UDP DC stuff, which plenty of people have done, but I thankfully was able to avoid altogether.)
The only trick is manually HUP'ing pppd to answer the phone when I start a blind-dial on the Dreamcast, and some games (Ooga Booga?) don't give you the option of dialing without a tone, but I can surely browse the web, have downloaded some VMU files, and played Worms World Party.
A search for "Dreamcast Linux ppd" should bring up a HOWTO.
You can retrieve the data associated with a certain problem set using a search engine, but a post to a highly populated site such as /. gets you a lot of real user opinions in addition to that raw data.
Real live bleeding people are still a better source of info than databases, and a forum such as this (in which people like to strut their knowledge and experience, and post ill-thought on a whim) can be more useful even than the people input from a Usenet search.
If you can't afford $50/month for broadband, maybe you don't need broadband? :)
/dream come true/ to pay $50 for such tremendous access! Just a few years earlier I was paying half that for my measly 1200bps modem access!
/up/ from what I've seen. It's still an incredible bargain.
I remember when cablemodems first came to Rochester. At the time, the only broadband I knew of was exhorbitantly expensive T1 lines, like the one at our office. It was a
So, maybe "these kids today" are just a bit spoiled, expecting everything on the cheap. And, of course, the megacorps are greedy bastards, but come on-- like another poster asked, "How much do you value your broadband?"
People toss wads all over for overpriced movies (hypocritical MPAA whores!), alcohol, cigarettes, and all manner of pleasure devices. If you want broadband, pay for it. The price hasn't gone
Maybe broadband is something we should expect, maybe it's under the purview of an acceptable socialist hand-out. Whatever. That issue aside, the price is reasonable.
Availability, well, it's fickler than it should be, especially in the strange masochistic world of DSL subscribers, but my experience (more than just a handful, mind you) with connected users has been that they "can" get it, they just don't want to PAY the $50/month for it.
In what way does Time Warner "suck," though? Even a heavily restricted cablemodem account is probably going to be better than a dialup. Here in Rochester, Roadrunner is down to ~$20-30/month! That's an awesome deal for bandwidth which would have cost thousands just a few years ago.
I'll admit I was a bit harsh in my original post, but that was of course an intentional troll to bring out the people too cheap to buy good connectivity.
And before anyone accuses me of being a rich prick-- we don't have cable TV, but we do have broadband. Broadband is cheaper, and, IMHO, more entertaining! Sure, I sorta miss Skinemax, but there's plenty of pr0n out there online.
There are half a dozen choices for broadband here in Rochester, NY. My brother, in a little town in my home state of West Virginia, has broadband. Nearly ever connected person to whom I speak has broadband /available/, if not at the price they want.
What's holding it up? Nothing, cheap-ass. Call up your phone or cable company and get it.