Warner Bros. distributes this, so be sure to cancel your cable and/or cablemodem if you get it from them. They own Turner which owns WCW, so cut out your pro wrestling. AOL owns them all, which isn't a problem for most of you except that AOL also owns Netscape, so stop using it now!
If you're/really/ committed to your beliefs, strip naked and move into a cave!
Keep on moderating this comment up so the stupid Slashdotters don't continue to think Ticketmaster was trying to ban hyperlinks.
They're trying to stop FRAUD, MISREPRESENTATION, and THEFT OF CONTENT. I'm sure Hemos (and Andover) would have a different view of the matter of I made a little frameset with my banner ad and logo in the top frame and Slashdot in the bottom.
This is a case of one site taking credit for the hard work of another, and it's WRONG.
"The Others" on NBC Saturday, most of the stuff on Fox Sunday, Drew Carey. HBO (pay TV, big budget) has the Sopranos and other excellent programs.
Jesus, Moses. South Park isn't exactly the pinnacle of entertainment. Furthermore, some of the funniest Comedy Central stuff is recycled from big-budget producers.
Sure, there is a lot of big-budget crap (like most X-Files episodes?), but let's not fall into the trap of thinking everyone done on a shoestring is worthy of adoration. (eg. Bleah Witch.)
My old Number Nine was fine for X. I bought a TNT because I wanted to play games, and it got better benchmarks under Windows, under which I'd primarily be playing (Half-Life, AvP).
Unfortunately, it seems as if the only card with which you can play games under Linux is a Voodoo card. I'll be very happy to get/any/ drivers from NVidia right now, as long as they WORK. The current driver requires much hoop-jumping for very poor performance.
Open source is good, and will influence my/next/ video card purchase, but right now I just want to get some mileage out of the hardware I have.
For those of us stuck with unsupported cards, any/good/ (as in beer) drivers are good drivers.
When I popped open the review window, I saw the old Battletech screenshot and was hoping this was a re-write of that classic game! It was one of the few good ones available for my DOA Laser128 back in the 80's.
I'd really like to see more basic RPG for Linux, maybe a re-write of the old Wasteland engine with updated graphics and sound. Or a Fallout-style engine upon which we could build good story-based old-school RPG campaigns.
I won't defend Redhat, but Debian's "APT" ROCKS AND RULES, and I've never used a GUI to install a package. I `apt-get update' and then `apt-get install justaboutanything' and I'm done.
APT isn't itself a packaging system--it's Another Package Tool, which obviates the need to go searching for the right package. It keeps a database of packages and their locations (based on the source sites you provide), and grabs them (and all their dependencies) when you want them.
It is the most wonderful system I've used. If you're going to use packages, I strongly suggest using Debian/APT.
If you're not, well, go ahead and compile and use/usr/local/stow or whatever. It's invaluable to know/how/ to compile a package from scratch, but it's a nuisance to do it all the time.
Maybe it will make you feel better to know that at least three of them were born outside the US. I stopped counting there, because I am a lazy American white boy. I only read the story because I saw "Viviana", "17", and "hot" in the summary.
Gnapster supports opennap servers and their multiple media types, and is already available for Linux. Blessed Debian users can just `apt-get install gnapster' to try it out.
I only use it for music, myself. Have never tried the alternate media types nor an opennap server.
I have been using Linux as my primary desktop for about three years now, and using Unix-ish systems from the command line since 1990. Many have been around longer than myself, of course. I'm not trying to be studly.
Yeah, I can use alien to convert to and from all three major package formats. That still isn't as convenient as apt-get.
Notice I said "convenient", and not "easy."
Sometimes we do things because they are "convenient." Doing things the long way is only valid if you're getting paid by the hour and want to waste a lot of time.
System administrators are like Scotty, always estimating something will take six times the actual so they can spend the rest of the time playing Quake or whacking off the Port bow.
If I want to compile something for fun, I'll compile something I/wrote/, thanks.
Go ahead. I'll have some HOT Ad Hominy down my PANTS, SPANKS.
I don't care what my Karma score is, I just hate seeing a bunch of buttwipe kiddies strut about like they're master hax0rs, sucking the effigial penii of every icon put forth by the slash pipers.
This place is billed as a community. A community doesn't always talk seriously. Get a mob together, they scream, yowl, tell jokes, butt-rape each others' pets, talk, pour grits.
Me, I learned something about grits from the Defiler, and for that I am very grateful. If it weren't for him defiling my sweet puckered assnubbin, I might not give hot grits another try. Next Sunday, I'm doing it.
If I cared about being moderated down, why would I post this with my primary account?
Compiling something isn't a hassle to you? I guess looking at archived issues of Danish Seventeen on Usenet on your Athlon 1000 leaves you a lot of time to do that. Some of us have work to do, and aren't running on supercomputers with cycles to waste on finding intelligent life in Carol Channing's buttcrack, sunshine.
I compile things when there's not a package to deal with it just as well, but doing so when I can just apt-get a package that suits me just fine for my DESKTOP is JUST PLAIN STUPID.
Your post is offtopic. Someone moderate this guy down.
My point was that some people use Slackware just to flex their fucking geek muscles, not that Slackware requires you to compile things. No, I don't use Slack. I use Debian, and I love it. I am not a Debian advocate. I'm not an advocate of anything. I use what I like, and I like Debian.
We hired a guy who swore by Slackware. He wanted to run ggrits, but didn't have the analrape.so.2 library, so he had to go out and find a Slack package for that, couldn't, so he tried to compile it himself, but got hung up because he didn't have another library, so he went to get that, but the main FTP site was full, so he did a search on Alta Vista and came up with a lot of Bosnian porn featuring Natalie Portman.
We had to fire him after a week, because he wasted all his daytime trying to gather up all the components of little trival packages like gnome-asswipe-applet instead of working.
He had a friend who was a GNOME, a real GNOME and not a Mexican. The GNOME fingered his asshole with a little GIMP tickle-brush, and we are supposed to pay for this?? I don't know about you, but some of us have work to do. I would rather `apt-get install ggrits' than grow my own fucking corn, grind it, heat it, or go to Denny's and ask Mrs.Stretchy-Leggs to shove it down my beau pantalones. So, fuck you, Slappy.
I think I'll become a troll, since Slashdot is a festering shit-hole of "me too" wannabe geeks who weren't even born when the real dudes were online.
Does anyone else get really pissed off when Malda says "Ooh I want one of those", when we all know goddamned well he's fucking rich now?
I still buy things from Amazon just to spite the communist genius-grant stinker RMS. It's easy to be a communist when you're supported by the rich.
Like Mischa Auer in MY MAN GODFREY. Look, dear, Carlo's a monkey!
The coolest thing about ESR is that he's a gun nut, and that's great because if one of you fawning dipshits tried to suck his dick in actual RL, he'd blow your fucking head off.
Try thinking for yourself sometimes, you pathetic slashfucks.
Hey, Debian is great, I love it. If you don't want to use it, that's cool. I apologize for claiming that "Real geeks use Debian", when that is obviously incorrect.
Real geeks use whatever works.
I actually tried grits at Denny's this weekend did not like them at all. What's supposed to go on them? Syrup? Honey?
The point is that there's more than just Slack and Redhat in this world. I love package managers, especially for a DESKTOP system. It's awesome being able to just apt-get install some neat little toy rather than spend all day compiling it.
Speaking of which--have you ever tried installing KDE or GNOME from scratch on a P75? FUCK THAT SHIT, dude! I set it compiling in the morning and it took the whole damn weekend.
Anyway, use whatever you like. I'll use Linux until I can dig up the clams to buy a nice new PowerPPC and run MacOS X. I'm no zealot, man. I use what works, and what has games.
Well, I'd better be going. Someone actually moderate this to FLAMEBAIT or TROLL, since it deserves it, unlike you did with my comment to that Roblimo story about Al Gore's webmaster, you unjust fuckwads.
I think many choose Slackware because they are insecure in their Unix masculinity. I know how to compile a kernel, make World for XFree, build and rebuild gcc, debug with gdb, build my own packages with autoconf, libtool et al.
Real geeks don't want to spend all day compiling some new toy, and the next few days trying to wipe it from their system. When I'm really hungry, I don't make my own dough, grow my own veggies, slaughter my own pigs and press my own sausage--I pick up the phone and call Pizza Hut.
The "Open Source" question directly relates to the comments in the webpage, the authorship of which must somehow be associated with the web/master/.
Here's another question: does an "Open Source" webmaster support the use of a closed-source proprietary WINDOWS Softcart.exe on the www.goregear2000 site?
Has anyone else stopped going to themes.org since they switched to that new format a few months back? The preferences don't appear to work, and it's hell to browse themes. Before, I'd download new themes from wm.themes.org every other day; now I can't stand wading through the glitz.
I consider it entirely plausible that Lucas just wants to give the titles a good treatment. I'd love to hear commentaries, interviews, making-of specials, multi-angle views of the original and re-released special editions...
Let him take his time!
Of course, if they come out and all we get is some bare-bones bullshit like that rip-off Stanley Kubrick Collection...KILL HIM.
Plenty of us already have our own communities. They're here. There's no world-wide community on the web just as there isn't one in the real world. You can't manage that many people in one "place."
LambdaMOO, Cybersphere Kingfox has mentioned in every one of the parts of this discussion;), the small (but personally beloved) Ghostwheel, the aforementioned FurryMUCK. All have been around for almost ten years!
Way back when Taco started with the Amazon links, it was just so he could get free books and music, which was just fine considering he was a starving student. Of course, now we can safely assume he's RICH, with no fiscal reason whatsoever to keep the Amazon links, and he's had since RMS's announcement to remove them.
Personally, I don't blindly subscribe to whatever RMS yowls about. I don't appreciate Amazon's patent, but B&N and every other megacorp chain are further entrenched and WORSE than Amazon IMO.
What bothers me is the gross and blatant hypocrisy of Taco to make such a statement while he continues to lead people to Amazon through his own high-traffic site.
I've been typing 10+ hours a day for more than 10 years (everything from a Laser128 to various PC keyboards, but never any of that new-age "ergonomic" crap!) and I have never experienced wrist pain.
What are you people doing?
Half those years included a lot of masturbation. Maybe you should work that into your therapy?
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Now it's not good enough to simply release your source code. You have to fully document it, package it properly, and host a CVS server.
WE WANT IT ALL OUR WAY RIGHT NOW FOR FREE.
That kind of attitude is not only bad for the "open source" [bowel] movement; it's bad for society as a whole.
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Warner Bros. distributes this, so be sure to cancel your cable and/or cablemodem if you get it from them. They own Turner which owns WCW, so cut out your pro wrestling. AOL owns them all, which isn't a problem for most of you except that AOL also owns Netscape, so stop using it now!
/really/ committed to your beliefs, strip naked and move into a cave!
If you're
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Keep on moderating this comment up so the stupid Slashdotters don't continue to think Ticketmaster was trying to ban hyperlinks.
They're trying to stop FRAUD, MISREPRESENTATION, and THEFT OF CONTENT. I'm sure Hemos (and Andover) would have a different view of the matter of I made a little frameset with my banner ad and logo in the top frame and Slashdot in the bottom.
This is a case of one site taking credit for the hard work of another, and it's WRONG.
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"The Others" on NBC Saturday, most of the stuff on Fox Sunday, Drew Carey. HBO (pay TV, big budget) has the Sopranos and other excellent programs.
Jesus, Moses. South Park isn't exactly the pinnacle of entertainment. Furthermore, some of the funniest Comedy Central stuff is recycled from big-budget producers.
Sure, there is a lot of big-budget crap (like most X-Files episodes?), but let's not fall into the trap of thinking everyone done on a shoestring is worthy of adoration. (eg. Bleah Witch.)
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My old Number Nine was fine for X. I bought a TNT because I wanted to play games, and it got better benchmarks under Windows, under which I'd primarily be playing (Half-Life, AvP).
/any/ drivers from NVidia right now, as long as they WORK. The current driver requires much hoop-jumping for very poor performance.
/next/ video card purchase, but right now I just want to get some mileage out of the hardware I have.
/good/ (as in beer) drivers are good drivers.
Unfortunately, it seems as if the only card with which you can play games under Linux is a Voodoo card. I'll be very happy to get
Open source is good, and will influence my
For those of us stuck with unsupported cards, any
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When I popped open the review window, I saw the old Battletech screenshot and was hoping this was a re-write of that classic game! It was one of the few good ones available for my DOA Laser128 back in the 80's.
I'd really like to see more basic RPG for Linux, maybe a re-write of the old Wasteland engine with updated graphics and sound. Or a Fallout-style engine upon which we could build good story-based old-school RPG campaigns.
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I won't defend Redhat, but Debian's "APT" ROCKS AND RULES, and I've never used a GUI to install a package. I `apt-get update' and then `apt-get install justaboutanything' and I'm done.
/usr/local/stow or whatever. It's invaluable to know /how/ to compile a package from scratch, but it's a nuisance to do it all the time.
APT isn't itself a packaging system--it's Another Package Tool, which obviates the need to go searching for the right package. It keeps a database of packages and their locations (based on the source sites you provide), and grabs them (and all their dependencies) when you want them.
It is the most wonderful system I've used. If you're going to use packages, I strongly suggest using Debian/APT.
If you're not, well, go ahead and compile and use
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And at least a dozen were listed in a Score-5 reply to the previous Gnutella story! (Search for `crapster', I dunno the comment-id.)
More is always better (I suppose?), but get a grip, people.
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Maybe it will make you feel better to know that at least three of them were born outside the US. I stopped counting there, because I am a lazy American white boy. I only read the story because I saw "Viviana", "17", and "hot" in the summary.
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Gnapster supports opennap servers and their multiple media types, and is already available for Linux. Blessed Debian users can just `apt-get install gnapster' to try it out.
I only use it for music, myself. Have never tried the alternate media types nor an opennap server.
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I have been using Linux as my primary desktop for about three years now, and using Unix-ish systems from the command line since 1990. Many have been around longer than myself, of course. I'm not trying to be studly.
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You didn't have to be so mean.
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Yeah, I can use alien to convert to and from all three major package formats. That still isn't as convenient as apt-get.
/wrote/, thanks.
Notice I said "convenient", and not "easy."
Sometimes we do things because they are "convenient." Doing things the long way is only valid if you're getting paid by the hour and want to waste a lot of time.
System administrators are like Scotty, always estimating something will take six times the actual so they can spend the rest of the time playing Quake or whacking off the Port bow.
If I want to compile something for fun, I'll compile something I
Go ahead. I'll have some HOT Ad Hominy down my PANTS, SPANKS.
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Kiss my hot grits.
I don't care what my Karma score is, I just hate seeing a bunch of buttwipe kiddies strut about like they're master hax0rs, sucking the effigial penii of every icon put forth by the slash pipers.
This place is billed as a community. A community doesn't always talk seriously. Get a mob together, they scream, yowl, tell jokes, butt-rape each others' pets, talk, pour grits.
Me, I learned something about grits from the Defiler, and for that I am very grateful. If it weren't for him defiling my sweet puckered assnubbin, I might not give hot grits another try. Next Sunday, I'm doing it.
If I cared about being moderated down, why would I post this with my primary account?
Compiling something isn't a hassle to you? I guess looking at archived issues of Danish Seventeen on Usenet on your Athlon 1000 leaves you a lot of time to do that. Some of us have work to do, and aren't running on supercomputers with cycles to waste on finding intelligent life in Carol Channing's buttcrack, sunshine.
I compile things when there's not a package to deal with it just as well, but doing so when I can just apt-get a package that suits me just fine for my DESKTOP is JUST PLAIN STUPID.
Your post is offtopic. Someone moderate this guy down.
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My point was that some people use Slackware just to flex their fucking geek muscles, not that Slackware requires you to compile things. No, I don't use Slack. I use Debian, and I love it. I am not a Debian advocate. I'm not an advocate of anything. I use what I like, and I like Debian.
We hired a guy who swore by Slackware. He wanted to run ggrits, but didn't have the analrape.so.2 library, so he had to go out and find a Slack package for that, couldn't, so he tried to compile it himself, but got hung up because he didn't have another library, so he went to get that, but the main FTP site was full, so he did a search on Alta Vista and came up with a lot of Bosnian porn featuring Natalie Portman.
We had to fire him after a week, because he wasted all his daytime trying to gather up all the components of little trival packages like gnome-asswipe-applet instead of working.
He had a friend who was a GNOME, a real GNOME and not a Mexican. The GNOME fingered his asshole with a little GIMP tickle-brush, and we are supposed to pay for this?? I don't know about you, but some of us have work to do. I would rather `apt-get install ggrits' than grow my own fucking corn, grind it, heat it, or go to Denny's and ask Mrs.Stretchy-Leggs to shove it down my beau pantalones. So, fuck you, Slappy.
I think I'll become a troll, since Slashdot is a festering shit-hole of "me too" wannabe geeks who weren't even born when the real dudes were online.
Does anyone else get really pissed off when Malda says "Ooh I want one of those", when we all know goddamned well he's fucking rich now?
I still buy things from Amazon just to spite the communist genius-grant stinker RMS. It's easy to be a communist when you're supported by the rich.
Like Mischa Auer in MY MAN GODFREY. Look, dear, Carlo's a monkey!
The coolest thing about ESR is that he's a gun nut, and that's great because if one of you fawning dipshits tried to suck his dick in actual RL, he'd blow your fucking head off.
Try thinking for yourself sometimes, you pathetic slashfucks.
Hey, Debian is great, I love it. If you don't want to use it, that's cool. I apologize for claiming that "Real geeks use Debian", when that is obviously incorrect.
Real geeks use whatever works.
I actually tried grits at Denny's this weekend did not like them at all. What's supposed to go on them? Syrup? Honey?
The point is that there's more than just Slack and Redhat in this world. I love package managers, especially for a DESKTOP system. It's awesome being able to just apt-get install some neat little toy rather than spend all day compiling it.
Speaking of which--have you ever tried installing KDE or GNOME from scratch on a P75? FUCK THAT SHIT, dude! I set it compiling in the morning and it took the whole damn weekend.
Anyway, use whatever you like. I'll use Linux until I can dig up the clams to buy a nice new PowerPPC and run MacOS X. I'm no zealot, man. I use what works, and what has games.
Well, I'd better be going. Someone actually moderate this to FLAMEBAIT or TROLL, since it deserves it, unlike you did with my comment to that Roblimo story about Al Gore's webmaster, you unjust fuckwads.
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I think many choose Slackware because they are insecure in their Unix masculinity. I know how to compile a kernel, make World for XFree, build and rebuild gcc, debug with gdb, build my own packages with autoconf, libtool et al.
Real geeks don't want to spend all day compiling some new toy, and the next few days trying to wipe it from their system. When I'm really hungry, I don't make my own dough, grow my own veggies, slaughter my own pigs and press my own sausage--I pick up the phone and call Pizza Hut.
Real geeks use Debian.
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The "Open Source" question directly relates to the comments in the webpage, the authorship of which must somehow be associated with the web/master/.
Here's another question: does an "Open Source" webmaster support the use of a closed-source proprietary WINDOWS Softcart.exe on the www.goregear2000 site?
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Everyone wanted two questions answered: "Do you even know what Open Source is?" and "Do you really believe Al Gore invented the Internet?"
This is a pathetic, horrible excuse for an interview. Has Slashdot descended into the depths of political pandering practiced by popular media?
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Has anyone else stopped going to themes.org since they switched to that new format a few months back? The preferences don't appear to work, and it's hell to browse themes. Before, I'd download new themes from wm.themes.org every other day; now I can't stand wading through the glitz.
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I consider it entirely plausible that Lucas just wants to give the titles a good treatment. I'd love to hear commentaries, interviews, making-of specials, multi-angle views of the original and re-released special editions...
Let him take his time!
Of course, if they come out and all we get is some bare-bones bullshit like that rip-off Stanley Kubrick Collection...KILL HIM.
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Taco can post whatever he wants, but if we're all to be subjected to it, could we at least get a clue as to who these people are?
"Hakeem and I took a sloppy dump today in Govind's outhouse. Click here for pictures." That's fine, but give us some background on Hakeem and Govind.
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Plenty of us already have our own communities. They're here. There's no world-wide community on the web just as there isn't one in the real world. You can't manage that many people in one "place."
;), the small (but personally beloved) Ghostwheel, the aforementioned FurryMUCK. All have been around for almost ten years!
LambdaMOO, Cybersphere Kingfox has mentioned in every one of the parts of this discussion
We've got our communities. Where've you been?
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It's too bad Microsoft stopped updating their Media Player for Linux. It's the best streamer I've ever tried.
Real has always SUCKED on each of my Linux systems. It makes Art Bell sound like Aquaman broadcasting live from a bowl of Jello.
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Way back when Taco started with the Amazon links, it was just so he could get free books and music, which was just fine considering he was a starving student. Of course, now we can safely assume he's RICH, with no fiscal reason whatsoever to keep the Amazon links, and he's had since RMS's announcement to remove them.
Personally, I don't blindly subscribe to whatever RMS yowls about. I don't appreciate Amazon's patent, but B&N and every other megacorp chain are further entrenched and WORSE than Amazon IMO.
What bothers me is the gross and blatant hypocrisy of Taco to make such a statement while he continues to lead people to Amazon through his own high-traffic site.
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Everyone with the power, keep on moderating this to the top. It's the first thought come into my mind when I read Taco's comment.
HYPOCRISY.
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I've been typing 10+ hours a day for more than 10 years (everything from a Laser128 to various PC keyboards, but never any of that new-age "ergonomic" crap!) and I have never experienced wrist pain.
What are you people doing?
Half those years included a lot of masturbation. Maybe you should work that into your therapy?
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