Thus desease spreads faster in canibalistic societies
But at this point, the force of better immune systems will be the primary drive behind evolution, and the roles of intelligence and whatever else will diminish.
In defense of Rosie (God, I can't believe I'm doing this! Strike me dead, now!), she did say in an interview w/ Bill O'Reilly of Fox News that some people should be allowed to have guns, though she is in favor of very very heavy regulation and registration of handguns.
** sarcasm **
Thats right, we'll stop at nothing less than violent overthrow of the government. Or maybe we can get a few hundred of our closest friends to run for congress and win. Or maybe we can leave and start our own country. With blackjack and hookers!
**/sarcam **
....and forget the blackjack!
**half serious
And that's why we have the 2nd amendment... to overthrow the gov't if they piss us off too much. (Though in reality even the best assault weapons "for hunting purposes" would be no threat to the US armed forces... I guess it was a nice idea pre-1800)
**/half serious **
::Commercial speech deservces [sic] less protection than non-commercial speech.
:Why?
Because the US Supreme Court has said so. Non-commercial speech is usually in the realm of religious or political speech - the most protected forms of speech under the 1st amendment for obvious reasons. (I think pr0n also falls into non-commercial speech, but isn't protected very much. I admittedly need to review my Constitutional law...)
This gnome-run (at least in mascot) Belgian brewery has the coolest (silliest) song.
Download the "happy chouffe song" at the Achouffe website. You can get an mp3 in both French and English
I've only had the "McChouffe" and not the original LaChouffe - it was pretty good, but not worth paying import (USA) prices. But it did come in a cool "magnum" size bottle with cool pics of gnomes on it!
Actually, the Genesis controller is the only one I've ever used without my right thumb in the manner you describe. The controller was too big for my hand at the time...
Ok, so I know that any "modern" linux isn't going to fly like Win95/98 on my ass-old P166 (96MB, 12GB, Banshee 16MB). I did however, witness what I previously thought was impossible - NT4 Workstation running on P100's with 32 Megs of ram. (I had to run SPSS on them for my class project)
It was actually a usable system.
My point, finally, is that Jesus-H-Christ! Why won't either KDE or GNOME (w/ as little eye candy as possible) run at a speed that I can actually use. It should be at least as "snappy" as those beasts in the computer lab running NT. What's so damn hard about running both Galeon and XMMS at the same friggin time! mp3 playback while surfing the web is unacceptable. ( I haven't quite figured out how to make xmms work outside of KDE or GNOME - sound system issues).
Ignoring the no-mp3s-for-me issue, I tried running Blackbox, Ice, and xfce. Ice, while it did most of what I wanted to do, still had some UI problems, and on top of that was somehow slow! BB is pretty quick, but I need some sort of taskbar... (call me a windows weenie, I don't care.) xfce was surprisingly fast, and with the multiple desktops I was able to satisfy my taskbar-like needs. I've been on a Win9x kick recently because the gods have made my box relatively stable, but when the stability gods fail me I go to bb or xfce... and forsake xmms.
It would just be nice to have a few things in an otherwise minimal desktop
A Windows-like taskbar. Doesn't need to be pretty. Ice does this pretty well.
Some sort of centralized "start" menu. Ice, bb, and xfce all do this.
I need to be able to play my mp3s and run a browser that doesn't suck at the same time
An option for virtual desktops to total at least 2 or 3 in number. (This would be extra bonus points)
An "intuitive" graphical file manager w/ minimal footprint/eye-candy that is enabled by default.
If somebody does all of this and makes it easy to install, you will own the low-end linux desktop forever and ever.
the "Only Nixon could go to China"/"It took a Democratic president to end 'welfare as we know it'" type of thing. The theory of "the way to get something done is to have somebody without a stereotypical partisan agenda do it".
Or, it could be the Carlin-esque Bigger Dick theory. Gore compensating for the perceived shortcomings of Democratic Party military leadership.
What, you mean exactly like Kahn did for IPX before it mysteriously vanished from the internet? Kahn
If anybody can actually tell me what the hell happened to Kahn, you get a cookie or something. At least one of the Stargate Network guys must read/. !!
Research grants: Medical research grants, DOE Big friggin' laser grants, etc.
And of course, students are federally supported, and all that money (indirectly) goes to the Univ.
Re:As a Trillian and AIM user...
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Of course, since other projects have demonstrated they can do the same things that AIM does, and AOL has repeatedly shut them out of its IM network, it's interesting to see a sudden interest in "interoperability."
This is exactly what AOL should do, at least on a limited basis. Allow AIM users to talk to their ICQ bretheren, at least. They could dumb down the features even more... And they could say that any security issues aren't relevent because they own ICQ. I only use AIM and ICQ protocols, so if AIM supported both, I'd use only AIM. As it is, I can either use a crappy multi-client that doesn't work right, or I can run the two original clients. Releasing an AIM-ICQ combo client would stop many of the complaints since these two services constitute a shitload of users.
Slightly OT for this thread, but has anybody been able to successfully download the official AIM for Linux? I'm happy with GAIM for now, but I was curious about the real AIM for linux, and I remember using it before... but the download link on the AOL site leads nowhere useful.
Granted that Microsoft has done a lot of bad (and some good) things to/for the PC industry. What they have not done, is kill it.
They may be in the process of killing it with their media convergence plan for the spawn of the Xbox, but nothing to date has done that.
What will slow (but not kill) the PC industry is exactly what has been said before... nobody wants to upgrade because their computers already to what they want them to. Anybody with a Pentium class machine can run Win9x reasonably well, email, Word, internet. If that's all you're doing, why the hell would you upgrade??
Microsoft, and in particular, Win9x, brought all of these apps to the masses. (And by that I do NOT mean that MS did all of these cool things themselves... more of a chronological and technological corelation.)
The PC hardware industry will eventually become like the Auto industry. The average person will buy a new one in X number of years depending on his budget and when the parts happen to crap out, but there will always be an assload of computers on the internet. Individual companies will die, but there will always be a few who provide new hardware when the old stuff isn't cutting it anymore. The differences between the 200x and the 200x+10 year models will not be huge in terms of basic functionality until significant AI and voice recognition improvements have been made. Microsoft's current OS monopoly will have little bearing on the future of the PC hardware industry (Xbox comments aside). Apple boxes on par with the original pentium will have equivalent functionality. If there were a hundred different major OSes out there, they would all basically do the same thing. (though some would crash less often than others...)
The future I have described may be more conducive to Linux as users will want updated software and not want to pay for it... as MS will eventually cut off support for products as they age...
Starcraft2 is totally not Vapor. Blizzard frequently included in their FAQ stuff like "We're working on something cool, but it's not Star2."
Now, I would really like to see some work on fixing the "end" of the Star2 storyline, but I've never seen any Blizzard sanctioned hype about it. In fact, they've been denying that they are working on it. If Star2 is actually released someday, it will be anti-Vapor.
This comment is, for the most part, almost exactly right...
Locally, gasoline is about $1.04/gal, national average is a few cents higher...
In the US, if you DON'T drive a humungous off-road vehicle as far as the next time zone at insane speeds every day, you're obviously some kind of tree-hugging-commie-liberal-pussy.
This isn't quite right. Though the tree-hugging-commie-liberal-pussies do tend to drive more sensible cars, it has much more to do with socio-economic status. Just try getting laid if you drive an economy car. I dare you.
1)Write programs to do my repetitive homework assignments for me while the few morons in my class struggled with something basic.
2)Actually see the full calculation I was attempting to perform, in standard notation, before hitting Enter.
3)Being able to quickly recall the last few things I did... and edit them efficiently to correct mistakes or perform repetitive tasks.
4)Cheat. Polyatomic ions (which I eventually learned just from using them so much). As I recall, that was the extent of my cheating.
5)Check my calculus answers. It was impossible to cheat in my high school calculus class because we always had to show our work. Checking (not cheating) on the calculator saved my butt more than once.
6) Spiffy self-written Pythagorean program clued me in as to whether or not I would get an answer at the end of my work, and if so, what it would be. As I had a mere TI-82, it was actually necessary for me to write this program. (Half-cheating - The pythagorean theorem is so damn easy. I only wrote the program after seeing how much time I was wasting doing it by hand.)
7)Programs to reset the variables to various sets of constants, depending on what class I was in, or after another program had just destroyed my variables... it was so much easier in Chem class to just hit "N" than do the SciNotation for Avogadro's number.
My biggest gripe about graphing calculators in high school are the schools that standardize on one type of calculator and waste valuable time to teach the kids how to use them. There would also be less program (and thus game!) sharing if a few kids had Casios, maybe some HPs for variety, and a few more had various flavors of TI, among which there are minimal compatibilities. (For example, 83 is mostly backwords compatible to 82, but not at all w/ 85. Same with the 86 w.r.t. the 85.).
As I recall, there was only one test on which my high school calculus teacher didn't allow graphing calculators. All the other times it didn't matter, but the multi-line display sure was a much bigger help than anything else in the calculator.
::Duckman is in a trailer park. The park is hit by a tornado and boxes start falling from the sky. Duckman asks a resident what they are. His reply 'Neilson boxes. Whole park's got 'em".
:Exactly!!!
Double Exactly!
This will be like the neilsons on crack, except for ads too. I'm afraid that this sort of close monitoring will do the same thing that closer monitoring of the music industry did - give us stupid corporate crap like NSync and their ilk because the stupid people are the ones who are buying/watching and since that's their demographic, they will match programming to the demographic, thus creating a self-feeding cycle of crappy TV that will make me want to refuse cable TV when getting cable modem broadband. (I actually knew people who did this...)
Once upon a time, a store chain in my area advertised that if the store got a discount from a manufacturer, then they would pass the savings on to the consumer. "Bonus Buy" - look for the little flags...
Now you need the "bonus card" to get the bonus buy...
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But at this point, the force of better immune systems will be the primary drive behind evolution, and the roles of intelligence and whatever else will diminish.
In defense of Rosie (God, I can't believe I'm doing this! Strike me dead, now!), she did say in an interview w/ Bill O'Reilly of Fox News that some people should be allowed to have guns, though she is in favor of very very heavy regulation and registration of handguns.
Thats right, we'll stop at nothing less than violent overthrow of the government. Or maybe we can get a few hundred of our closest friends to run for congress and win. Or maybe we can leave and start our own country. With blackjack and hookers!
**
**half serious /half serious **
And that's why we have the 2nd amendment... to overthrow the gov't if they piss us off too much. (Though in reality even the best assault weapons "for hunting purposes" would be no threat to the US armed forces... I guess it was a nice idea pre-1800)
**
Because the US Supreme Court has said so. Non-commercial speech is usually in the realm of religious or political speech - the most protected forms of speech under the 1st amendment for obvious reasons. (I think pr0n also falls into non-commercial speech, but isn't protected very much. I admittedly need to review my Constitutional law...)
Download the "happy chouffe song" at the Achouffe website. You can get an mp3 in both French and English
I've only had the "McChouffe" and not the original LaChouffe - it was pretty good, but not worth paying import (USA) prices. But it did come in a cool "magnum" size bottle with cool pics of gnomes on it!
Read more about them at this bbc article.
Actually, the Genesis controller is the only one I've ever used without my right thumb in the manner you describe. The controller was too big for my hand at the time...
It was actually a usable system.
My point, finally, is that Jesus-H-Christ! Why won't either KDE or GNOME (w/ as little eye candy as possible) run at a speed that I can actually use. It should be at least as "snappy" as those beasts in the computer lab running NT. What's so damn hard about running both Galeon and XMMS at the same friggin time! mp3 playback while surfing the web is unacceptable. ( I haven't quite figured out how to make xmms work outside of KDE or GNOME - sound system issues).
Ignoring the no-mp3s-for-me issue, I tried running Blackbox, Ice, and xfce. Ice, while it did most of what I wanted to do, still had some UI problems, and on top of that was somehow slow! BB is pretty quick, but I need some sort of taskbar... (call me a windows weenie, I don't care.) xfce was surprisingly fast, and with the multiple desktops I was able to satisfy my taskbar-like needs. I've been on a Win9x kick recently because the gods have made my box relatively stable, but when the stability gods fail me I go to bb or xfce... and forsake xmms.
It would just be nice to have a few things in an otherwise minimal desktop
If somebody does all of this and makes it easy to install, you will own the low-end linux desktop forever and ever.
the "Only Nixon could go to China"/"It took a Democratic president to end 'welfare as we know it'" type of thing. The theory of "the way to get something done is to have somebody without a stereotypical partisan agenda do it".
Or, it could be the Carlin-esque Bigger Dick theory. Gore compensating for the perceived shortcomings of Democratic Party military leadership.
If anybody can actually tell me what the hell happened to Kahn, you get a cookie or something. At least one of the Stargate Network guys must read /. !!
Anybody have a clue what happened to it?
Does anybody know what the odds are of having them drawn and quartered?
At least tarred and feathered!?
Research grants: Medical research grants, DOE Big friggin' laser grants, etc.
And of course, students are federally supported, and all that money (indirectly) goes to the Univ.
This is exactly what AOL should do, at least on a limited basis. Allow AIM users to talk to their ICQ bretheren, at least. They could dumb down the features even more... And they could say that any security issues aren't relevent because they own ICQ. I only use AIM and ICQ protocols, so if AIM supported both, I'd use only AIM. As it is, I can either use a crappy multi-client that doesn't work right, or I can run the two original clients. Releasing an AIM-ICQ combo client would stop many of the complaints since these two services constitute a shitload of users.
Slightly OT for this thread, but has anybody been able to successfully download the official AIM for Linux? I'm happy with GAIM for now, but I was curious about the real AIM for linux, and I remember using it before... but the download link on the AOL site leads nowhere useful.
I know what you meant, but damn... AOL is about 85% ads now... and not just banners, I'm talking about the "chat w/ (insert boyband member) on AOL!"
They may be in the process of killing it with their media convergence plan for the spawn of the Xbox, but nothing to date has done that.
What will slow (but not kill) the PC industry is exactly what has been said before... nobody wants to upgrade because their computers already to what they want them to. Anybody with a Pentium class machine can run Win9x reasonably well, email, Word, internet. If that's all you're doing, why the hell would you upgrade??
Microsoft, and in particular, Win9x, brought all of these apps to the masses. (And by that I do NOT mean that MS did all of these cool things themselves... more of a chronological and technological corelation.)
The PC hardware industry will eventually become like the Auto industry. The average person will buy a new one in X number of years depending on his budget and when the parts happen to crap out, but there will always be an assload of computers on the internet. Individual companies will die, but there will always be a few who provide new hardware when the old stuff isn't cutting it anymore. The differences between the 200x and the 200x+10 year models will not be huge in terms of basic functionality until significant AI and voice recognition improvements have been made. Microsoft's current OS monopoly will have little bearing on the future of the PC hardware industry (Xbox comments aside). Apple boxes on par with the original pentium will have equivalent functionality. If there were a hundred different major OSes out there, they would all basically do the same thing. (though some would crash less often than others...)
The future I have described may be more conducive to Linux as users will want updated software and not want to pay for it... as MS will eventually cut off support for products as they age...
IIRC, a few years before Axlerod's much more popular book(s). Not as complete (no computer sims), but damn close (cool math). Also a must read.
For anybody familiar with the kind of work done by Axlerod or Taylor, this article is a major "Duh".
Now, I would really like to see some work on fixing the "end" of the Star2 storyline, but I've never seen any Blizzard sanctioned hype about it. In fact, they've been denying that they are working on it. If Star2 is actually released someday, it will be anti-Vapor.
Time to rethink which company gets the "borg" icon...
Locally, gasoline is about $1.04/gal, national average is a few cents higher...
In the US, if you DON'T drive a humungous off-road vehicle as far as the next time zone at insane speeds every day, you're obviously some kind of tree-hugging-commie-liberal-pussy.
This isn't quite right. Though the tree-hugging-commie-liberal-pussies do tend to drive more sensible cars, it has much more to do with socio-economic status. Just try getting laid if you drive an economy car. I dare you.
1)Write programs to do my repetitive homework assignments for me while the few morons in my class struggled with something basic.
2)Actually see the full calculation I was attempting to perform, in standard notation, before hitting Enter.
3)Being able to quickly recall the last few things I did... and edit them efficiently to correct mistakes or perform repetitive tasks.
4)Cheat. Polyatomic ions (which I eventually learned just from using them so much). As I recall, that was the extent of my cheating.
5)Check my calculus answers. It was impossible to cheat in my high school calculus class because we always had to show our work. Checking (not cheating) on the calculator saved my butt more than once.
6) Spiffy self-written Pythagorean program clued me in as to whether or not I would get an answer at the end of my work, and if so, what it would be. As I had a mere TI-82, it was actually necessary for me to write this program. (Half-cheating - The pythagorean theorem is so damn easy. I only wrote the program after seeing how much time I was wasting doing it by hand.)
7)Programs to reset the variables to various sets of constants, depending on what class I was in, or after another program had just destroyed my variables... it was so much easier in Chem class to just hit "N" than do the SciNotation for Avogadro's number.
My biggest gripe about graphing calculators in high school are the schools that standardize on one type of calculator and waste valuable time to teach the kids how to use them. There would also be less program (and thus game!) sharing if a few kids had Casios, maybe some HPs for variety, and a few more had various flavors of TI, among which there are minimal compatibilities. (For example, 83 is mostly backwords compatible to 82, but not at all w/ 85. Same with the 86 w.r.t. the 85.).
As I recall, there was only one test on which my high school calculus teacher didn't allow graphing calculators. All the other times it didn't matter, but the multi-line display sure was a much bigger help than anything else in the calculator.
Double Exactly!
This will be like the neilsons on crack, except for ads too. I'm afraid that this sort of close monitoring will do the same thing that closer monitoring of the music industry did - give us stupid corporate crap like NSync and their ilk because the stupid people are the ones who are buying/watching and since that's their demographic, they will match programming to the demographic, thus creating a self-feeding cycle of crappy TV that will make me want to refuse cable TV when getting cable modem broadband. (I actually knew people who did this...)
Now you need the "bonus card" to get the bonus buy...
Short of legal intervention, the w95 code will never ever see the light of day.