Hey, if you can get enough of the sheeple in the U.S. to read this post, mabye some of them will begin to give a damn. And about the election thing, I wouldn't be suprised if it was fixed for Florida. (governor of Florida is Dubya's brother)
Unfortunately, I know about most of the crap which floated around that election. There were a lot of Americans who were seperated by their little political parties (Oh look! My guy won! Who cares if the democratic process was thwared? My guy won!!!) when something very sinister was going on, the subersion of the will of the people.
You americans should be sick of your governments behaviour. Lying? Urging the people not to question their government? Regular people being harrased for just that thing by the Secret Service and FBI? You my freinds are living in a totalinarian police state. Enjoy living in 1984 for the rest of your life. Personally, I never cared for being forced by the government to think their way and being threatened by a federal agency to do so or "you are in line with the terrorists", but I'm in a country which is still required by law to allow it's people to question government. I'm in a country where satire against the government(and corporations) is still allowed. I'm in a country where the person who gets the most votes in an election is the winner. In short, I don't live in the USA.
Why not use QNX instead? The 1.44 meg demo has a helluva lot of stuff in there, and you don't have to use text mode (is vesa svga very power consuming?)
That's get.qnx.com
I wasn't aware of that drastic difference in price. I see how that could piss off a lot of support staff, since rarely is every single PC in a school exactly the same.
On the other hand, I'm really hoping that XP isn't adopted by schools. Windows 2000 is fine(as far as windows goes...), and doesn't need the extra horsepower for the useless interface.
the machines have hard drives which can contain a kernel and a small ramdisk image setup to remotly mount an NFS root partition
The Idea would be that there's either nothing or Windows on the PC if it needs to have linux installed.:)
The EEPROM thing may be true, but it's another thing which would be more a hassle than it's worth. Why preformat hard drives, or buy 200 EEPROM chips just to install linux when you could just use two floppy disks?:)
I feel bad if I waste a night watching TV. At least when I play a game, I'm doing something interactive, keeping the old grey matter functioning, and I'm having fun at the same time. If I watch TV, I'm just getting injected by my daily dose of advertising and pimping out my mind for a few minority sitcoms which have been manufactured for some nice, inoffensive, mindless, thoughtless fun. American TV makes me feel like I dropped my brain in used motor oil.
I like a lot of Anime, just because of little things, like the fact that there is true sacrifice, the dead stay dead, when they do die it is sometimes senseless and meaningless, and people don't let morals get in the way of revenge. Somehow, it represents reality better than this "well let's share the pie, then we can both have some" garbage I keep seeing on TV produced here. Even movies have the same problem.
The best non-anime TV show I've found for this is the starship troopers show. So far, one man is dead, another has changed beyond recognition, and a third has been paralyzed by a door closing on his torso.
Please don't lambaste me for watching kids shows -- I'd just rather not watch CNN, and their "news" on how America has been attacked.:)
Besides, hardware configuration stopped being an issue under Linux very recently. The last time I had to configure something manually was RedHat 6.0. Ever since RedHat 6.2, the Kudzu(spelling on that? I rarely invoke it manually) program run at bootup would detect any hardware changes. Makes swapping IDE devices, PCI devices, and even ISA PnP devices very easy -- just boot up. Puts the Windows "Windows requires that you touch your nose three times, stand on your head, and insert the disk labelled "I downloaded this off the internet" to continue." device installation to shame.
Remember, in a place like a school, with a bunch of bored kids, there will be a sysadmin ready to fix any problems which arise from the kids antics("I put my comb in the floppy drive, now it's stuck in there!"). Sticking a boot disk into a drive to install Linux over FTP or NFS is a piece of cake(assuming the floppy drive works:)).
In schools? I find that many schools are very strict about ensuring that their licensing is up to date, and I'm certain that any school would buy the corporate version which doesn't have product activation.
We're using RedHat 7.1 to host webpages here, which has saved quite a bit against the cost of a copy of W2k Pro. Also, if we weren't running Linux, our aging IBM server (60 MHZ, 64 MB of ram) would need to be replaced.
In addition to that, we use Linux in our Cisco networking academies classroom because we can't get any of the software we would need under NT (no doubt it exists, but it would be hard to find, possibly expensive, and likely non-standard). We can use the free FTP, TFTP, and HTTP servers on paticularly ancient PCs(one of our more powerful machines is a 75 Mhz machine with two gigs of SCSI drive!) without the hassles of running Windows (windows will now reboot...).
There was a plan a few years ago to turn the ancient machines on the network into X clients, for which they would be quick, but they are now sluggish W2K machines.
Besides, the numbers will lie. I use Linux and BeOS at work, and I use Windows at home because of technical reasons (winmodem in a laptop....). I also use Linux at home, but as a part of my stereo, not as an internet PC(an old p200 with a decent CD-ROM drive makes for a terrific MP3 and CD player, and I can access it remotely through either telnet or an X-server -- p200s are quiet!) so every one of these OS's will hit the logs. Not to mention Atheos and QNX, which I tried recently, and I even log in using Arachne in DOS sometimes.
The point of all this? I forgot. I think it had something to do with misleading web logs.:)
They won't be on for long...A grown man who is rolling around on training wheels will either break them when he leans to the side, or get his ass kicked/becomes the laughing stock of the town when somebody sees a grown man with training wheels on his bike, causing you to take them off.:)
Consoles ALWAYS get the strange new ideas. Jet Set Radio, Dance Dance Revolution, Fantavision, Chu-Chu Rocket, Vib Ribbon, Super Monkey Ball... the list could go on FOREVER. PC games are almost NEVER innovative. They constantly release the SAME GAME over and over with prettier graphics and maybe a few new features, but they're still the same damn game.
You're looking in the wrong place. The great thing about the PC is all the games made by individual people and small companies. I'd recommend you look at Elastomania, uplink, last call, or any of a slew of independently produced games created each year.Independant developers are what make the PC great, not the id Softwares(though they once were small shareware developers) and Hasbros of the world.
Darness Etheral and Master Creating are a good example of independant developers, and they have both produced freeware (actually, Darkness Etheral still does). Look them up on google...that should save them from being slashdotted:).
A lot of truly cool or innovative games which have come out for PC wouldn't have been able to come out for consoles. I don't know about you, but I don't have a publisher or (double x) amount of money to buy the development kit just to play around with.
If you listen to Microsoft hype, that's an advantage of the X-Box. Do you realize that a lot of X-Box games are just PC games? Microsoft took a look at the most anticipated PC Games of 2000, and bought those developers out. I had a feeling a year ago that the way Microsoft was buying out developers was going to be unhealthy for PC games, I had no idea how bad the situation was going to be. I believe that Microsoft owns the rights to Mechwarrior now. MECHWARRIOR! I'll never see another installment on PC again if the X-Box takes off!:(
I honestly think that the X-Box has no chance though. Despite the marketing campaigns, the PS2 has games right now that make anything on the X-Box look just plain bad (GTA3...Are they developing that for PC? I loved GTA and GTA2! I STILL play them!), and the Gamecube has the potential(possibly 6 months from now, but I tend to rate Nintendo by the success of the n64, which I consider to be merely fringe considering how excited they had everybody when it first came out, so I wouldn't bet my paycheck on it) to make a few games which blow everything out of the water, but I really wish they'd give their old franchises a rest -- how many mario games can you get before you want to shoot the fat bastard?:)
Back to my original point, just remember that an X-Box is just a PC with some non-standard parts installed to break compatibility(in grand MS tradition), probably meant to start to wean users off the PC architecture (and out of the threat of linux), and as such, the platform is already mature. Unlike the PS2 or gamecube, the X-Box is already showing games which represent a maturity level of a few years. This may prove dangerous for them, since their peak may be reached too early. After all, X86 games have existed for the past 15 years, and Geforce enhanced games have existed for at least a couple, so there isn't as much potential for growth as in a completely new architecture, which Nintendo and Sony generally produce.
Download WindowBlinds for her. That makes my PC look cool. I personally hate XP because it just proves once again that MS wants to be the only distributor of software, free or for cost. Did they really have any reason to clone ICQ? Windowblinds? CD burning software? Microsoft will only create a piece of software after another company has taken the risk and created a market for it. Pisses me right off. Slimy bastards, those people at Microsoft...
I found the XP skins to be really shitty. There's no two ways around it. I enjoy a clean, useable interface which XP doesn't give. I am startled to realize that I've been using the mac skin for over a month now... double click to roll it into a window, right click to minimize...
They did produce some of the final fantasies for the PC...I know it's not a console, but then, you really couldn't fit FF7 onto an n64 cart, could you?
Redmond SomeState -- AP
Microsoft has released a patch to address fires in console systems. Bill Gates, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft had this to say; "We are writing this patch to give back to the community. We're not getting paid for these patches, but we at Microsoft feel that we must protect our customers from hackers, who altered the source code to cause console systems to combust.". Console users can breathe a sigh of relief that their systems are safe from hackers, and can thank Microsoft for speedy resolution of this problem.
I always thought that an ultra portable 386 could be a great machine. tons of apps, emulation for a few decent systems, and I'm sure with current tech we could get it into a wallet sized package.:)
Why not? I'd love a portable nes, gameboy, sega, c64, trs-80, COCO(3), and whatever else I could get my hands on in one little package.
"to" wasn't the last word of the article, the real last word was filtered by the Slashcode obscenity filter. You'll have to use your imagination to figure out what it's nice to do to the intro.
Why didn't the Slashdot stupidity filter stop somebody from modding this up as "informative"?
Oh wait. There is no stupidity filter...is there...
I'm not saying that the post doesn't deserve to be modded up, I found it sort of funny, but to mark it as informative is sort of stupid. I might even say that it's obscenely stupid.
It might be a good idea to place the name of a person who mods a message a certain way into the footer of a message when it's brought up (like how it shows induvidual moderations now), because then the people who mod that way will at least be mocked and ridiculed...:)
OT? Depends. It's not like I'm talking about my own board on slashdot, or slashdot there...
I assure you that your UT skillz have no real bearing on your sniper skills in the real world. Shooting a gun and clicking on a picture that happens to look like a person are two different things entirely.
But I'm highly overprotective of the games industry, since it's become the new chew toy for scapegoat seeking arseholes.
I thought I was the only one who noticed how insane they were about the violence aspect.
paraphrased: "This action figure promotes watching a violent TV show!"
"This action figure comes from a violent movie!"
"This toy has a reference to a 'T' rated video game on the cover!"
Really. I'd hate to live in their little world where nothing can touch you. A little bit of risk, a little bit of violence, a little bit of anger, never hurt anybody in the long run.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, if you can get enough of the sheeple in the U.S. to read this post, mabye some of them will begin to give a damn. And about the election thing, I wouldn't be suprised if it was fixed for Florida. (governor of Florida is Dubya's brother)
Unfortunately, I know about most of the crap which floated around that election. There were a lot of Americans who were seperated by their little political parties (Oh look! My guy won! Who cares if the democratic process was thwared? My guy won!!!) when something very sinister was going on, the subersion of the will of the people.
You americans should be sick of your governments behaviour. Lying? Urging the people not to question their government? Regular people being harrased for just that thing by the Secret Service and FBI? You my freinds are living in a totalinarian police state. Enjoy living in 1984 for the rest of your life. Personally, I never cared for being forced by the government to think their way and being threatened by a federal agency to do so or "you are in line with the terrorists", but I'm in a country which is still required by law to allow it's people to question government. I'm in a country where satire against the government(and corporations) is still allowed. I'm in a country where the person who gets the most votes in an election is the winner. In short, I don't live in the USA.
Why not use QNX instead? The 1.44 meg demo has a helluva lot of stuff in there, and you don't have to use text mode (is vesa svga very power consuming?)
That's get.qnx.com
I wasn't aware of that drastic difference in price. I see how that could piss off a lot of support staff, since rarely is every single PC in a school exactly the same.
On the other hand, I'm really hoping that XP isn't adopted by schools. Windows 2000 is fine(as far as windows goes...), and doesn't need the extra horsepower for the useless interface.
the machines have hard drives which can contain a kernel and a small ramdisk image setup to remotly mount an NFS root partition
:)
:)
The Idea would be that there's either nothing or Windows on the PC if it needs to have linux installed.
The EEPROM thing may be true, but it's another thing which would be more a hassle than it's worth. Why preformat hard drives, or buy 200 EEPROM chips just to install linux when you could just use two floppy disks?
I feel bad if I waste a night watching TV. At least when I play a game, I'm doing something interactive, keeping the old grey matter functioning, and I'm having fun at the same time. If I watch TV, I'm just getting injected by my daily dose of advertising and pimping out my mind for a few minority sitcoms which have been manufactured for some nice, inoffensive, mindless, thoughtless fun. American TV makes me feel like I dropped my brain in used motor oil.
:)
I like a lot of Anime, just because of little things, like the fact that there is true sacrifice, the dead stay dead, when they do die it is sometimes senseless and meaningless, and people don't let morals get in the way of revenge. Somehow, it represents reality better than this "well let's share the pie, then we can both have some" garbage I keep seeing on TV produced here. Even movies have the same problem.
The best non-anime TV show I've found for this is the starship troopers show. So far, one man is dead, another has changed beyond recognition, and a third has been paralyzed by a door closing on his torso.
Please don't lambaste me for watching kids shows -- I'd just rather not watch CNN, and their "news" on how America has been attacked.
I thought I mentioned that it would install from an anonymous FTP server or an NFS partition.
Also, a lot of schools are using *old* PCs. Think Early pentiums. No booting off of the CD-Rom, let alone over the network.
perhaps, but the program being easy to pirate is irrelevant.
That's what school sysadmins are for.
:)).
Besides, hardware configuration stopped being an issue under Linux very recently. The last time I had to configure something manually was RedHat 6.0. Ever since RedHat 6.2, the Kudzu(spelling on that? I rarely invoke it manually) program run at bootup would detect any hardware changes. Makes swapping IDE devices, PCI devices, and even ISA PnP devices very easy -- just boot up. Puts the Windows "Windows requires that you touch your nose three times, stand on your head, and insert the disk labelled "I downloaded this off the internet" to continue." device installation to shame.
Remember, in a place like a school, with a bunch of bored kids, there will be a sysadmin ready to fix any problems which arise from the kids antics("I put my comb in the floppy drive, now it's stuck in there!"). Sticking a boot disk into a drive to install Linux over FTP or NFS is a piece of cake(assuming the floppy drive works
In schools? I find that many schools are very strict about ensuring that their licensing is up to date, and I'm certain that any school would buy the corporate version which doesn't have product activation.
We're using RedHat 7.1 to host webpages here, which has saved quite a bit against the cost of a copy of W2k Pro. Also, if we weren't running Linux, our aging IBM server (60 MHZ, 64 MB of ram) would need to be replaced.
In addition to that, we use Linux in our Cisco networking academies classroom because we can't get any of the software we would need under NT (no doubt it exists, but it would be hard to find, possibly expensive, and likely non-standard). We can use the free FTP, TFTP, and HTTP servers on paticularly ancient PCs(one of our more powerful machines is a 75 Mhz machine with two gigs of SCSI drive!) without the hassles of running Windows (windows will now reboot...).
There was a plan a few years ago to turn the ancient machines on the network into X clients, for which they would be quick, but they are now sluggish W2K machines.
Opera pretends to be IE5, doesn't it?
:)
Besides, the numbers will lie. I use Linux and BeOS at work, and I use Windows at home because of technical reasons (winmodem in a laptop....). I also use Linux at home, but as a part of my stereo, not as an internet PC(an old p200 with a decent CD-ROM drive makes for a terrific MP3 and CD player, and I can access it remotely through either telnet or an X-server -- p200s are quiet!) so every one of these OS's will hit the logs. Not to mention Atheos and QNX, which I tried recently, and I even log in using Arachne in DOS sometimes.
The point of all this? I forgot. I think it had something to do with misleading web logs.
They won't be on for long...A grown man who is rolling around on training wheels will either break them when he leans to the side, or get his ass kicked/becomes the laughing stock of the town when somebody sees a grown man with training wheels on his bike, causing you to take them off. :)
Maybe you'll just buy a car?
Consoles ALWAYS get the strange new ideas. Jet Set Radio, Dance Dance Revolution, Fantavision, Chu-Chu Rocket, Vib Ribbon, Super Monkey Ball... the list could go on FOREVER. PC games are almost NEVER innovative. They constantly release the SAME GAME over and over with prettier graphics and maybe a few new features, but they're still the same damn game.
:).
You're looking in the wrong place. The great thing about the PC is all the games made by individual people and small companies. I'd recommend you look at Elastomania, uplink, last call, or any of a slew of independently produced games created each year.Independant developers are what make the PC great, not the id Softwares(though they once were small shareware developers) and Hasbros of the world.
Darness Etheral and Master Creating are a good example of independant developers, and they have both produced freeware (actually, Darkness Etheral still does). Look them up on google...that should save them from being slashdotted
A lot of truly cool or innovative games which have come out for PC wouldn't have been able to come out for consoles. I don't know about you, but I don't have a publisher or (double x) amount of money to buy the development kit just to play around with.
If you listen to Microsoft hype, that's an advantage of the X-Box. Do you realize that a lot of X-Box games are just PC games? Microsoft took a look at the most anticipated PC Games of 2000, and bought those developers out. I had a feeling a year ago that the way Microsoft was buying out developers was going to be unhealthy for PC games, I had no idea how bad the situation was going to be. I believe that Microsoft owns the rights to Mechwarrior now. MECHWARRIOR! I'll never see another installment on PC again if the X-Box takes off! :(
:)
I honestly think that the X-Box has no chance though. Despite the marketing campaigns, the PS2 has games right now that make anything on the X-Box look just plain bad (GTA3...Are they developing that for PC? I loved GTA and GTA2! I STILL play them!), and the Gamecube has the potential(possibly 6 months from now, but I tend to rate Nintendo by the success of the n64, which I consider to be merely fringe considering how excited they had everybody when it first came out, so I wouldn't bet my paycheck on it) to make a few games which blow everything out of the water, but I really wish they'd give their old franchises a rest -- how many mario games can you get before you want to shoot the fat bastard?
Back to my original point, just remember that an X-Box is just a PC with some non-standard parts installed to break compatibility(in grand MS tradition), probably meant to start to wean users off the PC architecture (and out of the threat of linux), and as such, the platform is already mature. Unlike the PS2 or gamecube, the X-Box is already showing games which represent a maturity level of a few years. This may prove dangerous for them, since their peak may be reached too early. After all, X86 games have existed for the past 15 years, and Geforce enhanced games have existed for at least a couple, so there isn't as much potential for growth as in a completely new architecture, which Nintendo and Sony generally produce.
Download WindowBlinds for her. That makes my PC look cool. I personally hate XP because it just proves once again that MS wants to be the only distributor of software, free or for cost. Did they really have any reason to clone ICQ? Windowblinds? CD burning software? Microsoft will only create a piece of software after another company has taken the risk and created a market for it. Pisses me right off. Slimy bastards, those people at Microsoft...
I found the XP skins to be really shitty. There's no two ways around it. I enjoy a clean, useable interface which XP doesn't give. I am startled to realize that I've been using the mac skin for over a month now... double click to roll it into a window, right click to minimize...
They did produce some of the final fantasies for the PC...I know it's not a console, but then, you really couldn't fit FF7 onto an n64 cart, could you?
Redmond SomeState -- AP
Microsoft has released a patch to address fires in console systems. Bill Gates, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft had this to say; "We are writing this patch to give back to the community. We're not getting paid for these patches, but we at Microsoft feel that we must protect our customers from hackers, who altered the source code to cause console systems to combust.". Console users can breathe a sigh of relief that their systems are safe from hackers, and can thank Microsoft for speedy resolution of this problem.
Just means it's a popular joke. Is it my fault that Austin Powers is a popular movie?
I call it...The death star.
I always thought that an ultra portable 386 could be a great machine. tons of apps, emulation for a few decent systems, and I'm sure with current tech we could get it into a wallet sized package. :)
Why not? I'd love a portable nes, gameboy, sega, c64, trs-80, COCO(3), and whatever else I could get my hands on in one little package.
Last word of the article should be "...nice too."
:)
"to" wasn't the last word of the article, the real last word was filtered by the Slashcode obscenity filter. You'll have to use your imagination to figure out what it's nice to do to the intro.
Why didn't the Slashdot stupidity filter stop somebody from modding this up as "informative"?
Oh wait. There is no stupidity filter...is there...
I'm not saying that the post doesn't deserve to be modded up, I found it sort of funny, but to mark it as informative is sort of stupid. I might even say that it's obscenely stupid.
It might be a good idea to place the name of a person who mods a message a certain way into the footer of a message when it's brought up (like how it shows induvidual moderations now), because then the people who mod that way will at least be mocked and ridiculed...
OT? Depends. It's not like I'm talking about my own board on slashdot, or slashdot there...
I assure you that your UT skillz have no real bearing on your sniper skills in the real world. Shooting a gun and clicking on a picture that happens to look like a person are two different things entirely.
But I'm highly overprotective of the games industry, since it's become the new chew toy for scapegoat seeking arseholes.
I thought I was the only one who noticed how insane they were about the violence aspect.
paraphrased: "This action figure promotes watching a violent TV show!"
"This action figure comes from a violent movie!"
"This toy has a reference to a 'T' rated video game on the cover!"
Really. I'd hate to live in their little world where nothing can touch you. A little bit of risk, a little bit of violence, a little bit of anger, never hurt anybody in the long run.
You are a clueless fucking idiot if you think people are stupid enough to pay $329 for your shit!!!
or are you a clueless fucking idiot for deciding not to finish reading the post?