>All the yong-uns will be saying "There was not >Windows 2.1~!~, ah youung grasshoppers, there >was, RGB in all it's glory. Wow. I vaguely remember playing with 2.0 on this weird little 8088 sitting derelict in a lab one time. Not terribly useful, but that's no suprise. I never knew that they made a 2.1, I always thought they went straight to 3.0.
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Ah. In that case, I agree with you.
Well, except for the fact that there are some people I know who I would prefer to cut off all contact to altogether... If by some miracle that a certain psycho catholic nun known to my family as Great Aunt Mary is reading/., I'm referring to you.
Nothing against nuns or catholics in general, it's just that she's a complete nut.
This is amazing! Did you know that when you do something, you're not doing something else?!?! Whoa! I mean, I was always under the impression that people just created time out of thin air! This study just floors me! Wow. Maybe I should get back to drinking in a bar somewhere, rather than working on my class assignments for Intro to AI. Clueless drips.
1. I vote that Jon plays the part of Barry. For some reason, it just feels right.
2. No.
Now, what I'd like to see is Earthworm Jim cameos in the movie. Hehehehe... I'm getting images of Jim and Barry holding a cackling contest, and Peter and Arthur getting smashed out of their minds, moaning over their mutual problems in a bar somewhere. Musn't forget the catfight between American Maid and Princess Whatshername.
Most/.'ers are sheep, blindly following the crowd, but not you. You have guts. You have so much guts, you could floss King Ghidora's teeth. I applaud you.
When I said free, I meant available to any idiot with the mental capability to use a keyboard and mouse, not free as in legally and/or morally free. I really, really hate English. But I digress.
I know full well that those in power will trample over those not in power. Yes, it's gonna be nasty, and yes, it shouldn't happen. The problem is, the RIAA and related groups are no longer in power when it comes to the mass distribution of music. They *are*, however, in power when it comes to the mass production of music, and more importantly, the courts. Therein lies the problem. The RIAA feels cornered, trapped, and scared, and is lashing out at convenient targets.
The situation with DVD is a little bit different. DVD movies are just a *tad* too big to download, and DVD movies can't be copied on your average PC, so the movie distributors still have more control over their products. Yes, I know that DVD-RAM burners exist, but they're a different animal altogether. The MPAA is scared that it might end up in the same situation as the RIAA is now, so they're launching some preemptive strikes.
Now that I think about, I think you're arguing the same point as I am...
Think of Patlabor and how Alphonse was always such a stable and reliable mecha. Besides, I suspect a lot of us Linuxers feel the same about our computers as Noa did of Alphonse. Freaky but true.
Barring Alphonse, I vote "Bonaparte". Yeah, I think Leona's cute. So sue me.
>I never said MP3.com -did- own the MP3 format. >The RIAA does, and being counter-sued may end >that position. Abruptly.
(A pause as Glytch stiffles his laughter.) The RIAA *owns* the MP3 format? Gimme a break... You must be living under a rock. On Mars. With your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears.
Dude, no-one *really* owns MP3. I imagine someone, somewhere, has a patent on it, but the algorithms are free for the taking. If I were a competent coder, I could go and write myself an MP3 encoder, the RIAA be damned.
Besides, if the RIAA had the power to kill MP3s if they didn't like'em, they'd have done it a looooooooong time ago.
I don't know about Scully using a Mac. I see her more as a NT workstation person. Relatively mainstream computer user, with a need for common programs, but she's smart enough to see that 9x just doesn't cut it for real work.
Byers might use Solaris. He just seems the type. (Read into that what you will...)
Langely is definitely the Slackware type, but probably keeps a Win9x box kicking around to play a few games when he has time, and to watch DVDs. I can imagine him saying in a total dead-pan to the question about his computer's ventillation, "There is no case."
As for Frohike, you're dead-on. OpenBSD all the way for him. I don't think he even entirely trusts his two partners. He probably has some heavy-duty encryption on all his hard drives. I wouldn't be surprised if he had some daemons set to do Nasty Things to his friends' machines if his machines detected something hostile coming from them.
Here we go with the "When I was your age..." vein of sob stories. Cry me a fucking river. If you really feel that way, go back to Slackware 2.0, or Yggdrasil, or another old distribution.
While you're complaining about the "corruption" of Linux, I'll be happily writing C code for my programming assignments in Cooledit with it's nice syntax highlighting, writing reports and proposals in Maxwell, playing MP3s with XMMS, making some *damn* purty graphics with the Gimp, playing Quake, watching TV with XawTV, playing SNES games with snes9x, and eagerly awaiting news that I'm (hopefully) a beta tester for Corel Draw 9. It's called progress. Cope.
What'll you be doing?
Probably complaining about the influx of "EVIL CORPORATIONS!!!" and "clueless idiots". Here's an idea, buddy. Stop trolling.
I know it's a troll, but I've spent the last three minutes typing this and I really can't stand people who are really like that. Yeah, I'm venting.
By your logic, Windowmaker themes are really just skins. Not just Windowmaker, but almost every other WM besides E. Well, I suppose they are just skins, but I don't really care. It's just eyecandy. Sometimes eyecandy is nice. In something like an MP3 player, it's pretty harmless.
Besides, if you don't like a song in the XMMS playlist, click it and remove it from the list. Simple as that.
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>All the yong-uns will be saying "There was not
>Windows 2.1~!~, ah youung grasshoppers, there
>was, RGB in all it's glory.
Wow. I vaguely remember playing with 2.0 on this weird little 8088 sitting derelict in a lab one time. Not terribly useful, but that's no suprise. I never knew that they made a 2.1, I always thought they went straight to 3.0.
Ah. In that case, I agree with you.
/., I'm referring to you.
Well, except for the fact that there are some people I know who I would prefer to cut off all contact to altogether... If by some miracle that a certain psycho catholic nun known to my family as Great Aunt Mary is reading
Nothing against nuns or catholics in general, it's just that she's a complete nut.
>Ha! _I_ had 8088's and 386's in MY Highschool!
I had 8088's and 386's in my high school, and I'm only 19.
Oh, goddess, I feel so depressed. I want to go home and give my K6-2-400 Aptiva a great big hug.
Did it ever occur to you that this topic DOESN'T JUST CONCERN TECHIES? It pretty much concerns everyone who uses the Internet.
Anyway, ignore this lamer, Jon. It's nice to see you in the discussions with us.
>Yeah, but you're talking about using the net to
>enhance communications -- you use it when contact
>wouldn't be possible otherwise.
I'm sorry, but I don't see any difference. I probably have a different definition of "enhancement", though. What one do you use?
(Not a flame, a genuine question.)
Especially the part about the researcher's last name.
"A shrubbery?"
This is amazing! Did you know that when you do something, you're not doing something else?!?! Whoa! I mean, I was always under the impression that people just created time out of thin air! This study just floors me! Wow. Maybe I should get back to drinking in a bar somewhere, rather than working on my class assignments for Intro to AI. Clueless drips.
Y'know, at first I was dissapointed that my question, which was moderated at +4, Interesting, wasn't sent along.
Then I saw how long his answers were.
Now, I'm thanking several deities that I don't even believe in that they only sent the +5 questions over to Jon.
1. I vote that Jon plays the part of Barry. For some reason, it just feels right.
2. No.
Now, what I'd like to see is Earthworm Jim cameos in the movie. Hehehehe... I'm getting images of Jim and Barry holding a cackling contest, and Peter and Arthur getting smashed out of their minds, moaning over their mutual problems in a bar somewhere. Musn't forget the catfight between American Maid and Princess Whatshername.
>Gauss and Newton both get used quite a bit,
Well, I've never used a Newton, but a pair of Gauss rifles aimed at the enemy's legs are pretty useful.
Oh. Sorry, just played MW3 all day yesterday, and I'm still trying to work it out of my system...
Whew. I'd hate to think we were losing our edge.
Looks like Troll Day had a bigger impact than anyone suspected...
Even the Discordians?
Truce.
Most /.'ers are sheep, blindly following the crowd, but not you. You have guts. You have so much guts, you could floss King Ghidora's teeth. I applaud you.
/me likewise dons a nukesuit.
Oh, shut the fuck up.
As a side note, I think that more people should be moderators so that stuff like this can be more easily shoved out of mind.
Yeah, and they can quote great movies in lame flames too.
What, if any, Universities/Colleges/Technical schools have you attended? What did you study?
When I said free, I meant available to any idiot with the mental capability to use a keyboard and mouse, not free as in legally and/or morally free. I really, really hate English. But I digress.
I know full well that those in power will trample over those not in power. Yes, it's gonna be nasty, and yes, it shouldn't happen. The problem is, the RIAA and related groups are no longer in power when it comes to the mass distribution of music. They *are*, however, in power when it comes to the mass production of music, and more importantly, the courts. Therein lies the problem. The RIAA feels cornered, trapped, and scared, and is lashing out at convenient targets.
The situation with DVD is a little bit different. DVD movies are just a *tad* too big to download, and DVD movies can't be copied on your average PC, so the movie distributors still have more control over their products. Yes, I know that DVD-RAM burners exist, but they're a different animal altogether. The MPAA is scared that it might end up in the same situation as the RIAA is now, so they're launching some preemptive strikes.
Now that I think about, I think you're arguing the same point as I am...
Think of Patlabor and how Alphonse was always such a stable and reliable mecha. Besides, I suspect a lot of us Linuxers feel the same about our computers as Noa did of Alphonse. Freaky but true.
Barring Alphonse, I vote "Bonaparte". Yeah, I think Leona's cute. So sue me.
>I never said MP3.com -did- own the MP3 format.
>The RIAA does, and being counter-sued may end
>that position. Abruptly.
(A pause as Glytch stiffles his laughter.)
The RIAA *owns* the MP3 format? Gimme a break... You must be living under a rock. On Mars. With your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears.
Dude, no-one *really* owns MP3. I imagine someone, somewhere, has a patent on it, but the algorithms are free for the taking. If I were a competent coder, I could go and write myself an MP3 encoder, the RIAA be damned.
Besides, if the RIAA had the power to kill MP3s if they didn't like'em, they'd have done it a looooooooong time ago.
That was terrible.
...I wish I'd thought of that...
I don't know about Scully using a Mac. I see her more as a NT workstation person. Relatively mainstream computer user, with a need for common programs, but she's smart enough to see that 9x just doesn't cut it for real work.
Byers might use Solaris. He just seems the type. (Read into that what you will...)
Langely is definitely the Slackware type, but probably keeps a Win9x box kicking around to play a few games when he has time, and to watch DVDs. I can imagine him saying in a total dead-pan to the question about his computer's ventillation, "There is no case."
As for Frohike, you're dead-on. OpenBSD all the way for him. I don't think he even entirely trusts his two partners. He probably has some heavy-duty encryption on all his hard drives. I wouldn't be surprised if he had some daemons set to do Nasty Things to his friends' machines if his machines detected something hostile coming from them.
Here we go with the "When I was your age..." vein of sob stories. Cry me a fucking river. If you really feel that way, go back to Slackware 2.0, or Yggdrasil, or another old distribution.
While you're complaining about the "corruption" of Linux, I'll be happily writing C code for my programming assignments in Cooledit with it's nice syntax highlighting, writing reports and proposals in Maxwell, playing MP3s with XMMS, making some *damn* purty graphics with the Gimp, playing Quake, watching TV with XawTV, playing SNES games with snes9x, and eagerly awaiting news that I'm (hopefully) a beta tester for Corel Draw 9. It's called progress. Cope.
What'll you be doing?
Probably complaining about the influx of "EVIL CORPORATIONS!!!" and "clueless idiots". Here's an idea, buddy. Stop trolling.
I know it's a troll, but I've spent the last three minutes typing this and I really can't stand people who are really like that. Yeah, I'm venting.
By your logic, Windowmaker themes are really just skins. Not just Windowmaker, but almost every other WM besides E. Well, I suppose they are just skins, but I don't really care. It's just eyecandy. Sometimes eyecandy is nice. In something like an MP3 player, it's pretty harmless.
Besides, if you don't like a song in the XMMS playlist, click it and remove it from the list. Simple as that.