But you have it available to you (as do I, but I don't use it, I use celphones). The quote said 6.2% of people in the US don't have phone service available to them. The number of people without phone service is likely quite higher with people moving to cellphones or cable phone service.
It's hard to say if one's better than another. Everyone seems to have a pretty firm opinion one way or another. But the 2k series has generally garnered better ratings. And a $20 game being such a good deal was a kick in the teeth. I think it's a great move for EA and shortsighted for NFL. Myself, I can't stand Madden. 2k was the game that got me interested in football in general, and I can pass on Madden games.
Most conservatives the the NYTimes as a liberal rag, though I do know quite a few republicans who read it regularly. But trust me, there's no love of the Times from the other side either. For the last few years the Times has been the mouthpiece for who is in power. Their reporters may be liberal, who cares, it's irrelevant. The editors, and the publishers are conservative, and there is a bias about what stories get in, and what gets chopped. And the Times lost a lot of credibility for banging the drum for the Administration for the last few years, and that horrible woman Judith Miller.
The FCC's mandate is to stick up for the public (by extension they stick up for everyone, including yes the little guys who can't afford access to those in power). In reality the FCC sticks up for the big guys, and 'sticks up' the little guys.
Abolishing them is probably exactly what the FCC wants. The FCC is a regulatory agency headed by people who don't believe in regulation, and preach that their laissez-faire, neo-liberal market idealogy version of capitalism will promote kindler gentler companies who care about people.
I'm not sure how much more secure OSX is than XP. It probably is. But more than that OSX by default *runs* more securely. It is much more vigilant about getting its users to update once a week to critical updates. Every week selfupdate runs and tells me what patches I need to install, and asks me if I'd like to do so. That's by default, I don't think XP is like that unless the vendor you purchased it from configed it differently.
Both of my parents have done some programming (and they're rapidly approaching sixty), or are programmers. My dad did some Qbasic and other simple programming languages, as well as html (I know, not programming, but he learned it to make his own site), and he started back in the early eighties from working in a bank and having to pick up some knowledge. My mother on the other hand, learned a lot later. She started picking it up about 8 years ago. She started on html. Later she picked up VBscript, Javascript, VB, asp, css, Coldfusion, and a few others. They're not low level programming languages and I know she wishes she knew C++ or Java, but she's been quite adept at learning them and does a lot of contracting work that sends her all over the country and to Europe. She was originally a graphic designer, but found that didn't pay anything.
On the other hand, she knows next to nothing about hardware, security, networking or anything like that. That's been a bit of a hindrance for her since on most jobs in these areas they think that if you know how to program, you should automatically know how to be a network admin and hardware guru. She designs a lot of websites because she also knows things like Flash and Dreamweaver. I would say a good place to start is with an easy scripting language like javascript or VBscript. Perhaps the easiest way to learn something, for her at least, has been to have a practical use for it. She'd learn it basically out of necessity to get a decent job. Same thing with one of my aunt, she's always worked in retail, but now she does work in 3d Studio Max.
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The similarities don't escape me, but neither do the two zeros.
Is it just me, or is Sci-Fi really letting this slip under the radar. I've been watching the Sci-Fi channel, and really haven't noticed any promotion of this at all. Maybe they should try some flashy campaign with lots of explosions, cg graphics, hot chicks, and some ridiculous lines repeated over and over. But I don't know, I just don't see this thing panning out with this little promotion. Who knows, it could be a sleeper hit.
The idea is not to save fossil fuels or even reduce pollution, it's to move that pollution someplace else. To move it from places people live like L.A. to someplace where people don't live, like Alaska so a bunch of moose can choke on our pollution. Out of sight, out of mind. Efficiency wise, we probably lose a lot of energy this way, and will take more petrochemicals per mile. Nobody ever said it was a smart idea.
Kind of missing the point. He's wishing whoever grabbed it at least left a shred of the company. Oracle has no use for Peoplesoft other than to kill off a competitor. Net increase of this takeover = less competition + less wealth. The only people that'll win are some spineless shareholders.
Personally I doubt it. Star Wars peaked during the first trilogy, and went downhill with the next one. The Matrix peaked with the first movie, and went far downhill on the next one.
Personally, I like to think of the Matrix movies so far as similar to 2001, and 2010. The first one was a blockbuster, and really important sci-fi movie in each case. The second one was a massive bore that nobody remmbers ten minutes out of the theater.
Buffy is primarily camp. It pokes fun at itself, and is always keenly aware of it's deficiencies and detachment from reality. Something that's been missing from sci-fi since the original Star Trek and Batman series. If you think they're just a bunch of Gen X, whiners, you're missing the point.
And, despite it's large size, the Dell doesn't have USB 2.0 or Firewire, not to mention that the Lindows one has both.
Okay, the Dell is moderately faster. But it's not as flexible, nor is it a 'subnotebook' (I don't know why they call it subnotebook, makes you think they're targetting it for subhumans).
Taste some New Orleans coffee with chicory in it, that's how coffee's supposed to be. Not some pansy-assified Seattle hot chocolate.
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It sure is getting a lot of attention here on/.
And what's the problem? I thought you guys looooved the Matrix.
And drop the crazy-ass attitude. Football fans come in every different flavor and political idealogy. It's a friggin game. Rather than dividing people, it often has united them (witness Richard Nixon and Hunter S. Thompson).
That's hilarious, especially the logo at the bottom.
Heh, in my town, we don't even have sidewalks, let alone 'bike lanes'. If you're a pedestrian or a cyclist, you're SOL.
He did get one thing wrong though. The Segway is supposed to be able to follow you up stairs. You don't actually carry it. I don't know how fast this is, but it's got to be more convenient than carrying one up.
Wal-Mart's policy for games is pretty much case by case. They sell plenty of M-rated games. A little tip for video game companies, violence good, nudity bad.
Right now I'm travelling, but I brought a couple of my games with me. Of the five, four are rated M (SOCOM, Devil May Cry, GTA3 and GTA:VC), M-rated games are more prevalent than people think, it's not just BMX XXX and GTA. You can buy any of those games at Wally World, and I've boughten a few of them from there.
Of course, movies don't face anywhere near that scrutiny. The Sopranoes (a great series), is much more violent than anything sold at Wally World that is locked behind a glass window.
I know Neal Stephenson's already been mentioned. While he's famous for his cyberpunk titles (Snow Crash, Diamond Age), I think his best work was Zodiac. Set in 80s Boston. It's sort of like Edward Abbey (which most Slashdotters would enjoy, even if it looks a bit Ludditeish at first glance), and I really wish he would do more in that vein.
Interestingly, Zodiac was also Stephenson's shortest work. I've always believe that when books get longer than 250 pages that just means the writer needs an editor. Same goes with music. Which is why punk is so damn good.
Never cared much for Gnu-Darwin. And if you ask the people on the #fink channel, don't expect many positive views about Gnu-Darwin. Fink keeps everything nicely in one place (excepting X), and doesn't really change the underlying system. Gnu-Darwin's approach is to change the underlying system to meet their needs, it may have allowed them to have much more software in the beginning (Fink's software support is improving, and of course it's less terse for us Mac users). Most unfortunately, you can't have both (unless you just want to install binaries with Fink), as Gnu-Darwin breaks Fink.
Bummer they've decided to go though, simply because of a quasi-religious motivation. But honestly, I don't think many are seriously going to miss it.
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But you have it available to you (as do I, but I don't use it, I use celphones). The quote said 6.2% of people in the US don't have phone service available to them. The number of people without phone service is likely quite higher with people moving to cellphones or cable phone service.
It's spelled bayou.
Welcome to a 3rd grade reading level.
It's hard to say if one's better than another. Everyone seems to have a pretty firm opinion one way or another. But the 2k series has generally garnered better ratings. And a $20 game being such a good deal was a kick in the teeth. I think it's a great move for EA and shortsighted for NFL. Myself, I can't stand Madden. 2k was the game that got me interested in football in general, and I can pass on Madden games.
Well Iran and Tony Blair endorse Bush.
Although Stewart leans left, he attacked political shows and begged them
Shouldn't that be Because?
Most conservatives the the NYTimes as a liberal rag, though I do know quite a few republicans who read it regularly. But trust me, there's no love of the Times from the other side either. For the last few years the Times has been the mouthpiece for who is in power. Their reporters may be liberal, who cares, it's irrelevant. The editors, and the publishers are conservative, and there is a bias about what stories get in, and what gets chopped. And the Times lost a lot of credibility for banging the drum for the Administration for the last few years, and that horrible woman Judith Miller.
The FCC's mandate is to stick up for the public (by extension they stick up for everyone, including yes the little guys who can't afford access to those in power). In reality the FCC sticks up for the big guys, and 'sticks up' the little guys.
Abolishing them is probably exactly what the FCC wants. The FCC is a regulatory agency headed by people who don't believe in regulation, and preach that their laissez-faire, neo-liberal market idealogy version of capitalism will promote kindler gentler companies who care about people.
I'm not sure how much more secure OSX is than XP. It probably is. But more than that OSX by default *runs* more securely. It is much more vigilant about getting its users to update once a week to critical updates. Every week selfupdate runs and tells me what patches I need to install, and asks me if I'd like to do so. That's by default, I don't think XP is like that unless the vendor you purchased it from configed it differently.
Both of my parents have done some programming (and they're rapidly approaching sixty), or are programmers. My dad did some Qbasic and other simple programming languages, as well as html (I know, not programming, but he learned it to make his own site), and he started back in the early eighties from working in a bank and having to pick up some knowledge. My mother on the other hand, learned a lot later. She started picking it up about 8 years ago. She started on html. Later she picked up VBscript, Javascript, VB, asp, css, Coldfusion, and a few others. They're not low level programming languages and I know she wishes she knew C++ or Java, but she's been quite adept at learning them and does a lot of contracting work that sends her all over the country and to Europe. She was originally a graphic designer, but found that didn't pay anything.
On the other hand, she knows next to nothing about hardware, security, networking or anything like that. That's been a bit of a hindrance for her since on most jobs in these areas they think that if you know how to program, you should automatically know how to be a network admin and hardware guru. She designs a lot of websites because she also knows things like Flash and Dreamweaver. I would say a good place to start is with an easy scripting language like javascript or VBscript. Perhaps the easiest way to learn something, for her at least, has been to have a practical use for it. She'd learn it basically out of necessity to get a decent job. Same thing with one of my aunt, she's always worked in retail, but now she does work in 3d Studio Max.
The similarities don't escape me, but neither do the two zeros.
Is it just me, or is Sci-Fi really letting this slip under the radar. I've been watching the Sci-Fi channel, and really haven't noticed any promotion of this at all. Maybe they should try some flashy campaign with lots of explosions, cg graphics, hot chicks, and some ridiculous lines repeated over and over. But I don't know, I just don't see this thing panning out with this little promotion. Who knows, it could be a sleeper hit.
The idea is not to save fossil fuels or even reduce pollution, it's to move that pollution someplace else. To move it from places people live like L.A. to someplace where people don't live, like Alaska so a bunch of moose can choke on our pollution. Out of sight, out of mind. Efficiency wise, we probably lose a lot of energy this way, and will take more petrochemicals per mile. Nobody ever said it was a smart idea.
Kind of missing the point. He's wishing whoever grabbed it at least left a shred of the company. Oracle has no use for Peoplesoft other than to kill off a competitor. Net increase of this takeover = less competition + less wealth. The only people that'll win are some spineless shareholders.
Personally I doubt it. Star Wars peaked during the first trilogy, and went downhill with the next one. The Matrix peaked with the first movie, and went far downhill on the next one.
Personally, I like to think of the Matrix movies so far as similar to 2001, and 2010. The first one was a blockbuster, and really important sci-fi movie in each case. The second one was a massive bore that nobody remmbers ten minutes out of the theater.
I think the /. admin noticed that everyone put Katz stories on their do-not-see list.
Buffy is primarily camp. It pokes fun at itself, and is always keenly aware of it's deficiencies and detachment from reality. Something that's been missing from sci-fi since the original Star Trek and Batman series. If you think they're just a bunch of Gen X, whiners, you're missing the point.
And, despite it's large size, the Dell doesn't have USB 2.0 or Firewire, not to mention that the Lindows one has both.
Okay, the Dell is moderately faster. But it's not as flexible, nor is it a 'subnotebook' (I don't know why they call it subnotebook, makes you think they're targetting it for subhumans).
Actually, no, Opera has almost no marketshare in OSX. it's either IE, Safari, Chimera and Mozilla. Opera is a very distant fifth on OSX.
Taste some New Orleans coffee with chicory in it, that's how coffee's supposed to be. Not some pansy-assified Seattle hot chocolate.
It sure is getting a lot of attention here on /.
And what's the problem? I thought you guys looooved the Matrix.
And drop the crazy-ass attitude. Football fans come in every different flavor and political idealogy. It's a friggin game. Rather than dividing people, it often has united them (witness Richard Nixon and Hunter S. Thompson).
That's hilarious, especially the logo at the bottom.
Heh, in my town, we don't even have sidewalks, let alone 'bike lanes'. If you're a pedestrian or a cyclist, you're SOL.
He did get one thing wrong though. The Segway is supposed to be able to follow you up stairs. You don't actually carry it. I don't know how fast this is, but it's got to be more convenient than carrying one up.
Wal-Mart's policy for games is pretty much case by case. They sell plenty of M-rated games. A little tip for video game companies, violence good, nudity bad.
Right now I'm travelling, but I brought a couple of my games with me. Of the five, four are rated M (SOCOM, Devil May Cry, GTA3 and GTA:VC), M-rated games are more prevalent than people think, it's not just BMX XXX and GTA. You can buy any of those games at Wally World, and I've boughten a few of them from there.
Of course, movies don't face anywhere near that scrutiny. The Sopranoes (a great series), is much more violent than anything sold at Wally World that is locked behind a glass window.
I know Neal Stephenson's already been mentioned. While he's famous for his cyberpunk titles (Snow Crash, Diamond Age), I think his best work was Zodiac. Set in 80s Boston. It's sort of like Edward Abbey (which most Slashdotters would enjoy, even if it looks a bit Ludditeish at first glance), and I really wish he would do more in that vein.
Interestingly, Zodiac was also Stephenson's shortest work. I've always believe that when books get longer than 250 pages that just means the writer needs an editor. Same goes with music. Which is why punk is so damn good.
Never cared much for Gnu-Darwin. And if you ask the people on the #fink channel, don't expect many positive views about Gnu-Darwin. Fink keeps everything nicely in one place (excepting X), and doesn't really change the underlying system. Gnu-Darwin's approach is to change the underlying system to meet their needs, it may have allowed them to have much more software in the beginning (Fink's software support is improving, and of course it's less terse for us Mac users). Most unfortunately, you can't have both (unless you just want to install binaries with Fink), as Gnu-Darwin breaks Fink.
Bummer they've decided to go though, simply because of a quasi-religious motivation. But honestly, I don't think many are seriously going to miss it.
You're right, a 5 year old computer should be able to run Unreal Tournament and WindowsXP, because dagnabbit, it could do that 5 years ago.
Wait, you mean it couldn't? But it can still do everything it did 5 years ago? So what's the problem?