I bought an 8088 from a friend of mine in late '92 with a 1200 baud modem on it. All it was good for was calling boards, since it only had a 200M hard drive. This was the first computer I had besides my old Apple ][+ that was pretty useless. After becomming obsessed with the boards for abour 3 weeks, I talked my mom into getting me my own phone line for my birthday and I put up my own board, The TARDIS. I went by the Doctor. Once I realised I wasn't as big of a Dr. Who fan as I thought I was, I changed the BBS name to Peaceful Death (named after a Dead Horse song) and I later started using the alias DeadAir. The BBS was hacked a while later during a BBS hacker war and I put it back up under the name Fear and Loathing.
Loved it. The board was very popular until late '97 when the internet started pulling people away from the scene. I pulled the plug January 1 2000 after going almost 6 months with no calls except for network updates. I really miss it sometimes.
I think the problem with forking lies in that if you are using one system, say PHPNuke (circa 2000) and suddenly it splits into Postnuke, myPHPNuke, OOPS, and others, you are suddenly faced with choosing a fork. The end user is not privy to a lot of the spats and goings on behind the scenes, so they may not know which fork has the better coders or more loyal developers. I've seen this a bazillion times. Hopefully the forks work with each other enough so that transitions can be made between the two should users decide to switch forks.
I frequently make mix CDs for friends. I use CD-Rs to do this. And what do you know, I own probably 90% of the CDs I take the songs from. I may download one or two from Gnucleus - but these are mostly songs from albums I can't or wouldn't go out and buy anyway.
I think it's more like... "Ok you wrote a paper that got an A, and you want to sell it to people that want to read it. But someone who bought it is now giving it away"
Anyway, who the hell is giving Sheryl Crow an A? Puhlease.
Wow you're a fool. Reciting an essay to friends is one thing. Taking that essay, cutting and pasting and re-publishing it on another site as your own work is copyright infringment. You're making it sound like we can be able to go down to the library (a public place) pick up a magazine or book and republish a passage or entire article as your own.
I guess you're not in college - you obviously have never had to doucument your sources.
Yes, that's your opinion, but as we all know... opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one and some are full of shit.
I guess it's too late to get my obligatory mod points? Uhg, damn work. Curses, foiled again. Speaking of which, anyone see the previews for Scooby Doo? God it looks bad. It looks like "Dude Where's My Mystery Machine."
I'm sorry. We're all talking about the same Star Wars movies, right? Someone needs to let George know that regardless of whether or not the movie is projected via digital or analog means it's the -STORY- that we're all there for. Episode I could have been projected on the most state of the art screen, using tomorrow's technology today and it still would have been a boring, uninteresting and completely lifeless peiece of cinematic fluff.
Would Jar Jar have been less annoying if he had been projected digitally?
The "first" *three* movies were all done using models and matte paintings, and they captured the imagination of everyone that I know who saw them. It's been several years since I saw Episode I, and I've already forgotten large portions of it, and I don't really miss it. My 13 year old nephew doesn't even care the next one is coming out in almost two months. Two months before Jedi premiered I was practically salivating. Hell, *I* barely care that the new one is almost out.:)
The comments you are commenting on don't say anyhting about 6 billion people actually surviving on that little land. I think they were just comment on the people/land ratio.
Wow, and you wasted a lot of time on that diatribe. Sorry.
When my 64 year old mother can install Linux as easily as she has installed Windows (She did have to call me) we can begin saying Linix is "easy".
I'm pretty computer literate and I have problems setting up Linux - and I eventually broken it quite a few times (Yes, i log in as root way too much - I know this)
The point is, Linux is far too easy to break if you're a novice, and it's far too complex to set up if you dont have time to search the web and newsgroups looking for drivers. I wish it was different, but it just isn't at this point in time. I am finally dropping my Windows 2000 partition and just going Win98/Linux this weekend. Dont even get me started on how much I hate Windows 2000. uhg.
WEll, all I know is that my site is HTML compliant (with the exception of using ? in the URLS, which confuses w3.org) and it looks exactly the way I want to in IE, and is a mess in Netscape.
We can't expect our users to constantly upgrade their browsers every 3 months whenever Netscape (or others) decide to release a new browser. IE is fast, it works, and most people have the newest version. Most slashdotters are geeks and foam at the mouth and immediate go out and download the latest and greatest of their particular favorite browser. Joe Public doesn't do this. Most non-tech people that I know that use netscape still have 4.x browsers and are constantly telling my that my site looks like crap. (I use a separate CSS sheet now for netscape browsers)
And a large part of our population is against it. (Myself included)
Your point?
Getting the death penalty (via lethal injection) for murdering a bunch of innocent people is quite different than getting the death penalty (stoned to death by a mob of religious fanatics) for walking down the street with a man who isn't your husband. If you can justify the later (which I'm sure you will try to) you're no better than the Taliban.
I remember reading about a year ago about a woman buried to her waist and stoned to death for walking outside with a man that was not her husband. My view of the taliban was pretty much formed after that. I'm looking for the article now.
Slashdot Mirror
Just call any of the BBSs that are still around and play it. :) I run capitolshrill.com (telnet to capitolshrill.com)
I bought an 8088 from a friend of mine in late '92 with a 1200 baud modem on it. All it was good for was calling boards, since it only had a 200M hard drive. This was the first computer I had besides my old Apple ][+ that was pretty useless. After becomming obsessed with the boards for abour 3 weeks, I talked my mom into getting me my own phone line for my birthday and I put up my own board, The TARDIS. I went by the Doctor. Once I realised I wasn't as big of a Dr. Who fan as I thought I was, I changed the BBS name to Peaceful Death (named after a Dead Horse song) and I later started using the alias DeadAir. The BBS was hacked a while later during a BBS hacker war and I put it back up under the name Fear and Loathing.
Loved it. The board was very popular until late '97 when the internet started pulling people away from the scene. I pulled the plug January 1 2000 after going almost 6 months with no calls except for network updates. I really miss it sometimes.
Vincent
I think the problem with forking lies in that if you are using one system, say PHPNuke (circa 2000) and suddenly it splits into Postnuke, myPHPNuke, OOPS, and others, you are suddenly faced with choosing a fork. The end user is not privy to a lot of the spats and goings on behind the scenes, so they may not know which fork has the better coders or more loyal developers. I've seen this a bazillion times. Hopefully the forks work with each other enough so that transitions can be made between the two should users decide to switch forks.
Vincent
> Me too > > > Me too > >> Me too! >>> > >>> Me too!! > >>>> Me too! > >>> > > >>> > > Me too! > >>> >> >> >> > Me too! > >> > > > >> >> >> >> > >> >> > > > Me too!!
I frequently make mix CDs for friends. I use CD-Rs to do this. And what do you know, I own probably 90% of the CDs I take the songs from. I may download one or two from Gnucleus - but these are mostly songs from albums I can't or wouldn't go out and buy anyway.
Anyway, who the hell is giving Sheryl Crow an A? Puhlease.
Vincent
I guess you're not in college - you obviously have never had to doucument your sources.
Yes, that's your opinion, but as we all know... opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one and some are full of shit.
Vincent
This sounds like .NET to me. Upgrade your software or we'll upgrade it for you.
What would we call this, upgradeware?
Vincent
I guess it's too late to get my obligatory mod points? Uhg, damn work. Curses, foiled again. Speaking of which, anyone see the previews for Scooby Doo? God it looks bad. It looks like "Dude Where's My Mystery Machine."
Would Jar Jar have been less annoying if he had been projected digitally?
The "first" *three* movies were all done using models and matte paintings, and they captured the imagination of everyone that I know who saw them. It's been several years since I saw Episode I, and I've already forgotten large portions of it, and I don't really miss it. My 13 year old nephew doesn't even care the next one is coming out in almost two months. Two months before Jedi premiered I was practically salivating. Hell, *I* barely care that the new one is almost out. :)
Vincent
This all sounds a lot like the CD vs Vinyl debate.
The comments you are commenting on don't say anyhting about 6 billion people actually surviving on that little land. I think they were just comment on the people/land ratio.
Wow, and you wasted a lot of time on that diatribe. Sorry.
When my 64 year old mother can install Linux as easily as she has installed Windows (She did have to call me) we can begin saying Linix is "easy".
I'm pretty computer literate and I have problems setting up Linux - and I eventually broken it quite a few times (Yes, i log in as root way too much - I know this)
The point is, Linux is far too easy to break if you're a novice, and it's far too complex to set up if you dont have time to search the web and newsgroups looking for drivers. I wish it was different, but it just isn't at this point in time. I am finally dropping my Windows 2000 partition and just going Win98/Linux this weekend. Dont even get me started on how much I hate Windows 2000. uhg.
WEll, all I know is that my site is HTML compliant (with the exception of using ? in the URLS, which confuses w3.org) and it looks exactly the way I want to in IE, and is a mess in Netscape. We can't expect our users to constantly upgrade their browsers every 3 months whenever Netscape (or others) decide to release a new browser. IE is fast, it works, and most people have the newest version. Most slashdotters are geeks and foam at the mouth and immediate go out and download the latest and greatest of their particular favorite browser. Joe Public doesn't do this. Most non-tech people that I know that use netscape still have 4.x browsers and are constantly telling my that my site looks like crap. (I use a separate CSS sheet now for netscape browsers)
Whoah.
And a large part of our population is against it. (Myself included)
Your point?
Getting the death penalty (via lethal injection) for murdering a bunch of innocent people is quite different than getting the death penalty (stoned to death by a mob of religious fanatics) for walking down the street with a man who isn't your husband. If you can justify the later (which I'm sure you will try to) you're no better than the Taliban.
nolageek
I remember reading about a year ago about a woman buried to her waist and stoned to death for walking outside with a man that was not her husband. My view of the taliban was pretty much formed after that. I'm looking for the article now.
Read the indymedia article again. It's pretty much the same thing.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/10/2 3/ret.attacks.hospital/index.html
CNN reported this the day before indymedia.
Damn them geeks are cute. Jeff Gardiner, marry me! Um, nevermind.