Couldn't have said it better myself. I hate these fuckers that sit on their asses all day in an office and think they're something fucking special. They think they are hard at work, and actually earning money. While someone else is working their ass off, stressing, worrying about if they can pay the bills, feed their children, going in debt all so this fucker can get another $20 million to buy a new mansion. God Bless Capitalism!
yet again, owning a Gateway is also limiting yourself.
Floppy disks can be great in emergencies, but if we came out with Flash cards or whatever, that ended up cheaper and more reliable (those floppies sure do get bad sectors as they age) then that would be great.
Of course there's the issue of standardization, how are you going to get everyone to use the same thing?
You forgot Dreamweaver. An office app that really doesn't have any clear alternatives in the Free Software race. Sure you can use vi, but it's still not the same. I love Dreamweaver, and most web designers can agree that it is the best at what it does.
How about introducing halfway decent mass transit into this country so us "moronic" teen don't HAVE to drive. I've been hesitant to get my license not only because I have to deal with the bureaucratic bullshit (and I'm too poor to pay all the whacked fees they charge,) but also that the fact is I won't get that far driving anyways. Everyone here is driving to the same places so why don't we invest into some good mass transit (not this trolley train bullshit) and get off our fat American asses and walk a little.
And don't get me started with Insurance companies...they pushed our whore-ish government in forcing Americans to buy their insurance. If they're gonna pull this fascist bullshit why don't they actually provide some kind of public minimal insurance that makes sure that they'll sew your leg back for a reasonable dollar?
Ahhh, an Anonymous Coward worthy enough to respond to.
I think we don't see hemp grown not because of it's environmental benefits (it does improve the soil) but it does with the fact that hemp is the greatest threat to big business. Think about it, hemp can be easily grown anywhere to make paper. Who do you think is gonna fight it? The lumber industry of course. Anybody can grow it, people can become independent from big business. That's terrible for our Crony Capitalist society, jeezus we're almost backwards and regressive as the Soviet Union.
As far as I can see, hemp would be easier to grow than vegetables and wouldn't require pesticides. Oh wait, I forgot, hemp is illegal in the good 'ol US of A.
Ozone Depletion not Global Warming
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Shouldn't the concern be concentrated on Ozone Depletion instead of Global Warming? Global Warming can't really be proven without 100s of years of data, but any scientist can tell you that ozone is getting thinner and in some places, non-existent.
I used to use SIP at work for a SIP phone program for linux called Siphon. Let me tell you, it was a pain in the ass. First of all Siphon needed sip-0.1.7 but 0.1.7 didn't work for RedHat 7.1, but Siphon didn't work with sip-1.2.0, which was the only one that worked with RedHat 7.1. SIP is part of VOCAL and what I'm trying to say is that VoIP is kind of a mess on Linux, and I'm glad to see it improve.
I pray for the day when Vovida comes out with better documentation, and perhaps a less memory intensive VoIP package.
This is SOOOOO true. Most teachers and administration freak out when I mention Linux not because the kids can't learn it, but the Teachers and Administration are too damn stupid to learn it themselves.
I once left an iMac on by accident that had Linux installed on it. Non-English speaking (in the process of learning English) kids were already playing games with it and typing up notes in KOffice. To me, this proves that most young people many not be able to fully understand computers, but they sure as hell have a lot more curiosity than most fundamentalist Teachers and Administrators do. Later that week, the teacher insisted that MacOS should be installed back on it, I refused because I believed the kids could handle it (and they could.) So she went ahead and had the SysAdmin put MacOS back on it.
Isn't one of the main points of education is to allow students to adapt new tools and use them to their full advantage. *sigh* No wonder education is so screwed up in this country. Schools are washed up in political crap and being politically correct. What happened to good old fashioned learning? How about teaching kids to think on their own? Maybe the government just doesn't want the future of America to love freedom and individualism, they just want us to be tax-paying drones.
Sorry for this rant, I'm only 17 and I don't have all the answers, but at least I think I do:p
Since massive layoffs make corporations look bad, pay cuts are the next best thing. They cut the salary so low that you cannot make a living anymore and are forced to quit.
$30,000 salary might not be so bad in Chicago (I don't know the cost of living there,) but if that happened here in the SF Bay Area, we'd all be seriously hurting.
I thought the recession would be over by now, but I believe we are in the first stage. The worse is still to come. Of course the media is telling you the exact opposite, they don't want to cause widespread panic.
Well, I tried to be part of the/. blackout but this article hits home.
As a huge monorail fan(atic) I think this idea is a great idea. What's not to like about monorails? They're quiet, clean, and fast. Monorails make hardly any noise compared to trolleys and cars. They're clean and don't cause any pollution, they're also friendly to the environment since they don't interfere with natural migratory paths, and can integrate easily in big cities. Since they're elevated they don't have to stop at traffic lights like trolleys do. So they're average speed is much higher than cars and trolleys.
If cost seems to be a factor, don't worry this construction is taking place in Las Vegas. You'll be sure that casinos are pouring money into exaggerated stations and whatnot. Monorails can be built much cheaper. Don't forget about the long-term costs. As trolleys may seem cheaper at first, but in the long run maintenance and accident wise, monorails are much cheaper.
Don't worry about Monorails not being 'proven.' Asia has many monorails that run reliable for years (even some at a profit.) We also have local systems like the Seattle Monorail and the Disney Land and Disney World Monorails. If you think that the Disney Monorails are just 'rides' think about their purpose: they get people from Point A to Point B efficiently. Isn't that the whole purpose of mass transit?
Monorails were way ahead of their time, especially with the ALWEG Monorail in the 1960s. Now is the time to consider ways to fix our present day traffic problems with more technically advanced technologies. Widening highways is no longer an option for many cities and only serves as a 'band-aid' solution. Trolleys can no longer accommodate our present problems due to their lines being ripped up and replaced with roads. I embrace fellow geeks to look in awe at such an engineering marvel, that can prove to be the most cost-effective solution in the future.
At my school we got quite a few computers from dirty employees that still had some 'pictures' and 'videos' containing things that would get us in trouble. I formatted the HDD instead of sifting and deleting each file (I've seen it all anyways.) Is this also a violation of the license?
Seriously Microsoft makes themselves look like asses and I'm glad we got resources like slashdot to expose their idiotic ways.
I've been pirating software for years now, do I feel guilty? Hell no!
What I don't get is why software companies are getting all anal over software piracy. First of all, most pirates are pretty damn young (I'm thinking about 13-20.) I ask the software companies, how many of these youngens have $609 to pay for Photoshop? Or $3495 to pay for 3ds Max? Probably about 0.00009% of them do (thanks to rich parents.) Most of us (including me,) don't.
I actually believe Warez helps software companies. Think about it, there's no chance of these kids affording it normally, but if they pirate the software for free they get to learn a new proprietary program. If more and more people use it, than companies might demand it in the future giving these proprietary companies more market share.
That's not to say 'Warez' sites are good sources for pirating. Actually nowadays they suck. I just visited a few and there were endless popups, force voting, broken or non-existant links, or even loading of javascript virii!
Of course this might become a good thing for the Open Source movement. As it is harder to pirate software, more people might start using open source software like Linux, BSD, GiMP, etc.
First of all, 90% of the population vote for the same kind of people (Democrats/Republicans.) Second, practically all candidates are funded by corporations; therefore they will most likely represent the corporations. Third, politicians don't do what 'we' tell them to do, they do what their party tells them to do (and parties do whatever their contributers tell them to do, so that kind of ties in with the second point.) Fourth, people don't really vote for the person they believe fits the job, rather they vote on looks, speeches (which are usually written by someone else,) or some other BS personal issue. I remember when we had campaigns in High School for student body, and the candidates were asked question that totally did not relate to the job. Also I asked a friend why he wouldn't vote for someone like Ralph Nader or Harry Browne, he replied that, "I would rather vote for someone who could win." This is sad, he would rather vote for someone that he thinks everyone else would vote for, instead of voting with his heart. Yes, I may be using examples from High School kids, but remember, they are the future, and it looks pretty damn scary.
haha, I have the same infatuation with girls with southern accents. All the people I know think it's annoying, but I think it's pretty damn arousing (This is what Northern California does to a man...errr boy.)
For me, the only substantial difference between SO6 and OO641C (last time I checked) was fonts... SO6 came bundled with a few extra fonts that made it easier to interact with MSWord users. If that's the only major difference, I'm happy to use OO and rip my own fonts...
Also OO doesn't have the templates that SO6 has. In addition, it is claimed SO6 has better MS Office filtering.
Serious, for its age, OO is improving faster than anything MS has shelled out. I like it a helluva lot better than SO 5.2. Plus it's open source, what's not to like?
Sure it can be a bit slow, but on my old P166 (64MB RAM, 1GB HDD, Mandrake 8.2, running IceWM) it takes about ~35 seconds to load up. Sure MS Office may be a bit faster than OO, but it's eating a lot of memory by being preloaded.
OpenOffice is bound to only get better (the spell check isn't that great, maybe needs grammar check? Or do people actually need to learn proper grammar?..I sure cant:P) It's incredible how OO will help out schools. I can't wait till OO 1.0 comes out.
Of course we can't forget OO is made up of SO code that was released by Sun (correct me if I'm wrong.) The Sun developers did a good job, and the OO developers are making it even better. Good job! I remember when some people were bitching that nothing was coming out of the OpenOffice project, they must feel like asses now.
This whole idea kinda of reminds me of Moscow when it was 'Communist.' There was a special street lane marked for Communist Party members only...talk about 'equality.'
And it will be called...
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I've tried the usual...RedHat, Mandrake and SuSe, but is there any other ones out there? So far I like Mandrake the best, but it is slow and fills the hard drive fairly quick.
Are there any Desktop Linux Distributions for low-end machines out there that I should try? Or does anyone have any tips to slim down the Mandrake install? I've gotten it down to about 700mb after install. Could it be possible to get it even more smaller?
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Couldn't have said it better myself. I hate these fuckers that sit on their asses all day in an office and think they're something fucking special. They think they are hard at work, and actually earning money. While someone else is working their ass off, stressing, worrying about if they can pay the bills, feed their children, going in debt all so this fucker can get another $20 million to buy a new mansion. God Bless Capitalism!
yet again, owning a Gateway is also limiting yourself.
Floppy disks can be great in emergencies, but if we came out with Flash cards or whatever, that ended up cheaper and more reliable (those floppies sure do get bad sectors as they age) then that would be great.
Of course there's the issue of standardization, how are you going to get everyone to use the same thing?
You forgot Dreamweaver. An office app that really doesn't have any clear alternatives in the Free Software race. Sure you can use vi, but it's still not the same. I love Dreamweaver, and most web designers can agree that it is the best at what it does.
How about introducing halfway decent mass transit into this country so us "moronic" teen don't HAVE to drive. I've been hesitant to get my license not only because I have to deal with the bureaucratic bullshit (and I'm too poor to pay all the whacked fees they charge,) but also that the fact is I won't get that far driving anyways. Everyone here is driving to the same places so why don't we invest into some good mass transit (not this trolley train bullshit) and get off our fat American asses and walk a little.
And don't get me started with Insurance companies...they pushed our whore-ish government in forcing Americans to buy their insurance. If they're gonna pull this fascist bullshit why don't they actually provide some kind of public minimal insurance that makes sure that they'll sew your leg back for a reasonable dollar?
Yes, that frosting can be full of...ANTHRAX!! *gasp*
they didn't call it Duke Nukem Forever for nothing
Ahhh, an Anonymous Coward worthy enough to respond to.
I think we don't see hemp grown not because of it's environmental benefits (it does improve the soil) but it does with the fact that hemp is the greatest threat to big business. Think about it, hemp can be easily grown anywhere to make paper. Who do you think is gonna fight it? The lumber industry of course. Anybody can grow it, people can become independent from big business. That's terrible for our Crony Capitalist society, jeezus we're almost backwards and regressive as the Soviet Union.
Holy shit you're dumb.
Popular Mechanics Hemp Article
Shouldn't the concern be concentrated on Ozone Depletion instead of Global Warming? Global Warming can't really be proven without 100s of years of data, but any scientist can tell you that ozone is getting thinner and in some places, non-existent.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the Playstation version of SimCity 2000 had an option to drive around in your town from a 3D perspective.
I used to use SIP at work for a SIP phone program for linux called Siphon. Let me tell you, it was a pain in the ass. First of all Siphon needed sip-0.1.7 but 0.1.7 didn't work for RedHat 7.1, but Siphon didn't work with sip-1.2.0, which was the only one that worked with RedHat 7.1. SIP is part of VOCAL and what I'm trying to say is that VoIP is kind of a mess on Linux, and I'm glad to see it improve.
I pray for the day when Vovida comes out with better documentation, and perhaps a less memory intensive VoIP package.
This is SOOOOO true. Most teachers and administration freak out when I mention Linux not because the kids can't learn it, but the Teachers and Administration are too damn stupid to learn it themselves.
:p
I once left an iMac on by accident that had Linux installed on it. Non-English speaking (in the process of learning English) kids were already playing games with it and typing up notes in KOffice. To me, this proves that most young people many not be able to fully understand computers, but they sure as hell have a lot more curiosity than most fundamentalist Teachers and Administrators do. Later that week, the teacher insisted that MacOS should be installed back on it, I refused because I believed the kids could handle it (and they could.) So she went ahead and had the SysAdmin put MacOS back on it.
Isn't one of the main points of education is to allow students to adapt new tools and use them to their full advantage. *sigh* No wonder education is so screwed up in this country. Schools are washed up in political crap and being politically correct. What happened to good old fashioned learning? How about teaching kids to think on their own? Maybe the government just doesn't want the future of America to love freedom and individualism, they just want us to be tax-paying drones.
Sorry for this rant, I'm only 17 and I don't have all the answers, but at least I think I do
Gnu's Not Unix!
Actually this is more of a GNU, philosophy if I'm correct. Keep It Simple Stupid! And a damn good philosophy at. (Are you listening OpenOffice?)
Since massive layoffs make corporations look bad, pay cuts are the next best thing. They cut the salary so low that you cannot make a living anymore and are forced to quit.
$30,000 salary might not be so bad in Chicago (I don't know the cost of living there,) but if that happened here in the SF Bay Area, we'd all be seriously hurting.
I thought the recession would be over by now, but I believe we are in the first stage. The worse is still to come. Of course the media is telling you the exact opposite, they don't want to cause widespread panic.
As a huge monorail fan(atic) I think this idea is a great idea. What's not to like about monorails? They're quiet, clean, and fast. Monorails make hardly any noise compared to trolleys and cars. They're clean and don't cause any pollution, they're also friendly to the environment since they don't interfere with natural migratory paths, and can integrate easily in big cities. Since they're elevated they don't have to stop at traffic lights like trolleys do. So they're average speed is much higher than cars and trolleys.
If cost seems to be a factor, don't worry this construction is taking place in Las Vegas. You'll be sure that casinos are pouring money into exaggerated stations and whatnot. Monorails can be built much cheaper. Don't forget about the long-term costs. As trolleys may seem cheaper at first, but in the long run maintenance and accident wise, monorails are much cheaper.
Don't worry about Monorails not being 'proven.' Asia has many monorails that run reliable for years (even some at a profit.) We also have local systems like the Seattle Monorail and the Disney Land and Disney World Monorails. If you think that the Disney Monorails are just 'rides' think about their purpose: they get people from Point A to Point B efficiently. Isn't that the whole purpose of mass transit?
Monorails were way ahead of their time, especially with the ALWEG Monorail in the 1960s. Now is the time to consider ways to fix our present day traffic problems with more technically advanced technologies. Widening highways is no longer an option for many cities and only serves as a 'band-aid' solution. Trolleys can no longer accommodate our present problems due to their lines being ripped up and replaced with roads. I embrace fellow geeks to look in awe at such an engineering marvel, that can prove to be the most cost-effective solution in the future.
At my school we got quite a few computers from dirty employees that still had some 'pictures' and 'videos' containing things that would get us in trouble. I formatted the HDD instead of sifting and deleting each file (I've seen it all anyways.) Is this also a violation of the license?
Seriously Microsoft makes themselves look like asses and I'm glad we got resources like slashdot to expose their idiotic ways.
I actually believe Warez helps software companies. Think about it, there's no chance of these kids affording it normally, but if they pirate the software for free they get to learn a new proprietary program. If more and more people use it, than companies might demand it in the future giving these proprietary companies more market share.
That's not to say 'Warez' sites are good sources for pirating. Actually nowadays they suck. I just visited a few and there were endless popups, force voting, broken or non-existant links, or even loading of javascript virii!
Of course this might become a good thing for the Open Source movement. As it is harder to pirate software, more people might start using open source software like Linux, BSD, GiMP, etc.
How difficult? Pretty damn difficult I would say.
First of all, 90% of the population vote for the same kind of people (Democrats/Republicans.) Second, practically all candidates are funded by corporations; therefore they will most likely represent the corporations. Third, politicians don't do what 'we' tell them to do, they do what their party tells them to do (and parties do whatever their contributers tell them to do, so that kind of ties in with the second point.) Fourth, people don't really vote for the person they believe fits the job, rather they vote on looks, speeches (which are usually written by someone else,) or some other BS personal issue. I remember when we had campaigns in High School for student body, and the candidates were asked question that totally did not relate to the job. Also I asked a friend why he wouldn't vote for someone like Ralph Nader or Harry Browne, he replied that, "I would rather vote for someone who could win." This is sad, he would rather vote for someone that he thinks everyone else would vote for, instead of voting with his heart. Yes, I may be using examples from High School kids, but remember, they are the future, and it looks pretty damn scary.
haha, I have the same infatuation with girls with southern accents. All the people I know think it's annoying, but I think it's pretty damn arousing (This is what Northern California does to a man...errr boy.)
Also OO doesn't have the templates that SO6 has. In addition, it is claimed SO6 has better MS Office filtering.
Serious, for its age, OO is improving faster than anything MS has shelled out. I like it a helluva lot better than SO 5.2. Plus it's open source, what's not to like?
:P) It's incredible how OO will help out schools. I can't wait till OO 1.0 comes out.
Sure it can be a bit slow, but on my old P166 (64MB RAM, 1GB HDD, Mandrake 8.2, running IceWM) it takes about ~35 seconds to load up. Sure MS Office may be a bit faster than OO, but it's eating a lot of memory by being preloaded.
OpenOffice is bound to only get better (the spell check isn't that great, maybe needs grammar check? Or do people actually need to learn proper grammar?..I sure cant
Of course we can't forget OO is made up of SO code that was released by Sun (correct me if I'm wrong.) The Sun developers did a good job, and the OO developers are making it even better. Good job! I remember when some people were bitching that nothing was coming out of the OpenOffice project, they must feel like asses now.
This whole idea kinda of reminds me of Moscow when it was 'Communist.' There was a special street lane marked for Communist Party members only...talk about 'equality.'
Murray, the evil demonic skull muahahaha
I've tried the usual...RedHat, Mandrake and SuSe, but is there any other ones out there? So far I like Mandrake the best, but it is slow and fills the hard drive fairly quick.
Are there any Desktop Linux Distributions for low-end machines out there that I should try? Or does anyone have any tips to slim down the Mandrake install? I've gotten it down to about 700mb after install. Could it be possible to get it even more smaller?