to pass their genes on? Last time I checked it's the poor, the uneducated, etc people on welfare or people in third world countries that have the majority of children. The rich and "elite" are having fewer and fewer...
I have and it's a tad different then you are portraying it.
I don't find people sharing like you suggest, but in fact a cut throat atmosphere that rivals what I see in the USA. The so called communism in China led to the demise of religion and spirtuality. After Mao died, the void was replaced with a very capitalistic love of money that is almost a religion to many of the people.
China might overcome America, but not for the reasons you suggest... but instead because they are incredibly determined, strong willed, and out to prove something to the world.
The people I am talking about in my post here are the "social elite" that live in the cities... not the poor people in the countryside... the poor people have enough to worry about keeping themselves alive. It's the people in the cities which are like this.
The government in China might be in theory communist run, but the beat of the nation is a bit different... like a repressed nation of blood thirsty, cut throat capitalists.
Actually I would pay for information... if it was well enough organized and more focused then a general net search...
Say I want exclusive access to univerity periodicals or different studies, etc.. I'd be willing to pay a few dollars to get high quality results without having to fliter through lots of useless or low quality / unoffical sites and material.
I think it could be done for a niche group of information that's not easy (or impossible) to get from a google like search.
I use a slightly altered version of a litestep desktop on my Windows box called LDE(X) version 5.0.
The company responsible for this can be found here: http://leafrd2.cjb.net/ Click the LDE(X) at the top of the page to go to that section.
I find this program to hold vast potential, plus it's a ton of fun to set up and I find my productivity increases a lot when I use this shell. The sad part is that due to less and less interest and demand the company is finding it difficult to support further development. If any one is interested, download away, install, and get on the yahoo message forum and yack away. The support is excellent and the guys at Leaf really care and try to help!
Haskell is an often overlooked yet interesting and powerful procedural language. I've used it for some engineering math and also implemented an ARM processor VM with it for a class. Just thought I'd mention it:)
Mandrake Linux has recently opened a new site called MandrakeSecure which is focused on securing a mandrake box.
A recent article posted on MandrakeForum talks about ways to handle SPAM using postfix and qmail. Maybe this can be useful to the larger slashdot crowd?
My cable provider limits my bandwidth at my modem. If I want to share that bandwidth what does it matter? I'm paying a premium for an upgraded plan for more bandwidth, if I want to use that with more than one IP after my modem I think I should be able to do that.
I understand if my one modem could suck up all the bandwidth in the area... but I am limited.
And they focus much to much on 802.11b and neighbor sharing in that article. I have an 802.11b hub and use it to share my connection with the PCs in "my" house, and I think that's what most people do.
I guess I'm lucky though. I actually asked if I am allowed to use more than one IP and my company (Chater Pipeline) told me it was ok. Now if only the other companies could get a clue...
My friend finds the opposite to be true. If he watches a game with a good smooth feel it takes him much longer to feel sick... but something choppy gets him feeling sick mighty quick.
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Please... please
I don't know how you can claim most gamers thought the dreamcast sucked. Everyone I know that owns one is very satisfied and wishes their poor little gray box was still alive:(
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Ugh.. do you still think 2600 was the peak of console gaming?
I hear this time and time again.. it's only X that crashed! Everything else works fine...
And while this is true most of the time and I can telnet or ssh into my computer and kill X, that's not always the case and sometimes no port will respond at all... thus leading me to believe that the entire system went down.
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Forte is wonderful. But it's akin to netscape is to mozilla...
I prefer mozilla over the branded netscape browser... and with java IDE's, I prefer Netbeans over the branded version Forte.
check it out at http://www.netbeans.org
Same exact thing as forte, yet always ahead of forte in the development cycle.
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I don't know if I am too tired or going crazy but I think your comment if hillarious... I couldn't stop cracking up.. wish I had some points to mod you up
I know you're mocking me and all... but in real life I'm a God at the obvious. My friends roll their eyes at my incredibly corney and stupid jokes and comments...
All I can say is: Pierre the dancing, traveling scarecrow!!!!!!
Made me puke!
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I feel the same.
The old cartoon I used to watch on Friday mornings was way better than this. Since when does cartoon == crappy?
I'm not sure when it happened... but I turn on the TV now on Saturday's and it just isn't the same as it used to be.
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Speak for yourself. Me and many of my friends and family absolutely loved the second game.
1 and 2 were great. 3 was good too but that's when they started getting "cartoony" with the scramble in the feet durring a dash, etc. Turned me off then.. and this turns me off now.
The series had 1,2,3... the rest... blah
(the first gameboy one was ok I guess... haven't played the new ones)
I don't like looking at the icons to tell what type the file is... especially since I like to put things into a list view so I can see a lot of items at once. The view of putting multiple columns of large icons for me to sort through and select is nothing but cumbersome for me. I'll take a long list of extension prone filenames over that in most cases. Not saying that there isn't a better way, just that at least *some* people do prefer to look at extensions today rather than icons.
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to pass their genes on? Last time I checked it's the poor, the uneducated, etc people on welfare or people in third world countries that have the majority of children. The rich and "elite" are having fewer and fewer...
I have and it's a tad different then you are portraying it.
I don't find people sharing like you suggest, but in fact a cut throat atmosphere that rivals what I see in the USA. The so called communism in China led to the demise of religion and spirtuality. After Mao died, the void was replaced with a very capitalistic love of money that is almost a religion to many of the people.
China might overcome America, but not for the reasons you suggest... but instead because they are incredibly determined, strong willed, and out to prove something to the world.
The people I am talking about in my post here are the "social elite" that live in the cities... not the poor people in the countryside... the poor people have enough to worry about keeping themselves alive. It's the people in the cities which are like this.
The government in China might be in theory communist run, but the beat of the nation is a bit different... like a repressed nation of blood thirsty, cut throat capitalists.
wow... I should have used preview... 55555
Actually I would pay for information... if it was well enough organized and more focused then a general net search...
;-)
Say I want exclusive access to univerity periodicals or different studies, etc.. I'd be willing to pay a few dollars to get high quality results without having to fliter through lots of useless or low quality / unoffical sites and material.
I think it could be done for a niche group of information that's not easy (or impossible) to get from a google like search.
Whatever... maybe I'm just a sucker
Mandrake is a specialized distribution. It's compiled with optimization for pentiums.. so of course it's not going to run on anything lower
Yes I meant functional.. Silly me. I tried too hard to say the right thing that I said the wrong thing.
The company responsible for this can be found here: http://leafrd2.cjb.net/ Click the LDE(X) at the top of the page to go to that section.
I find this program to hold vast potential, plus it's a ton of fun to set up and I find my productivity increases a lot when I use this shell. The sad part is that due to less and less interest and demand the company is finding it difficult to support further development. If any one is interested, download away, install, and get on the yahoo message forum and yack away. The support is excellent and the guys at Leaf really care and try to help!
This is why I like the TI-89.
Almost all the power of the 92 but in the form of an 86... It's saved my life on multiple occassions.
Haskell is an often overlooked yet interesting and powerful procedural language. I've used it for some engineering math and also implemented an ARM processor VM with it for a class. Just thought I'd mention it :)
Mandrake Linux has recently opened a new site called MandrakeSecure which is focused on securing a mandrake box.
A recent article posted on MandrakeForum talks about ways to handle SPAM using postfix and qmail. Maybe this can be useful to the larger slashdot crowd?
My cable provider limits my bandwidth at my modem. If I want to share that bandwidth what does it matter? I'm paying a premium for an upgraded plan for more bandwidth, if I want to use that with more than one IP after my modem I think I should be able to do that.
I understand if my one modem could suck up all the bandwidth in the area... but I am limited.
And they focus much to much on 802.11b and neighbor sharing in that article. I have an 802.11b hub and use it to share my connection with the PCs in "my" house, and I think that's what most people do.
I guess I'm lucky though. I actually asked if I am allowed to use more than one IP and my company (Chater Pipeline) told me it was ok. Now if only the other companies could get a clue...
Great for my heavy metal collection! :P
If my music gets too warm... I'd be upset.. hehe
If you middle click on a tab, that will close it also... I find it very useful.
My friend finds the opposite to be true. If he watches a game with a good smooth feel it takes him much longer to feel sick... but something choppy gets him feeling sick mighty quick.
Please ... please
:(
I don't know how you can claim most gamers thought the dreamcast sucked. Everyone I know that owns one is very satisfied and wishes their poor little gray box was still alive
Ugh.. do you still think 2600 was the peak of console gaming?
May my 2600 rott in peace. (pieces?) hehe
Yes everything you mentioned can be done in the current versions of KDE. Just a little configuring to change the look from the default.
A lot of other people complained.. that's why this functionality was added back.
I hear this time and time again.. it's only X that crashed! Everything else works fine...
And while this is true most of the time and I can telnet or ssh into my computer and kill X, that's not always the case and sometimes no port will respond at all... thus leading me to believe that the entire system went down.
Forte is wonderful. But it's akin to netscape is to mozilla...
I prefer mozilla over the branded netscape browser... and with java IDE's, I prefer Netbeans over the branded version Forte.
check it out at http://www.netbeans.org
Same exact thing as forte, yet always ahead of forte in the development cycle.
I don't know if I am too tired or going crazy but I think your comment if hillarious... I couldn't stop cracking up.. wish I had some points to mod you up
I know you're mocking me and all... but in real life I'm a God at the obvious. My friends roll their eyes at my incredibly corney and stupid jokes and comments...
;)
It's a wonderful life
Subtle?!?!?!?!
Have you played Ocarina of time?
All I can say is: Pierre the dancing, traveling scarecrow!!!!!!
Made me puke!
I feel the same.
The old cartoon I used to watch on Friday mornings was way better than this. Since when does cartoon == crappy?
I'm not sure when it happened... but I turn on the TV now on Saturday's and it just isn't the same as it used to be.
Speak for yourself. Me and many of my friends and family absolutely loved the second game.
1 and 2 were great. 3 was good too but that's when they started getting "cartoony" with the scramble in the feet durring a dash, etc. Turned me off then.. and this turns me off now.
The series had 1,2,3... the rest... blah
(the first gameboy one was ok I guess... haven't played the new ones)
I don't like looking at the icons to tell what type the file is... especially since I like to put things into a list view so I can see a lot of items at once. The view of putting multiple columns of large icons for me to sort through and select is nothing but cumbersome for me. I'll take a long list of extension prone filenames over that in most cases. Not saying that there isn't a better way, just that at least *some* people do prefer to look at extensions today rather than icons.
Icons are pretty... but far too often confusing.