Half-Life is the most addicting game I've ever played. The mod's to it are what make it so great. Counter Strike, Team Fortress Classic and Opposing Force are especially fun mods.
The first amendment encompasses more than just speech as demonstrated in several Supreme Court rulings. I suppose the best way for me to rephrase my statement is:
We want to increase our freedoms and destroy things which restrict these freedoms, and yet we want to RESTRICT companies from doing what they want.
I'm in the Kansas City area. We get time warner cable with roadrunner internet. It works great, and they have so far let me do whatever I want. The one problem I have heard is that if you run a few too many port scans, they'll cap your speed. This happened to my friend and now he's inching along at 15 instead of 200.
The beauty of having a computer to do this is that you can then reboot and play a game of tuxracer. All on hardware you already have with free software. Try doing that on your DVD player.
I thought America was the home of the free! Don't get me wrong, I'm all for more secure software, and I think open source is one of the best ways to get this. American companies should be free to do what they want (within reason of course), and this includes making insecure and overpriced software. It is the consumer's job to distinguish between something good and something crappy, and we have security experts to help them make that distinction.
We want to destroy the DMCA that restricts our freedom of speech, and yet we want to RESTRICT companies from doing what they want. This sounds hypocritical to me.
Yeah, qsl cards are cool to recieve. We should take advantage of the electronics here though and send e-mail qsl cards. You could put ascii art or something in it. Maybe not as fun to recieve as snailmail is, but still fun.
I meant to add that you should get linux on your new computers. Eventually, the windows boxes will be obsolete and you'll only have the open source solution left.
Why migrate all current projects? You've already paid for windows, dont take it back. Instead, use things that work with the current system. Samba, StarOffice and others are all good, free ideas.
This may be modded as offtopic, but that is the coolest thing I've ever seen. I didn't even know that something like that existed. Just an idea, but wouldn't it be cool to do some kind of VR on your desktop? This is right up SGI's alley it seems;-)
Anyway, thanks again for this question.
Apple is a very well known company. It's also fairly respected. I think the fact that they are now distributing a unix based OS is great. Maybe now things will start to become more standardized and just casual users will start to become better educated with the computers. In my opinion, apple's unique step has actually contributed to the world community, and therefore, the open source / free software community. They are giving something back, but it's not really in the form of code.
I do wish the entire OS was free though.
I think (and this is my 17 year old opinion) that *nix viruses won't ever become too devastating because of the knowledge of their operators. Security holes are found and patched, mysterious e-mails are discarded (though this isn't so much of a problem when running pine), and the system lives on.
Isn't bsd a nix environment?
This would make the topic for a great scifi novel. Just imagine:
A new form of killer sponge infects the beautiful waters of New Zealand, killing humans and sealife alike.
Ok, so maybe that's not the best use of the topic, but you see my point...
I don't think that the moderator who rated this "troll" has read much sarcastic literature in his life. Of course, this could be completely serious, but...
So RPM is now the "standard?" I'm not sure I like that. RPM is great and all, and many distros use it or at least can handle them, but I think maybe it should be refined a little more. I like debian's package manager as it is easy to use and fairly straightforward. I know RPM is supposed to be that way as well, but I've had a lot more dependency problems with RPMs than I have with apt.
Yes, I'd agree. Unix was supposed to be the great standard, and then stuff started branching off. I've never used any other unix (than linux) except freeBSD briefly, but I think that someone needs to unify our unices. It'd certainly set a good standard.
In good old Johnson County, Kansas, we have red hat 6 in the library, at least we used to. I'd heard about linux, so I went to check out a book. It was "Red Hat Linux For Dummies," and it still had 2 cds in back. Later on I bought the book and downloaded the newest version, but thats how I got started.
I try and keep up my nightly aerobic workout. Sex is a wonderful way to keep off the pounds and reduce your cholesterol level at the same time. Plus, if you partner gets into it (and mine does, believe me), she'll get a good workout as well.
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Weezer rocks! Not to belittle any of the other bands on the list because they all look to be pretty good. It's good some _musicians_ are standing up to this whole legal movement. It makes all our arguments ligitimate.
My high school offers programming classes, but we do all our programming on windows machines. I don't know why we don't switch over to linux and GNU, it being free and all. It seems like it would all be a better learning experience if we could easily see the source for more complex programs.
My friends and I have setup a Slackware box, but the school system doesn't know yet and we don't plan to tell them. Last time we did, the next day we came to school and the power cord, monitor, keyboard, mouse and network cords were all gone. They thought it was a "virus";-)
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Half-Life is the most addicting game I've ever played. The mod's to it are what make it so great. Counter Strike, Team Fortress Classic and Opposing Force are especially fun mods.
That's really funny! I did something similar involving a banana (instead of a cell phone) in the middle of a class one time.
The first amendment encompasses more than just speech as demonstrated in several Supreme Court rulings. I suppose the best way for me to rephrase my statement is: We want to increase our freedoms and destroy things which restrict these freedoms, and yet we want to RESTRICT companies from doing what they want.
I'm in the Kansas City area. We get time warner cable with roadrunner internet. It works great, and they have so far let me do whatever I want. The one problem I have heard is that if you run a few too many port scans, they'll cap your speed. This happened to my friend and now he's inching along at 15 instead of 200.
The beauty of having a computer to do this is that you can then reboot and play a game of tuxracer. All on hardware you already have with free software. Try doing that on your DVD player.
I thought America was the home of the free! Don't get me wrong, I'm all for more secure software, and I think open source is one of the best ways to get this. American companies should be free to do what they want (within reason of course), and this includes making insecure and overpriced software. It is the consumer's job to distinguish between something good and something crappy, and we have security experts to help them make that distinction.
We want to destroy the DMCA that restricts our freedom of speech, and yet we want to RESTRICT companies from doing what they want. This sounds hypocritical to me.
Yeah, qsl cards are cool to recieve. We should take advantage of the electronics here though and send e-mail qsl cards. You could put ascii art or something in it. Maybe not as fun to recieve as snailmail is, but still fun.
It means that you sit at your computer and constanly refresh kernel.org to see when the next patch is available.
I meant to add that you should get linux on your new computers. Eventually, the windows boxes will be obsolete and you'll only have the open source solution left.
Why migrate all current projects? You've already paid for windows, dont take it back. Instead, use things that work with the current system. Samba, StarOffice and others are all good, free ideas.
Not much. He could site statistics that say Mandrake is easier than Windows. And it's still free.
This may be modded as offtopic, but that is the coolest thing I've ever seen. I didn't even know that something like that existed. Just an idea, but wouldn't it be cool to do some kind of VR on your desktop? This is right up SGI's alley it seems ;-)
Anyway, thanks again for this question.
Apple is a very well known company. It's also fairly respected. I think the fact that they are now distributing a unix based OS is great. Maybe now things will start to become more standardized and just casual users will start to become better educated with the computers. In my opinion, apple's unique step has actually contributed to the world community, and therefore, the open source / free software community. They are giving something back, but it's not really in the form of code.
I do wish the entire OS was free though.
Wha? I think you're reading too far into that. I thought it was kind of amusing.
I think (and this is my 17 year old opinion) that *nix viruses won't ever become too devastating because of the knowledge of their operators. Security holes are found and patched, mysterious e-mails are discarded (though this isn't so much of a problem when running pine), and the system lives on.
Isn't bsd a nix environment?
And you are ... 10 years old?
This would make the topic for a great scifi novel. Just imagine:
A new form of killer sponge infects the beautiful waters of New Zealand, killing humans and sealife alike.
Ok, so maybe that's not the best use of the topic, but you see my point...
I don't think that the moderator who rated this "troll" has read much sarcastic literature in his life. Of course, this could be completely serious, but...
So RPM is now the "standard?" I'm not sure I like that. RPM is great and all, and many distros use it or at least can handle them, but I think maybe it should be refined a little more. I like debian's package manager as it is easy to use and fairly straightforward. I know RPM is supposed to be that way as well, but I've had a lot more dependency problems with RPMs than I have with apt.
Yes, I'd agree. Unix was supposed to be the great standard, and then stuff started branching off. I've never used any other unix (than linux) except freeBSD briefly, but I think that someone needs to unify our unices. It'd certainly set a good standard.
In good old Johnson County, Kansas, we have red hat 6 in the library, at least we used to. I'd heard about linux, so I went to check out a book. It was "Red Hat Linux For Dummies," and it still had 2 cds in back. Later on I bought the book and downloaded the newest version, but thats how I got started.
I try and keep up my nightly aerobic workout. Sex is a wonderful way to keep off the pounds and reduce your cholesterol level at the same time. Plus, if you partner gets into it (and mine does, believe me), she'll get a good workout as well.
wwwwwww wwwwwww w w wwwwwwwww wwwwwwwww w ww w w w w w w w w w ww ww Weezer rocks! Not to belittle any of the other bands on the list because they all look to be pretty good. It's good some _musicians_ are standing up to this whole legal movement. It makes all our arguments ligitimate.
My high school offers programming classes, but we do all our programming on windows machines. I don't know why we don't switch over to linux and GNU, it being free and all. It seems like it would all be a better learning experience if we could easily see the source for more complex programs. My friends and I have setup a Slackware box, but the school system doesn't know yet and we don't plan to tell them. Last time we did, the next day we came to school and the power cord, monitor, keyboard, mouse and network cords were all gone. They thought it was a "virus" ;-)
Now that's a cool idea. Hook one of those big fan jet-engines from a boeing to you computer ;-)