Well since Mandrake uses RPM too, that can't be the root of all your problems because then you would surely hate Mandrake as well.
Agreed. I don't have a problem with RPM as a package format. However, rpm the tool just doesn't seem as well thought out as apt, urpmi, drakrpm, emerge, etc. Unfortunately, there isn't a distinction between the package format (rpm) and its tool (rpm) like there is in, for example, debian (.deb files, apt install tool)
I agree completely. Mandrake 9.1 is a really great desktop Linux. I tried RH9. Didn't detect my SB Audigy, still hate RPM, even with up2date. Mandrake 9.1 detected everything, including my crappy Epson USB printer, configured everything, DrakRPM is a wonderful tool.
If I continue to use this, I'll probably buy the 9.2 pack to support Mandrake. If you're looking for a desktop to try, Mandrake 9.1 is fabulous.
Yes, I can distinguish between picking up a hooker and raping her. It's probably just a bad choice of terms that the rating board chose to use in describing the nature of the content. I highly doubt that a game will come out where a key element of gameplay is to rape a character.
Yes, that sounds right. However, if Sun didn't really lock down the contract with MS about what constituted "Java" then I really can't feel sorry for them.
With corporate America having legal departments bigger than most law firms, that kind of screw up is inexcusable.
ok. i agree with you in part. but M$ can also make it hard to install java and hard to make it compatable with their browser and OS. can you say "hidden APIs" anyone? and just when sun figures it out there will be an update/patch that will change things around again.
Ok, yes, MS could make it difficult to install Sun Java. And yes, MS does have access to all the APIs for Windows. But, what stops Sun from making interaction with other Windows applications difficult? What stops Redhat from not serving pages to Windows machines? Nothing. If they want to do that, they certainly can. And while they may think it's a good idea, people in the know will see the problems and either complain about the lack of interoperability (sp?), or switch to another platform.
When it comes down to it, I'd love to see MS make Java a difficult install. Then see Sun inform every tech publication, Fortune magazine, WSJ, etc. about what MS is doing. That might change more people's perceptions about MS and make them willing to look at an alternative platform (Linux).
It isn't Microsoft's job to promote Java, it's the job of Sun and the resellers (Dell, Gateway, HPaq, etc.) If MS wants to include Java, that's their perogative. However, they shouldn't be required to; any more than Red Hat should be required to distribute Realplayer (for example).
Maybe I'm a little out of touch with gaming these days but is there really so much rape in videogames these days that it deserves it's own category?
Well, maybe not yet, but with GTA III and Vice City (where you can pickup prostitutes, etc.) they may just be preparing for sequels involving more of these story lines.
Then you're facing arguments and negotiations that
make you the bad guy. With this product, there's no argument, because you can't argue with a box."
Right. Exactly. Just another excuse for parents to not be parents and be their child's best friend. Ladies and Gentlemen, you aren't supposed to be your kid's best friend. You're supposed to be their parent, their role model, their mentor, their teacher. Quit sluffing off and do your jobs!
P.S. To those parents who do monitor the time their kids spend online, playing games, watching TV, etc. Thank you.
" The interpretation of Abe Lincoln was wrong - the federal government doesn't exist to serve the people, but to regulate interstate affairs (including coining of money) and international affairs. It's not there to hand out money to special interest groups or to hand out subsidies. In fact, the federal government's role was never meant to have much bearing on the life of an individual at all because it's too easy for a distant bureaucrat to use the might power of a centralized government against people without really having to answer for it."
As politically incorrect as this may sound (not that I'm usually worried about that) but it's almost time to start another revolution. The British left England when they felt things weren't right with the government. They came here to setup a new form of government, in which the states could be individual, where freedom from oppression existed, and the federal government would watch things from the inside toward the outside, and let the states handle things internally.
Contrast that with what our government currently looks like. State laws get passed because federal money won't be allocated if they don't. States could set their own drinking age, smoking age, etc. but because of the fear of losing federal funding, they just go along with the federal guidelines. Our federal government is more worried about what its citizens are doing on the inside, that it doesn't seem to care about what other countries are doing on the outside.
Then again, I could be way off base. But, I don't think I am.
When does the givernment ever listen to the general public? And why should they. Inmates running the asylum? I've always heard that was a bad idea. If the givernment listened to public outcries, no one would pay taxes, and weed would be legal.
If you live in a "government of the people, by the people, for the people" as Abraham Lincoln said; then, yes, the govenment should listen to the opinions of it's citizens. After all, your congressional representatives exist to represent your opinions.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a brief in federal court in support of companies that offer software to
edit violence or sex from a user's DVD. The full story can be found in this article from the Salt Lake Tribune.
I have no problem with the violence or sex. What I want to edit out are the mandatory previews, FBI warnings, "The comments made are those of the individual and not the studio", kinds of things. Those bother me far more than the content of the video. Any word on if that's a possibility?
Or, how about a reverse model? You sit in the seat, it takes an "assprint" for lack of a better term, and recognizes you and sets your presets, mirrors, etc. accordingly?
Of course, if you pull and Anna Nicole Smith and gain a lot of weight in a short time, the car may think you're a carjacker and set off the alarm insted.
Sites like bytemonsoon.com or torrentse.cx use a single tracker for hundreds of different torrent streams, so the fact that the tracker can't do all of that and then handle a really big demand generated by slashdot isn't as damning as it might seem at first.
Agreed, and I wasn't trying to condemn bytemonsoon or torrentse.cx for not being able to handle the load. Just pointing out that, while they aren't having to serve the entire files, they still suffer from having to make connections.
In other words, I don't think that it would matter if each file got it's own tracker, because bytemonsoon and others would still have to respond to all the incoming requests, regardless of how many trackers they run.
Isn't Bit Torrent designed precisely to prevent the slashdot effect, and to distribute the load among people that are downloading the file? I have never ran a torrent on a website, but according to the author, you can even pull the original file from your server, as long as enough people have left their clients open after the download (in torrent terms, the seed is alive).
Yes, the transfer of the files should be alleviated by using BT as opposed to the server having to serve the files. However, BT still relies on a single point of failure per download, that being the tracker.
For each person that wants to connect, they have to connect to the same tracker, which needs to manage telling each client where the peers are, mananging the throttle, etc. While not as bandwidth intensive as serving the actual files, under a good slashdotting, the tracker itself will get overloaded, and as a result, become ineffective for people.
The logical conclusion would be for/. to run a tracker, because it's obvious from their traffic that they could probably handle it. Maybe even make that a subscriber perk? Taco, are you listening?
Slashdot Mirror
Agreed. I don't have a problem with RPM as a package format. However, rpm the tool just doesn't seem as well thought out as apt, urpmi, drakrpm, emerge, etc. Unfortunately, there isn't a distinction between the package format (rpm) and its tool (rpm) like there is in, for example, debian (.deb files, apt install tool)
I agree completely. Mandrake 9.1 is a really great desktop Linux. I tried RH9. Didn't detect my SB Audigy, still hate RPM, even with up2date. Mandrake 9.1 detected everything, including my crappy Epson USB printer, configured everything, DrakRPM is a wonderful tool.
If I continue to use this, I'll probably buy the 9.2 pack to support Mandrake. If you're looking for a desktop to try, Mandrake 9.1 is fabulous.
</happy rant>
Yes, I can distinguish between picking up a hooker and raping her. It's probably just a bad choice of terms that the rating board chose to use in describing the nature of the content. I highly doubt that a game will come out where a key element of gameplay is to rape a character.
They don't have photographers where he is? They haven't heard of Fedex, UPS, USPS, or, if digital, email, ftp?
This seems like a really lame excuse to me. Anyone with more insight?
Yes, that sounds right. However, if Sun didn't really lock down the contract with MS about what constituted "Java" then I really can't feel sorry for them.
With corporate America having legal departments bigger than most law firms, that kind of screw up is inexcusable.
Ok, yes, MS could make it difficult to install Sun Java. And yes, MS does have access to all the APIs for Windows. But, what stops Sun from making interaction with other Windows applications difficult? What stops Redhat from not serving pages to Windows machines? Nothing. If they want to do that, they certainly can. And while they may think it's a good idea, people in the know will see the problems and either complain about the lack of interoperability (sp?), or switch to another platform.
When it comes down to it, I'd love to see MS make Java a difficult install. Then see Sun inform every tech publication, Fortune magazine, WSJ, etc. about what MS is doing. That might change more people's perceptions about MS and make them willing to look at an alternative platform (Linux).
It isn't Microsoft's job to promote Java, it's the job of Sun and the resellers (Dell, Gateway, HPaq, etc.) If MS wants to include Java, that's their perogative. However, they shouldn't be required to; any more than Red Hat should be required to distribute Realplayer (for example).
Well, maybe not yet, but with GTA III and Vice City (where you can pickup prostitutes, etc.) they may just be preparing for sequels involving more of these story lines.
However, it would be a good source of assignments.
Teacher: Class, today we're going to spell-check and grammar check the front page of Slashdot.
+1 Informative, No
+1 Funny, sure
Waffle Iron, you have succeeded in proving that someone needs to chlorinate the moderation pool.
P.S. If you see this in M2, please vote it unfair.
From the post (my emphasis):
Right. Exactly. Just another excuse for parents to not be parents and be their child's best friend. Ladies and Gentlemen, you aren't supposed to be your kid's best friend. You're supposed to be their parent, their role model, their mentor, their teacher. Quit sluffing off and do your jobs!
P.S. To those parents who do monitor the time their kids spend online, playing games, watching TV, etc. Thank you.
As you said above, and I couldn't agree more,
As politically incorrect as this may sound (not that I'm usually worried about that) but it's almost time to start another revolution. The British left England when they felt things weren't right with the government. They came here to setup a new form of government, in which the states could be individual, where freedom from oppression existed, and the federal government would watch things from the inside toward the outside, and let the states handle things internally.
Contrast that with what our government currently looks like. State laws get passed because federal money won't be allocated if they don't. States could set their own drinking age, smoking age, etc. but because of the fear of losing federal funding, they just go along with the federal guidelines. Our federal government is more worried about what its citizens are doing on the inside, that it doesn't seem to care about what other countries are doing on the outside.
Then again, I could be way off base. But, I don't think I am.
If you live in a "government of the people, by the people, for the people" as Abraham Lincoln said; then, yes, the govenment should listen to the opinions of it's citizens. After all, your congressional representatives exist to represent your opinions.
From the article:
I have no problem with the violence or sex. What I want to edit out are the mandatory previews, FBI warnings, "The comments made are those of the individual and not the studio", kinds of things. Those bother me far more than the content of the video. Any word on if that's a possibility?
No, I was thinking along the lines of a fingerprint, only a unique identifier based on your ass contours.
One more:
g) CowboyNeal is my wireless access point
Or, how about a reverse model? You sit in the seat, it takes an "assprint" for lack of a better term, and recognizes you and sets your presets, mirrors, etc. accordingly?
Of course, if you pull and Anna Nicole Smith and gain a lot of weight in a short time, the car may think you're a carjacker and set off the alarm insted.
Agreed, and I wasn't trying to condemn bytemonsoon or torrentse.cx for not being able to handle the load. Just pointing out that, while they aren't having to serve the entire files, they still suffer from having to make connections.
In other words, I don't think that it would matter if each file got it's own tracker, because bytemonsoon and others would still have to respond to all the incoming requests, regardless of how many trackers they run.
Yes, the transfer of the files should be alleviated by using BT as opposed to the server having to serve the files. However, BT still relies on a single point of failure per download, that being the tracker.
For each person that wants to connect, they have to connect to the same tracker, which needs to manage telling each client where the peers are, mananging the throttle, etc. While not as bandwidth intensive as serving the actual files, under a good slashdotting, the tracker itself will get overloaded, and as a result, become ineffective for people.
The logical conclusion would be for /. to run a tracker, because it's obvious from their traffic that they could probably handle it. Maybe even make that a subscriber perk? Taco, are you listening?
Otherwise, it's a cool hack, if you happen to have one around.
OT: Please fix the time between postings. 2 minutes is crap
While the phrase "granny gang bangs" made me laugh, I just wanted to help the parent poster with their mad HTML skills.
And, quick HTML lesson: <a href="http://www.astrobio.net/articles/images/comp uter_test.jpg">Hot NASA engineer</a> Becomes
Hot NASA engineer
The person who misspelled "really"
Twice!
Maybe we should implement a tax on them? We could use this as a model.
Unreal II the awakening. I stand corrected. Same engine though.