Assuming that you're speaking from an American perspective, is that really what it's like over there?
Here in England, pretty much everyone discusses quite a wide variety of things, we still have 'national debates' where a certain meme has made it's way into public and people discuss it pretty much anywhere. The cannabis debate has been the last one recently, the worth of the European Union is always ongoing. Sure people talk about football (*soccer*), but it's not limited to that.
Perhaps it's because there's a lot of us crammed in a small country together, and probably due to the multi-cultralness as well. There's not that many places left here where you can find the small-town mentality.
Well, here is an example of the good benefits of the Internet, learning about different peoples cultures from the horses mouth, rather than filtered through TV and films.
The subconcious can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality, it all goes in the same way. Hence adverts which repeat the name of the product over and over again. Your consious mind knows that its not-reality, but your subconsious has just got however many repetitons of the product name in there, the theory being that when you're in the shop, your subconsious has more entrys for product X than product Y so you're more likely to buy it.
Therefore your hundreds of hours of screen violence will have affected you, I'm not saying you're going to go out killing people, but it will have had some effect.
Why would you install Linux on it "the minute you get it" if there aren't drivers?
Are you mad? Why would you spend the money for this video camera tech. and then install an O/S that doesn't support it. Unless you're going to write your own drivers of course.
This one's been done to death, Gore was misquoted and he DID play a big part in the 80's for getting federal funding for the, then academic and military, internet.
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Surely you're not judging an operating system on the symantics of it's move directory command?
cd == set def
rmdir == delete whatever.dir
By your reckoning MS-DOS is as good as any Unix, because it's got the CD command. Yeah, right.
What does it mean then?
Assuming that you're speaking from an American perspective, is that really what it's like over there?
Here in England, pretty much everyone discusses quite a wide variety of things, we still have 'national debates' where a certain meme has made it's way into public and people discuss it pretty much anywhere. The cannabis debate has been the last one recently, the worth of the European Union is always ongoing. Sure people talk about football (*soccer*), but it's not limited to that.
Perhaps it's because there's a lot of us crammed in a small country together, and probably due to the multi-cultralness as well. There's not that many places left here where you can find the small-town mentality.
Well, here is an example of the good benefits of the Internet, learning about different peoples cultures from the horses mouth, rather than filtered through TV and films.
Christianity is the official religion of USA, isn't it?
This is Slashdot after all, and they'll all get modded as funny every single time.
What do you get out of this? Why do you do it? Are you repressed? Or are you incapible of thinking anything other than suck my cock?
I'm sure the irony's lost on you there, a real shame.
"get a life, Dorkus Maximus". What, like you?
All of these O/S's are just toys, OpenVMS or something of that scale is a better starting point for the "what is an O/S" discussion.
What on earth are you on about?
You obviously read it to know the content of it. Are you trying to look cool?
Lookie here ma, I's a figer-ed my-self out how to work this here cut-y and a' paste'y thing. Amm ohn thu h-internet....
The subconcious can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality, it all goes in the same way. Hence adverts which repeat the name of the product over and over again. Your consious mind knows that its not-reality, but your subconsious has just got however many repetitons of the product name in there, the theory being that when you're in the shop, your subconsious has more entrys for product X than product Y so you're more likely to buy it.
Therefore your hundreds of hours of screen violence will have affected you, I'm not saying you're going to go out killing people, but it will have had some effect.
There are worse things than TV, some of it is educational and stimulating, discovery channel etc.
TV is neither inherantly good or evil, it depends whats on it.
...and go away.
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Why would you install Linux on it "the minute you get it" if there aren't drivers?
Are you mad? Why would you spend the money for this video camera tech. and then install an O/S that doesn't support it. Unless you're going to write your own drivers of course.
Err, there's already competition in the chip market, AMD, Arm, Sparc etc. etc.
He get's modded up though, with the obligatory Linux mention. Wow, he really brought a lot to the discussion with that one.
This one's been done to death, Gore was misquoted and he DID play a big part in the 80's for getting federal funding for the, then academic and military, internet.
It doesn't matter where life originated from!
Sorry, had to say it....
My god, that's a brilliant comment, must have taken you ages to think up that one. Told all your friends to look at it have you?@
Brilliant argument, you've certainly convinced me.
That was sarcasm by the way, sarcasm ROCKS D00D.
Fool.
VMS the one true O/S !!