An anonymous reader writes "SCO have made much of how their claims about UNIX code being improperly copied into Linux were verified by 3 teams including 'MIT Mathematicians.' However, MIT can't seem to find the mathematicians concerned!"
I hear from reliable sources that SCO's next triumphant contribution to humanity (perhaps even greater than the contribution of owning the code to Unix) will be to clone a human being. Who does this remind me of?
or whatever shell you want to stick in between the quotes, or use the NetInfo Utility to go and tweak it in a GUI...
Maybe that's a typo. (I don't have my OSX laptop with me to double check at the moment). But how I did this very same thing, was the way described in this article. The command they describe in the article reads:
niutil -createprop ./users/joebob shell/bin/bash
That article I linked to above also has info on how to do it the GUI way with the netinfo utility. Trying to do it the standard Linux "chsh" way or or the "vipw" way gets you nowhere as OSX is yp based (yp is another name for NIS).
Although I hear they may be moving to openldap for future releases of the MacOS as part of their "Open Directory" initiative. OD looks like it may be a nice alternative to the Windoze version of the same thing. Of course, MS pretty much got their idea for AD from Novell's directory services. Can't them boys think up anythin' on they own?
Funny, when I started this post I think I was ontopic. What were we talking about again?
Does anybody remember Avara? If I remember correctly, the README for Avara initially (and brazenly) touted itself as "The game that would soon supplant Bolo as the defacto standard for gaming on campus and corporate networks. " Then after a little while, the newer README began touting itself as the game that DID replace Bolo as the standard for gaming on corporate and campus networks.
That was certainly the case as far as my very good newly departed friend and I were concerned. After slaving away at Microwarehouse Tech all day, we'd race home to our beach apartments and battle it out via our little LAN. After playing Avara over 14.4 dial-up you reeeeaaaalllly appreaciated the convenience of having ethernet dangling out your window to your neighbor's apartment! (not long before., we were using phone-net!)
My upstairs neighbor (at that same beach apartment) created a pretty brilliant plug-in for Escape Velocity,turning all of the ships into Star Wars ships (painstakingly rendered in Infini-D!!!). EV was a great game too, I've personally killed many hours (and brain cells!!!) playing my friend Mark's SW plug-in!
I thought Mac OS X was BSD-derived and largely compatible with Linux stuff, especially with something like Apache which is pretty vanilla, looking over Slash I doubt it's too horrible about its demands on a Unix-like platform. What caused the problems?
OS X is indeed BSD derived and actually includes a copy of Apahce right out of the box. All of the Unix tools one would need (MySQL, PHP) are avaialble for OS X. Not sure what could've caused the problem though.
What's interesting about the copy of Apache that ships with OS X is that it has a nice GUI interface, so those too timid to configure httpd.conf should still be able to cope.
I think the more interesting point, and one the article failed to mention, is where are all these people going to live,
Where are they going to live? Montana! Have you seen how much space they have in that state? When you're there you're just thinking overpopulation???????;)
Email is of course the traditional business tool and works well enough. Technically savvy users can shunt all messages with the word 'Pfizer' or 'Novartis' or 'IBM' into folders according to job and have a forensic record of everything that was said via email.
But the technical sophistication of any group of business users is likely to be too low to do anything more to hit 'send'. What I like about this site is how conversations sort of evolve organically and the cream of the discussions have a tendency (note: I did not say absolutely that they always do) rise to the top. (Okay, so I may be in the minority in that opinion;)
So, my question is, what about using Slash as a business tool? Say that the tech dept (yo soy un capitano, aqui) sets up a linux box running slash, mySql, PHP, Apache and sets up a page where folks could blog about the "work" that they are doing? With headlines reading, instead of things like "Linus to star in toothpaste commercial", it could have "stories" representing "Pfizer Job#2071" and the like? Managers would then moderate the discussions? I thought of this while at a company retreat where we were discussing different information processing techniques.
And yes, business users may not be that technically savvy, but browing at -1 would be enough to convince one it doesn't take much mental "juice" to blog (or moderate for that matter). It's a weird idea, but I wonder if it might have potential?
The above comment is not by me. I disavow all knowlege of this, do not harbor these beliefs. Left myself logged in and a co-worker thought this was funny. I did not.
Let's face facts. Arabs are a shifty, guiltless and guilefull group of folks who will stab you in the back any chance they can get! But are they smart enough to write code? Hardly! Let's not forget where computer technology started, people. The USofA! And think about it, Al Qaeda have hated the US for so much for so long, if they were smart enough to understand technology don't you think they would've tried something like this by now? They are not smart enough to be of any real threat when it comes to technology.
LISTEN TO THIS MAN! I just went to the Motorhead, Dio, and Iron Maiden concert last night, and still can not hear! Motorhead played so loud thatit hurt my ears. I got some earplugs for the Dio set, but took them out fo Maiden. Needless to say, I still can not hear. Hopefully by tommorrow I will be able too.
Thanks dude. I'm sorry to hear that you're having trouble with your hearing. I strongly believe that my tinnitus was caused in large part by wearing headphones. But what tipped the balance for me, as far as the persistent ringing in my ears is concerned, was seeing the Nine Inch Nails play at a tiny club in Neptune NJ (back in 1990). It was so loud it was like standing inside a jet engine. Directly afterward I couldn't hear properly for three days straight days to the point where during that time everything sounded as if it were under water. The loss in hearing, thank god was temporary, but the ringing in the ears has been there ever since. Another time, a few years later I was bombed out of my mind at a Bad Brains show, and due to fluctuations in the pit, I ended up pressed up against the speaker column! Though at that point I was a devout ear-plug user, and I were using 30db attenuation rated earplugs it wasn't nearly enough for the time I was pressed up against the speakers! From that point I had tinnitus *AND* pain for something on the order of 3 years afterward. Not fun, not really.
I have to say though that earplugs, while gerally a good idea, definitely interfere with your enjoyment of live music. The bottom ranges of the music become muddy, and the top ranges are almost always cut-out altogether. A good alternative to your garden variety drugstore earplugs are something known as "musician's earplugs" which attenuate all frequencies of the sound spectrum at roughly the same level.The only drawback to those is that they are fairly pricey (at approximately $200 a pop, last time I looked). So, if you lose them or they fall out of your at a show you're fucked! Other than that, even at the going rate I find them to be of exceptional value.
But what you are going through in terms of "deafness" is almost certainly temporary. It sounds like what happened to me after the NIN show. I went to the doctor because I was so freaked about the possibility of going deaf and a good old fashioned ear siphoning did a lot to restore the hearing I had "lost". Pretty amazing how much they can get out of there, I'm pretty sure I could have built an entire new human out of the refuse ejected from my ear!:) That didn't bring me back to "normal" hearing, though. What the Rx explained to me is that the ear has "natural defenses" agains loud noises and some parts of the inner ear swell up to prevent further damage. Pretty intellegent, really. But during that period where parts of the inner ear are "swollen" everything will sound quiter. After about a week, everything returned to "normal" and my hearing honestly seems completely fine. Except of course for the ringing in the ears, which never went away. I hope that your hearing returns to normal sans ringing! If you're still concerned about your hearing, a good souce for information is this place called "HEAR"or "Hearing And Education for Rockers". Some people may find them to be a bit preachy, but if you can get past that there is a lot you can learn about how not to fuck up your hearing. As the old saying goes, you don't know what you have till it's gone.
As to this "bitcreep" fellow (or whatever the fuck his name is)...about all I can say is "yeesh! Some people!" He makes a lot of assumptions about my "assumptions" and what I know and what I don't know. And I was particularly entertained by his attempts to tell me what I'm saying. Thus spake bitdork:
What I don't get is how you save 17% when solar panels are included with the new house. There's no 'before solar' for this house to compare bills! Comparing with some completely different house introduces an adsurd number of variables other than the solar panels and thus isn't a valid comparison at all.
Except that most houses these days are mass produced, cookie-cutter homes. Travel to any suburb you want and this will be instantly apparent. Take two houses that are architecturally identical and aligned to similar points on the compass (as closely as is reasonably possible), and are also near to one another. Provide one with solar, one without. Bingo! Instant comparison with the elimination of as many variables as possible.
Like I said, we all think we're immortal, especially when we're young. But we're all put together the same, pal. Physics are physics. I'm glad you're okay, and I'm sure you're banking that you'll always be okay. I used to bank on that too. Now all I can tell you is "don't bank on it"!
...than your hearing! We're all used to thinking of ourselves as immortal, especially when we are young. When I was a teenager I used to listen to a Sony walkman fully crankin'. Now I have well over a decade of suffeing with tinnitus. Anything over 90db is damaging to the ear. One hearing specialist said that listening to headphones is akin to jamming a pair of firehoses into both ears and turning the water on full blast in terms of the damage it'll do to your hearing. It may sound like hyperbole, but it probably isn't that far from the truth!
Tinnitus can cause depression, sleeplessness and a host of other psychic and physical maladies. From a personal perspective, if you hear a loud noise that annoys the hell out of you you have two choices. 1)Walk out of the room where you hear the offending noise 2) Turn the sound down! If you have tinnitus, you can't do either of those things. You just have to live with it. There is no cure and by the time you realize that the ringing in your ears isn't going away that's about it. You will hear that sound for the rest of your life! Unless, of course nanomedicine can provide a cure, but don't hold your breath or hang your hopes on that one!
Although the C language has been around for close to 30 years, its appeal has not yet worn off.
I'm sure that in some ways that statement may be true, but I've been trying for MONTHS to get people interested in the C/C++ Meetups! Compared to Python you'd think we were trying to start a Sanskrit study group!
The IRS is a great agency for exacting revenge on people idiotic enough to declare themselves your enemy.
That's no joke. Just ask the Christic Institute. The Christic Institute is a government watchdog agency that has been a thorne in the side of Uncle Sam for a great many years.
I first hear about Christic during the Iran Contra "guns for drugs" scandle in the mid 1980s. They were the ones who actually brought the suit against the government.
An apt description of the Christic Institute (as appearing in this article)"The institute has won several landmark civil lawsuits, including the "Greensboro massacre" case against members of the American Nazi Party and Ku Klux Klan who assassinated demonstrators in 1979, and the "Silkwood" case against the nuclear industry. The institute does not charge legal fees and depends entirely on contributions from churches, Jewish philanthropies, private foundations and individual supporters."
Another decent (and slightly more in-depth) history of the organization can be found here. The sad truth is that the IRS is likely to revoke their not for profit status making them liabel for back taxes for all of the years they have been in operation. Many feel that this is in direct retaliation to the Avrigan vs. Hull lawsuit. The government is alredy quite fond of issuing hefty fines to the institute for what it deems to be "frivolous lawsuits" (I'll let you judge that one for yourselves) as a means of intimidating them into not persuing their just causes. But if this IRS thing the IRS has in mind at the prompting of ultra conservative members of the house, it could mean the final curtain call for a heroic agency that has done much to keep america free.
I've been awaiting KOTR for a good long time, but after the enormous initial let-down of SW Galaxies, I can only say I'm not holding my breath. I've always loved RPGs and I've always loved SW, so the two just seem like two great tastes that taste great together; hence Galaxies & KOTR.
The character creation on Galaxies is actually pretty good. But, for me at least, that's where the fun ended. The physics models, simply put, make calling this game any more than BETAware an act of hubris and wishful thinking. See a table, chair, other character? I'm willing to suspend disbelief in Lucasland, but can't at least my character be corporeal? Can't he at least be a stumblebum and bump into things once in a while instead of doing the Casper the friendly ghost routine all the time?
The missions are tedious, dull and more often than not are broken. I had one mission that was waaay out on the outskirts of the 'main town' of the planet I was on. Trudge, trudge, trudge, trudge....trudge, trudge...are we there yet?...trudge and trudge some more. UNbelievably tedious. To make matters WORSE...the graphics break! I assume it's not a driver issue, because they seem to work fine when you are in the city. But if you go out really far it seems like you just sort of walk off the map! At that point the graphics start going so wiggy it is actually difficult to see yourself -OR- your enemies. To add insult to injury, when you finally get to where you're going and actually see the thing you are supposed to shoot...you sometimes get a cursos promt allowing you to attack, and sometimes NOT.
Galaxies, much as it pains me to finally admit this to myself and the world, is an enormous terd-burgler. Will I waste my money on KOTR? Bet your ass! It simply CAN'T be worse than Galaxies!!! If that makes me a 5ukkor, so be it.
I've been awaiting KOTR for a good long time, but after the enormous initial let-down of SW Galaxies, I can only say I'm not holding my breath. I've always loved RPGs and I've always loved SW, so the two just seem like two great tastes that taste great together; hence Galaxies & KOTR.
The character creation on Galaxies is actually pretty good. But, for me at least, that's where the fun ended. The physics models, simply put, make calling this game any more than BETAware an act of hubris and wishful thinking. See a table, chair, other character? I'm willing to suspend disbelief in Lucasland, but can't at least my character be corporeal? Can't he at least be a stumblebum and bump into things once in a while instead of doing the Casper the friendly ghost routine all the time?
The missions are tedious, dull and more often than not are broken. I had one mission that was waaay out on the outskirts of the 'main town' of the planet I was on. Trudge, trudge, trudge, trudge....trudge, trudge...are we there yet?...trudge and trudge some more. UNbelievably tedious. To make matters WORSE...the graphics break! I assume it's not a driver issue, because the graphics work fine when you are in the city, but if you go out really far it just seems like you just sort of walk off the map and the graphics start going so wiggy it is actually difficult to see yourself -OR- your enemies. Not only that, but you finally get to where you're going and actually see the thing you are supposed to shoot, sometimes gets a cursor prompt (allowing you to attack) and other times NOT.
Galaxies, much as it pains me to finally admit this to myself and the world, is an enormous terd-burgler. Will I waste my money on KOTR? Bet your ass! It simply CAN'T be worse than Galaxies!!! If that makes me a 5ukkor, so be it.
To the silly ass moderator who thought that the above comment was a troll, it wasn't. If I had my mod points today (instead of burning them all yesterday) this would've gotten a +1 Funny from me.
In their 1985 Album Brothers In Arms there was a song called "Money For Nothing" in which Sting sang the famous refrain "I Want My MTV" in the background, while Mark Knopfler pretends to be a moving man who gripes about his career choices versus "the little faggot with the earring and the make up...got his own jet airplane, that little faggot he a millionaire".
Obviously, this was a play on words, you can easily sing "I want my SGI" to the tune of that song. But it's not really the moderator's fault for not knowing that. He was probably born the year that song came out!
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An anonymous reader writes "SCO have made much of how their claims about UNIX code being improperly copied into Linux were verified by 3 teams including 'MIT Mathematicians.' However, MIT can't seem to find the mathematicians concerned!"
I hear from reliable sources that SCO's next triumphant contribution to humanity (perhaps even greater than the contribution of owning the code to Unix) will be to clone a human being. Who does this remind me of?
suggesting Apple makes far better use of its two CPUs than the Xeon machine....the results augur well for Apple G5 performance in technical and scientific computing environments and for playing games.'"
But isn't life just a game? =)
nicl . -create /users/yourusernamehere shell "/bin/tcsh"
/users/joebob shell /bin/bash
or whatever shell you want to stick in between the quotes, or use the NetInfo Utility to go and tweak it in a GUI...
Maybe that's a typo. (I don't have my OSX laptop with me to double check at the moment). But how I did this very same thing, was the way described in this article. The command they describe in the article reads:
niutil -createprop .
That article I linked to above also has info on how to do it the GUI way with the netinfo utility. Trying to do it the standard Linux "chsh" way or or the "vipw" way gets you nowhere as OSX is yp based (yp is another name for NIS).
Although I hear they may be moving to openldap for future releases of the MacOS as part of their "Open Directory" initiative. OD looks like it may be a nice alternative to the Windoze version of the same thing. Of course, MS pretty much got their idea for AD from Novell's directory services. Can't them boys think up anythin' on they own?
Funny, when I started this post I think I was ontopic. What were we talking about again?
Does anybody remember Avara? If I remember correctly, the README for Avara initially (and brazenly) touted itself as "The game that would soon supplant Bolo as the defacto standard for gaming on campus and corporate networks. " Then after a little while, the newer README began touting itself as the game that DID replace Bolo as the standard for gaming on corporate and campus networks.
That was certainly the case as far as my very good newly departed friend and I were concerned. After slaving away at Microwarehouse Tech all day, we'd race home to our beach apartments and battle it out via our little LAN. After playing Avara over 14.4 dial-up you reeeeaaaalllly appreaciated the convenience of having ethernet dangling out your window to your neighbor's apartment! (not long before., we were using phone-net!)
My upstairs neighbor (at that same beach apartment) created a pretty brilliant plug-in for Escape Velocity, turning all of the ships into Star Wars ships (painstakingly rendered in Infini-D!!!). EV was a great game too, I've personally killed many hours (and brain cells!!!) playing my friend Mark's SW plug-in!
I thought Mac OS X was BSD-derived and largely compatible with Linux stuff, especially with something like Apache which is pretty vanilla, looking over Slash I doubt it's too horrible about its demands on a Unix-like platform. What caused the problems?
OS X is indeed BSD derived and actually includes a copy of Apahce right out of the box. All of the Unix tools one would need (MySQL, PHP) are avaialble for OS X. Not sure what could've caused the problem though.
What's interesting about the copy of Apache that ships with OS X is that it has a nice GUI interface, so those too timid to configure httpd.conf should still be able to cope.
For those not in the know, there is another '1337' way to get your ps2 online, and a nice online community to support it.
The "official" Sony line is that you need a sync-on-green monitor to use the Linux PS2 kit, but there are other ways to skin that cat.
out of curiosity what is the plural of universe? Universes? n-versi? Or does the word properly preclude plurality?
It am UniversEN. Plural of Universe am Universen.
What about the rabbit with big narly teeth that almost killed all of Sir Arthurs knights?
It was only because that particular rabbit had a vicious streak a mile wide. Don't fear the Lepus.
I think the more interesting point, and one the article failed to mention, is where are all these people going to live,
;)
Where are they going to live? Montana! Have you seen how much space they have in that state? When you're there you're just thinking overpopulation???????
::sound of slashdot crickets::
If you want to understand the invented languages of Tolkien, a good place to start is with a meetup group.
:)
Some people take their Elvishness pretty sillyessny...erm meant to say seriously...
Email is of course the traditional business tool and works well enough. Technically savvy users can shunt all messages with the word 'Pfizer' or 'Novartis' or 'IBM' into folders according to job and have a forensic record of everything that was said via email.
;)
But the technical sophistication of any group of business users is likely to be too low to do anything more to hit 'send'. What I like about this site is how conversations sort of evolve organically and the cream of the discussions have a tendency (note: I did not say absolutely that they always do) rise to the top. (Okay, so I may be in the minority in that opinion
So, my question is, what about using Slash as a business tool? Say that the tech dept (yo soy un capitano, aqui) sets up a linux box running slash, mySql, PHP, Apache and sets up a page where folks could blog about the "work" that they are doing? With headlines reading, instead of things like "Linus to star in toothpaste commercial", it could have "stories" representing "Pfizer Job#2071" and the like? Managers would then moderate the discussions? I thought of this while at a company retreat where we were discussing different information processing techniques.
And yes, business users may not be that technically savvy, but browing at -1 would be enough to convince one it doesn't take much mental "juice" to blog (or moderate for that matter). It's a weird idea, but I wonder if it might have potential?
The above comment is not by me. I disavow all knowlege of this, do not harbor these beliefs. Left myself logged in and a co-worker thought this was funny. I did not.
Let's face facts. Arabs are a shifty, guiltless and guilefull group of folks who will stab you in the back any chance they can get! But are they smart enough to write code? Hardly! Let's not forget where computer technology started, people. The USofA! And think about it, Al Qaeda have hated the US for so much for so long, if they were smart enough to understand technology don't you think they would've tried something like this by now? They are not smart enough to be of any real threat when it comes to technology.
LISTEN TO THIS MAN! I just went to the Motorhead, Dio, and Iron Maiden concert last night, and still can not hear! Motorhead played so loud thatit hurt my ears. I got some earplugs for the Dio set, but took them out fo Maiden. Needless to say, I still can not hear. Hopefully by tommorrow I will be able too.
:) That didn't bring me back to "normal" hearing, though. What the Rx explained to me is that the ear has "natural defenses" agains loud noises and some parts of the inner ear swell up to prevent further damage. Pretty intellegent, really. But during that period where parts of the inner ear are "swollen" everything will sound quiter. After about a week, everything returned to "normal" and my hearing honestly seems completely fine. Except of course for the ringing in the ears, which never went away. I hope that your hearing returns to normal sans ringing! If you're still concerned about your hearing, a good souce for information is this place called "HEAR"or "Hearing And Education for Rockers". Some people may find them to be a bit preachy, but if you can get past that there is a lot you can learn about how not to fuck up your hearing. As the old saying goes, you don't know what you have till it's gone.
Thanks dude. I'm sorry to hear that you're having trouble with your hearing. I strongly believe that my tinnitus was caused in large part by wearing headphones. But what tipped the balance for me, as far as the persistent ringing in my ears is concerned, was seeing the Nine Inch Nails play at a tiny club in Neptune NJ (back in 1990). It was so loud it was like standing inside a jet engine. Directly afterward I couldn't hear properly for three days straight days to the point where during that time everything sounded as if it were under water. The loss in hearing, thank god was temporary, but the ringing in the ears has been there ever since. Another time, a few years later I was bombed out of my mind at a Bad Brains show, and due to fluctuations in the pit, I ended up pressed up against the speaker column! Though at that point I was a devout ear-plug user, and I were using 30db attenuation rated earplugs it wasn't nearly enough for the time I was pressed up against the speakers! From that point I had tinnitus *AND* pain for something on the order of 3 years afterward. Not fun, not really.
I have to say though that earplugs, while gerally a good idea, definitely interfere with your enjoyment of live music. The bottom ranges of the music become muddy, and the top ranges are almost always cut-out altogether. A good alternative to your garden variety drugstore earplugs are something known as "musician's earplugs" which attenuate all frequencies of the sound spectrum at roughly the same level.The only drawback to those is that they are fairly pricey (at approximately $200 a pop, last time I looked). So, if you lose them or they fall out of your at a show you're fucked! Other than that, even at the going rate I find them to be of exceptional value.
But what you are going through in terms of "deafness" is almost certainly temporary. It sounds like what happened to me after the NIN show. I went to the doctor because I was so freaked about the possibility of going deaf and a good old fashioned ear siphoning did a lot to restore the hearing I had "lost". Pretty amazing how much they can get out of there, I'm pretty sure I could have built an entire new human out of the refuse ejected from my ear!
As to this "bitcreep" fellow (or whatever the fuck his name is)...about all I can say is "yeesh! Some people!" He makes a lot of assumptions about my "assumptions" and what I know and what I don't know. And I was particularly entertained by his attempts to tell me what I'm saying. Thus spake bitdork:
What I don't get is how you save 17% when solar panels are included with the new house. There's no 'before solar' for this house to compare bills! Comparing with some completely different house introduces an adsurd number of variables other than the solar panels and thus isn't a valid comparison at all.
Except that most houses these days are mass produced, cookie-cutter homes. Travel to any suburb you want and this will be instantly apparent. Take two houses that are architecturally identical and aligned to similar points on the compass (as closely as is reasonably possible), and are also near to one another. Provide one with solar, one without. Bingo! Instant comparison with the elimination of as many variables as possible.
For what it's worth my hearing is just fine too.
Like I said, we all think we're immortal, especially when we're young. But we're all put together the same, pal. Physics are physics. I'm glad you're okay, and I'm sure you're banking that you'll always be okay. I used to bank on that too. Now all I can tell you is "don't bank on it"!
...than your hearing! We're all used to thinking of ourselves as immortal, especially when we are young. When I was a teenager I used to listen to a Sony walkman fully crankin'. Now I have well over a decade of suffeing with tinnitus. Anything over 90db is damaging to the ear. One hearing specialist said that listening to headphones is akin to jamming a pair of firehoses into both ears and turning the water on full blast in terms of the damage it'll do to your hearing. It may sound like hyperbole, but it probably isn't that far from the truth!
Tinnitus can cause depression, sleeplessness and a host of other psychic and physical maladies. From a personal perspective, if you hear a loud noise that annoys the hell out of you you have two choices. 1)Walk out of the room where you hear the offending noise 2) Turn the sound down! If you have tinnitus, you can't do either of those things. You just have to live with it. There is no cure and by the time you realize that the ringing in your ears isn't going away that's about it. You will hear that sound for the rest of your life! Unless, of course nanomedicine can provide a cure, but don't hold your breath or hang your hopes on that one!
Don't forget that Meetup isn't just about Slashdot anymore, (nor was it ever, in fact!). You could network with other Pagan Parents, for example, you could meet other Adult Fans of Harry Potter, Dungeons and Dragons nerdboys/girls, Dachshund enthusiasts or try your hand at learning Elvish (thatis, if learning Spanish isn't quite grabbing your interest these days). I've noticed some very cute girls in my local Elvish Meetup. Been hoping to meet a nice girl geek either there or at the Sci Fi Meetup.
Although the C language has been around for close to 30 years, its appeal has not yet worn off.
I'm sure that in some ways that statement may be true, but I've been trying for MONTHS to get people interested in the C/C++ Meetups! Compared to Python you'd think we were trying to start a Sanskrit study group!
btw..fp? hee hee!
The IRS is a great agency for exacting revenge on people idiotic enough to declare themselves your enemy.
That's no joke. Just ask the Christic Institute. The Christic Institute is a government watchdog agency that has been a thorne in the side of Uncle Sam for a great many years.
I first hear about Christic during the Iran Contra "guns for drugs" scandle in the mid 1980s. They were the ones who actually brought the suit against the government.
An apt description of the Christic Institute (as appearing in this article)"The institute has won several landmark civil lawsuits, including the "Greensboro massacre" case against members of the American Nazi Party and Ku Klux Klan who assassinated demonstrators in 1979, and the "Silkwood" case against the nuclear industry. The institute does not charge legal fees and depends entirely on contributions from churches, Jewish philanthropies, private foundations and individual supporters."
Another decent (and slightly more in-depth) history of the organization can be found here. The sad truth is that the IRS is likely to revoke their not for profit status making them liabel for back taxes for all of the years they have been in operation. Many feel that this is in direct retaliation to the Avrigan vs. Hull lawsuit. The government is alredy quite fond of issuing hefty fines to the institute for what it deems to be "frivolous lawsuits" (I'll let you judge that one for yourselves) as a means of intimidating them into not persuing their just causes. But if this IRS thing the IRS has in mind at the prompting of ultra conservative members of the house, it could mean the final curtain call for a heroic agency that has done much to keep america free.
I've been awaiting KOTR for a good long time, but after the enormous initial let-down of SW Galaxies, I can only say I'm not holding my breath. I've always loved RPGs and I've always loved SW, so the two just seem like two great tastes that taste great together; hence Galaxies & KOTR.
The character creation on Galaxies is actually pretty good. But, for me at least, that's where the fun ended. The physics models, simply put, make calling this game any more than BETAware an act of hubris and wishful thinking. See a table, chair, other character? I'm willing to suspend disbelief in Lucasland, but can't at least my character be corporeal? Can't he at least be a stumblebum and bump into things once in a while instead of doing the Casper the friendly ghost routine all the time?
The missions are tedious, dull and more often than not are broken. I had one mission that was waaay out on the outskirts of the 'main town' of the planet I was on. Trudge, trudge, trudge, trudge....trudge, trudge...are we there yet?...trudge and trudge some more. UNbelievably tedious. To make matters WORSE...the graphics break! I assume it's not a driver issue, because they seem to work fine when you are in the city. But if you go out really far it seems like you just sort of walk off the map! At that point the graphics start going so wiggy it is actually difficult to see yourself -OR- your enemies. To add insult to injury, when you finally get to where you're going and actually see the thing you are supposed to shoot...you sometimes get a cursos promt allowing you to attack, and sometimes NOT.
Galaxies, much as it pains me to finally admit this to myself and the world, is an enormous terd-burgler. Will I waste my money on KOTR? Bet your ass! It simply CAN'T be worse than Galaxies!!! If that makes me a 5ukkor, so be it.
And Slashdotters DO? Won't pocket protectors and lack of coordination while high-fiving have to come into style before that happens? ;)
I've been awaiting KOTR for a good long time, but after the enormous initial let-down of SW Galaxies, I can only say I'm not holding my breath. I've always loved RPGs and I've always loved SW, so the two just seem like two great tastes that taste great together; hence Galaxies & KOTR.
The character creation on Galaxies is actually pretty good. But, for me at least, that's where the fun ended. The physics models, simply put, make calling this game any more than BETAware an act of hubris and wishful thinking. See a table, chair, other character? I'm willing to suspend disbelief in Lucasland, but can't at least my character be corporeal? Can't he at least be a stumblebum and bump into things once in a while instead of doing the Casper the friendly ghost routine all the time?
The missions are tedious, dull and more often than not are broken. I had one mission that was waaay out on the outskirts of the 'main town' of the planet I was on. Trudge, trudge, trudge, trudge....trudge, trudge...are we there yet?...trudge and trudge some more. UNbelievably tedious. To make matters WORSE...the graphics break! I assume it's not a driver issue, because the graphics work fine when you are in the city, but if you go out really far it just seems like you just sort of walk off the map and the graphics start going so wiggy it is actually difficult to see yourself -OR- your enemies. Not only that, but you finally get to where you're going and actually see the thing you are supposed to shoot, sometimes gets a cursor prompt (allowing you to attack) and other times NOT.
Galaxies, much as it pains me to finally admit this to myself and the world, is an enormous terd-burgler. Will I waste my money on KOTR? Bet your ass! It simply CAN'T be worse than Galaxies!!! If that makes me a 5ukkor, so be it.
/me does a Dire Straits riff on his air guitar...
To the silly ass moderator who thought that the above comment was a troll, it wasn't. If I had my mod points today (instead of burning them all yesterday) this would've gotten a +1 Funny from me.
In their 1985 Album Brothers In Arms there was a song called "Money For Nothing" in which Sting sang the famous refrain "I Want My MTV" in the background, while Mark Knopfler pretends to be a moving man who gripes about his career choices versus "the little faggot with the earring and the make up...got his own jet airplane, that little faggot he a millionaire".
Obviously, this was a play on words, you can easily sing "I want my SGI" to the tune of that song. But it's not really the moderator's fault for not knowing that. He was probably born the year that song came out!