There was a story I read once of an astronaut marooned on the Moon. No shortage of oxygen, and water recycling in the suit is efficient, but... the sun...
A month later the rescue ship arrives at the crash site and sees footprints heading off into the night. And coming over the horizon 180 degrees away from there is a very dusty and extremely tired astronaut:-)
In addition, they couldn't even reach the large number of gentoo users due to the fact that gentoo requires you to compile from the source code.
Two issues with this:
1: Large number of Gentoo users?
2: Requires you to compile from source? I seem to remember getting binaries when I emerge'd my nVidia drivers, Unreal Tournament Linux port and Real Player (yes, yes... I know better now.)
I have a whole lot of VBA written in Office. I could redo it all in OOo, but it's probably not worth my time if Microsoft's price for Linux Office is reasonable.
From what I heard, it's Office that's the real cash cow anyway, not Windows. Why shouldn't they?
I think you might have these two the wrong way round. RMS strikes me as more the 'I wanna be King!' type, while Linus is a wizard - immensely powerful, but more as an enabler of others than in his own right.
"A disruptor can fire water or slugs at a package with pinpoint accuracy and is supposed to be able to break apart the circuitry of an explosive device." Thankfully, the modem was well packed and survived.
Aha! Brothers, all we need do is wrap our explosives in plastic just like the infidels do with their satanic cable modems, and their water bullets will have no effect! Allahu akbar!
Your average Joe user can set up XP. Not so with Linux.
I don't think that's true at all. Your average Joe user can use XP, if the computer manufacturer or a local geek installed it for them.
Present average Joe user with a computer with an unformatted hard disk, and the Windows and Linux install media, and he'll get exactly nowhere with either one.
Hmm... that would only really be interesting if the machines were intelligent. If I order an intelligent robot slave from an intelligent robot dealer, what do the robots think about this?
But as long as they're not, then an internet shopping site is just the same principle as an ATM - it is, as near as is imaginable, an autoatic retail machine. Nothing scary or weird about that at all.
In fact, I overdid it with internet shopping. There were vending machines selling Coke long before there were ATMs dealing out cash...
To paraphrase a line from The Boondock Saints, That's just fuckin' scary. Automatic Retailer Machines. Man, i am not looking forward to a robot selling me a computer.
You're kidding, right?
I built my computer entirely from parts sold to me by machines. I didn't enter a store to buy any component - I connected my computer (my _previous_ computer, pedants, not the one I was about to build) to the P75 firewall, which connected to a machine at the ISP, and thence via a global network of interconnected computer I was able to access the computers of various electronics retailers, and place my orders for components entirely without the involvement of another human being.
My problem with graphic novels is... I started with Sandman, then read Dark Knight Returns, and it's been all downhill from there.
DK2 was OKish, I suppose, and some X-Men stories aren't too bad, and Preacher was good fun... but maybe because of those first two, my expectations are unrealistically high.
I've been following Lucifer for a while, and it seems to me like Sandman but without the humanity. If Sandman had cut out The Doll's House and A Game of You and so on, and just got on with the main story... well, that's Lucifer.
A TV with no 'off' switch? Prior art dating back to, oh...
Well, it's 2004 now, so let's say...
20 years.
In Corporate Britain, YOU watch BIG BROTHER!
More seriously, though: I read recently that in North Korea the houses have radios built in to the kitchens which have can be turned up and down, but not off. They broadcast patriotic songs and speeches 24 hours a day.
I imagine you'd be grateful for the power blackouts after a while...
3) Despite the use of baseball bats in crimes, they are not illegal. Why? Because, like the Internet, CD burners, and VCRs, they have substantial, non-infringing uses.
Hardly anybody in the UK plays baseball. Yet if you look about any largish city sports store you'll find baseball bats.
What are people buying these blunt instruments for, then?... Let's ban them!
Go watch "2001 a space odyssey" (released in 1970) to see where it was widely thought we should have been by 2001.
IIRC, 2001 was released in 1968. Think: that film was made in a time when nobody had ever been to the moon, but they were just about to do so. At Christmas '68 Apollo 8 orbited the Moon for the first time. That's the backdrop to 2001.
Now it's 2004. We've been to the Moon, we gave it up because we wanted to spend the money on killing Vietnamese people, and nobody seems to care anymore.
If you're upgrading, look for at least 128 MB of video memory in a card with Direct X 9.0 capability that installs into an AGP slot.
I thought Carmack was a big OpenGL fan. (Maybe the last one in the video game industry.) Why would you need DirectX for Doom? Maybe that's just shorthand for certain shared requirements, such as programmable GPU capabilities.
Don't know, but the advice given up there is dangerous.
128MB, DirectX 9.0, AGP: that specifies a GeForceFX 5200, the definitive dog of a video card. I've bought one without realising and the only reason it isn't on eBay right now is that it's so shamefully underpowered it runs without a fan... nice DVD viewing card, but some poor sod's going to read that advice and buy the thing for Doom 3!
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A month later the rescue ship arrives at the crash site and sees footprints heading off into the night. And coming over the horizon 180 degrees away from there is a very dusty and extremely tired astronaut :-)
Two issues with this:
1: Large number of Gentoo users?
2: Requires you to compile from source? I seem to remember getting binaries when I emerge'd my nVidia drivers, Unreal Tournament Linux port and Real Player (yes, yes... I know better now.)
From what I heard, it's Office that's the real cash cow anyway, not Windows. Why shouldn't they?
Probably bowls. "There is time enough to finish the game, and beat the Sconiards too."
I think you might have these two the wrong way round. RMS strikes me as more the 'I wanna be King!' type, while Linus is a wizard - immensely powerful, but more as an enabler of others than in his own right.
Nah. It should have been OOOO.
What if the Beatles had been immunised against drugs at birth?
Damn, that would suck.
Crosspost that to comp.os.linux and soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm. It would provoke an interesting thread.
Aha! Brothers, all we need do is wrap our explosives in plastic just like the infidels do with their satanic cable modems, and their water bullets will have no effect! Allahu akbar!
I don't think that's true at all. Your average Joe user can use XP, if the computer manufacturer or a local geek installed it for them.
Present average Joe user with a computer with an unformatted hard disk, and the Windows and Linux install media, and he'll get exactly nowhere with either one.
But as long as they're not, then an internet shopping site is just the same principle as an ATM - it is, as near as is imaginable, an autoatic retail machine. Nothing scary or weird about that at all.
In fact, I overdid it with internet shopping. There were vending machines selling Coke long before there were ATMs dealing out cash...
So why didn't you spell Michelangelo correctly?
You're kidding, right?
I built my computer entirely from parts sold to me by machines. I didn't enter a store to buy any component - I connected my computer (my _previous_ computer, pedants, not the one I was about to build) to the P75 firewall, which connected to a machine at the ISP, and thence via a global network of interconnected computer I was able to access the computers of various electronics retailers, and place my orders for components entirely without the involvement of another human being.
Amazing thing, modern technology...
DK2 was OKish, I suppose, and some X-Men stories aren't too bad, and Preacher was good fun... but maybe because of those first two, my expectations are unrealistically high.
I've been following Lucifer for a while, and it seems to me like Sandman but without the humanity. If Sandman had cut out The Doll's House and A Game of You and so on, and just got on with the main story... well, that's Lucifer.
Well, it's 2004 now, so let's say...
20 years.
In Corporate Britain, YOU watch BIG BROTHER!
More seriously, though: I read recently that in North Korea the houses have radios built in to the kitchens which have can be turned up and down, but not off. They broadcast patriotic songs and speeches 24 hours a day.
I imagine you'd be grateful for the power blackouts after a while...
And that makes you spend more maintenance costs and troubleshooting time than using Linux.
I'm so delighted to be able to say this:
Windows XP is only free if your time is worth nothing.
Portable improbability drive, atomic vector plotter, nice hot cup of tea.
Shame they already have, then. OK, so the current record for quantum computation is calculating that 15 = 3 x 5, but it's a start...
I don't know how long it will last, but at least I'm pretty certain of where it is.
Hardly anybody in the UK plays baseball. Yet if you look about any largish city sports store you'll find baseball bats.
What are people buying these blunt instruments for, then?... Let's ban them!
IIRC, 2001 was released in 1968. Think: that film was made in a time when nobody had ever been to the moon, but they were just about to do so. At Christmas '68 Apollo 8 orbited the Moon for the first time. That's the backdrop to 2001.
Now it's 2004. We've been to the Moon, we gave it up because we wanted to spend the money on killing Vietnamese people, and nobody seems to care anymore.
There's a word for this. Decadent.
You don't need to conceal a katana. I saw in this film once, they'll just let you take it right onto the plane with you.
The Eye wasn't in Minas Morgul. It was in Barad-dûr.
I thought Carmack was a big OpenGL fan. (Maybe the last one in the video game industry.) Why would you need DirectX for Doom? Maybe that's just shorthand for certain shared requirements, such as programmable GPU capabilities.
Don't know, but the advice given up there is dangerous.
128MB, DirectX 9.0, AGP: that specifies a GeForceFX 5200, the definitive dog of a video card. I've bought one without realising and the only reason it isn't on eBay right now is that it's so shamefully underpowered it runs without a fan... nice DVD viewing card, but some poor sod's going to read that advice and buy the thing for Doom 3!
I AM.
And that's all that's needed. If God exists and is as you describe him, then it is clear that our duty is to destroy him. The Universe is not safe as long as it is run by that maniac.