The exterior of a real world business can usually indicate the kind of business it is, so that kind of ambiguity in the name is not an issue when walking down the street. Adult businesses on the street aren't trying to trick you into stepping in by pretending to be something else. If they did, I'm sure they would be under legal scrutiny the first time a minor walked into the establishment. I think that Internet business should have the clarity in naming because in the current internet environment, you don't know what you are walking into (in the more ambiguous cases, anyway) until you are basically "in the shop".
I'm not advocating anything, but what about sites that consider themselves artistic rather than raw?
Given, it's easier to draw the line as some points, but what about where the line is gray? Does display of nipples automatically engage the adult high-level requirement?
You didn't really read my response, or else you have a comprehension problem. I said myself that perhaps WinXP would have handled it. My point was not to bring Windows down, but to show that my Linux stuff works fine. I also said that I was impressed so far with XP that runs on my wife's laptop.
By the way, I was only installing Windows on this box because I was considering dual-booting to use a few games that don't run well under Winex. Windows does not like being the second drive on the system which is where I wanted it, so I gave up and went to my Linux only boot.
I use Red Hat 8.0 at home. The following is true. I am NOT embellishing this and I'm not a Linux expert nor am I Windows impaired.
My hardware is better supported under Linux. That's right. It works BETTER under Linux than Windows98. In particular, my sound card. It is a Sound Blaster Live 5.1. Admittedly, the following is a hole in Creative Labs' support, rather than a true Windows issue, but without the original driver disk, I cannot install the driver that I downloaded from their site under Win98. Maybe I would have better luck with XP, but I don't want to buy it when Linux works so well for me.
Red Hat recognized the card during installation and got it running for me without trouble. ALL of my hardware was detected and works like a champ under Linux including my HP Deskjet 722C which is a known Windows based printer. I bought that printer back when I only used Windows.
As far as having a life... I am married and have a 2 year old son, plus I have all the standard work that comes with home ownership, and I am the only person on call for a system I support, so I'm very busy. But my Linux box just works. I DO admit that I struggled when using Mandrake getting everything working, but Red Hat is a champ. My wife runs Linux on a laptop, and I will admit that I've been impressed with its stability compared with older Windows versions I used.
But Red Hat just works, and I can get things done without supporting a company that I think is terrible for consumers.
He's not trying to get everyone to do this, therefore he's pushing nothing on anyone. The only folks involved would be those that choose to get involved. Personally, I would not get involved. If I did, the first time someone confronted me with something they considered wrong, they would learn that my philosophies don't match their own.
Seems to me that if a person's convictions in their own beliefs and morals doesn't prevent them from doing what they consider wrong, then they need counseling rather than guilt to cure it.
It also logs usage for a connection, not an individual, so I would think that your entire household would have to agree to this. Talk about ugly peer pressure with your kids when they know an outsider is watching them. And what about accidents? I've tried to get one web site, but arrived at another because I goofed somewhere on the URL.
What about follow-up? If I was supposed to watch someone else, I would not feel inclined to confron them if they cruise into the "naughty stuff". Maybe I'm not right for this thing, tho.
...when they read about trying to find virgin Apache?
Perhaps headlines like this are part of the reason the tribes don't like native American references on sports teams, products, etc.
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OK, conceded. The trigger was not the car reference so much as your topic (Nebraska, eh) being closely paired with "dumb hick". Keep in mind that text communication lacks inflection, therefore your intended tone has to be assumed.
what did I learn from your answer? Nothing.
Actually, I'm guessing that at the very least, I proved to you that one of us Nebraskans is literate and owns a computer implying the use of electricity, as well. I'm getting one of those fancy new flush toilets installed next week, although they hypnotize Ma when she watches them flush.:-) Actually, I think the moderators were simply trying to show support for my point of view. They may also be oppressed midwesterners.
Yeah, as I admitted earlier... I'm being defensive. I do laugh at myself among my friends, coworkers, etc., but on a national level, I feel like the coasters are laughing at us, not with us.
First, as I said in grandparent, it wasn't ignorant, it was humorous. I really do not believe that Nebraskan scientists are trying to put a heart in a Chevy.
Now you didn't retract your quip about "dumb hicks", did you? That was the only part that got me started here, not the car reference.
I have to put up with some of this from my wife from time to time, also. She is from Long Island, so she's a proud New Yorker. She once said "I wouldn't be proud of being a Nebraska native", at which point I had to remind her of where our son was born. Sheesh. To ice the cake, she thinks that you fold your pizza in half before consuming. She also swears that NY pizza tastes better. I tell her it's because she's gotten used to the blood in the tomato sauce from the mob being mixed up in the restaurants over there.
Maybe I'm not alone in my humor deficiency. I didn't see any +1 Funny moderation on your comment, so it must have gone over the head of every single moderator. Must be big city humor that all of us dumb hicks don't get. Matter of fact, you were modded down... Offtopic -1. Sounds like a moderator dislikes your humor.
Now...let's compare scores. I've been modded up twice for my response (although this flame may cost me a bit of karma... I'll risk that). One "Interesting" mark, one "Insightful". You're a smart big city boy, so I don't think I have to explain that to you. I think tact is beyond you, however, so I will explain... others saw my response as reasonable... not humor impaired or simply defensive.
Maybe I'll just have to take your word for it that it was funny and assume that it was not meant in a demeaning manner. I read it again, imagining you smiling as you type the message... nope, still doesn't strike me as a friendly jab. Dumb hick I am.
To give you some credit, yes, it was defensive, I won't pretend otherwise. However, ignorant comments like yours affect me that way. it's a constant lack of respect that the New York and LA crowd has for everything between their two cities. I was in downtown Omaha a few years ago. We have a historic section called the Old Market. Quaint, peaceful. A man was sitting outside, enjoying a brew, and he says to his companion "I'll tell ya... this place is really laid back... but all the people around here like to act like they're from somewhere else." What the hell does that mean? He was making that comment as several teenagers were driving by in their modified imports. To him, it wasn't appropriate that Omaha kids are driving cars that you might find teens driving in New York or LA. Like they would somehow be genetically different and have different drives and desires. I guess they should have been pulling hay wagons. Damn us for having some common interests to the New York and LA crowd.
Nope...sorry. I guarantee I've seen more of this country than you have. I know how to survive in a big city. I've done it (no, I'm not referring to Omaha, although I'll bet it ain't as small-town as you think). You have nothing on me. I'm not the impaired one.
They're from Nebraska, so what they've done doesn't have significance? The East and West coast folks don't have a monopoly on intelligence or innovation. That heart wasn't held on with bailing wire, Einstein. Whether I agree with it or not, the location has nothing ot do with the significance of the achievement.
Troll.
Terry
Omaha, Nebraska
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With photos? Did they supply photos? Most urban legends don't come with photo evidence.
You have a legit point. I've heard several people talk about being able to flash from within Windows. My desktop at home runs Red Hat. I can't very well flash from Windows. As it is, I am frustrated with the number of assumptions that are made that if I am using Intel or AMD I MUST be using Windows. The executables need to be written to a bootable DOS diskette.
In my opinion, bios flash routines should be delivered as a small ISO image with DR DOS or Linux rather than just an executable. I should be able to perform the update without MS DOS.
The media is cheaper, both in quality and dollar cost. I remember in junior high carrying some floppies in my backpack, and not being careful. They got folded in half (5-1/4) and, once straightened, still worked long enough for me to transfer the stuff to new disks. They were darn expensive, however at about $2 a pop to hold 360K of data.
Great. I'm not saying that it never works to format them yourself. On the contrary, it usually does work. However, a disk formatted on a drive with misaligned heads or one that is writing weak bits (sorry... don't know the correct terminology here, but basically, a drive that isn't working well) can be hard to read on other machines.
From what I understand, this is often a difference in the drives rather than the media itself. Using preformatted media reduces the problem, but if you format a floppy on one machine, the alignment of its heads can impact the ability of another machine to read it.
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You are, of course, free do do as you please, but I urge you to reconsider.
My own opinion is that Linux is not (much) harder to use, just different than Windows. You have years of Windows experience, don't you? Give yourself equal time on Linux.
Overall, I do agree with you. I have a problem with technical elitists. I do believe that the less you have to know about the internals of a tool, the better.
Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy a challenge, and I do love to learn, but on my own terms. I don't want to do hours of research to do something simple on my desktop. I'm not lazy, but now that I'm a family man, I can't dedicate time to my hobby like I used to.
Mandrake was easy to use. I used 8.1, 8.2 and 9.0. I purchased boxed copies of the last two. I have Powerpack 9.0. I am also a club member.
My experience has not been the same as yours, however. My initial install went great, but I experienced stability problems with all three including occasional hard lockups where the machine would not even respond to a ping. A hard reboot would then cause it to report a corrupt superblock.
I've switched to Red Hat now, and my stability increased greatly. I don't think Mandrake ever had quite the right driver for my IDE controller. I do wish I could have resolved it, but I never had any luck. Red hat has been a better newbie experience for me because I can spend more time exploring and less time fixing.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment, but I would never compare incarceration to retirement. Do you ever watch Oz on HBO? It may not be as bad as that (I imagine not), but any state penitetiary is probably closer to that than it is to being a country club. I don't think many Slashdotters would fare well when Bubba and the other girls decide to "initiate" you. I hope to spend time traveling when I retire... enjoying the outdoors. Hard to do that in the pen.
Yep. I used the dagger more than anything. If there were two guards in the room, it kept the second from throwing the alarm and making the game much harder.... the memories...
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The exterior of a real world business can usually indicate the kind of business it is, so that kind of ambiguity in the name is not an issue when walking down the street. Adult businesses on the street aren't trying to trick you into stepping in by pretending to be something else. If they did, I'm sure they would be under legal scrutiny the first time a minor walked into the establishment. I think that Internet business should have the clarity in naming because in the current internet environment, you don't know what you are walking into (in the more ambiguous cases, anyway) until you are basically "in the shop".
I'm not advocating anything, but what about sites that consider themselves artistic rather than raw?
Given, it's easier to draw the line as some points, but what about where the line is gray? Does display of nipples automatically engage the adult high-level requirement?
You didn't really read my response, or else you have a comprehension problem. I said myself that perhaps WinXP would have handled it. My point was not to bring Windows down, but to show that my Linux stuff works fine. I also said that I was impressed so far with XP that runs on my wife's laptop.
By the way, I was only installing Windows on this box because I was considering dual-booting to use a few games that don't run well under Winex. Windows does not like being the second drive on the system which is where I wanted it, so I gave up and went to my Linux only boot.
Hmmm... I should not reply to trolls, but...
I use Red Hat 8.0 at home. The following is true. I am NOT embellishing this and I'm not a Linux expert nor am I Windows impaired.
My hardware is better supported under Linux. That's right. It works BETTER under Linux than Windows98. In particular, my sound card. It is a Sound Blaster Live 5.1. Admittedly, the following is a hole in Creative Labs' support, rather than a true Windows issue, but without the original driver disk, I cannot install the driver that I downloaded from their site under Win98. Maybe I would have better luck with XP, but I don't want to buy it when Linux works so well for me.
Red Hat recognized the card during installation and got it running for me without trouble. ALL of my hardware was detected and works like a champ under Linux including my HP Deskjet 722C which is a known Windows based printer. I bought that printer back when I only used Windows.
As far as having a life... I am married and have a 2 year old son, plus I have all the standard work that comes with home ownership, and I am the only person on call for a system I support, so I'm very busy. But my Linux box just works. I DO admit that I struggled when using Mandrake getting everything working, but Red Hat is a champ. My wife runs Linux on a laptop, and I will admit that I've been impressed with its stability compared with older Windows versions I used.
But Red Hat just works, and I can get things done without supporting a company that I think is terrible for consumers.
He's not trying to get everyone to do this, therefore he's pushing nothing on anyone. The only folks involved would be those that choose to get involved. Personally, I would not get involved. If I did, the first time someone confronted me with something they considered wrong, they would learn that my philosophies don't match their own.
Seems to me that if a person's convictions in their own beliefs and morals doesn't prevent them from doing what they consider wrong, then they need counseling rather than guilt to cure it. It also logs usage for a connection, not an individual, so I would think that your entire household would have to agree to this. Talk about ugly peer pressure with your kids when they know an outsider is watching them. And what about accidents? I've tried to get one web site, but arrived at another because I goofed somewhere on the URL. What about follow-up? If I was supposed to watch someone else, I would not feel inclined to confron them if they cruise into the "naughty stuff". Maybe I'm not right for this thing, tho.
Hard to say. It was the first time I've been modded down, and with a few beers in my system, I s'pose I was in a fighting mood.
Offtopic?
Come on. It's a reasonable and almost funny response to the post above me. It's perfectly ON TOPIC for the coversation.
Somewhere there's a moderator with "LOSER" emblazoned across his (her?) forehead because they couldn't find a better way to use their mod points.
That's what I was afraid of.
:-)
...when they read about trying to find virgin Apache? Perhaps headlines like this are part of the reason the tribes don't like native American references on sports teams, products, etc.
Google can clue you in.
OK, conceded. The trigger was not the car reference so much as your topic (Nebraska, eh) being closely paired with "dumb hick". Keep in mind that text communication lacks inflection, therefore your intended tone has to be assumed.
Actually, I'm guessing that at the very least, I proved to you that one of us Nebraskans is literate and owns a computer implying the use of electricity, as well. I'm getting one of those fancy new flush toilets installed next week, although they hypnotize Ma when she watches them flush. :-) Actually, I think the moderators were simply trying to show support for my point of view. They may also be oppressed midwesterners.
Yeah, as I admitted earlier... I'm being defensive. I do laugh at myself among my friends, coworkers, etc., but on a national level, I feel like the coasters are laughing at us, not with us.
Now you didn't retract your quip about "dumb hicks", did you? That was the only part that got me started here, not the car reference.
I have to put up with some of this from my wife from time to time, also. She is from Long Island, so she's a proud New Yorker. She once said "I wouldn't be proud of being a Nebraska native", at which point I had to remind her of where our son was born. Sheesh. To ice the cake, she thinks that you fold your pizza in half before consuming. She also swears that NY pizza tastes better. I tell her it's because she's gotten used to the blood in the tomato sauce from the mob being mixed up in the restaurants over there.
...anyway.... I digress...
Maybe I'm not alone in my humor deficiency. I didn't see any +1 Funny moderation on your comment, so it must have gone over the head of every single moderator. Must be big city humor that all of us dumb hicks don't get. Matter of fact, you were modded down... Offtopic -1. Sounds like a moderator dislikes your humor.
Now...let's compare scores. I've been modded up twice for my response (although this flame may cost me a bit of karma... I'll risk that). One "Interesting" mark, one "Insightful". You're a smart big city boy, so I don't think I have to explain that to you. I think tact is beyond you, however, so I will explain... others saw my response as reasonable... not humor impaired or simply defensive.
Maybe I'll just have to take your word for it that it was funny and assume that it was not meant in a demeaning manner. I read it again, imagining you smiling as you type the message... nope, still doesn't strike me as a friendly jab. Dumb hick I am.
To give you some credit, yes, it was defensive, I won't pretend otherwise. However, ignorant comments like yours affect me that way. it's a constant lack of respect that the New York and LA crowd has for everything between their two cities. I was in downtown Omaha a few years ago. We have a historic section called the Old Market. Quaint, peaceful. A man was sitting outside, enjoying a brew, and he says to his companion "I'll tell ya... this place is really laid back... but all the people around here like to act like they're from somewhere else." What the hell does that mean? He was making that comment as several teenagers were driving by in their modified imports. To him, it wasn't appropriate that Omaha kids are driving cars that you might find teens driving in New York or LA. Like they would somehow be genetically different and have different drives and desires. I guess they should have been pulling hay wagons. Damn us for having some common interests to the New York and LA crowd.
Nope...sorry. I guarantee I've seen more of this country than you have. I know how to survive in a big city. I've done it (no, I'm not referring to Omaha, although I'll bet it ain't as small-town as you think). You have nothing on me. I'm not the impaired one.
They're from Nebraska, so what they've done doesn't have significance? The East and West coast folks don't have a monopoly on intelligence or innovation. That heart wasn't held on with bailing wire, Einstein. Whether I agree with it or not, the location has nothing ot do with the significance of the achievement.
Troll.
Terry
Omaha, Nebraska
With photos? Did they supply photos? Most urban legends don't come with photo evidence.
You have a legit point. I've heard several people talk about being able to flash from within Windows. My desktop at home runs Red Hat. I can't very well flash from Windows. As it is, I am frustrated with the number of assumptions that are made that if I am using Intel or AMD I MUST be using Windows. The executables need to be written to a bootable DOS diskette.
In my opinion, bios flash routines should be delivered as a small ISO image with DR DOS or Linux rather than just an executable. I should be able to perform the update without MS DOS.
The media is cheaper, both in quality and dollar cost. I remember in junior high carrying some floppies in my backpack, and not being careful. They got folded in half (5-1/4) and, once straightened, still worked long enough for me to transfer the stuff to new disks. They were darn expensive, however at about $2 a pop to hold 360K of data.
Great. I'm not saying that it never works to format them yourself. On the contrary, it usually does work. However, a disk formatted on a drive with misaligned heads or one that is writing weak bits (sorry... don't know the correct terminology here, but basically, a drive that isn't working well) can be hard to read on other machines.
From what I understand, this is often a difference in the drives rather than the media itself. Using preformatted media reduces the problem, but if you format a floppy on one machine, the alignment of its heads can impact the ability of another machine to read it.
You are, of course, free do do as you please, but I urge you to reconsider.
My own opinion is that Linux is not (much) harder to use, just different than Windows. You have years of Windows experience, don't you? Give yourself equal time on Linux.
Overall, I do agree with you. I have a problem with technical elitists. I do believe that the less you have to know about the internals of a tool, the better.
Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy a challenge, and I do love to learn, but on my own terms. I don't want to do hours of research to do something simple on my desktop. I'm not lazy, but now that I'm a family man, I can't dedicate time to my hobby like I used to.
Mandrake was easy to use. I used 8.1, 8.2 and 9.0. I purchased boxed copies of the last two. I have Powerpack 9.0. I am also a club member.
My experience has not been the same as yours, however. My initial install went great, but I experienced stability problems with all three including occasional hard lockups where the machine would not even respond to a ping. A hard reboot would then cause it to report a corrupt superblock.
I've switched to Red Hat now, and my stability increased greatly. I don't think Mandrake ever had quite the right driver for my IDE controller. I do wish I could have resolved it, but I never had any luck. Red hat has been a better newbie experience for me because I can spend more time exploring and less time fixing.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment, but I would never compare incarceration to retirement. Do you ever watch Oz on HBO? It may not be as bad as that (I imagine not), but any state penitetiary is probably closer to that than it is to being a country club. I don't think many Slashdotters would fare well when Bubba and the other girls decide to "initiate" you. I hope to spend time traveling when I retire... enjoying the outdoors. Hard to do that in the pen.
Yep. I used the dagger more than anything. If there were two guards in the room, it kept the second from throwing the alarm and making the game much harder. ... the memories...
I would instead consider the early games to be the "true" Wolfenstein games since they are the originals.
...and to clue you in you're *still* a little kid. :P