Oh, that irrelevant shit that was never used and was only included to satisfy some government regulations? Yeah, theres possibly some GPL in there. Especially if some indian name sent some email on some forum saying so, that's proof positive.
I was talking about the code that actually sells the software.
Anyone with nuclear technology and a means of delivering it is a potential threat. That list also includes the UK and France. And I know the US DoD has contingency plans to deal with them too, just in case.
Noone said that India is an imminent threat, but times change. India is still a wonky enough country that a military coup isn't out of the question. It could be run by Osama Bin Laden tomorrow for all we know.
If you don't want to get shot, keep an eye on everyone around you who owns a gun. Unlike TV, bad guys in the real world dont have handlebar moustaches and run around with big sacks with dollar signs on them.
Are you sure we shouldnt be more worried about a sub oceanic ridge collapsing and causing a super-tsunami that will wipe out all living things within 100 miles of the seaboard?
Or Yellowstone erupting as a super volcano, plunging the Earth into decades of volcanic winter after obliterating half of north america?
Or maybe we should be preventing a potential super virus from wiping out all life.
Discovery channel airs lots of scary pieces about "super" this and that. Realize it's not an *educational* channel, or a venue for valid science, and that stuff airs for its entertainment value alone.
The earth is statistically in no more danger of a meteor strike today than it was on august 3rd, 68209 B.C. We get hit by meteors every day.
That was the main point of the article, but there was another buried point the author has that made a lot of sense:
And while TV loves shows like "Pop Idol" for drawing millions of viewers, such programmes also devalue music by showing that it can be manufactured.
It's so true. It has devalued music, people now assume that everything is a Milli Vanilli act. Britney Spears may very well have a lot of singing talent, but you would never recognize it, and just assume it's all smoke and mirrors.
I generally agree with what you say, but so long as we have the major labels as a bottleneck, the grandparent poster has a point.
Consider plain old rock music. During the 80s the metal scene was where it was at, it was all about big hair and exorbant costumes and songs about partying all night with hot ladies.
Along comes Nirvana and the rest of the "grunge" scene, dressed in plaid, greasy matted hair, whining about how crappy the world is.
Now, for me, the grunge stuff (for the most part, theres some I like) fell into the "music I dislike" category. I liked the upbeat party-till-you-puke atmosphere of a Slayer concert over the mope-till-mom-picks-you-up atmosphere of Pearl Jam. I don't consider them to be different genres either, musically, they're pretty much identical.
But the major labels are the choking point. They get to decide, not me. And they decided, overnight, that metal was dead, and it was all about the grunge scene.
Now, there was still plenty of metal out there to listen to, but it no longer gets any exposure. No play time on top 40 radio, and the only time it's mentioned on MTV is as something to be mocked, "Ha ha those 80s guys all they wanted to do was party and fuck hot chicks! What a bunch of idiots! They're so not emo like us!"
Those same people have decided that black people like rap. Not R&B, soul, jazz, or anything else. And not just any rap, they like looping beats and some thug talking about shooting up bitchez while he macs on his waddle wizzle. Watch BET, see if they ever air anything else. No, industry has decided. Black people like gangsta rap.
My point is, so long as that choking point exists, and someone decides "people like X, and dont like Y", they're going to alienate a certain group of people that like Y and dont like X.
So I do see how many percieve that music is just getting worse. It's not, theres plenty out there to like, they just aren't being exposed to it by the mainstream media.
Like I said, Broadcast Flag has nothing to do with Comcast or Cox or any other cable provider. The FCC can only make rules for over the air public broadcasts, for now at least.
Comcast, Cox, et al play by their own rules. They decide what you can do or cant do, and you decide whether or not you want their service.
If they don't want you recording anything because they want to push on-demand viewing down your throat, you won't be recording anything.
If they only want to offer HBO and PPV to digital subscribers, because they want people like me to pay to lease a tuner box for every TV in their house, rather than accomplishing the same thing with a 2 dollar coax splitter, then guess what, people like me don't get HBO or PPVs.
There are still keyboard shortcuts for everything in Word, if you want to go ahead and learn them to improve efficiency.
That's what they teach you in those MS Word courses at the local community college (at least thats what the good ones should teach you).
I don't know them, because I don't use Word but maybe twice a year.
With WP I had to know them, which sucked, until 5.1 came out and you could use a mouse to access pulldown menus.
That is, before WP 5.1 came out, I would actually do school reports and stuff in GEOWrite on my old C64, leaving the PC collecting dust. I'd rather wait for the screen to refresh than spend forever scanning over the template to look for the "italics" hotkey.
Which browser/file manager/whatever can browse a windows share the same way explorer does?
That is, I can type \\servername\share\folder into the "address bar", or equivelant, and be able to browse it? Or browse the entire network to discover shares with a "network neighbourhood" type of equivelant?
I can't get LISA to work properly, and don't particularly care for KDE. LISA all works around pinging hosts, and as a rule my boxes all ignore ICMP. No reason to ping stuff on my lan at home.
Is there such support actually built into any file manager, that doesnt require some wonky daemon in the background? Mounting the share to access it is awkward, and you have to know the fully qualified path to the share (no browsing or discovery).
Printers too. I want to browse the network, find a printer, and click on it to install it, just like in windows. Can such things be done yet?
Here's hoping Novell loses big, and no judge is stupid enough to think that a word processor (one of the first functions PCs were designed to be able to do) is a market you can hijack with patents.
Word had a sensible GUI, WP stuck with cryptic keyboard shortcuts. WP lost on the usability front. They once had a monopoly on word processing, just like Netscape once had a virtual monopoly on browsers. And they both lost it by never adapting their sucktastic products.
Novell et al are firing the first shots in the patent wars, and are forcing Microsoft into this recent patenting blitz.
Everybody loses in the end. But you're happy because Microsoft has to pay out a little pocket change to a dying company that has turned to IP litigation as it's last chance for revenue.
If SCO sued MSFT instead of IBM they'd be slashdot heroes.
There isn't shit available, and we all know it, of course we treat it like a dirty secret and mod anyone down as troll who points this out.
Every distro screenshot has at least one or two of an xterm running top or nano or an ls -al to show all the pretty directory colors (and highlight the lack of a really good file manager for the desktop)
1. Do most trekkies except (accept) the way Klingons have changes in appearance since the original series? Changes
2. What type of car do most trekkies drive? SUV, hybrid, Dodge defiant?
3. Do any of them buy the fact that even the slightest blast cases fires/sparks on the bridge? Do they hold the lowest price enterprise contractor responsible
1. Yes. As the sixties ended and the public was presented with characters such as Blackbelt Jones and Shaft, it was realized that a race of bad guys had to be more than simply black.
2. Duh. Most trekkies are dropped off by their mothers.
3. Yes. They also believe that when your space ship is hit with a phaser blast, it causes everyone in the bridge to grab the edges of their seats and lean back and forth and side to side in unison.
Sheesh, it was an SNL sketch, not Shatners personal opinion or hatred.
The original cast based their entire post-Trek careers on speaking engagements and Trek conventions. Except for Wil Wheaton, who's arrogance and habit of throwing feces at anyone who dares seek an autograph has turned more people off of the franchise than anything else.
But Wheaton is the exception, as a rule, the cast members seem to love the fans. Why wouldnt they? There is no real "negative response".
My grandmother had one when I was a kid, I stuck my hands in it a few times, it wasn't powerful enough to bruise or hurt you. Maybe some industrial ones were, I don't know.
They actually work much better than the spin-dry cycle, and there are plenty still in use for that reason. It's more work, of course, but if you feed through your clothes properly, it basically presses your pants as you squeeze the water out, then you just hang it up to dry, with nice perfect creases.
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Oh, that irrelevant shit that was never used and was only included to satisfy some government regulations? Yeah, theres possibly some GPL in there. Especially if some indian name sent some email on some forum saying so, that's proof positive.
I was talking about the code that actually sells the software.
Anyone with nuclear technology and a means of delivering it is a potential threat. That list also includes the UK and France. And I know the US DoD has contingency plans to deal with them too, just in case.
Noone said that India is an imminent threat, but times change. India is still a wonky enough country that a military coup isn't out of the question. It could be run by Osama Bin Laden tomorrow for all we know.
If you don't want to get shot, keep an eye on everyone around you who owns a gun. Unlike TV, bad guys in the real world dont have handlebar moustaches and run around with big sacks with dollar signs on them.
Are you sure we shouldnt be more worried about a sub oceanic ridge collapsing and causing a super-tsunami that will wipe out all living things within 100 miles of the seaboard?
Or Yellowstone erupting as a super volcano, plunging the Earth into decades of volcanic winter after obliterating half of north america?
Or maybe we should be preventing a potential super virus from wiping out all life.
Discovery channel airs lots of scary pieces about "super" this and that. Realize it's not an *educational* channel, or a venue for valid science, and that stuff airs for its entertainment value alone.
The earth is statistically in no more danger of a meteor strike today than it was on august 3rd, 68209 B.C. We get hit by meteors every day.
That was the main point of the article, but there was another buried point the author has that made a lot of sense:
And while TV loves shows like "Pop Idol" for drawing millions of viewers, such programmes also devalue music by showing that it can be manufactured.
It's so true. It has devalued music, people now assume that everything is a Milli Vanilli act. Britney Spears may very well have a lot of singing talent, but you would never recognize it, and just assume it's all smoke and mirrors.
I generally agree with what you say, but so long as we have the major labels as a bottleneck, the grandparent poster has a point.
Consider plain old rock music. During the 80s the metal scene was where it was at, it was all about big hair and exorbant costumes and songs about partying all night with hot ladies.
Along comes Nirvana and the rest of the "grunge" scene, dressed in plaid, greasy matted hair, whining about how crappy the world is.
Now, for me, the grunge stuff (for the most part, theres some I like) fell into the "music I dislike" category. I liked the upbeat party-till-you-puke atmosphere of a Slayer concert over the mope-till-mom-picks-you-up atmosphere of Pearl Jam. I don't consider them to be different genres either, musically, they're pretty much identical.
But the major labels are the choking point. They get to decide, not me. And they decided, overnight, that metal was dead, and it was all about the grunge scene.
Now, there was still plenty of metal out there to listen to, but it no longer gets any exposure. No play time on top 40 radio, and the only time it's mentioned on MTV is as something to be mocked, "Ha ha those 80s guys all they wanted to do was party and fuck hot chicks! What a bunch of idiots! They're so not emo like us!"
Those same people have decided that black people like rap. Not R&B, soul, jazz, or anything else. And not just any rap, they like looping beats and some thug talking about shooting up bitchez while he macs on his waddle wizzle. Watch BET, see if they ever air anything else. No, industry has decided. Black people like gangsta rap.
My point is, so long as that choking point exists, and someone decides "people like X, and dont like Y", they're going to alienate a certain group of people that like Y and dont like X.
So I do see how many percieve that music is just getting worse. It's not, theres plenty out there to like, they just aren't being exposed to it by the mainstream media.
Like I said, Broadcast Flag has nothing to do with Comcast or Cox or any other cable provider. The FCC can only make rules for over the air public broadcasts, for now at least.
Comcast, Cox, et al play by their own rules. They decide what you can do or cant do, and you decide whether or not you want their service.
If they don't want you recording anything because they want to push on-demand viewing down your throat, you won't be recording anything.
If they only want to offer HBO and PPV to digital subscribers, because they want people like me to pay to lease a tuner box for every TV in their house, rather than accomplishing the same thing with a 2 dollar coax splitter, then guess what, people like me don't get HBO or PPVs.
Acronymn or not, are you trying to say I can't yell it?
PERL! PERL! PERL! ATTICA! ATTICA!
You collect WP versions?
Forget LARPers, furries and cosplay! That trekkie guy should make a movie about you.
Comedic gold.
Do you have a source for this?
Yeah, he read it in some users comment on slashdot, that's his source.
The code MS already has is in almost every case superior to any GPL equivelant.
Either this is slashbot idiocy at it's zenith, or YHBT, HAND.
There are still keyboard shortcuts for everything in Word, if you want to go ahead and learn them to improve efficiency.
That's what they teach you in those MS Word courses at the local community college (at least thats what the good ones should teach you).
I don't know them, because I don't use Word but maybe twice a year.
With WP I had to know them, which sucked, until 5.1 came out and you could use a mouse to access pulldown menus.
That is, before WP 5.1 came out, I would actually do school reports and stuff in GEOWrite on my old C64, leaving the PC collecting dust. I'd rather wait for the screen to refresh than spend forever scanning over the template to look for the "italics" hotkey.
Which browser/file manager/whatever can browse a windows share the same way explorer does?
That is, I can type \\servername\share\folder into the "address bar", or equivelant, and be able to browse it? Or browse the entire network to discover shares with a "network neighbourhood" type of equivelant?
I can't get LISA to work properly, and don't particularly care for KDE. LISA all works around pinging hosts, and as a rule my boxes all ignore ICMP. No reason to ping stuff on my lan at home.
Is there such support actually built into any file manager, that doesnt require some wonky daemon in the background? Mounting the share to access it is awkward, and you have to know the fully qualified path to the share (no browsing or discovery).
Printers too. I want to browse the network, find a printer, and click on it to install it, just like in windows. Can such things be done yet?
Here's hoping Novell loses big, and no judge is stupid enough to think that a word processor (one of the first functions PCs were designed to be able to do) is a market you can hijack with patents.
Word had a sensible GUI, WP stuck with cryptic keyboard shortcuts. WP lost on the usability front. They once had a monopoly on word processing, just like Netscape once had a virtual monopoly on browsers. And they both lost it by never adapting their sucktastic products.
Wahhhhh..
MSFT stoled *our monopoly* by introducing a superior alternative! They even made it aware of all of our keyboard shortcuts to help people migrate!
Wahhhh gimme money.
What would you say, "536 dollar million"?
Yep.. Embrace linux, then sue the hell out of whoever in the industry has money.
It worked for SCO. It can work for Novell! Go Novell!
That's because you're a dope.
Novell et al are firing the first shots in the patent wars, and are forcing Microsoft into this recent patenting blitz.
Everybody loses in the end. But you're happy because Microsoft has to pay out a little pocket change to a dying company that has turned to IP litigation as it's last chance for revenue.
If SCO sued MSFT instead of IBM they'd be slashdot heroes.
There isn't shit available, and we all know it, of course we treat it like a dirty secret and mod anyone down as troll who points this out.
Every distro screenshot has at least one or two of an xterm running top or nano or an ls -al to show all the pretty directory colors (and highlight the lack of a really good file manager for the desktop)
What a brilliant comment. You shouldn't have posted AC, michael would have modded it up "Insightful".
That's why I said move the A/D conversion into the monitor itself, so that I can have a 20 foot long cable, with no signal degradation.
Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 With 60 Hotfixes Installed.
You need service pack 4, that's your problem.
I don't believe that either "stabler" or "securer" are words.
It's always a fancy desktop with cute icons, a shot of OpenOffice, one of GIMP, and then the rest are all of a thousand xterms opened up.
They end up showcasing the lack of good linux desktop applications, it's pretty funny if you're not a zealot.
1. Do most trekkies except (accept) the way Klingons have changes in appearance since the original series? Changes
2. What type of car do most trekkies drive? SUV, hybrid, Dodge defiant?
3. Do any of them buy the fact that even the slightest blast cases fires/sparks on the bridge? Do they hold the lowest price enterprise contractor responsible
1. Yes. As the sixties ended and the public was presented with characters such as Blackbelt Jones and Shaft, it was realized that a race of bad guys had to be more than simply black.
2. Duh. Most trekkies are dropped off by their mothers.
3. Yes. They also believe that when your space ship is hit with a phaser blast, it causes everyone in the bridge to grab the edges of their seats and lean back and forth and side to side in unison.
Sheesh, it was an SNL sketch, not Shatners personal opinion or hatred.
The original cast based their entire post-Trek careers on speaking engagements and Trek conventions. Except for Wil Wheaton, who's arrogance and habit of throwing feces at anyone who dares seek an autograph has turned more people off of the franchise than anything else.
But Wheaton is the exception, as a rule, the cast members seem to love the fans. Why wouldnt they? There is no real "negative response".
My grandmother had one when I was a kid, I stuck my hands in it a few times, it wasn't powerful enough to bruise or hurt you. Maybe some industrial ones were, I don't know.
They actually work much better than the spin-dry cycle, and there are plenty still in use for that reason. It's more work, of course, but if you feed through your clothes properly, it basically presses your pants as you squeeze the water out, then you just hang it up to dry, with nice perfect creases.
Why stop there!
LARPers, furries, plushies, linux kernel hackers..
Comedy goldmine!