Fine, then why not work with one of the other clones.
I don't see how 900 000 000 000 competing distros does anything but slow linux adoption down. They're all the same on the inside to someone who started out installing linux by hand (way back before there was any real "distro")
Whoopty do,/etc/init.d or/etc/rc.d. The differences on a technical level are so trivial.
Decimated wouldn't be a big deal, 9 out of 10 of us would survive. Annihilated, or completely destroyed would suck.
Decimation was when the Romans would punish the troops for failure by lining them up, and killing every 10th soldier. Thus, decimating means "reducing by 1/10th".
Now, excuse me, I'm off to correct other misuses of words. I just heard some guy down the hall say it's "ironic" that there's no more coffee filters. Now where did I leave that tire iron?
This is about looking for planets, then analysing them to see if they have the conditions to support life (oxygen, co2, methane). SETI is about trying to recieve radio signals created by intelligent beings out there.
In short, this is looking for any sort of possible life, SETI is looking for "ET phone home".
SETI is fundamentally flawed, since even now we on Earth are broadcasting less and less out into space. We're using microwave and lasers to talk to our satellites, and everything on the ground is getting wired, or fed from satellites.
The days of gigawatt broadcasting over radio bands is winding to an end, so we only will have made "noise" for a century or so.
One could assume an intelligent race would outgrow the technology just as we have, or never use it in the first place.
SETI is like trying to find modern Native Americans by looking for smoke signals, when they communicate using the phone or internet these days.
Bah, like every movie has to be "Cider House Rules" or something.
Every movie listed in this thread was enjoyable, brainless entertainment. Just like the video games they were based on.
Street Fighter, Doom or Mortal Kombat aren't exactly fertile ground for deep soul-searching plots. Just shut up, drink some beers, and watch some Kung Fu.
It won't, it's guaranteed to be profitable because of the popularity of the game.
Movies based on games or superheroes are "in vogue" because they're practically guaranteed to turn a profit opening weekend. Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, etc..
Gigli really wasn't all that bad of a movie, it bombed because people were just sick to fuck of hearing about Bennifer Afflopez and how scary talented they are. It's not a great movie, but I've seen much, much worse.
Check out the Rock's IMDB page. He's been cast as Johnny Bravo in a future Johnny Bravo movie?
Fuck doom, I wanna see that. "Conceited musclebound dumbass" is the role he was born to play. I mean that in a good way, I do find the guy entertaining to watch, especially the shoot WWE stuff I've seen (when he's cast as a heel - a conceited musclebound dumbass).
He's also cast in a movie called "Instant Karma", which I assume is about astroturfing for the iPod on slashdot. Compelling stuff!
The Doom movie will suck and anyone with half a brain should realize that by now. Hardly worth discussing.
What the article submitter probably meant, was, that the plot isn't from the game, but from all the comic book and Doom novel spin-offs from the game. Some geeks are really into all that crap.
To me it was always about "shoot monsters", I never even took the time to realize the monsters were demons, and I was a space marine, and that the whole thing was happening on the moon (or earth, or mars).
Doom 3 tries to jam the backstory down your throat, although I liked the franchise better without a plot. You don't need a reason to shoot monsters, you shoot them simply because they are monsters.
Chicks got hung on a meathook back in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and that guy was actually after a PG-13 rating.
People remember that as one of the goriest slasher flicks of all time, but if you watch the movie closely, you see very little actual blood or gore.
You see a girl being lifted up, camera cuts to the front, you see the washtub underneath her - you know what it's for, but there's no blood. Your imagination supplies the scary parts.
But of course, that was just good filmmaking, which I don't expect of a "Hey this is a popular game, I bet we could rake in a couple bucks, see if the Rock is available" flick.
No, it's just that posting anything but slashbot-approved horseshit will cost him mod points.
Some people care about such things, I don't, waste your mod points on me.
Hot News: "RFID used to more efficiently and accurately track things in a complicated manufacturing process in which efficient and accurate tracking is absolutely essential". OMG!11!!!!1! Sound the alarms guys!
I'm also sick of Orwell references made by slashbots who've obviously never read any of his work, but that's another story.
And if you ever need a prosthetic, make sure they track it the old way, with a little piece of paper with your name on it taped onto the cast.
Then when you show up for your fitting, and they try to jam the wrong prosthetic into your face, maybe you'll see that a more accurate method of tracking may actually be a good thing.
RFID is for tracking things. Prosthetics (of any type) need to be tracked closely, since they're essentially unique to their intended recipient. If you happen to be someone waiting for one, you want it as quickly as possible. Anything that makes the process more efficient is a good thing for the patients.
I know this is some slashdot "the gummit is comin to git us" FUD, as well as Roland Piqopiles contractualy daily blogvertisement, but get the hell over it.
If you're so afraid, start brushing your teeth and flossing.
I wouldn't say the audience of linux is tech-savvy, they just think they are.
The stupidest people I've ever met are the ones who think they know everything. Your average 14 year old who installs gentoo and now considers himself a giant in the world of computing fits the bill. I've suggested rm -rf / (logged in as root, of course) as a solution to email routing problems, and they do it.
They'd easily fall for this. More easily, I'd say, then the average clueless user, since many of them are slightly technophobic. You just have to tickle their egos. Put some big techical sounding words and acronymns in the email, and they'll suck it down.
What three types of averages are there? Which one is appropriate for a statement such as this?
Mean, median, mode. Mode is appropriate for a statement about a small group of people over a short period of time. If there are 7 people, and 4 of them slept 0 hours, the average is - indeed - 0 hours.
Better yet, one of the hybrid gas/electrics, those things basically have what amounts to a mega-super-duper alternator, and you can plug right into the vehicles.
I just got back from Epcot, where GM had a display about their gas/electric hybrid pickups and how they were used during the Florida hurricane's as mobile power generation stations. Apparently you can plug right into one of them, and they'll give you 120 VAC @20 amps, which is not too shabby. (No doubt the UK model serves up 240VAC)
No, the Media Center PC already replaces TiVO (and then some), these are just extender boxes for the other TV sets in your house. So the Media PC in the living room records "Who's the Boss" re-runs which you then watch via the XBox in your bedroom.
Hell, it's just a really complicated replacement of a long stretch of coax.
It's a good idea, so long as the satellite boxes and XBox add-on are sufficiently cheap (50 bucks or less). I'd be more interested in TiVO if there was a 50 dollar satellite box I could attach to my other TVs, as opposed to a seperate TiVO (and contract) for each set.
This was just submitted by an idiot who couldn't link to the correct page.
There are "Media Extender" set top boxes, and it's also available as a software package for XBox. Not a "hardware add-on" though it does include a remote control in case you don't have the DVD package yet.
However, why make it just for Windows Media Center edition? How many people actually have that?
I don't believe it works with MCE alone, but DRM is definately the issue. You can't just have people backing up the DVDs they own on a hard drive and playing them back on the XBox.
The entire movie industry would collapse, and Comcast would have a hard time selling you "video on demand" if you could do it yourself.
I'll be so busy playing Halo 2 and Metroid Prime 2 that I won't have time for your junk.
Every "decade-in-the-making" uber PC title has been a huge dissapointment to me. Too much hype makes gameplay feel like a letdown. I'm talking Black and White, Doom 3, Unreal 2, too many to list.
Will they charge 15 bucks more than every other PC title out there, expecting to gouge a little cash due to the hype, the same way they did with Doom 3?
Actually, according to nyc.indymedia.com, the request originated from the Swiss police.
And according to another article, they recently published a bunch of photos identifying undercover swiss policemen. It starts to make sense, I have no idea what Swiss laws against exposing undercover law enforcement agents say.
But I guess the knee-jerk "It's a Bush comsperacie!" crap is appropriate for slashdot.
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Fine, then why not work with one of the other clones.
/etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d. The differences on a technical level are so trivial.
I don't see how 900 000 000 000 competing distros does anything but slow linux adoption down. They're all the same on the inside to someone who started out installing linux by hand (way back before there was any real "distro")
Whoopty do,
Why does everyone need to copy the Debian tree, and give it a new name? Is it an ego trip, that everyone needs their own distro?
IOW, Why not just contribute to Debian?
Decimated wouldn't be a big deal, 9 out of 10 of us would survive. Annihilated, or completely destroyed would suck.
Decimation was when the Romans would punish the troops for failure by lining them up, and killing every 10th soldier. Thus, decimating means "reducing by 1/10th".
Now, excuse me, I'm off to correct other misuses of words. I just heard some guy down the hall say it's "ironic" that there's no more coffee filters. Now where did I leave that tire iron?
This is about looking for planets, then analysing them to see if they have the conditions to support life (oxygen, co2, methane). SETI is about trying to recieve radio signals created by intelligent beings out there.
In short, this is looking for any sort of possible life, SETI is looking for "ET phone home".
SETI is fundamentally flawed, since even now we on Earth are broadcasting less and less out into space. We're using microwave and lasers to talk to our satellites, and everything on the ground is getting wired, or fed from satellites.
The days of gigawatt broadcasting over radio bands is winding to an end, so we only will have made "noise" for a century or so.
One could assume an intelligent race would outgrow the technology just as we have, or never use it in the first place.
SETI is like trying to find modern Native Americans by looking for smoke signals, when they communicate using the phone or internet these days.
Bah, like every movie has to be "Cider House Rules" or something.
Every movie listed in this thread was enjoyable, brainless entertainment. Just like the video games they were based on.
Street Fighter, Doom or Mortal Kombat aren't exactly fertile ground for deep soul-searching plots. Just shut up, drink some beers, and watch some Kung Fu.
It won't, it's guaranteed to be profitable because of the popularity of the game.
Movies based on games or superheroes are "in vogue" because they're practically guaranteed to turn a profit opening weekend. Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, etc..
Gigli really wasn't all that bad of a movie, it bombed because people were just sick to fuck of hearing about Bennifer Afflopez and how scary talented they are. It's not a great movie, but I've seen much, much worse.
Check out the Rock's IMDB page. He's been cast as Johnny Bravo in a future Johnny Bravo movie?
Fuck doom, I wanna see that. "Conceited musclebound dumbass" is the role he was born to play. I mean that in a good way, I do find the guy entertaining to watch, especially the shoot WWE stuff I've seen (when he's cast as a heel - a conceited musclebound dumbass).
He's also cast in a movie called "Instant Karma", which I assume is about astroturfing for the iPod on slashdot. Compelling stuff!
The Doom movie will suck and anyone with half a brain should realize that by now. Hardly worth discussing.
What the article submitter probably meant, was, that the plot isn't from the game, but from all the comic book and Doom novel spin-offs from the game. Some geeks are really into all that crap.
To me it was always about "shoot monsters", I never even took the time to realize the monsters were demons, and I was a space marine, and that the whole thing was happening on the moon (or earth, or mars).
Doom 3 tries to jam the backstory down your throat, although I liked the franchise better without a plot. You don't need a reason to shoot monsters, you shoot them simply because they are monsters.
Chicks got hung on a meathook back in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and that guy was actually after a PG-13 rating.
People remember that as one of the goriest slasher flicks of all time, but if you watch the movie closely, you see very little actual blood or gore.
You see a girl being lifted up, camera cuts to the front, you see the washtub underneath her - you know what it's for, but there's no blood. Your imagination supplies the scary parts.
But of course, that was just good filmmaking, which I don't expect of a "Hey this is a popular game, I bet we could rake in a couple bucks, see if the Rock is available" flick.
In other words, there is no plot, and the movie is set in several hallways and rooms that look identical to the one in the last scene.
No, it's just that posting anything but slashbot-approved horseshit will cost him mod points.
Some people care about such things, I don't, waste your mod points on me.
Hot News: "RFID used to more efficiently and accurately track things in a complicated manufacturing process in which efficient and accurate tracking is absolutely essential". OMG!11!!!!1! Sound the alarms guys!
I'm also sick of Orwell references made by slashbots who've obviously never read any of his work, but that's another story.
No, not to me.
And if you ever need a prosthetic, make sure they track it the old way, with a little piece of paper with your name on it taped onto the cast.
Then when you show up for your fitting, and they try to jam the wrong prosthetic into your face, maybe you'll see that a more accurate method of tracking may actually be a good thing.
RFID is for tracking things. Prosthetics (of any type) need to be tracked closely, since they're essentially unique to their intended recipient. If you happen to be someone waiting for one, you want it as quickly as possible. Anything that makes the process more efficient is a good thing for the patients.
I know this is some slashdot "the gummit is comin to git us" FUD, as well as Roland Piqopiles contractualy daily blogvertisement, but get the hell over it.
If you're so afraid, start brushing your teeth and flossing.
I wouldn't say the audience of linux is tech-savvy, they just think they are.
The stupidest people I've ever met are the ones who think they know everything. Your average 14 year old who installs gentoo and now considers himself a giant in the world of computing fits the bill. I've suggested rm -rf / (logged in as root, of course) as a solution to email routing problems, and they do it.
They'd easily fall for this. More easily, I'd say, then the average clueless user, since many of them are slightly technophobic. You just have to tickle their egos. Put some big techical sounding words and acronymns in the email, and they'll suck it down.
There is absolutely no malware of any sort for linux. Linux is magical and can't run any code that does bad things.
Need we remember fourth grade math?
What three types of averages are there? Which one is appropriate for a statement such as this?
Mean, median, mode. Mode is appropriate for a statement about a small group of people over a short period of time. If there are 7 people, and 4 of them slept 0 hours, the average is - indeed - 0 hours.
Better yet, one of the hybrid gas/electrics, those things basically have what amounts to a mega-super-duper alternator, and you can plug right into the vehicles.
I just got back from Epcot, where GM had a display about their gas/electric hybrid pickups and how they were used during the Florida hurricane's as mobile power generation stations. Apparently you can plug right into one of them, and they'll give you 120 VAC @20 amps, which is not too shabby. (No doubt the UK model serves up 240VAC)
What's the use of PVR functionality if you have no cable. Unless you're interested in pausing live static.
No, the Media Center PC already replaces TiVO (and then some), these are just extender boxes for the other TV sets in your house. So the Media PC in the living room records "Who's the Boss" re-runs which you then watch via the XBox in your bedroom.
Hell, it's just a really complicated replacement of a long stretch of coax.
It's a good idea, so long as the satellite boxes and XBox add-on are sufficiently cheap (50 bucks or less). I'd be more interested in TiVO if there was a 50 dollar satellite box I could attach to my other TVs, as opposed to a seperate TiVO (and contract) for each set.
This was just submitted by an idiot who couldn't link to the correct page.
There are "Media Extender" set top boxes, and it's also available as a software package for XBox. Not a "hardware add-on" though it does include a remote control in case you don't have the DVD package yet.
However, why make it just for Windows Media Center edition? How many people actually have that?
I don't believe it works with MCE alone, but DRM is definately the issue. You can't just have people backing up the DVDs they own on a hard drive and playing them back on the XBox.
The entire movie industry would collapse, and Comcast would have a hard time selling you "video on demand" if you could do it yourself.
I'll be so busy playing Halo 2 and Metroid Prime 2 that I won't have time for your junk.
Every "decade-in-the-making" uber PC title has been a huge dissapointment to me. Too much hype makes gameplay feel like a letdown. I'm talking Black and White, Doom 3, Unreal 2, too many to list.
Will they charge 15 bucks more than every other PC title out there, expecting to gouge a little cash due to the hype, the same way they did with Doom 3?
Blaming the RNC sounds like something a rabid anti-bush website would do.
But, TFA that I read on nyc.indymedia.com has a quote from Rackspace saying the request came from Swiss authorities.
I read elsewhere that they got in some shit for publishing photos and identities of undercover swiss cops.
I'm sure they know what they did, but they won't say anything so long as they can lead everyone to believe it's "evil Bush" behind it all.
Actually, according to nyc.indymedia.com, the request originated from the Swiss police.
And according to another article, they recently published a bunch of photos identifying undercover swiss policemen. It starts to make sense, I have no idea what Swiss laws against exposing undercover law enforcement agents say.
But I guess the knee-jerk "It's a Bush comsperacie!" crap is appropriate for slashdot.
And what does this have to do with censorship?
How about some background, other than "some website was raided by the FBI". Warez sites are raided/taken down every day.
Was this a kiddy porn ring or something, is that why you're so upset?