Not true, I bought several Linux games from Loki. The problem I had was waiting several months for a game to come out. When it did come out it almost always cost more than the windows version, some times much more. I paid 50 bucks for Myth II for Linux only to turn around the next day and find it for $19 under windows.
While it's sad to see any company close its doors this is really no suprise to me. Loki was a cut throat business. They died because they couldn't compete with the windows games.
At first I was going to skip seeing Star Wars II in the theater because the last one was so bad. I had planed to wait till it came to DVD and rent it but this makes all the difference. Just to see Nsuck get waisted.
I remember plunking down 120 bucks on a packard bell 2400 baud modem. Yeah, I know thier computers sucked but that modem was built like a tank. I could download a meg in 1 hour. Had a Amiga 500, 3 meg of RAM, and a 40 meg harddrive, thought I was hot shit....
Same here. Best I can do is satellite with all its problems and a lousy 400kbs. Sorry if I don't give a damn about your friends being limited to 1.5Mbits.
You have a very good point and some people don't assume that all life has to be based on carbon or water. There are some theories floating around about silicon based life or life based on other bases.
We assume water and carbon based life because its the one that we are most familure with. We will look for water base life forms first because we have the most experience with that type of life sense life on Earth is based on water.
I think when we get out there we will find life to be more diverse than we ever imagined. We are already finding strange shit here on Earth, no tell what is out there. Its just with carbon/water based life we know more about what we are looking for. Thats all.
No, that's offtopic. I've also been a victim of the slashdot censor gang. Post a perfectlly good question that some censor didn't have enough brains to figure out or go against popular opition and you get labeled a flame, troll, or offtopic.
I remember when slashdot didn't neeed censors and worked just fine. Why do we need them now? I say just get rid of the censors and rig up a usenet killfile system. Hell, allow people to filter out the anonymous cowards and we can have a better slashdot.
Wonder what this post will be labeled, troll, overated, offtopic, or flamebate. I'm thinking troll.
While I have to agree with some of the points you mentioned about installing Mandrake, I lost most of my faith in the article when he had problems with cut and paste under X. Cthulhu knows that how you cut and paste shouldn't be used as a measure of a OS, but if you have problems figuring out left mouse button copy, middle mouse button paste.
I see the same problem with these antispam laws. You can only sue the spammer if you can get an address of the spammer. Since most spammers use false addresses, it makes them almost impossible for the unknowing to track them down.
Instead of suing the spammer write the laws so you can sue the company advertising with spam. Target the laws at people advertising with it and it no longer becomes profitable.
So it is 500,000. Must pay more attention next time. Still it doesn't change anything. 500,000 is a respectiable number, that plus 4+ years on the net.
Even if only 100k actually posted, I think the number is smaller, that doesn't matter. What matters is the number of people that read slashdot.
As for spam, if you used your real email address to register, well i guess you know better next time. The real mystery here is why was my orginal post labeled a troll? Just another case of a moderator with his head so far up his ass....
It will ether be bought up by some other party, return to what it started as, or it will die.
I figure it will be the former. I climbed onto the/. bandwagon years ago and have a low UID number but I noticed this weekend that current UID's are up to fifty million plus. That is a hell of alot of users that slashdot can tout as being "subscribers." Plus Slashdot has been here for over 4 years and has proven track record for eyeballs.
Now the question that remains is if Slashdot is bought by a new company what will they want to do? Will they let Taco run it as is has been or will they want to slant the coverage to be more bias? Bigger ads or a pay site?
I got to be System Admin. because I was the one closest to the machine. They sat the machine in my cube, handed me the manual, and said I get to baby sit. Good thing I turned out to be good at it.
I also did the samething back in the late '89 with my Amiga and Digiview. But I would like to see more articles like this on/. and less JohnKatz type articles.
I respectfully disagree. This is exactly what the spirit of hacking is about. Making a piece of computer equipment do something that its not ment to do.
Good Job
Would someone please mod me up? I need the karma:)
To date, I have not seen any reasonable attempt to refute Mr Velikovsky,
I too have never seen any real reasonable attempt to refute Velikovsky. I also see why there has been none. It's simple, Velikovsky is so full of shit and anyone with any common sense can see that. Refuting isn't needed and no respectful scientists isn't going to waist more than a few breaths dismissing his crap.
But I will check out a copy of Velikovski Reconsidered when the book hits the 99 cent counter at Walden. Never know when I'll need a good laugh or even run out of tollet paper.
I also remember when the Meteorite Theory came out and was laughable. It became creditable as over the years the evidence kept mounting up. I just mean the sediment was the tip. The finding of the crater that dates to the right time and is the right size helped alot. But I believe it was the impacts on Jupiter a few years ago that pushed the theory to the forefront in modern thinking.
I don't think the meteor alone was what lead to the ultimate demise of Dino. I agree with others in the field that this was just one factor. I think that Dino. and his pals where already on the way out when "smackdown" happened. It might have been disease, climate change, or something else that helped. Just the impact was the final nail in the coffin. Okay, it was the final nail, eulagy, and last shovel of dirt rolled into one.
Agree'd. Charles Darwin was clearly a genus in his own right. I personally think his name belongs right next to the likes of Galleo, Newton, Albert, and Hawkings just to name a few. But evertime a creationist rattles off something out of Origin to attack evolution I want to pull out a copy and beat them over the head with it. Not a softcover ether but a nice hard back edition.
But your right. If they can't or won't understand the basics the rest is hopeless. At that point it's like teaching evolution to a tree stump, but with out the rewards.
Pardon me now but I'm off to Darwin fish on my car.
While I agree that the reading of Origin of the Species should be required reading I feel taht it should be pointed out that it has as much to do with the modern theory of evolution as a manual to a Model-T does to a Jaguar. Infact alot of creationist myths come from this out of date version of the theory.
No, that isn't possible. While the energy released in that meteor impact was increadible it was no where near what was required to affect the orbital rotation of the planet. A impact of that magnitude would have shattered the planet or if it came in at an angle it would have created a "impact canyon" a few thousand miles long. It might have plowed right through the Earth and out the other side. I'm just guessing here but I do know that if one hit with enough force to change the rotation in such a degree we wouldn't be here debaiting what killed dino and his buddies.
Besides I think the geological records indicate that the Earth has had a more or less constant rotation. But it was a intresting theory thought.
No this isn't a bad thing. The man just wants to do something else this time around. I must admit when I first skimmed/. I was afraid that Alan might be leaving the project. That would be lose. But he just wants to change his socks, no biggy.
Even a bear in the woods wants to scratch his ass on a different tree ever now and then.
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Not true, I bought several Linux games from Loki. The problem I had was waiting several months for a game to come out. When it did come out it almost always cost more than the windows version, some times much more. I paid 50 bucks for Myth II for Linux only to turn around the next day and find it for $19 under windows.
While it's sad to see any company close its doors this is really no suprise to me. Loki was a cut throat business. They died because they couldn't compete with the windows games.
At first I was going to skip seeing Star Wars II in the theater because the last one was so bad. I had planed to wait till it came to DVD and rent it but this makes all the difference. Just to see Nsuck get waisted.
I remember plunking down 120 bucks on a packard bell 2400 baud modem. Yeah, I know thier computers sucked but that modem was built like a tank. I could download a meg in 1 hour. Had a Amiga 500, 3 meg of RAM, and a 40 meg harddrive, thought I was hot shit....
My PowerBook can encode high-quality MP3's faster than the data can be read off the audio CD
Hate to bust your bubble but that is no real feat. My 950 thunderbird can encode 192K mp3's faster than it can read them off my 52x cdrom.
Same here. Best I can do is satellite with all its problems and a lousy 400kbs. Sorry if I don't give a damn about your friends being limited to 1.5Mbits.
Emacs, meta-x tetris. Doesn't get any better than this...
What? Your kidding. No your not.. neat..
You have a very good point and some people don't assume that all life has to be based on carbon or water. There are some theories floating around about silicon based life or life based on other bases.
We assume water and carbon based life because its the one that we are most familure with. We will look for water base life forms first because we have the most experience with that type of life sense life on Earth is based on water.
I think when we get out there we will find life to be more diverse than we ever imagined. We are already finding strange shit here on Earth, no tell what is out there. Its just with carbon/water based life we know more about what we are looking for. Thats all.
flamebait, this one will be labeled flamebait
I remember when slashdot didn't neeed censors and worked just fine. Why do we need them now? I say just get rid of the censors and rig up a usenet killfile system. Hell, allow people to filter out the anonymous cowards and we can have a better slashdot.
Wonder what this post will be labeled, troll, overated, offtopic, or flamebate. I'm thinking troll.
So, your agreeing with me or disagreeing?
While I have to agree with some of the points you mentioned about installing Mandrake, I lost most of my faith in the article when he had problems with cut and paste under X. Cthulhu knows that how you cut and paste shouldn't be used as a measure of a OS, but if you have problems figuring out left mouse button copy, middle mouse button paste.
Hey, that is my system! Or at least the linux system
I see the same problem with these antispam laws. You can only sue the spammer if you can get an address of the spammer. Since most spammers use false addresses, it makes them almost impossible for the unknowing to track them down.
Instead of suing the spammer write the laws so you can sue the company advertising with spam. Target the laws at people advertising with it and it no longer becomes profitable.
This is stll being labeled at a troll. Would someone please fix it.
Your kidding right?
So it is 500,000. Must pay more attention next time. Still it doesn't change anything. 500,000 is a respectiable number, that plus 4+ years on the net.
Even if only 100k actually posted, I think the number is smaller, that doesn't matter. What matters is the number of people that read slashdot.
As for spam, if you used your real email address to register, well i guess you know better next time. The real mystery here is why was my orginal post labeled a troll? Just another case of a moderator with his head so far up his ass....
It will ether be bought up by some other party, return to what it started as, or it will die.
I figure it will be the former. I climbed onto the /. bandwagon years ago and have a low UID number but I noticed this weekend that current UID's are up to fifty million plus. That is a hell of alot of users that slashdot can tout as being "subscribers." Plus Slashdot has been here for over 4 years and has proven track record for eyeballs.
Now the question that remains is if Slashdot is bought by a new company what will they want to do? Will they let Taco run it as is has been or will they want to slant the coverage to be more bias? Bigger ads or a pay site?
I got to be System Admin. because I was the one closest to the machine. They sat the machine in my cube, handed me the manual, and said I get to baby sit. Good thing I turned out to be good at it.
I also did the samething back in the late '89 with my Amiga and Digiview. But I would like to see more articles like this on /. and less JohnKatz type articles.
I respectfully disagree. This is exactly what the spirit of hacking is about. Making a piece of computer equipment do something that its not ment to do.
Good Job
Would someone please mod me up? I need the karma
To date, I have not seen any reasonable attempt to refute Mr Velikovsky,
I too have never seen any real reasonable attempt to refute Velikovsky. I also see why there has been none. It's simple, Velikovsky is so full of shit and anyone with any common sense can see that. Refuting isn't needed and no respectful scientists isn't going to waist more than a few breaths dismissing his crap.
But I will check out a copy of Velikovski Reconsidered when the book hits the 99 cent counter at Walden. Never know when I'll need a good laugh or even run out of tollet paper.
I also remember when the Meteorite Theory came out and was laughable. It became creditable as over the years the evidence kept mounting up. I just mean the sediment was the tip. The finding of the crater that dates to the right time and is the right size helped alot. But I believe it was the impacts on Jupiter a few years ago that pushed the theory to the forefront in modern thinking.
I don't think the meteor alone was what lead to the ultimate demise of Dino. I agree with others in the field that this was just one factor. I think that Dino. and his pals where already on the way out when "smackdown" happened. It might have been disease, climate change, or something else that helped. Just the impact was the final nail in the coffin. Okay, it was the final nail, eulagy, and last shovel of dirt rolled into one.
Agree'd. Charles Darwin was clearly a genus in his own right. I personally think his name belongs right next to the likes of Galleo, Newton, Albert, and Hawkings just to name a few. But evertime a creationist rattles off something out of Origin to attack evolution I want to pull out a copy and beat them over the head with it. Not a softcover ether but a nice hard back edition.
But your right. If they can't or won't understand the basics the rest is hopeless. At that point it's like teaching evolution to a tree stump, but with out the rewards.
Pardon me now but I'm off to Darwin fish on my car.
No, that isn't possible. While the energy released in that meteor impact was increadible it was no where near what was required to affect the orbital rotation of the planet. A impact of that magnitude would have shattered the planet or if it came in at an angle it would have created a "impact canyon" a few thousand miles long. It might have plowed right through the Earth and out the other side. I'm just guessing here but I do know that if one hit with enough force to change the rotation in such a degree we wouldn't be here debaiting what killed dino and his buddies.
Besides I think the geological records indicate that the Earth has had a more or less constant rotation. But it was a intresting theory thought.
No this isn't a bad thing. The man just wants to do something else this time around. I must admit when I first skimmed
Even a bear in the woods wants to scratch his ass on a different tree ever now and then.