just b/c the media portrays REAL LIFE (even if you don't like to believe it) does NOT mean it will impact the rest of the population.
Did people in the 60s take drugs b/c they watched movies or TV shows about it? NO!
I did not start smoking pot b/c I watched someone else do it, or b/c I was pressured by my peers. I did it b/c I wanted to try it and see what it was like.
Plus, I could name tons of movies and tons of video games that have absolutely nothing to do w/drugs, does it matter? NO!
this is NO way to stop the drug war in the US (or anywhere).
I honestly believe that the best way to tackle the drug war would be to legalize it.. Put strict taxes on all drugs (except Marijuana) and sell them OTC.
The fairy tale that if it were legalized everyone would do it is false. People are going to do it one way or the other, just b/c it would be decrimilized does not mean it will be used more often!
I truly believe that a good majority of drug use is harmless. I really believe that if we were to put it under govt control a lot of the gangs, violence, etc would diminish..
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$3500 for a laptop.. That's not much money for new stuff. IBM has always been quite expensive (Aptivas and Thinkpads both). 900.. Probably thin and big screened..
I bought my first laptop (Dell p133 w/16mb and a 12.1 Active Matrix LCD) for $3300. If you are into cutting edge stuff (and are a linux DVD zealot) then you would be into paying for that.
I would rather just tote around my Cassiopeia myself (any support for the USB cradle yet?)
not everyone WANTS to have one either. Someone said in an earlier post that the city said they attract prostitutes and drug dealers.. I believe that drug dealers use wireless more often than not..
I find a ringing phone annoying, a ringing payphone even more annoying, but a ringing cell phone is my pet peeve. If you are one of those assholes that leaves it on during class and it goes off just b/c your friend is driving to another class and is too impatient to wait till afterwards to talk to you, then you deserve to go the way that payphones may go!;-)
I am sorry but the "Linux client" is lacking features that I would want. I think that if they seriously want us to use their software, something needs to be done to incorporate one of the leading opensource efforts into what AOL has to offer. Hell, offer the god damn client on their website and stop fucking around. Even if they are required to add advertisements that's fine, I will just edit the source later and remove it.
The world is NOT moral. No one is a victim here. They are offering a free service to everyone (it isn't like we are stealing the service by using a free client).
I say that AOL should use what the Open Source community has created (as it is FAR superior to what they are offering) and let us be happy:)
they are trying to kiss the government's ass and limit their exposure to supporting "an illegal activity". They are "doing their part" to end this crap.. I guess it is a lot like them trying to end the pirating of Windows itself..
I don't run Windows, nor will I probably ever install XP (who knows though), and I am glad for this fact... Even though I am not a huge fan of MP3's, I do have some and I think that this is a bad consumer move for MS.
ok, reading news, whatever, etc, is great on the web, but as it has been discussed w/webpads, it is not a great way to read an entire book.. Sure you can print it out, but that reminds me too much of reading research material for 20 page papers..
I like to spend time away from the computer doing leisure activities (reading, smoking pot, whatever;)) why would I want to sit in front of the computer even longer?
I think that it is great that people are expanding to the net to do these sorts of things, but w/the way he is talking about setting it up (installments) that would just make it difficult:(
I say, publish the damn book really cheap and then let us read it:)
even though it is an early beta it seems to have good options (recursing subdirectories) etc. Also good if you already have a webpage and you are having to use some other sort of program to stream your MP3s.
The FAQ seems easy enough to follow, and it looks really easy to install/use. Good luck:)
the problem I have w/gaming on laptops is the small keyboard. Yeah I guess you could tote around your KB w/you (you really wouldn't have a choice otherwise) but it is still a serious problem w/gaming on laptops..
Never say never." Microsoft is continually looking at market opportunities for its products - on both our own platforms as well as on other platforms. As mentioned above we saw a great opportunity for selling our Office products on the Mac platform and have licensed a lot of our technology for use on other platforms.
hasn't it been said that Linux is now showing more usage than Macs? I am not against the Mac platoform, I am asking a serious question. I thought that Linux users had a larger base now and I really don't see the market share as being a big obstacle..
The fact that there is no "standard" desktop for Linux (KDE, GNOME, whatever) is also not really an issue. I don't need to have KDE or GNOME to run Office and I really don't care what the look and feel of the software was. Hell, make it like Windows, it would be more comfortable for most people anyway...
The real issue here is that MS *knows* that the one thing that Linux lacks is Office. Everyone knows that if Linux ran Office and ran it native and well there would be little to hold *more* people back from running Linux...
Next time, let's remember what's really going on here;-)
even though this is somewhat offtopic, I would have to say that not EVERYONE was twisting their minds on acid, but a good majority were (earlier in the 60's when it was still legal and the acid-tests were popular).
every social event in history has a great inpact on film, this should be no surprise.. Maybe film has major social impact (chicken or the egg).
he talks at length about how Perl 5 code has certain keywords that make it known as Perl 5 and how DEC changed BASIC to use "extend" at the top of all their code to use long variable names (and how this was bad). Well, that's all fine and good.. He seems to want to break from this tradition yet what does he do? He begins talking about "module or class" (same as Perl 5 and DEC BASIC).
The article was great if you are a Camel lover but some of us aren't (I use it for web stuff, but I am not Perl junkie:))
I am glad to see Perl continuing development, but I still think that Perl/Parrot would have been best;-)
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no no, we can't have worthwhile news any other day, why not have completely worthless news today? I mean, hell, let's go back to the past 3 April Fools and see if we can't repeat some of those fucking posts, maybe they were funnier.
I get static IP, 768k/128k. Problem is Verizon is too fucking cheap to pay for more bandwith so we get 1000+ms pings to our gateway. Turns out (after hours and hours of lying on the phone from the tech support people) that they are daisychaining the racks at the DSLAM in the office downtown and too may people are on a single T1.
It took 2 months 2 weeks to get a tech out here to test that w/a laptop... I told them for those 2 months and 2 weeks what the problem was but I didn't know what I was talking about...
Today (3 months 1 week) I called again and finally got the word that they are adding more T1's to the DSLAM (whether or not this is true I have no idea) and supposedly our ping replies will improve...
My suggestion to those people out there that can get cable or DSL w/a providor other than Verizon -- do so.. If you have Verizon, do NOT get DSL through them (and if you are like us and you have to, make sure you call them daily and record extensions and names of the people you talk to). Get really fucking pissed off when they won't tell you what you know is right and eventually something will get done.
The US's DSL situation sucks b/c the bandwith is more expensive than the revenues from the DSL service. DOWN W/CANADA;-) If only I lived in MI instead of OH, I would just run ethernet across the border.
we were once talking about the possibility of implanting your information in your body so it is w/you always (sorry I am not looking up the link)...
what if step #1 contains something that automatically reads who you are and starts doing whatever... I am scared they are really going to take over the world...
Control us through our video game console! Ha, preposterous.. Maybe not...
P.S. If you ask me, we should all use IRC anyway.;-) Now THERE is the way to communicate...
oh whatever. You are complaining that ICQ is laggy? What about IRC? Little assholes feeling the need to shutdown EFnet for no reason, hard to find servers to connect to anymore, etc.
I use AIM on a regular basis to communicate w/friends.. Most haven't a god damn clue how to use AIM as it is, you really think that they are going to remember (or what to even think about learning IRC?) get real pal, that's why they have AIM.
High Performance Computing
MFCF has received a gracious donation from Silicon Graphics of an Origin
2000 supercomputer(http://www.sgi.com/origin/2000/). This machine has 8 CPUs and 2 gigabytes of RAM with plenty of disk. Its ccNUMA design offers excellent scalability while maintaining the ease of programming in a shared-memory SMP model. SGI's comprehensive suite of compilers and related
tools are installed. SGI is interested in our help with developing Linux for this platform, and in the meantime, we can use it with its native IRIX operating system. Researchers interested in making use of this high performance computing resource (tuxor.math) are welcome to send their proposals to dabrown@math. Also, MFCF has established a mailing list called "hpc" as a forum for those interested in high performance computing. This mailing list also serves as a
means of circulating announcements from the C3.ca group(http://www.c3.ca/).
unfortunatly, most bands that ALLOW taping of their shows are "jam bands like Phish". Grateful Dead, String Cheese Incident, Widespread Panic, Phish, etc. All have influences from similar places.
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nope, b/c it isn't a drug that I deem harmful enough (moreso than tobacco or alcohol) to be heavily taxed.
I'm sorry but that is just false.
just b/c the media portrays REAL LIFE (even if you don't like to believe it) does NOT mean it will impact the rest of the population.
Did people in the 60s take drugs b/c they watched movies or TV shows about it? NO!
I did not start smoking pot b/c I watched someone else do it, or b/c I was pressured by my peers. I did it b/c I wanted to try it and see what it was like.
Plus, I could name tons of movies and tons of video games that have absolutely nothing to do w/drugs, does it matter? NO!
this is NO way to stop the drug war in the US (or anywhere).
I honestly believe that the best way to tackle the drug war would be to legalize it.. Put strict taxes on all drugs (except Marijuana) and sell them OTC.
The fairy tale that if it were legalized everyone would do it is false. People are going to do it one way or the other, just b/c it would be decrimilized does not mean it will be used more often!
I truly believe that a good majority of drug use is harmless. I really believe that if we were to put it under govt control a lot of the gangs, violence, etc would diminish..
DISCLAIMER:
If you don't agree w/me, please do not reply to this message. I know that plenty of people do not share my opinion on this subject, and I don't share yours, so don't bother.
Let's hope for a better America.
$3500 for a laptop.. That's not much money for new stuff. IBM has always been quite expensive (Aptivas and Thinkpads both). 900.. Probably thin and big screened..
I bought my first laptop (Dell p133 w/16mb and a 12.1 Active Matrix LCD) for $3300. If you are into cutting edge stuff (and are a linux DVD zealot) then you would be into paying for that.
I would rather just tote around my Cassiopeia myself (any support for the USB cradle yet?)
not everyone WANTS to have one either. Someone said in an earlier post that the city said they attract prostitutes and drug dealers.. I believe that drug dealers use wireless more often than not..
;-)
I find a ringing phone annoying, a ringing payphone even more annoying, but a ringing cell phone is my pet peeve. If you are one of those assholes that leaves it on during class and it goes off just b/c your friend is driving to another class and is too impatient to wait till afterwards to talk to you, then you deserve to go the way that payphones may go!
it will be very difficult to market this. Domination by Nintendo and Sony in the marketplace is going to cause it to utimately fail...
:)
Don't make the same mistake and look like vaporware, oh wait...
I am sorry but the "Linux client" is lacking features that I would want. I think that if they seriously want us to use their software, something needs to be done to incorporate one of the leading opensource efforts into what AOL has to offer. Hell, offer the god damn client on their website and stop fucking around. Even if they are required to add advertisements that's fine, I will just edit the source later and remove it.
:)
The world is NOT moral. No one is a victim here. They are offering a free service to everyone (it isn't like we are stealing the service by using a free client).
I say that AOL should use what the Open Source community has created (as it is FAR superior to what they are offering) and let us be happy
they are trying to kiss the government's ass and limit their exposure to supporting "an illegal activity". They are "doing their part" to end this crap.. I guess it is a lot like them trying to end the pirating of Windows itself..
I don't run Windows, nor will I probably ever install XP (who knows though), and I am glad for this fact... Even though I am not a huge fan of MP3's, I do have some and I think that this is a bad consumer move for MS.
I would say the little minions would make it hot as hell ;)
ok, reading news, whatever, etc, is great on the web, but as it has been discussed w/webpads, it is not a great way to read an entire book.. Sure you can print it out, but that reminds me too much of reading research material for 20 page papers..
;)) why would I want to sit in front of the computer even longer?
:(
:)
I like to spend time away from the computer doing leisure activities (reading, smoking pot, whatever
I think that it is great that people are expanding to the net to do these sorts of things, but w/the way he is talking about setting it up (installments) that would just make it difficult
I say, publish the damn book really cheap and then let us read it
so you can't play anything encoded higher than 204.. Who cares? I really can't notice any difference over 128 anyway.
I don't think I ever mentioned that it was for the masses, are many "beta" programs?
even though it is an early beta it seems to have good options (recursing subdirectories) etc. Also good if you already have a webpage and you are having to use some other sort of program to stream your MP3s.
:)
The FAQ seems easy enough to follow, and it looks really easy to install/use. Good luck
the problem I have w/gaming on laptops is the small keyboard. Yeah I guess you could tote around your KB w/you (you really wouldn't have a choice otherwise) but it is still a serious problem w/gaming on laptops..
heheh LOL!
Never say never." Microsoft is continually looking at market opportunities for its products - on both our own platforms as well as on other platforms. As mentioned above we saw a great opportunity for selling our Office products on the Mac platform and have licensed a lot of our technology for use on other platforms.
;-)
hasn't it been said that Linux is now showing more usage than Macs? I am not against the Mac platoform, I am asking a serious question. I thought that Linux users had a larger base now and I really don't see the market share as being a big obstacle..
The fact that there is no "standard" desktop for Linux (KDE, GNOME, whatever) is also not really an issue. I don't need to have KDE or GNOME to run Office and I really don't care what the look and feel of the software was. Hell, make it like Windows, it would be more comfortable for most people anyway...
The real issue here is that MS *knows* that the one thing that Linux lacks is Office. Everyone knows that if Linux ran Office and ran it native and well there would be little to hold *more* people back from running Linux...
Next time, let's remember what's really going on here
even though this is somewhat offtopic, I would have to say that not EVERYONE was twisting their minds on acid, but a good majority were (earlier in the 60's when it was still legal and the acid-tests were popular).
every social event in history has a great inpact on film, this should be no surprise.. Maybe film has major social impact (chicken or the egg).
he talks at length about how Perl 5 code has certain keywords that make it known as Perl 5 and how DEC changed BASIC to use "extend" at the top of all their code to use long variable names (and how this was bad). Well, that's all fine and good.. He seems to want to break from this tradition yet what does he do? He begins talking about "module or class" (same as Perl 5 and DEC BASIC).
:))
;-)
The article was great if you are a Camel lover but some of us aren't (I use it for web stuff, but I am not Perl junkie
I am glad to see Perl continuing development, but I still think that Perl/Parrot would have been best
no no, we can't have worthwhile news any other day, why not have completely worthless news today? I mean, hell, let's go back to the past 3 April Fools and see if we can't repeat some of those fucking posts, maybe they were funnier.
I get static IP, 768k/128k. Problem is Verizon is too fucking cheap to pay for more bandwith so we get 1000+ms pings to our gateway. Turns out (after hours and hours of lying on the phone from the tech support people) that they are daisychaining the racks at the DSLAM in the office downtown and too may people are on a single T1.
;-) If only I lived in MI instead of OH, I would just run ethernet across the border.
It took 2 months 2 weeks to get a tech out here to test that w/a laptop... I told them for those 2 months and 2 weeks what the problem was but I didn't know what I was talking about...
Today (3 months 1 week) I called again and finally got the word that they are adding more T1's to the DSLAM (whether or not this is true I have no idea) and supposedly our ping replies will improve...
My suggestion to those people out there that can get cable or DSL w/a providor other than Verizon -- do so.. If you have Verizon, do NOT get DSL through them (and if you are like us and you have to, make sure you call them daily and record extensions and names of the people you talk to). Get really fucking pissed off when they won't tell you what you know is right and eventually something will get done.
The US's DSL situation sucks b/c the bandwith is more expensive than the revenues from the DSL service. DOWN W/CANADA
aren't you confusing them w/Verizon?
try 1000+ pings to your gateway b/c they are daisychaining racks then telling you that it is not them that is causing the problem it is you!
definitly should top the list of all time.. Intelligent gaming (not mindless action) interesting plots, and nice graphics (when that time came).
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Just my worthless
we were once talking about the possibility of implanting your information in your body so it is w/you always (sorry I am not looking up the link)...
what if step #1 contains something that automatically reads who you are and starts doing whatever... I am scared they are really going to take over the world...
Control us through our video game console! Ha, preposterous.. Maybe not...
You will be assimilated..
P.S. If you ask me, we should all use IRC anyway. ;-) Now THERE is the way to communicate...
:)
oh whatever. You are complaining that ICQ is laggy? What about IRC? Little assholes feeling the need to shutdown EFnet for no reason, hard to find servers to connect to anymore, etc.
I use AIM on a regular basis to communicate w/friends.. Most haven't a god damn clue how to use AIM as it is, you really think that they are going to remember (or what to even think about learning IRC?) get real pal, that's why they have AIM.
Just my worthless whining
High Performance Computing
MFCF has received a gracious donation from Silicon Graphics of an Origin
2000 supercomputer(http://www.sgi.com/origin/2000/). This machine has 8 CPUs and 2 gigabytes of RAM with plenty of disk. Its ccNUMA design offers excellent scalability while maintaining the ease of programming in a shared-memory SMP model. SGI's comprehensive suite of compilers and related
tools are installed. SGI is interested in our help with developing Linux for this platform, and in the meantime, we can use it with its native IRIX operating system. Researchers interested in making use of this high performance computing resource (tuxor.math) are welcome to send their proposals to dabrown@math. Also, MFCF has established a mailing list called "hpc" as a forum for those interested in high performance computing. This mailing list also serves as a
means of circulating announcements from the C3.ca group(http://www.c3.ca/).
unfortunatly, most bands that ALLOW taping of their shows are "jam bands like Phish". Grateful Dead, String Cheese Incident, Widespread Panic, Phish, etc. All have influences from similar places.