some of you make the case that parents shouldnt let their kids play mature rated games. Haven't you considered that maybe the parents DONT allow such games? the kid could have gotten it off kazaa and played when the parents were at work for all we know (and the parents dont). there is some responsibilty to be put on the parents, but ultimately we are all accountable for our own actions.
it isnt an organized religion, but it is a set of belief(s). the beleif that there is no god. so rather than serving a god, they serve themselves (and maybe others) and in essence become their own god. ever hear the phrase "taking care of number one"?
claiming atheism is a religion would be more akin to claiming that black is a color.
Although not constitutional, it is commonly accepted that there is to be a seperation of church and state. This means that there shouldn't be a religion/church which is funded by taxes. Wether you like it or not, secular humanism is a religion(def.4), and it is being taught in schools. Also, to a degree, atheism is taught in public schools, and this too is a religion (although perhaps not "established"). There is no reason my taxes should be paying for a muslim/christian/hindu/linus based school, so why should they be paying for a secular humanist school? Taxes shouldn't pay for it, hence the reason there should be no public schools. The solution is this: if you want your kids to go to school, pay their way. if you cant afford to, maybe some other people from your religion will help you out.
" to challenge the dominance of Microsoft on server computers."
how can MS consider it a threat when their stronghold is the desktop? they only have ~half the server market to start with, and there is no technical reason they should have that much at all.
after reading the article (?!) i thought it seemed as though this "asian coalition" will merely be providing an alternative and not forcing it on people, as you may have thought if you had only read the summary.
for the most part i agree with you. if a movie is real good and has re-watch-ability, i will buy it. even at the "steep" price of ~$30 usd i bought the etended version of FOTR. I also bought Equilibrium because it was so good i loved it even though when i first saw it, the audio/video quality sucked anus (it was the worst screener ever). usually i shop around on the net to find the best deal, but when i saw Equilibrium at blockbuster, i figured they diserve the extra money and payed a premium of $22. My third and last example to show what i would pay is this: Being bored i once downloaded a movie i thought looked interesting. it turned out it suxx0r3d. am i glad i didnt give them any money.
also, i wanted to say that i wish to check out this movie when it comes out, it sounds interesting. havent seen the series, but maybe i will soon enough;)
would it be possible to use UML on top of OpenMosix. Theoretically this should allow you to have several cheap intel/amd boxes acting as one (so shared resources) and then running multiple linuxes in UML would allow for an efficient use of those resources. In the end, would this not be close to the Z series, just cheaper? I imagine it might be a bit trickier to admin, but it would be interesting.
am i the only one that thinks mplayer has the worst keyboard shortcuts and gui? for example, if i stretch a window or go fullscreen, it would only make sense that the video inside stretches too (but it doesnt). or why would they have '/' and '*' be the volume control? '+' and - make more sense to me... im not trollin, im just askin honest questions. maybe i just dont understand mplayer
naturally, vice city is a single player game. but, even though the game is closed source, there is an effort (which actually works to a decent extent) to make it multiplayer
Dont forget to stop by in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania! You can see the Amish, who seem to think its still the 1600's! They drive buggys with horses, strip tabaco all day long, and wash only once a year! It's such an exilerating experience, I swear!
another reason the memory footprint appears outrageously big is because, unlike most other systems, X stores the pixmaps from _all_ apps running in its own memory, rather than each app managing its own pixmaps. So the ram used by X is greater, but the ram used by gui apps is less.
This sounds like a very good idea to me. Being one of those teens that has money, Its a pain to buy stuff online through my parents. Although I could also see this being used for bad, i.e. kids anonymously buying pr0n, alchohol, or other illegal/immoral things.
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although that question is off topic, i think it is a valid one. Looks like whoever posted the story could use some help categorizing things:P go ahead, mod me off topic too, i dont care.
well, you have my vote for (atleast the option of) ogg files, and flac would be good too for those audiophiles. BTW, how much does your lisence for the mp3 format cost?
I believe this venture will fail for one simple reason. People (especially in the USA) are dumb. or if they arent dumb, they dont want to mess with all these featuers. After reading the article it made me think of ICQ vs. AIM. ICQ has more features and is technically better, but it takes a bit more intelligence to use. AIM is fecal, but easy to use, and therefore most americans use it. Xbox/GC/PS2 might not have such neat features, but they are easy to use. I'm sure the Phantom will be easy, but people wont understand the advantages
btw, who wants to dl >800mb each time you get a game? only warez mongers:)
ships with several desktop environments, including K Desktop Environment and GNU Network Object Model Environment.
I haven't heard Gnome refered to that way in a while. Makes you wonder why they didnt say "Kool Desktop Environment" as well...
true, they did something similar since they didnt want to waste so much time. They made a ghost image and just copied it over the network for each computer
how long will it take now to install win2k and all the service packs? a couple of my friends who have worked with win2k said that it takes a few hours to install because of all the patches , drivers, and reboots inbetween.
i have a strong feeling this will not work. how many people outside of/. learn about these things? as cypher said "ignorance is bliss". Most people haven't heard of the RIAA, and most people won't hear about these cases. and so live would continue as always.
i do fear for my one friend tho, he is quite the warezmonger. I wouldnt be suprised if he was one of the few to be sued.
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some of you make the case that parents shouldnt let their kids play mature rated games. Haven't you considered that maybe the parents DONT allow such games? the kid could have gotten it off kazaa and played when the parents were at work for all we know (and the parents dont). there is some responsibilty to be put on the parents, but ultimately we are all accountable for our own actions.
it isnt an organized religion, but it is a set of belief(s). the beleif that there is no god. so rather than serving a god, they serve themselves (and maybe others) and in essence become their own god. ever hear the phrase "taking care of number one"?
claiming atheism is a religion would be more akin to claiming that black is a color.
Although not constitutional, it is commonly accepted that there is to be a seperation of church and state. This means that there shouldn't be a religion/church which is funded by taxes. Wether you like it or not, secular humanism is a religion(def.4), and it is being taught in schools. Also, to a degree, atheism is taught in public schools, and this too is a religion (although perhaps not "established"). There is no reason my taxes should be paying for a muslim/christian/hindu/linus based school, so why should they be paying for a secular humanist school? Taxes shouldn't pay for it, hence the reason there should be no public schools. The solution is this: if you want your kids to go to school, pay their way. if you cant afford to, maybe some other people from your religion will help you out.
in a related article we read the following:
" to challenge the dominance of Microsoft on server computers."
how can MS consider it a threat when their stronghold is the desktop? they only have ~half the server market to start with, and there is no technical reason they should have that much at all.
after reading the article (?!) i thought it seemed as though this "asian coalition" will merely be providing an alternative and not forcing it on people, as you may have thought if you had only read the summary.
i always wondered, why dont guys shave their pits? i am seriously considering doing it myself, i think armpit hairs are just nasty, on girls AND guys.
for the most part i agree with you. if a movie is real good and has re-watch-ability, i will buy it. even at the "steep" price of ~$30 usd i bought the etended version of FOTR. I also bought Equilibrium because it was so good i loved it even though when i first saw it, the audio/video quality sucked anus (it was the worst screener ever). usually i shop around on the net to find the best deal, but when i saw Equilibrium at blockbuster, i figured they diserve the extra money and payed a premium of $22. My third and last example to show what i would pay is this: Being bored i once downloaded a movie i thought looked interesting. it turned out it suxx0r3d. am i glad i didnt give them any money.
;)
also, i wanted to say that i wish to check out this movie when it comes out, it sounds interesting. havent seen the series, but maybe i will soon enough
would it be possible to use UML on top of OpenMosix. Theoretically this should allow you to have several cheap intel/amd boxes acting as one (so shared resources) and then running multiple linuxes in UML would allow for an efficient use of those resources. In the end, would this not be close to the Z series, just cheaper? I imagine it might be a bit trickier to admin, but it would be interesting.
am i the only one that thinks mplayer has the worst keyboard shortcuts and gui? for example, if i stretch a window or go fullscreen, it would only make sense that the video inside stretches too (but it doesnt). or why would they have '/' and '*' be the volume control? '+' and - make more sense to me... im not trollin, im just askin honest questions. maybe i just dont understand mplayer
out of 10 paragraphs, 6 start with Taroon
Thats almost 60%!!!
naturally, vice city is a single player game. but, even though the game is closed source, there is an effort (which actually works to a decent extent) to make it multiplayer
if these machines become a reality, the people making/using them might want to watch evangelion to see how the magi effect the national leaders.
:)
or maybe they'll just watch it cause its a great series and use that as a excuse
crap! I used up all my mod points yesterday, so now I can't mod your post insightful or informative...
I wonder what this means to the people at blender who just updated the python API
Dont forget to stop by in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania! You can see the Amish, who seem to think its still the 1600's! They drive buggys with horses, strip tabaco all day long, and wash only once a year! It's such an exilerating experience, I swear!
another reason the memory footprint appears outrageously big is because, unlike most other systems, X stores the pixmaps from _all_ apps running in its own memory, rather than each app managing its own pixmaps. So the ram used by X is greater, but the ram used by gui apps is less.
This sounds like a very good idea to me. Being one of those teens that has money, Its a pain to buy stuff online through my parents. Although I could also see this being used for bad, i.e. kids anonymously buying pr0n, alchohol, or other illegal/immoral things.
although that question is off topic, i think it is a valid one. Looks like whoever posted the story could use some help categorizing things :P go ahead, mod me off topic too, i dont care.
well, you have my vote for (atleast the option of) ogg files, and flac would be good too for those audiophiles. BTW, how much does your lisence for the mp3 format cost?
MS did it quick and dirty. Their stuff was teh crap, but now that they have all the money, they are starting to fix it.
If you have the time, do it proper.
or, you could just be a real good programmer and make quick and dirty mean correct and proper.
I believe this venture will fail for one simple reason. People (especially in the USA) are dumb. or if they arent dumb, they dont want to mess with all these featuers. After reading the article it made me think of ICQ vs. AIM. ICQ has more features and is technically better, but it takes a bit more intelligence to use. AIM is fecal, but easy to use, and therefore most americans use it. Xbox/GC/PS2 might not have such neat features, but they are easy to use. I'm sure the Phantom will be easy, but people wont understand the advantages
:)
btw, who wants to dl >800mb each time you get a game? only warez mongers
ships with several desktop environments, including K Desktop Environment and GNU Network Object Model Environment.
I haven't heard Gnome refered to that way in a while. Makes you wonder why they didnt say "Kool Desktop Environment" as well...
true, they did something similar since they didnt want to waste so much time. They made a ghost image and just copied it over the network for each computer
how long will it take now to install win2k and all the service packs? a couple of my friends who have worked with win2k said that it takes a few hours to install because of all the patches , drivers, and reboots inbetween.
i have a strong feeling this will not work. how many people outside of /. learn about these things? as cypher said "ignorance is bliss". Most people haven't heard of the RIAA, and most people won't hear about these cases. and so live would continue as always.
i do fear for my one friend tho, he is quite the warezmonger. I wouldnt be suprised if he was one of the few to be sued.