I'd mod you up if I could..
You're right.. as the world struggles through advancing globalization, we're foolish to think that 6 billion people can live the way we in the united states do. Either we'll increasingly explit the labour of poorer nations or our standart of living will go down.
To contribute at least somethign to the topic at hand: It amazes me every time how ignorant people are.. sand in your computer?? Come on.
IMO, it's self-perpetuating. More guns, more violence, more guns, etc.
A scared single mother shooting a drunk teenager that walks across her lawn at night. There's too much fear and misunderstanding around in todays age for guns to be an option
Look around the united states today and ask yourself that question again. Yeah yeah, guns don't kill people, people do. But, people with guns kill more people than people without guns.
I suppose your argument would be that if everyone had a gun there would be no mugging, no rape.. Somehow, I don't quite believe it.
Xine works beautifully for me. compiled without a hitch, plugins work in mozilla through gxine, dvd decryption, all without any problems whatsoever. It beats the pants of any windows player for verstatility. IMO anyways.
Find a new business model. The days of poorly written, over priced games are behind us. I can't remember the last commercial game I was satisfied with since Homeworld.
There is some twisted little defect in the American culture that makes their young people actually want to go into dangerous combat situations on the other side of the world and expose themselves to discomfort, death, and dismemberment against people that they have never even heard of. No one else seriously wants to do this.
I've always imagined people using something other than a monitor to view a 3d desktop and something other than a mouse to navigate it. Something Like VR glasses that could also track your eye movement, etc.
I don't find a 3d desktop using current interfaces that exciting, nor do I think it would be a boon to productivity. Sure does look purty though
Yeah, that's a great attitude. Lets try to exclude as many people as possible. That way we get to pretend we're smarter than the people who don't use it.
Newbie, hardly. I said RELATIVELY obscure. As in being related to something.. such as, maybe OS's in general. Someone who just wants things to work and wonders why they don't, doesn't need to slough through man pages and howtos. All I'm saying is, instead of the knee-jerk "Read the bulletin-board/manual/documentation/README/FAQ you fucking moron" response, wouldn't it be easier just to answer people's questions? The average home user doesn't care about community issues, they just want things to work. Or at least, know why they don't
How many people out of 100 do you think would know that the Debian servers were attacked? Some people don't live in your little miniscule world. Instead of ranting about people's lack of knowledge regarding something so RELATIVELY obscure, wouldn't it make a LOT more sense to simply ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION and move on.
THIS kind of attitude is exactly what's wrong. It seems one doesn't have to go far to find an example regarding this topic
Some people seem to think that everyone bends over for the US and the US doens't bend over for anyone. That is not true, the US actually does alot of bending over for the UN. The US military would have been in Iraq November 2002 if the UN didn't stall Bush for 4 months.
Yeah, like paying it's UN dues for the past.. 15 years?
Without the ability of the United States to tell us what to do in case of emergency, there's no telling what trouble we might get into. If that's what it takes to keep money in the hands of the corporate elite, so be it. Don't blame the US, blame the terrorists.
I happen to like the irreverent humour and careless naming conventions of the free software world. Kinda sickening to see petty corporate despotism begin now that open source has made inroads to mainstream respectability. Inevitable I suppose
You should never have to do that kind of 'crap' to get a usb mouse working if you're installing a commercial distribution. Most mainstream distros come with their own, generic kernel that has support for almost every device compiled in, or as a module. Only if you want or need to build your own specific configuration should you ever have to mess with this sort of stuff. Theoretically
I thought that since some big corporations like IBM and Novell are picking up Linux, things would get a little more professional.
Why? so that yet another culture can get swalled into the soulless, humourless, corporate machine? I for one don't want linux to be synonymous with IBM
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Because we'll turn out to be the saviors of their race by contributing our gentic information
I bet the aliens have better computers. When we find them, they'll be able to simulate all that protein folding in SECONDS.
Yes, true, I am. Note the similarities however
God, baseball. The most mind-numbing sport in the world.
Who cares if someone managed to throw a ball perfectly for 9 innings. Really
I'd mod you up if I could.. You're right.. as the world struggles through advancing globalization, we're foolish to think that 6 billion people can live the way we in the united states do. Either we'll increasingly explit the labour of poorer nations or our standart of living will go down.
To contribute at least somethign to the topic at hand: It amazes me every time how ignorant people are.. sand in your computer?? Come on.
IMO, it's self-perpetuating. More guns, more violence, more guns, etc. A scared single mother shooting a drunk teenager that walks across her lawn at night. There's too much fear and misunderstanding around in todays age for guns to be an option
Look around the united states today and ask yourself that question again. Yeah yeah, guns don't kill people, people do. But, people with guns kill more people than people without guns.
I suppose your argument would be that if everyone had a gun there would be no mugging, no rape.. Somehow, I don't quite believe it.
No one is dusputing anyones right to 'RKBA'. That doesn't mean google or anyone has to advertise for gun companies.
Hey,
disallowing gun advertising is a GOOD thing.
Please wake up.
Xine works beautifully for me. compiled without a hitch, plugins work in mozilla through gxine, dvd decryption, all without any problems whatsoever. It beats the pants of any windows player for verstatility. IMO anyways.
Find a new business model. The days of poorly written, over priced games are behind us. I can't remember the last commercial game I was satisfied with since Homeworld.
There is some twisted little defect in the American culture that makes their young people actually want to go into dangerous combat situations on the other side of the world and expose themselves to discomfort, death, and dismemberment against people that they have never even heard of. No one else seriously wants to do this.
It's called propoganda
How can you possibly care???????
I've always imagined people using something other than a monitor to view a 3d desktop and something other than a mouse to navigate it. Something Like VR glasses that could also track your eye movement, etc.
I don't find a 3d desktop using current interfaces that exciting, nor do I think it would be a boon to productivity. Sure does look purty though
Hahah.. funny. Jurassic park. I remember thinking the same thing when I saw that.
Yeah, that's a great attitude. Lets try to exclude as many people as possible. That way we get to pretend we're smarter than the people who don't use it.
Newbie, hardly. I said RELATIVELY obscure. As in being related to something.. such as, maybe OS's in general. Someone who just wants things to work and wonders why they don't, doesn't need to slough through man pages and howtos. All I'm saying is, instead of the knee-jerk "Read the bulletin-board/manual/documentation/README/FAQ you fucking moron" response, wouldn't it be easier just to answer people's questions? The average home user doesn't care about community issues, they just want things to work. Or at least, know why they don't
How many people out of 100 do you think would know that the Debian servers were attacked? Some people don't live in your little miniscule world. Instead of ranting about people's lack of knowledge regarding something so RELATIVELY obscure, wouldn't it make a LOT more sense to simply ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION and move on.
THIS kind of attitude is exactly what's wrong. It seems one doesn't have to go far to find an example regarding this topic
Some people seem to think that everyone bends over for the US and the US doens't bend over for anyone. That is not true, the US actually does alot of bending over for the UN. The US military would have been in Iraq November 2002 if the UN didn't stall Bush for 4 months.
Yeah, like paying it's UN dues for the past.. 15 years?
Without the ability of the United States to tell us what to do in case of emergency, there's no telling what trouble we might get into. If that's what it takes to keep money in the hands of the corporate elite, so be it. Don't blame the US, blame the terrorists.
Giving the US the finger this day in age would probably result in economic suicide, or a least a serious maiming
I happen to like the irreverent humour and careless naming conventions of the free software world. Kinda sickening to see petty corporate despotism begin now that open source has made inroads to mainstream respectability. Inevitable I suppose
I'm canadian
You should never have to do that kind of 'crap' to get a usb mouse working if you're installing a commercial distribution. Most mainstream distros come with their own, generic kernel that has support for almost every device compiled in, or as a module. Only if you want or need to build your own specific configuration should you ever have to mess with this sort of stuff. Theoretically
I thought that since some big corporations like IBM and Novell are picking up Linux, things would get a little more professional.
Why? so that yet another culture can get swalled into the soulless, humourless, corporate machine? I for one don't want linux to be synonymous with IBM