We should revive XFree86. To start, we should generate a list of features for the next release. We'll spread some rumors about what we're doing, let the world see how hard we're working on it.
This should get some attention from/. and other sites to get people involved but we'll freeze the code and not allow any new developers/submissions on the project. Frustrated, they'll go over to X.Org to try to work for the competition.
Now for phase II. About this time next year we announce a release date, delay it a few times, then release it about two years from now. Make it a big deal. Major release. Get everybody talking about it.
For the release we'll drop all of the major new features on the list. We'll fix a bug or two, something major like a spelling error in a log report. Of course, we'll add a few new bugs. We could drop support for some hardware. For new features we could change a few things in the conf file. Instead of "Section" you now have to use "Block". We could totally change the format of the ModeLine to something totally crazy (crazier?)
If this follows the corporate model we have today it should drive major innovation and more frequent releases from X.Org, though our XFree86 project would unfortunately take away most of X.Org's market share.
Open source projects would probably earn the respect of more businesses and government agencies if it would just follow these common sense models from the corporate world.
I'm not saying that video games cause kids to turn to a life of crime or any such thing. I'm just saying that there is a difference between a video game and a movie, for me anyway.
I'm sure you'll be able to point to a corresponding rise in juvenile crime statistics that would demonstrate its predictive power.
Nope, and I'm not even saying that I'm right. I'm just sharing what I've seen in myself, and that I could imagine an already-troubled youth responding with less self control to the same sort of impulse that I felt.
I did discuss this with some friends of mine who I know play GTA, and overall got responses like, "Yeah, it's amazing how you start to think like you're in the game."
There is certainly a difference between video games and movies.
I was playing GTA for a couple of weeks. My favorite color is yellow. When I was looking for a car, I would always give preference to a yellow car. "I'm going to grab the next (kind of car I wanted here) that I find."
Now, I'm a pretty normal guy. Business owner, volunteer with local charities, etc. But after a couple of weeks with GTA, I found myself noticing yellow cars that looked similar to those in the game and having this impulse to hop out of my S-10 and into that other car to take it for a spin. Of course, I have a thing called self control and I take responsibility for my actions, so I never would have done it, but I found myself having that sense that I could.
I can't help but think that a teenager, who has that "me against the world" mentality, the self control may not kick in as instantly as it did for me.
Now before I get bashed here, I'm not saying that we need to ban video games. I'm not saying that video games cause kids to turn to a life of crime or any such thing. I'm just saying that there is a difference between a video game and a movie, for me anyway. Movies don't give me those impulses like the video games do. When I watch a movie I'm seeing other people do things. When I'm playing a game, I'm forming those thought patterns in my brain, and conditioning myself to follow through on them.
So all I'm saying here is that video games and movies should be treated differently in my opinion, because they invoke different mental processes.
I have been using Kate. I'm more or less happy with it. I have yet to find a way to write Perl scripts or any other kind of script to process text.
I want a GUI text editor that has some flexibility in the way of custom scripting and some common tools like increase and decrease indent of a selected block, syntax highlighting, commenting a selected block, changing case, stripping HTML tags, joining split lines, etc. (Some of this is available in Kate.)
Some features are nice, too, like line numbers, a replace feature with good regex support... and, of course, it has to be capable of opening/saving via SFTP.
I never bought a song on iTunes - I've gotten them all for free with Pepsi caps.
I don't usually drink Pepsi, but when I see those yellow caps, I tip the bottles, find a winner, then get a Pepsi (instead of the Coke I would buy otherwise) and get my free song.
So I think this is in response to pressure from Pepsi. If you pay more per song, you'll be more likely to buy a Pepsi for a chance to win a free download.
I've been installing Slackware from bootable CDs for a number of years now. Making a boot floppy isn't as easy as it was in the past either because kernels and such have grown beyond the space limitations of a floppy.
Burn the ISO to CD and boot it. Disc 2 has (at least in the past) a number of troubleshooting tools on it when you boot. It's sort of a rescue disc. (I say at least in the past because my 10.1 discs are not working that way, though I suspect it is a bad burn.)
I was looking for the point at which they switched to bootable CDs and more info on the boot/root floppy situation, but Slackware.com is coming up blank. Maybe somebody else knows.
If you look at how much income tax some of these corporate executives have to pay, you'll find that the $3.5 Million works out to about $32,000. I haven't done the math, of course.:-)
Although, the way they mess with the books, they may find that they have a refund coming to them. So I guess we can't go by that.
The first time I heard that the rainforests would be gone soon was in fourth grade. That was seventeen years ago. You environmentalists sure do have an interesting definition of "soon".
Maybe the original was showing the bias of the author - as news often does these days. His point could have been that you can use any language that you would want to because nobody would want to use any language other than those listed.
So if the RIAA can't touch you in Canada... how likely is it that they will really check the citizenship of the person connected via a certain IP address? And how likely is it that a Canadian Internet provider is going to give the RIAA information about their customers?
Therefore, it seems to me that somebody could make a killing offering VPN tunnels in Canada.
So the moral of the story is: Always build your roller coaster with live trees - otherwise expect it to deteriorate.
All in fun. But, really, it would be interesting to have some sort of a flexible track that could mount to live trees, so that the track could move slightly as the trees grow and sway in the breeze. The precise mathematics of a roller coaster would be hard to work with considering the dynamic nature of a growing tree, but it must be possible even if it is brutally difficult.
9. Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock. (Dash thy little ones, etc... In the spiritual sense, we dash the little ones of Babylon against the rock, when we mortify our passions, and stifle the first motions of them, by a speedy recourse to the rock which is Christ.)
This isn't quite the same thing as a "lifetime deals" sign on the freeway. This is more like a sign that is identical to an official roadsign, saying "CONSTRUCTION - ALL CARS MUST TAKE NEXT EXIT" which then leads everybody directly past the car dealer's lot.
A lot of people are fooled by these ads because they look like real system messages. They click to find out that the message on the banner is false and that it was not a system message in the first place, just an ad.
I won't say who should handle the case because I don't know enough about law to speak up on the subject, but I'm glad that something is being done. Personally (and this is just my opinion) I'm glad that it's class action, since it seems that a class action would exclude the government more than FTC (government agency) would. (See previous disclaimer about my knowledge of law.)
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I remember seeing a video in a computer class way back in high school about these kids that wrote a video game and, in the process of getting it published, gave a copy to a friend. That friend made copies for everyone else and, next thing you know, it was everywhere and never got published.
Has anybody else seen this video, or know where it can be found on the net? I would love to see it again. I remember it being pretty lame, but as long as we're being nostalgic about piracy...
Ahh... the memories of the high school computer lab. Those were the days!
From the article: "In order to give you details about credit-card transactions, I have to see a court order."
According to the article, they don't just give out credit card information to anybody who sends them a fax. I suppose if you say you're with a regional police department in a fax and produce a well-forged court order, you could get my credit card information, or anybody else's on eBay, but otherwise I think that your comments are incorrect. Considering the seriousness of impersonating a police officer, and a court of law, you would be behind bars well past the expiration of my card.
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If by "extra" you meant "just the right number but in the wrong place".
(coconut.weight / (ant.weight * (50 + ant_comfort_factor) ) )
That looks better.
Okay, so here's an idea...
/. and other sites to get people involved but we'll freeze the code and not allow any new developers/submissions on the project. Frustrated, they'll go over to X.Org to try to work for the competition.
We should revive XFree86. To start, we should generate a list of features for the next release. We'll spread some rumors about what we're doing, let the world see how hard we're working on it.
This should get some attention from
Now for phase II. About this time next year we announce a release date, delay it a few times, then release it about two years from now. Make it a big deal. Major release. Get everybody talking about it.
For the release we'll drop all of the major new features on the list. We'll fix a bug or two, something major like a spelling error in a log report. Of course, we'll add a few new bugs. We could drop support for some hardware. For new features we could change a few things in the conf file. Instead of "Section" you now have to use "Block". We could totally change the format of the ModeLine to something totally crazy (crazier?)
If this follows the corporate model we have today it should drive major innovation and more frequent releases from X.Org, though our XFree86 project would unfortunately take away most of X.Org's market share.
Open source projects would probably earn the respect of more businesses and government agencies if it would just follow these common sense models from the corporate world.
Does this mean the BeOS version can finally be completed?
So would you say that upgrading to Vista is like surgery for your PC?
Is there any good source for CD/DVD label images for those of us burning our Slackware ISOs?
So the future mouse will work like the controllers for the Nintendo Revolution? A more 3D-like HID for a 3D UI?
I make enough of a mess on my 2D desktop... 3D just adds a whole new dimension of mess for me. *sigh*
Yeah, most of the women on Getty Images are good looking.
Oh, wait, this isn't Microsoft?
Maybe we've found out where they got their name from?
Nope, and I'm not even saying that I'm right. I'm just sharing what I've seen in myself, and that I could imagine an already-troubled youth responding with less self control to the same sort of impulse that I felt.
I did discuss this with some friends of mine who I know play GTA, and overall got responses like, "Yeah, it's amazing how you start to think like you're in the game."
Nothing scientific, just making observations.
There is certainly a difference between video games and movies.
I was playing GTA for a couple of weeks. My favorite color is yellow. When I was looking for a car, I would always give preference to a yellow car. "I'm going to grab the next (kind of car I wanted here) that I find."
Now, I'm a pretty normal guy. Business owner, volunteer with local charities, etc. But after a couple of weeks with GTA, I found myself noticing yellow cars that looked similar to those in the game and having this impulse to hop out of my S-10 and into that other car to take it for a spin. Of course, I have a thing called self control and I take responsibility for my actions, so I never would have done it, but I found myself having that sense that I could.
I can't help but think that a teenager, who has that "me against the world" mentality, the self control may not kick in as instantly as it did for me.
Now before I get bashed here, I'm not saying that we need to ban video games. I'm not saying that video games cause kids to turn to a life of crime or any such thing. I'm just saying that there is a difference between a video game and a movie, for me anyway. Movies don't give me those impulses like the video games do. When I watch a movie I'm seeing other people do things. When I'm playing a game, I'm forming those thought patterns in my brain, and conditioning myself to follow through on them.
So all I'm saying here is that video games and movies should be treated differently in my opinion, because they invoke different mental processes.
I have been using Kate. I'm more or less happy with it. I have yet to find a way to write Perl scripts or any other kind of script to process text.
I want a GUI text editor that has some flexibility in the way of custom scripting and some common tools like increase and decrease indent of a selected block, syntax highlighting, commenting a selected block, changing case, stripping HTML tags, joining split lines, etc. (Some of this is available in Kate.)
Some features are nice, too, like line numbers, a replace feature with good regex support... and, of course, it has to be capable of opening/saving via SFTP.
I never bought a song on iTunes - I've gotten them all for free with Pepsi caps.
I don't usually drink Pepsi, but when I see those yellow caps, I tip the bottles, find a winner, then get a Pepsi (instead of the Coke I would buy otherwise) and get my free song.
So I think this is in response to pressure from Pepsi. If you pay more per song, you'll be more likely to buy a Pepsi for a chance to win a free download.
It's a conspiracy, I tell you!
I've been installing Slackware from bootable CDs for a number of years now. Making a boot floppy isn't as easy as it was in the past either because kernels and such have grown beyond the space limitations of a floppy.
Burn the ISO to CD and boot it. Disc 2 has (at least in the past) a number of troubleshooting tools on it when you boot. It's sort of a rescue disc. (I say at least in the past because my 10.1 discs are not working that way, though I suspect it is a bad burn.)
I was looking for the point at which they switched to bootable CDs and more info on the boot/root floppy situation, but Slackware.com is coming up blank. Maybe somebody else knows.
Rich
If you look at how much income tax some of these corporate executives have to pay, you'll find that the $3.5 Million works out to about $32,000. I haven't done the math, of course. :-)
Although, the way they mess with the books, they may find that they have a refund coming to them. So I guess we can't go by that.
The first time I heard that the rainforests would be gone soon was in fourth grade. That was seventeen years ago. You environmentalists sure do have an interesting definition of "soon".
Maybe the original was showing the bias of the author - as news often does these days. His point could have been that you can use any language that you would want to because nobody would want to use any language other than those listed.
Then again, maybe it was a mistake. Hard to say.
So if the RIAA can't touch you in Canada... how likely is it that they will really check the citizenship of the person connected via a certain IP address? And how likely is it that a Canadian Internet provider is going to give the RIAA information about their customers?
Therefore, it seems to me that somebody could make a killing offering VPN tunnels in Canada.
It took this long to get an official timeline? Hmm. Makes me think that maybe there's some of this going on.
Then they'll find out how much music is there and start downloading that too.
Nobody considered that maybe the guy really meant to type Mb, asking if the story should have said 64 MB (512 Mb) rather than 512 KB.
He may be sitting there laughing at us saying, "These losers can't even do some simple math."
On the other hand, maybe not...
So the moral of the story is: Always build your roller coaster with live trees - otherwise expect it to deteriorate.
All in fun. But, really, it would be interesting to have some sort of a flexible track that could mount to live trees, so that the track could move slightly as the trees grow and sway in the breeze. The precise mathematics of a roller coaster would be hard to work with considering the dynamic nature of a growing tree, but it must be possible even if it is brutally difficult.
Taken from the Douay Rheims, commentary and all:
9. Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.
(Dash thy little ones, etc... In the spiritual sense, we dash the little ones of Babylon against the rock, when we mortify our passions, and stifle the first motions of them, by a speedy recourse to the rock which is Christ.)
This isn't quite the same thing as a "lifetime deals" sign on the freeway. This is more like a sign that is identical to an official roadsign, saying "CONSTRUCTION - ALL CARS MUST TAKE NEXT EXIT" which then leads everybody directly past the car dealer's lot.
A lot of people are fooled by these ads because they look like real system messages. They click to find out that the message on the banner is false and that it was not a system message in the first place, just an ad.
I won't say who should handle the case because I don't know enough about law to speak up on the subject, but I'm glad that something is being done. Personally (and this is just my opinion) I'm glad that it's class action, since it seems that a class action would exclude the government more than FTC (government agency) would. (See previous disclaimer about my knowledge of law.)
I remember seeing a video in a computer class way back in high school about these kids that wrote a video game and, in the process of getting it published, gave a copy to a friend. That friend made copies for everyone else and, next thing you know, it was everywhere and never got published.
Has anybody else seen this video, or know where it can be found on the net? I would love to see it again. I remember it being pretty lame, but as long as we're being nostalgic about piracy...
Ahh... the memories of the high school computer lab. Those were the days!
From the article:
"In order to give you details about credit-card transactions, I have to see a court order."
According to the article, they don't just give out credit card information to anybody who sends them a fax. I suppose if you say you're with a regional police department in a fax and produce a well-forged court order, you could get my credit card information, or anybody else's on eBay, but otherwise I think that your comments are incorrect. Considering the seriousness of impersonating a police officer, and a court of law, you would be behind bars well past the expiration of my card.