Just out of curiosity, how many murders are in the first half hour or so of Star Wars: A New Hope? Some number of resistance fighters on the ship, An attempted murder by a sandperson, The little trader guys and Luke's family, a dismemberment in a bar. I think that's pushing the first half hour, but you get the Idea.
Oh yeah, let's not forget Alderan. How many of us grew up watching a planet die? How many of us cheered the destruction of a starbase full of people because it was the bad guys?
Now I'll grant you that the overall theme was one of peace (wars do not make one great). But I wouldn't say it was non-violent, even the good guys had sabres.
I think realistic, graphic violence is better in alot of ways, it shows people what violence really is. Quake teaches you (quickly) that if you go around shooting people, people will shoot back, and you will die, soon in terms of the end-of-your-life.
Kids (just like grown ups) who do violent things have serious other problems. A well raised 12 year old is seriously disciplined for fighting with peers or siblings. 'Man if my mom EVER caught me smoking, she'd kill me!' this is not an attitude that leads to shooting sprees.
This will be elaborated on at kuro5hin, Later, I'm tired.
So, what? A license like the GPL or BSD License would be better? A license that allows Free redistribution and commercial or non-commercial use, but not if part of a filtering system? That seems too draconian for my taste.
The problem here is not who owns the database, or who they're giving it to, or what that party is going to do with it. The problem (IMHO) is that napster is being forced to muzzle itself, or die trying.
This appears to be a real-world exhibit at the MIT museum. This isn't something you can just mirror or buy a bigger hard drive for. The director of the museum said that they were _not_ going to just get rid of the stuff, and are looking for somewherwe else to put it.
Unlike with Windows/DOS, the Linux shell is an application program like any other. It can be replaced with a GUI shell with near zero effort.
Actually, both dos and windows (at least through 98) can pretty easily handle an alternative shell. (dos less so)
The shell on my laptop is bash. (Thanks cygnus!:-) (cygnus=redhat)) Cygwin has the basic GNU tools, including gcc. Explorer only runs if I want it to. With Perl and Gimp it almost feels like a real operating system.
Yes, This is still too expensive for an 'average' Brazilian. But what did PC's cost at the beginning of the PC revolution? Were they worth the cost to the average [your nationality]?
This may not help a street urchin put up a web page, but maybe it will help a few (thousand) small businesses manage themselves a little bit better. That will help Brazil.
For all of those who haven't read it, or want to again, this is a good story about cool code, and a cool coder.
This is the Google search I found it with. The real Eight Star misses Technocrat.
"government weapons facility Sandia National Laboratories and genetics researcher Celera Genomics are teaming up"
Does that phrase scare you as much as it does me?
I assumed it would be for nuke simulation till I saw that. This strikes me as somehow worse. The real Eight Star misses Technocrat.
There's one simple way I can think of to stop this kind of thing.
If they want to stop all politically objectionable sites, and presumably sites that link to them, all you have to do is start a 'Stop Internet Censorship in China' Colored Ribbon Campaign. If it becomes as popular as the blue ribbon was, there simply won't be any pages to speak of that don't speak negatively (at least a little) of the chinese government.
A Private h2g2-like database could do this.
For instance, (after establishing identity conventionally) I claim that I am at my college's computer lab, at XX terminal. It tells me to read the serial number from under the keyboard. if I get it right, I'm in.
Of course you would need a large number of facts for any verifiable location, and they'd have to be things you wouldn't think to memorize beforehand, and preferably things that won't change too often, unless you can keep the DB up to date with the changes, in which case fast changes are good.
For those of us who can't be there in person, does somebody have the number of a San Jose radio station (Preferably one covering the protests) we could call to show our support.
1 bit = bit 8 bits = byte 1024 bytes= 'K' (kay?) 1024 K = Meg 1024 Meg= Gig And let SI terminology stay the way it's always been. Of course, I don't know what abreviation we'll use for terrabyte. ter? I vote 'T'.
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Just out of curiosity, how many murders are in the first half hour or so of Star Wars: A New Hope?
Some number of resistance fighters on the ship, An attempted murder by a sandperson, The little trader guys and Luke's family, a dismemberment in a bar. I think that's pushing the first half hour, but you get the Idea.
Oh yeah, let's not forget Alderan. How many of us grew up watching a planet die? How many of us cheered the destruction of a starbase full of people because it was the bad guys?
Now I'll grant you that the overall theme was one of peace (wars do not make one great). But I wouldn't say it was non-violent, even the good guys had sabres.
I think realistic, graphic violence is better in alot of ways, it shows people what violence really is. Quake teaches you (quickly) that if you go around shooting people, people will shoot back, and you will die, soon in terms of the end-of-your-life.
Kids (just like grown ups) who do violent things have serious other problems. A well raised 12 year old is seriously disciplined for fighting with peers or siblings. 'Man if my mom EVER caught me smoking, she'd kill me!' this is not an attitude that leads to shooting sprees.
This will be elaborated on at kuro5hin, Later, I'm tired.
So, what? A license like the GPL or BSD License would be better? A license that allows Free redistribution and commercial or non-commercial use, but not if part of a filtering system? That seems too draconian for my taste.
The problem here is not who owns the database, or who they're giving it to, or what that party is going to do with it. The problem (IMHO) is that napster is being forced to muzzle itself, or die trying.
This is probably redundant by now.
This appears to be a real-world exhibit at the MIT museum. This isn't something you can just mirror or buy a bigger hard drive for. The director of the museum said that they were _not_ going to just get rid of the stuff, and are looking for somewherwe else to put it.
Unlike with Windows/DOS, the Linux shell is an application program like any other. It can be replaced with a GUI shell with near zero effort.
:-) (cygnus=redhat)) Cygwin has the basic GNU tools, including gcc. Explorer only runs if I want it to. With Perl and Gimp it almost feels like a real operating system.
Actually, both dos and windows (at least through 98) can pretty easily handle an alternative shell. (dos less so)
The shell on my laptop is bash. (Thanks cygnus!
Yes, This is still too expensive for an 'average' Brazilian. But what did PC's cost at the beginning of the PC revolution? Were they worth the cost to the average [your nationality]?
This may not help a street urchin put up a web page, but maybe it will help a few (thousand) small businesses manage themselves a little bit better. That will help Brazil.
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For all of those who haven't read it, or want to again, this is a good story about cool code, and a cool coder.
This is the Google search I found it with.
The real Eight Star misses Technocrat.
"government weapons facility Sandia National Laboratories and genetics researcher Celera Genomics are teaming up"
Does that phrase scare you as much as it does me?
I assumed it would be for nuke simulation till I saw that. This strikes me as somehow worse.
The real Eight Star misses Technocrat.
There's one simple way I can think of to stop this kind of thing.
If they want to stop all politically objectionable sites, and presumably sites that link to them, all you have to do is start a 'Stop Internet Censorship in China' Colored Ribbon Campaign. If it becomes as popular as the blue ribbon was, there simply won't be any pages to speak of that don't speak negatively (at least a little) of the chinese government.
A Private h2g2-like database could do this.
For instance, (after establishing identity conventionally) I claim that I am at my college's computer lab, at XX terminal. It tells me to read the serial number from under the keyboard. if I get it right, I'm in.
Of course you would need a large number of facts for any verifiable location, and they'd have to be things you wouldn't think to memorize beforehand, and preferably things that won't change too often, unless you can keep the DB up to date with the changes, in which case fast changes are good.
For those of us who can't be there in person, does somebody have the number of a San Jose radio station (Preferably one covering the protests) we could call to show our support.
1 bit = bit
:-P
8 bits = byte
1024 bytes= 'K' (kay?)
1024 K = Meg
1024 Meg= Gig
And let SI terminology stay the way it's always been. Of course, I don't know what abreviation we'll use for terrabyte. ter? I vote 'T'.
M'KAY?