you might have to hack the game.. these people arent saying "disassemble it, compile it and it works!" it'll just give you the source code, then to get it working on your computer, you must edit the code, use sdl or gl for graphics display, and you might have to take some parts from your favorite opensource emulator and use that for hardware support (look at sonic cd for PC, it has a shitload of DLL's emulating common genesis routines) so in the end, it's basically emulation, but, an emulator that is hardwired to play a game without all the frills, etc. or, if you're really hardcore, you can edit the code even more so it'll work with the system's hardware (eg, alsa, oss, windows' sound, etc) and use sadl or gl for the video, and reconfigure it to use the keyboard for buttons so then it's more like semi-emulation. not to mention converting the cpu instructions.
only thing making slcakware 9.1 orgasmic is swaret and pretty screenshots of gnome, not saying slackware is bad, slackware is awesome, but I dont see why people are creaming their pants over the new build, you can install swaret on your existing slack system, and swaret is optional in slack 9.1:P
you know what's sad about that? people actually fall for that crap too.. not the techies, but the common computer illiterate businessman, average employee, etc..
when will we be ushered to the social security office to get our barcodes tattooed into the back of our necks?
Funny how people laughed at these authors who made novels about a future where people are controlled by some greater force.. sadly, with this, it's coming true, first, something like pedophiles, next, criminals, then people who are found rallying in protests, people who send letters to the congressment, then newborns.
I'm starting to ponder if I want to even bring a child into this world now.
hopefully people will wake the hell up and fight against this soon. but, it'll happen over a long length of time so people will be adjusted to it, imagine people in 50 years getting upset that someone tried reading a book that was banned and they rally for him to get the death penalty, grim but possible future.. it's sad, really. let's just pray that the human race doesnt mindlessly follow into this crap.
Humans have a natural thirst for knowledge and new experiences, on all levels, the internet is full of shared information, thus, why people crave for it, why they need it. it's information.
I would like to formally announce that I, hold the patent on "online posting". I will be fair to protect my rights, that's why if you get your internet license from me, you will be endowed with the legal rights to post online, for a small fee of 700 dollars per website, I know this seems unfair, but I hold the rights, no matter what, I must protect my property at all costs. For those thieves who are illegally using my property, I will have my allies from the RIAA find you and build up a case, I'm sorry, but that's just not how thins work in america, you dont start stealing others' property. I feel this is fair and that the average person is dishonest about the amount of money they get, they get loads of money! minimum wage is just too high these days! anyways, I bid you adieu and I plan to see money in my offshore bank account soon.
http://www.bluelinux.org/
might be the next stunner for linux on the desktop, if you think about it, mandrake and redhat.. mandake is trying to be everything, a developer os, a server os and a user OS at once, giving you bloat, unneeded services, longer boot time with services no desktop user is going to use, etc.. redhat, server os, why is it on the desktop? Lindows, no. just.. no.
SusE, dunno on this one, I've never ventured into it at all.
maybe it'll be a little unheard of distro that might help linux get on the desktop, it has the stuff. since it's targeted towards education (desktop users, basically) it's perfect for a desktop OS. who knows? we'll see what will come out on top..
the next decade is going to be VERY interesting.
well, we'll find out in 2013.;)
well then, someone needs to fix that then, dont they?;)
what would work is if someone came up with a paste server, or some sort of library layer that developers can adhere to, be like something part of the xfree system, that would do the trick.
one that looked like a returned sender address for a 140 kb midi file (exe extension;P)
and an email from micrsoft with an "msn.net" address (I didnt know updates came from there)
I think the virus has an internal name too, looked at it in a hex viewer, it was either the name of the inventor or some shit, I forget the name now.. it had a beta symbol in it.
Thank god for linux, huh?
proprietary rights over numbers? words? languages?
oh wait, that's been done.
there's a number that's considered illegal because in base16 hex it's the gzipped code for the decss technology, and of course certain words have been copyrighted, and languages, well this would be about that.
I'm waiting for someone in power to stand up and scream they own the proprietary rights to water and air becuase they use it to live, etc.
people are getting copyright crazy lately.
I know how magnets heal people! you take a large magnet and beat a pseudo-spiritual idiot over the head with it, thus you healed the world of one less germ!
I read this headline and saw "magnets" and first thing that came to mind was "erased hard drive"
so, replacing a technology that no one uses with a technology no one will use.. smart idea! I think I'll start selling AOL cd's instead of music cd's to get my business flourishing!
Yeah, they'll do a pretty search, but, too many people are familiar with google already, it's fast, simple and efficient and gets things done on the spot. this msn crap will more than likely be (you must click this, this, this, put your search here, put your great aunt's name here, whistle and jump around singing, now put a teardrop of a lamb in a flask on the 4th day of october during a full moon!
yeah, my point stands, google is timeless, simple address, simply done, etc. they've perfected it, this msn crap will be just another search utility on the internet, only people who'll use the msn search are people who were stupid enough to use msn 8 in the first place.
You know why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer? because the poor spend all their money on the rich, buying into what the rich make. that's the key issue.
well, maybe not the key issue, but part of it, people also work their asses off daily, but the people in the past who became rich over time were entrepeneuers(sp?), they startedt heir own businesses and succeeded, and there was hardly any major competition in those days because people were spread out more back then, there was more land and less people, so to speak. Nowdays, someone can release some software, an invention, or whatever, with the invention of TV and radio, they can release it, make billions within months, then invest some of it into the stock market, open stocks, bam, even richer, then start buying the little businesses out right and left, ridding of the competition right and left, gaining money by buying them out, making more money because the alternative is silenced, tax writeoffs, you name it. That's one of the differences between then and now. things werent that complex back then.
But if you read what I said closely, I also said a whole other paragraph with it. Basically the fact at one time little companies had open range, that started getting treaded on up until the 90's.. when small businesses flourished, then most of them flopped or got muscled out by bigger guys.
it's the small businesses that keep the economy stable, is what keeps the middle class stable or brings "small fortune-aires" (people who make a few million over several years) But thanks to the super rich who got the easy ride to the top, the more traditional people dont get a chance, so the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, and it doesnt help that these huge corporations dont even hire native citizens, they go to some poor 3rd world country and pick up a handful of people who are willing to work for pennies a week, which is why the middle class gets poorer.
You think anyone's gonna stop this? hell no.
politicians get funding from the richest,
relations with other countries are made better,
mainstream people (people who are in la-la land and believe anything said on tv) have no clue this is the reason they're getting fucked, and the government isnt allowed to step in on such matters (but it can help elevate them, hmm, how about that?) The best thing to do is start saving up your money and start not buying into companies like microsoft, etc.. the ones we actually have a choice to abandon. We also should start buying fuel cell cars, screw the oil regimes (they can be called regimes due to their overly huge size)
this is news? yahoo's been doing this in secret for a while if I understand correctly, they're just publicly doing it now because msn and aol have done it with little complaints from the user.
fuck proprietary IM protocols, there's still IRC and jabber.
IRC is timeless and will be around forever it seems. so really, what's the big deal (other than having friends on those protocols) people will start getting pissed off when those companies start pulling crap without any regard for the user, or start charging money to use their software.
I bet in about 10 years, the terms proprietray and software wont be in the same sentence as much as it has for the past 3 or 4 decades, hoping that things go as planned. Peoples' wills are too strong, and people do find ways around raw deals, there are people getting upset with how many times they find that their machine has another exploit, and how it's just patched over and over again, with no actual fix to the general problem, oh well is what I say, let these people do what they wish, because it'll eventually hurt them, they forget as much as people like being guided around like a blind helpless children, they also want their freedom and the ability to do what they wish without being locked out of/into things.
The issue is that not many people know of jabber or of irc (surprisingly!) so, what's needed is more word of various opensource protocols and formats and software in general. hell, put up little banners on your websites about various projects, even if you have to make the banners.
best way we'll get outta the proprietary stranglehold, so issues like these are merely luaghed at in the future, you know? so the next time when some company pouts and wants the user to succumb to its wishes, people will just point and laugh and go walk off.
sum it up, this isnt that big of a problem, there are thousands of other methods to talk to people, USENET, email, IRC, JABBER, message boards, site messengers (php based apps), phones, voicemails, voice chats, and hell, talking to people face to face, writing letters, etc.
So really, this isnt that big of a problem in general, just a slight inconvience, and besides.. Who uses yahoo besides the people named XXOXXOhot2dropgrrrrrl65758765786OOOXXX anyways? most people who have 3rd party clients are smart enough not to use yahoo anyways.
so once again, where's the fire? hate to sound a bit degrading or troll-ish (isnt my intent) but, it's just a lost cause. let these companies do their thing, see how long they last using closed technology in the new generation of open media and technology.
I see some people have been seeing too much of that star trek movie where they go back in time, that one was actually cool (coming from a non trekkie fan)
"well, DUMBASS on you, too!"
anyways, this sounds OK, but, that aerogel stuff looks better and more feasible for heat related situations, wouldnt the bubbles on this "bubbloy" help heat the metal faster and make it melt?
I'd like to see that aerogel stuff used in computers, or hand in hand with bubbloy, and if it can be made cheap, then maybe we can prevent another 9/11 even from happening by creating building structures with this stuff, lightweight, yet strong, so if, say a bomb or airplane goes off, minimal structural damage, thus, more lives can be saved (aka, building wont goe falling down and killing thousands of people like the wtc)
be a good solution.
yeah, we should be putting funding elsewhere, but, this is a good idea, we need to work on the space program more, I bet this motivated for the same reasons back in the 60's... another country is about to show it has the bigger penis, so we have to enlarge ours. China, India, Brazil (I think) are getting into the space program, so the US has to ensure its space authority remains intact. sad, yet true, at least they're not passing another dmca-like act, or something to further put power in the hands of people like those who power the RIAA, etc, and putting money into anymore wars. this can be a good thing.
Maybe we'll see a push for innovative technology again:P it was the last space race that gave way for the internet.
In the end, like george carlin has pointed out about war(except in this case, I'm gonna refer to space), it's a giant war of dicks, rockets are shaped like dicks, so someone has to push their dick into space and release their payload before the other guy;)
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I think mram should be used as an alternative, not a solid new type of ram that we "have" to use.
we should have mram as a side function for faster filesaving, but not for system ram.we still need dram. and for those who are worried about the drm shit so a certain company doesnt lock your computer with their software only, just use a magnet;) or do something that will clear the mram.
mram should be used a secondary. all it's gonna do if it's used as primary system ram is cause issues with broken operating systems, and if you get a virus? oh hoo, you're shit outta luck.
I just noticed something with the nose.. it looks a LOT like the front of a boat. that's probably how it disperses sound waves.. I'm probably wrong, but it looks that way.
this is what I've been seeing, the people in power going after the easy targets, I've seen it in my own life as well, when I would go to school, some kid would do something, but since I was around and that kid was a known threat, I was the one punished because I was less likely going to set their cars on fire later if they did anything.
same goes with the government and the RIAA, they find the people who do these things, but with innocent intent because it's an easier job and these people are less liekly to create revenge... well, in their little simple minds, this is true, in reality, it only causes these people to get revenge in the future. and hell, that one principal who punished me for what that one kid did once, wondered why all her car windows her broken and the tires were slashed, etc.;)
My point is that the only reason the good people get hit harder is because of ego and cowardice.
They dont wanna hit the badguy too hard or hit them at all because they have friends who will lash back or they'll lash back in the future, and they cant just let the problem go... that's when they need to find a scapegoat.
this is what Adrian Lamo is. a scapegoat for all the black hats out there. yes he did berak the law, but, no one complained or pressed charges. What the government also might be afraid of is him hacking them, so they'll prolly arrest him, call him a terrorist and he'll never be seen again, while a black hat hacker hacks them and destroys valuable records, while Adrian might have never even thought of doing that. That's politics for you. even if they dont make sense. one of these days someone will get wise. doubt it, but hey, it's a thought.
I noticed that after the "source" was leaked and then reviewed by linus torvalds, who basically stated that SCO is full of shit, and stated that anything resembling that code is gone now.. sco backed off quickly, they know they're gonna lose that battle, so now it's random major corporation attack time, this time, SGI.
also, did anyone else ever notice that if you focus on the blue part of the caldera icon, that it looks like mickey mouse? WOW! come on disney! pull an sco already and sue them for using a design that might be your property!
bleh. I ran out of ideas a while ago.
people forget, sun has a set of brass ones, and they know what they're doing technology-wise.
sun might be smaller financially, but they still pack a blow, money means nothing if you dont have anything to back it up
well those are reasonable, becuase you need to keep your hand on the wheel 99% of the time. you dont want to be turning with your arm sticking out and then you get hit, also, people are led easier by lights. and you cant see an arm at night very well.
automatic transmission can be handy, I prefer stick myself, gives the car guts.
Why are we encouraging laziness? bad enough people already can barely drive, so why make it easier for them to be better screw ups, stop microsoftizing everything people, because if the technology fails, what are people gonna do?
Like one dude said, market these to people who honestly need the technology (eg, semi-paralyzed people, older folks, etc)
Stop giving people an excuse for being dumbasses.
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you might have to hack the game.. these people arent saying "disassemble it, compile it and it works!"
it'll just give you the source code, then to get it working on your computer, you must edit the code, use sdl or gl for graphics display, and you might have to take some parts from your favorite opensource emulator and use that for hardware support (look at sonic cd for PC, it has a shitload of DLL's emulating common genesis routines)
so in the end, it's basically emulation, but, an emulator that is hardwired to play a game without all the frills, etc.
or, if you're really hardcore, you can edit the code even more so it'll work with the system's hardware (eg, alsa, oss, windows' sound, etc)
and use sadl or gl for the video, and reconfigure it to use the keyboard for buttons
so then it's more like semi-emulation.
not to mention converting the cpu instructions.
these people are now JUST finding this out?
gotta love beaucracy.
only thing making slcakware 9.1 orgasmic is swaret and pretty screenshots of gnome, not saying slackware is bad, slackware is awesome, but I dont see why people are creaming their pants over the new build, you can install swaret on your existing slack system, and swaret is optional in slack 9.1 :P
you know what's sad about that? people actually fall for that crap too.. not the techies, but the common computer illiterate businessman, average employee, etc..
when will we be ushered to the social security office to get our barcodes tattooed into the back of our necks? Funny how people laughed at these authors who made novels about a future where people are controlled by some greater force.. sadly, with this, it's coming true, first, something like pedophiles, next, criminals, then people who are found rallying in protests, people who send letters to the congressment, then newborns. I'm starting to ponder if I want to even bring a child into this world now. hopefully people will wake the hell up and fight against this soon. but, it'll happen over a long length of time so people will be adjusted to it, imagine people in 50 years getting upset that someone tried reading a book that was banned and they rally for him to get the death penalty, grim but possible future.. it's sad, really. let's just pray that the human race doesnt mindlessly follow into this crap.
Humans have a natural thirst for knowledge and new experiences, on all levels, the internet is full of shared information, thus, why people crave for it, why they need it. it's information.
I would like to formally announce that I, hold the patent on "online posting". I will be fair to protect my rights, that's why if you get your internet license from me, you will be endowed with the legal rights to post online, for a small fee of 700 dollars per website, I know this seems unfair, but I hold the rights, no matter what, I must protect my property at all costs.
For those thieves who are illegally using my property, I will have my allies from the RIAA find you and build up a case, I'm sorry, but that's just not how thins work in america, you dont start stealing others' property. I feel this is fair and that the average person is dishonest about the amount of money they get, they get loads of money! minimum wage is just too high these days!
anyways, I bid you adieu and I plan to see money in my offshore bank account soon.
(btw, for those who didnt get it, it's a JOKE)
http://www.bluelinux.org/ might be the next stunner for linux on the desktop, if you think about it, mandrake and redhat.. mandake is trying to be everything, a developer os, a server os and a user OS at once, giving you bloat, unneeded services, longer boot time with services no desktop user is going to use, etc.. redhat, server os, why is it on the desktop? Lindows, no. just.. no. SusE, dunno on this one, I've never ventured into it at all. maybe it'll be a little unheard of distro that might help linux get on the desktop, it has the stuff. since it's targeted towards education (desktop users, basically) it's perfect for a desktop OS. who knows? we'll see what will come out on top.. the next decade is going to be VERY interesting. well, we'll find out in 2013. ;)
well then, someone needs to fix that then, dont they? ;)
what would work is if someone came up with a paste server, or some sort of library layer that developers can adhere to, be like something part of the xfree system, that would do the trick.
one that looked like a returned sender address for a 140 kb midi file (exe extension ;P)
and an email from micrsoft with an "msn.net" address (I didnt know updates came from there)
I think the virus has an internal name too, looked at it in a hex viewer, it was either the name of the inventor or some shit, I forget the name now.. it had a beta symbol in it.
Thank god for linux, huh?
proprietary rights over numbers? words? languages? oh wait, that's been done. there's a number that's considered illegal because in base16 hex it's the gzipped code for the decss technology, and of course certain words have been copyrighted, and languages, well this would be about that. I'm waiting for someone in power to stand up and scream they own the proprietary rights to water and air becuase they use it to live, etc. people are getting copyright crazy lately.
it's actually easier under linux... select some text, then middle click or click both mouse buttons (if you lack a third button or wheel)
I know how magnets heal people! you take a large magnet and beat a pseudo-spiritual idiot over the head with it, thus you healed the world of one less germ! I read this headline and saw "magnets" and first thing that came to mind was "erased hard drive" so, replacing a technology that no one uses with a technology no one will use.. smart idea! I think I'll start selling AOL cd's instead of music cd's to get my business flourishing!
Yeah, they'll do a pretty search, but, too many people are familiar with google already, it's fast, simple and efficient and gets things done on the spot. this msn crap will more than likely be (you must click this, this, this, put your search here, put your great aunt's name here, whistle and jump around singing, now put a teardrop of a lamb in a flask on the 4th day of october during a full moon! yeah, my point stands, google is timeless, simple address, simply done, etc. they've perfected it, this msn crap will be just another search utility on the internet, only people who'll use the msn search are people who were stupid enough to use msn 8 in the first place.
You know why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer? because the poor spend all their money on the rich, buying into what the rich make. that's the key issue. well, maybe not the key issue, but part of it, people also work their asses off daily, but the people in the past who became rich over time were entrepeneuers(sp?), they startedt heir own businesses and succeeded, and there was hardly any major competition in those days because people were spread out more back then, there was more land and less people, so to speak. Nowdays, someone can release some software, an invention, or whatever, with the invention of TV and radio, they can release it, make billions within months, then invest some of it into the stock market, open stocks, bam, even richer, then start buying the little businesses out right and left, ridding of the competition right and left, gaining money by buying them out, making more money because the alternative is silenced, tax writeoffs, you name it. That's one of the differences between then and now. things werent that complex back then. But if you read what I said closely, I also said a whole other paragraph with it. Basically the fact at one time little companies had open range, that started getting treaded on up until the 90's.. when small businesses flourished, then most of them flopped or got muscled out by bigger guys. it's the small businesses that keep the economy stable, is what keeps the middle class stable or brings "small fortune-aires" (people who make a few million over several years) But thanks to the super rich who got the easy ride to the top, the more traditional people dont get a chance, so the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, and it doesnt help that these huge corporations dont even hire native citizens, they go to some poor 3rd world country and pick up a handful of people who are willing to work for pennies a week, which is why the middle class gets poorer. You think anyone's gonna stop this? hell no. politicians get funding from the richest, relations with other countries are made better, mainstream people (people who are in la-la land and believe anything said on tv) have no clue this is the reason they're getting fucked, and the government isnt allowed to step in on such matters (but it can help elevate them, hmm, how about that?) The best thing to do is start saving up your money and start not buying into companies like microsoft, etc.. the ones we actually have a choice to abandon. We also should start buying fuel cell cars, screw the oil regimes (they can be called regimes due to their overly huge size)
this is news? yahoo's been doing this in secret for a while if I understand correctly, they're just publicly doing it now because msn and aol have done it with little complaints from the user. fuck proprietary IM protocols, there's still IRC and jabber. IRC is timeless and will be around forever it seems. so really, what's the big deal (other than having friends on those protocols) people will start getting pissed off when those companies start pulling crap without any regard for the user, or start charging money to use their software. I bet in about 10 years, the terms proprietray and software wont be in the same sentence as much as it has for the past 3 or 4 decades, hoping that things go as planned. Peoples' wills are too strong, and people do find ways around raw deals, there are people getting upset with how many times they find that their machine has another exploit, and how it's just patched over and over again, with no actual fix to the general problem, oh well is what I say, let these people do what they wish, because it'll eventually hurt them, they forget as much as people like being guided around like a blind helpless children, they also want their freedom and the ability to do what they wish without being locked out of/into things. The issue is that not many people know of jabber or of irc (surprisingly!) so, what's needed is more word of various opensource protocols and formats and software in general. hell, put up little banners on your websites about various projects, even if you have to make the banners. best way we'll get outta the proprietary stranglehold, so issues like these are merely luaghed at in the future, you know? so the next time when some company pouts and wants the user to succumb to its wishes, people will just point and laugh and go walk off. sum it up, this isnt that big of a problem, there are thousands of other methods to talk to people, USENET, email, IRC, JABBER, message boards, site messengers (php based apps), phones, voicemails, voice chats, and hell, talking to people face to face, writing letters, etc. So really, this isnt that big of a problem in general, just a slight inconvience, and besides.. Who uses yahoo besides the people named XXOXXOhot2dropgrrrrrl65758765786OOOXXX anyways? most people who have 3rd party clients are smart enough not to use yahoo anyways. so once again, where's the fire? hate to sound a bit degrading or troll-ish (isnt my intent) but, it's just a lost cause. let these companies do their thing, see how long they last using closed technology in the new generation of open media and technology.
I see some people have been seeing too much of that star trek movie where they go back in time, that one was actually cool (coming from a non trekkie fan) "well, DUMBASS on you, too!" anyways, this sounds OK, but, that aerogel stuff looks better and more feasible for heat related situations, wouldnt the bubbles on this "bubbloy" help heat the metal faster and make it melt? I'd like to see that aerogel stuff used in computers, or hand in hand with bubbloy, and if it can be made cheap, then maybe we can prevent another 9/11 even from happening by creating building structures with this stuff, lightweight, yet strong, so if, say a bomb or airplane goes off, minimal structural damage, thus, more lives can be saved (aka, building wont goe falling down and killing thousands of people like the wtc) be a good solution.
yeah, we should be putting funding elsewhere, but, this is a good idea, we need to work on the space program more, I bet this motivated for the same reasons back in the 60's... another country is about to show it has the bigger penis, so we have to enlarge ours. China, India, Brazil (I think) are getting into the space program, so the US has to ensure its space authority remains intact. sad, yet true, at least they're not passing another dmca-like act, or something to further put power in the hands of people like those who power the RIAA, etc, and putting money into anymore wars. this can be a good thing. Maybe we'll see a push for innovative technology again :P it was the last space race that gave way for the internet.
In the end, like george carlin has pointed out about war(except in this case, I'm gonna refer to space), it's a giant war of dicks, rockets are shaped like dicks, so someone has to push their dick into space and release their payload before the other guy ;)
I think mram should be used as an alternative, not a solid new type of ram that we "have" to use. we should have mram as a side function for faster filesaving, but not for system ram.we still need dram. and for those who are worried about the drm shit so a certain company doesnt lock your computer with their software only, just use a magnet ;) or do something that will clear the mram.
mram should be used a secondary. all it's gonna do if it's used as primary system ram is cause issues with broken operating systems, and if you get a virus? oh hoo, you're shit outta luck.
I just noticed something with the nose.. it looks a LOT like the front of a boat. that's probably how it disperses sound waves.. I'm probably wrong, but it looks that way.
this is what I've been seeing, the people in power going after the easy targets, I've seen it in my own life as well, when I would go to school, some kid would do something, but since I was around and that kid was a known threat, I was the one punished because I was less likely going to set their cars on fire later if they did anything. same goes with the government and the RIAA, they find the people who do these things, but with innocent intent because it's an easier job and these people are less liekly to create revenge... well, in their little simple minds, this is true, in reality, it only causes these people to get revenge in the future. and hell, that one principal who punished me for what that one kid did once, wondered why all her car windows her broken and the tires were slashed, etc. ;)
My point is that the only reason the good people get hit harder is because of ego and cowardice.
They dont wanna hit the badguy too hard or hit them at all because they have friends who will lash back or they'll lash back in the future, and they cant just let the problem go... that's when they need to find a scapegoat.
this is what Adrian Lamo is. a scapegoat for all the black hats out there. yes he did berak the law, but, no one complained or pressed charges. What the government also might be afraid of is him hacking them, so they'll prolly arrest him, call him a terrorist and he'll never be seen again, while a black hat hacker hacks them and destroys valuable records, while Adrian might have never even thought of doing that. That's politics for you. even if they dont make sense. one of these days someone will get wise. doubt it, but hey, it's a thought.
I noticed that after the "source" was leaked and then reviewed by linus torvalds, who basically stated that SCO is full of shit, and stated that anything resembling that code is gone now.. sco backed off quickly, they know they're gonna lose that battle, so now it's random major corporation attack time, this time, SGI. also, did anyone else ever notice that if you focus on the blue part of the caldera icon, that it looks like mickey mouse? WOW! come on disney! pull an sco already and sue them for using a design that might be your property! bleh. I ran out of ideas a while ago.
people forget, sun has a set of brass ones, and they know what they're doing technology-wise. sun might be smaller financially, but they still pack a blow, money means nothing if you dont have anything to back it up
well those are reasonable, becuase you need to keep your hand on the wheel 99% of the time. you dont want to be turning with your arm sticking out and then you get hit, also, people are led easier by lights. and you cant see an arm at night very well. automatic transmission can be handy, I prefer stick myself, gives the car guts.
Why are we encouraging laziness? bad enough people already can barely drive, so why make it easier for them to be better screw ups, stop microsoftizing everything people, because if the technology fails, what are people gonna do? Like one dude said, market these to people who honestly need the technology (eg, semi-paralyzed people, older folks, etc) Stop giving people an excuse for being dumbasses.