We need ONE standard desktop -- KDE, Gnome, I don't care. Pick one and use it. The others can be gravy, but we need a sanctioned interface.
There IS a standard, it's called bash, and is the default shell on every linux distro (at least the one's I've used). All your favorite window managers and desktop environments are your aforementioned gravy.
On the other note regarding KDE/Gnome, these seem to be slowly approaching some intermediate common asymptote, so what you're asking for might not be too much of a problem in the future.
FWIW, I actually like what many distros have done lately by standardizing the menus across KDE/Gnome/others. Some might not like seeing a KOffice item in a Gnome menu, but it's nice to have the software that you installed be standardized across the available desktop environments.
FInally, I agree with you that GUI's help out. But my original comment was about commands working on the command line uniformly across all linuces (neglecting some distro-specific shell scripts which depend on certain files existing in certain places with a certain layout, but that's a whole other story, or maybe that's your original point to begin with). But regarding uniformity, any linux you get setup will have a standard CLI-based interface to let you DO things.
Of course, the undisputed king of distros shall be unnamed at this time to avoid starting a flamewar. It suffices to say that it is free and always will be.
Actually, right outside my office in the physics department is a poster with a picture of Rutherford and that quote. The way it's written there,though, is (roughly, becuase i'm not there right now) "The only real science is physics. All the rest is stamp collecting."
I believe the poster was assuming that one needed to calculate one of the largest possible circles allowed in the universe (order of magnitude for us, obviously), and would be limited only by the accuracy of pi.
In other words, for most all practical use, where one would be limited by their precision of pi, there is no need to go beyond probably 8-10 digits max.
I also read a similar thing somewhere putting the accuracy of pi into perspective. The above example shows that 40 sig figs is pretty damn huge, how about 100 sig figs?
Suppose the nearest star (Proxima Centauri) forms the diameter of a LARGE sphere (about 4 LY, or roughly 4e+16 m). Now suppose this sphere is filled with paramecia (I ain't no biologist, so I'm assuming each paramecia takes up a cubic micron). Like jam-packed filled. Now take each of the paramecia within the sphere, and space them each the same 4 LY distance to make an enormously-gigantic line (Line is roughly 2*10^84 m). If this line is the diameter of a circle, and one wished to calculate the circumference, limited only by their precision of pi, known to 100 digits, they could do so within a few fermis (FYI - 1 fermi = femtometer = 1e-15 meter = length scale of atomic nucleus). That one kind of blew my mind when i first read it about it too. (just did calculation to check it out). damn. 100 sig figs. crazy.
If you're like my cousin, then definitely the latter first. He has been rebuilding engines for the last 7 years or so (he's currently 17). Heavily into dirt bikes for the past 5 years, does nearly everything on/for them you can imagine.
He just finished building his car, which is a Ford Cobra kit that he bought (well, his father bought it on the assumption that he can sell it for more money after it's built). The 'kit' basically comes with only a welded body, and he had to go through scrapyards to find old mustang parts and refurbish them himself, as well as build many other things from scratch.
So, to answer your question, this kid is a total 'geek', doing things with engines what most people here are to computers. So in his case, he was rebuilding car engines before he even had his driver's license.
Of course he's more the exception than the rule, but his outlook and experience is probably similar to what the students at one of these camps may be like. I know he did go to science camp, where he did typical kid-geek things like model rockets, HAM radio/electronics, dirtbike repair, etc.
In other words, students at a program like this may already be of the advanced type that want to learn all the details. They might care very little about actually playing nethack on a computer, but want to see how one can compile nethack to work on said computer, for example.
That's why sane people should try avoiding all offers by spam mail, telemarketers, etc.
A few weeks ago my girlfriend and I were thinking about getting dsl and cable tv to set up in our new house, and we got a telemarketer call us about an obscure provider (i forget if it was cable or dsl). She thought the offer sounded reasonable, and was thinking of following up on it (by calling them back at some other number of course, only give your info if you call them, never if they call you). But I adamantly refused to go along with any offer of spam/telemarketing.
I have a feeling that if we ever bought a product from a telemarketer, we'd be put on the 'sucker' list and get bombarded with even more telemarketing. Maybe same thing with spam, if they could somehow track my purchase to my email address (harder than with telemarketers).
Of course, as it is now, telemarketers already establish your pattern of when you're in the house by when you answer the phone. Do you semi-regularly get phone calls with no one on the other line? Large chance that is usually a telemarketing autodialer. Maybe with a telemarketer to be eventually connected to you (have you noticed the few second delay before you get them online?), or maybe it's just the autodialer. There was a point last year where I was studying and didn't feel like getting the phone, and the thin literally rang once every 10 minutes, for over an hour and a half! Of course, my girlfriend's caller ID showed the standard 'out of area'.
Well, enough rambling, but I refuse to EVER buy from a spammer or telemarketer, no matter how good the deals seem to be.
It's becuase of this very reason that the big "magnetic" imaging machine that you slip into in the hospital to take picture slices of your body is called an MRI. We all probably know it stands for "Magnetic Resonant Imaging".
What most don't realize is that the very same technique is used by physicists (was invented by physicists, and is based on Rabi flopping frequency stemming from a perturbing oscillating magnetic field applied orthogonal to a BIG constant magnetic field). And physicists call it NMR, or Nuclear-Magnetic Resonance.
Doctors and/or Marketeers realized that your typical person wouldn't go into a confined space in the middle of a large machine that had the word "nuclear" in it.
So, maybe when these radioactive batteries come out, people can call them Strong-powered batteries or Weak-powered batteries (sorry, too lazy to read the article to see what kind of radioactive process going on here) to again deflect the "nucyulur" fear factor. (strong/weak refer to strong/weak forces).
Hey, it is totally 1337 with the 3MHz CPU if you can interface it to a rad ATI Radeon 9700, where the graphic card's embedded processor(s) are clocked at a higher frequency than your own little CPU's clocking rate.
It's kind of like VGER-esque, an ancient computer souped up with high-tech data storage and IO equipement.
This brings up a request for info, do you know of any good sites listing all the cool (unknown to me) keystrokes for Mozilla? I just found out about CTRL +/- to change font size, for example.
Is there a page somewhere of cute mozilla tricks such as you've described above, or even a general list of keystrokes?
I can tell from your other posts on this topic that you're the poor poor victim of propoganda.
To put things in slashdot terms, you are the equivalent of the "M$ sux, linux roolz" clueless zealot that existed here on slashdot several years ago. You represent the exact reason why people on BOTH sides of the debate need to read up on history and look at events from the other side.
Thats true. But that doesnt make the atrocities of Israel any less, nor does it mean we should ignore the issue.
Agreed completely. And while we're at it, we must examine all other atrocities committed by others, and not ignore those issues either. Where are the protests and street rallies against Iraq? Against Sudan? Why are there no days of rage because of the initial partition of Transjordan (now known as Jordan)?
Just as there were Zionists bombing Palestinian buildings and infastructure before the creation of Israel.
I believe you're mixing up the bombing of the King David Hotel by the Irgun, a Zionist terrorist group before the creation of Israel. They targeted British positions, not (to my knowledge) Palestinian positions. Although you'll notice that this didn't occur until AFTER the Palestinian riots of Hebron which really initiated the violence of the area.
The Jews who were native to palestine made up a tiny (I think 2-4% land ownership at the turn of the century) part of the population, and in those days there werent any major issues AFAIK.
Land owndership was small because they were concentrated in cities, but population was more significant (but not a majority). Also remember that at the time of the original Zionist Congress, the area of Palestine (which was NOT a country or nation, but part of the Ottoman empire) was relatively unpopulated.
In other words, it wasn't only Jewish immigrants that came but significant numbers of Arab immigrants as well, seeking better lifestyles with the influx of European traditions.
It was after the huge influx and importation of jews from mainly europe via the Zionists movement that things started to beocme unpleasant
It was after the Riots of Hebron (circa 1929) that the problems started. 150 Jews murdered within a few days, enough to make the operation in Jenin this past spring seem relatively tame. The xenophobic response at the root of these riots was equivalent to a KKK rally (blame/torture/kill/scare the foreigners) only far more severe than anything that occurred in the states.
There hearts have hardened as their memory also has. Its suprising how quickly people forget and the oppressed become the oppresser.
If you are seriously trying to compare the Holocaust to the current treatment of Palestinians, then you are seriously deluded. Jews in Germany and elsewhere in Europe did not conduct terror attacks against German citizens to provoke any kind of response against them. Same for the Jews of Russia regarding the pogroms. Similarly, there are no death camps set up for the Palestinians. Denying these basic truths you are attempting to mislead others and are a spreader of FUD.
That said, I do not agree with Israel's overwhelming use of force against the Palestinians. But even remotely equating Germany's treatment of Jews during the Holocaust with Israel's treatment of Palestinians is complete and utter bullsh*t!
Im sure they would rather people not be happy with them. That still doesnt give them the right to build a nation on the ruins of another.
Once again, you're seriously devoid of historical knowledge. You seem to have a cache of quotes by various Israeli politicians readily available to show how bad Israel really is. Equivalently nearly every Palestinian official has said equally obnoxious things, including Arafat. You should also read transcripts sometime of some of the really provocative types on the PA TV stations. That would really open your eyes.
Now, regarding Ben Gurion, who you quoted somewhere else, he did mandate during the pre-stages of the creation of Israel that no native inhabitants were to be displaced! This was a central theme of all but a few of the Zionists.
It wasn't until Israel's Arab neighbors decided to wage a war to wipe away the Jewish presence, that the refugees became refugees in the first place. Also, a majority of them voluntarily left to make way for the incoming armies, about 1/4 or 1/3 were forced out.
If the Palestinians had accepted the UN partition plan, they'd have significantly more land now than just the West Bank and Gaza, and correspondingly Israel would be considerably smaller.
Blaming Israel for all the problems and not looking at the other side is sheer stupidity (or sheer amnesia). The creation of Israel did create alot of problems, though the cause of these was shared between Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinians. But saying Israel was built on the ruins of another nation is utter foolishness.
I have to say I agree. I have learned in order to get well-balanced news, you must read the story at several sources and concentrate on the facts that consistently rise to the top.
I totally agree with you here, it's important to get a variety of viewpoints, on BOTH or ALL sides of the issue. If you don't like Israel, it's at least important to read Israeli news to get their viewpoint, try here for a relatively unbiased Israeli news source.
About 2 years ago (note - before 9/11) I was consistently reading both Western news sources, as well as Israeli and Arab news sources. (Try this for example). But the discrepencies were overwhelming. Comparing to what I consider a mostly unbiased site (BBC), the US and Israeli sources did have biases, but they almost always mentioned the other sides of the issues, and quoted people on the other side (Yes, Israeli papers often quote Palestinians). Recently, I've heard Saudi Arabia being really miffed at aljazeera for interviewing an occasional Israeli every now and then to get the Israeli point of view.
However, I was both disgusted and horrified at the reporting of the Arab news. If you do find relatively unbiased Arab news site, please let me know. The above site, and also www.arabnews.com, would typically only report crimes committed against Arabs or Muslims, and barely mention similar crimes committed by Muslims. Suicide bombings in Israel and attacks of India's Hindus were not mentioned, although corresponding attacks against Muslims by Israelis or Hindus were reported daily. It really made US news look totally unbiased and factual.
I am frankly sick of watching Israel do some very fucked up things "in retaliation" of the bombings. Why don't they just move their people out of occupied territories and quit fucking with Palestine? Seems like that would be a start.
Firstly, I'm a Jew that doesn't think you're an anti-Semite for the views you've expressed.
Secondly, I agree with Israel responding with too much force for bombings, and not following diplomatic paths to peace instead.
However, there are several dozen other countries doing things far worse than Israel (Sudan for instance, 2 million dead in ongoing civil war, slavery of black Christians, etc), but nobody seems to give a shit about these atrocities. Why is Israel singled out by nearly all countries for most of the evil going on in the world? I think it's because it provides an easy scapegoat. The problems within the entire Arab League can be blamed on Israel, even 9/11 is being blamed on Israel because bin laden claimed he was fighting for the oppressed Palestinians, etc. Of course there are far more oppressed peoples within the Arab Leaque itself, but since they're not oppressed by Israel their story doesn't make it out (Iraqi Kurds, Sudanese Christians, etc).
Secondly, you are either too young or have only a short-term memory. Before there was any occupied territories, there was terror, attacks, and outright war launched at the state of Israel. And even before Israel was a country, there was terror and attacks on the Jews living in the land now called Israel/Palestine. I think Israeli's hearts have hardened, after having fallen prey to Russian pogroms, the Holocaust, and centuries of other European anti-semitism. Golda Meir basically summed it up by saying (rougly) "We'd rather have people not be happy with us than be pitied and dead."
I don't agree with Israel's heavy response to terror, and I don't agree with the occupation. But when people claim that the terror would magically stop when Israel pulls out of the territories, they're disillusional. Hint, hamas and hizbollah do not accept any Jewish state in the region, and only refer to Israel as "the zionist entity". Luckily, most Palestinians don't share these views.
Finally, people like to criticise Israel and read off a memorized list of some dozen-odd UN security resolutions against Israel. Firstly, nearly all of these have provisions that the Palestinians too must adhere too, which they aren't. So it's BOTH Israel and Palestine in violation. Secondly, the entire Arab League is unilaterally unified against Israel (it was created strictly in opposition to the creation of Israel, but now it seems to be a valid entity), and have a significant block of power at the UN. To a lesser extent, the OIC (Organization of Islamic Countries) is nearly organized against Israel, and this is a block of about 50 votes in the 200-odd votes at the UN. So when people complain about Israel not following UN resolutions, it's important to keep in mind that a good block of the UN is specifically biased against Israel itself.
The NES hardware simply did not have the ability to display a sprite as large as the 'Goomba King'.
i ain't got the NES internals knowledge...so i pitifully didn't see the troll as obvious.
i figured they couldn't do big sprites, which is why i would have believed it was merely a blown-up sprite, using the same memory, just some kind of different processing.
You think nintendo actually was going to put something drawn like that in there?
Actually, I wouldn't doubt it at all. Remember Zelda 2 where at the final board a GIGANTIC one of those animated blue Hershey Kiss guys falls on you. I vaguely remember that guy being pixellated to hell (although it's only visible for like 1 second, and this is recalling 13 years ago or so).
Oh well, I would have believed it. I vaguely thought, back in 87 when I read the article about minus world, that they put a 'few' minus worlds in the game, and there was a trick to get to each one.
Actually, the only fishy thing about the original article was the (1 in 2002) chance of going to -2. other than that i totally fell for it. guess i got schooled by the hardcore nintendo gamers!
Maybe it's a cleverly-forged troll, but this site says otherwise.
Also mentions how to get to -2. I read about the minus world back in 1987 or so in Nintendo Power (or was it the Nintendo Fan Club at that time?) at a friend's house, and was only able to make it to Minus world once. All subsequent attempts failed. Maybe I'll try again with tuxnes or nestra.
On a side note, what's people's favorite linux NES emulator?
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There IS a standard, it's called bash, and is the default shell on every linux distro (at least the one's I've used). All your favorite window managers and desktop environments are your aforementioned gravy.
On the other note regarding KDE/Gnome, these seem to be slowly approaching some intermediate common asymptote, so what you're asking for might not be too much of a problem in the future.
FWIW, I actually like what many distros have done lately by standardizing the menus across KDE/Gnome/others. Some might not like seeing a KOffice item in a Gnome menu, but it's nice to have the software that you installed be standardized across the available desktop environments.
FInally, I agree with you that GUI's help out. But my original comment was about commands working on the command line uniformly across all linuces (neglecting some distro-specific shell scripts which depend on certain files existing in certain places with a certain layout, but that's a whole other story, or maybe that's your original point to begin with). But regarding uniformity, any linux you get setup will have a standard CLI-based interface to let you DO things.
You mean Linux One? :-)
[ducks for cover]
Pfew, glad to hear I'm not the only one that fell for that trick!
Actually, right outside my office in the physics department is a poster with a picture of Rutherford and that quote. The way it's written there,though, is (roughly, becuase i'm not there right now) "The only real science is physics. All the rest is stamp collecting."
pi=4*arctan(1).
Using radian units, of course!
In other words, for most all practical use, where one would be limited by their precision of pi, there is no need to go beyond probably 8-10 digits max.
I also read a similar thing somewhere putting the accuracy of pi into perspective. The above example shows that 40 sig figs is pretty damn huge, how about 100 sig figs?
Suppose the nearest star (Proxima Centauri) forms the diameter of a LARGE sphere (about 4 LY, or roughly 4e+16 m). Now suppose this sphere is filled with paramecia (I ain't no biologist, so I'm assuming each paramecia takes up a cubic micron). Like jam-packed filled. Now take each of the paramecia within the sphere, and space them each the same 4 LY distance to make an enormously-gigantic line (Line is roughly 2*10^84 m). If this line is the diameter of a circle, and one wished to calculate the circumference, limited only by their precision of pi, known to 100 digits, they could do so within a few fermis (FYI - 1 fermi = femtometer = 1e-15 meter = length scale of atomic nucleus). That one kind of blew my mind when i first read it about it too. (just did calculation to check it out). damn. 100 sig figs. crazy.
But it kind of blows your mind how fast power series diverge, doesn't it?
sorry, but in base pi, pi would be written as 10.
(fyi, i made the same mistake back in the day also)
This iteration is correct, but it converges very slowly, so it's not too practical.
He just finished building his car, which is a Ford Cobra kit that he bought (well, his father bought it on the assumption that he can sell it for more money after it's built). The 'kit' basically comes with only a welded body, and he had to go through scrapyards to find old mustang parts and refurbish them himself, as well as build many other things from scratch.
So, to answer your question, this kid is a total 'geek', doing things with engines what most people here are to computers. So in his case, he was rebuilding car engines before he even had his driver's license.
Of course he's more the exception than the rule, but his outlook and experience is probably similar to what the students at one of these camps may be like. I know he did go to science camp, where he did typical kid-geek things like model rockets, HAM radio/electronics, dirtbike repair, etc.
In other words, students at a program like this may already be of the advanced type that want to learn all the details. They might care very little about actually playing nethack on a computer, but want to see how one can compile nethack to work on said computer, for example.
LOL! thanks, I needed that! (it's one of those days)
I have a feeling that if we ever bought a product from a telemarketer, we'd be put on the 'sucker' list and get bombarded with even more telemarketing. Maybe same thing with spam, if they could somehow track my purchase to my email address (harder than with telemarketers).
Of course, as it is now, telemarketers already establish your pattern of when you're in the house by when you answer the phone. Do you semi-regularly get phone calls with no one on the other line? Large chance that is usually a telemarketing autodialer. Maybe with a telemarketer to be eventually connected to you (have you noticed the few second delay before you get them online?), or maybe it's just the autodialer. There was a point last year where I was studying and didn't feel like getting the phone, and the thin literally rang once every 10 minutes, for over an hour and a half! Of course, my girlfriend's caller ID showed the standard 'out of area'.
Well, enough rambling, but I refuse to EVER buy from a spammer or telemarketer, no matter how good the deals seem to be.
Wow, that's the first time I ever saw a goatse.cx link modded up here on slashdot. what strange times we are living in... :-)
What most don't realize is that the very same technique is used by physicists (was invented by physicists, and is based on Rabi flopping frequency stemming from a perturbing oscillating magnetic field applied orthogonal to a BIG constant magnetic field). And physicists call it NMR, or Nuclear-Magnetic Resonance.
Doctors and/or Marketeers realized that your typical person wouldn't go into a confined space in the middle of a large machine that had the word "nuclear" in it.
So, maybe when these radioactive batteries come out, people can call them Strong-powered batteries or Weak-powered batteries (sorry, too lazy to read the article to see what kind of radioactive process going on here) to again deflect the "nucyulur" fear factor. (strong/weak refer to strong/weak forces).
Hey, it is totally 1337 with the 3MHz CPU if you can interface it to a rad ATI Radeon 9700, where the graphic card's embedded processor(s) are clocked at a higher frequency than your own little CPU's clocking rate.
It's kind of like VGER-esque, an ancient computer souped up with high-tech data storage and IO equipement.
Dude, don't dis the classic 0D games, such as Super Dot and Point of No Return. Man, I must have spent HOURS trying to win those.
cool, thanks for the link.
This brings up a request for info, do you know of any good sites listing all the cool (unknown to me) keystrokes for Mozilla? I just found out about CTRL +/- to change font size, for example.
Is there a page somewhere of cute mozilla tricks such as you've described above, or even a general list of keystrokes?
thanks
Thats true. But that doesnt make the atrocities of Israel any less, nor does it mean we should ignore the issue.
Agreed completely. And while we're at it, we must examine all other atrocities committed by others, and not ignore those issues either. Where are the protests and street rallies against Iraq? Against Sudan? Why are there no days of rage because of the initial partition of Transjordan (now known as Jordan)?
Just as there were Zionists bombing Palestinian buildings and infastructure before the creation of Israel.
I believe you're mixing up the bombing of the King David Hotel by the Irgun, a Zionist terrorist group before the creation of Israel. They targeted British positions, not (to my knowledge) Palestinian positions. Although you'll notice that this didn't occur until AFTER the Palestinian riots of Hebron which really initiated the violence of the area.
The Jews who were native to palestine made up a tiny (I think 2-4% land ownership at the turn of the century) part of the population, and in those days there werent any major issues AFAIK.
Land owndership was small because they were concentrated in cities, but population was more significant (but not a majority). Also remember that at the time of the original Zionist Congress, the area of Palestine (which was NOT a country or nation, but part of the Ottoman empire) was relatively unpopulated.
In other words, it wasn't only Jewish immigrants that came but significant numbers of Arab immigrants as well, seeking better lifestyles with the influx of European traditions.
It was after the huge influx and importation of jews from mainly europe via the Zionists movement that things started to beocme unpleasant
It was after the Riots of Hebron (circa 1929) that the problems started. 150 Jews murdered within a few days, enough to make the operation in Jenin this past spring seem relatively tame. The xenophobic response at the root of these riots was equivalent to a KKK rally (blame/torture/kill/scare the foreigners) only far more severe than anything that occurred in the states.
There hearts have hardened as their memory also has. Its suprising how quickly people forget and the oppressed become the oppresser.
If you are seriously trying to compare the Holocaust to the current treatment of Palestinians, then you are seriously deluded. Jews in Germany and elsewhere in Europe did not conduct terror attacks against German citizens to provoke any kind of response against them. Same for the Jews of Russia regarding the pogroms. Similarly, there are no death camps set up for the Palestinians. Denying these basic truths you are attempting to mislead others and are a spreader of FUD.
That said, I do not agree with Israel's overwhelming use of force against the Palestinians. But even remotely equating Germany's treatment of Jews during the Holocaust with Israel's treatment of Palestinians is complete and utter bullsh*t!
Im sure they would rather people not be happy with them. That still doesnt give them the right to build a nation on the ruins of another.
Once again, you're seriously devoid of historical knowledge. You seem to have a cache of quotes by various Israeli politicians readily available to show how bad Israel really is. Equivalently nearly every Palestinian official has said equally obnoxious things, including Arafat. You should also read transcripts sometime of some of the really provocative types on the PA TV stations. That would really open your eyes.
Now, regarding Ben Gurion, who you quoted somewhere else, he did mandate during the pre-stages of the creation of Israel that no native inhabitants were to be displaced! This was a central theme of all but a few of the Zionists.
It wasn't until Israel's Arab neighbors decided to wage a war to wipe away the Jewish presence, that the refugees became refugees in the first place. Also, a majority of them voluntarily left to make way for the incoming armies, about 1/4 or 1/3 were forced out. If the Palestinians had accepted the UN partition plan, they'd have significantly more land now than just the West Bank and Gaza, and correspondingly Israel would be considerably smaller.
Blaming Israel for all the problems and not looking at the other side is sheer stupidity (or sheer amnesia). The creation of Israel did create alot of problems, though the cause of these was shared between Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinians. But saying Israel was built on the ruins of another nation is utter foolishness.
I totally agree with you here, it's important to get a variety of viewpoints, on BOTH or ALL sides of the issue. If you don't like Israel, it's at least important to read Israeli news to get their viewpoint, try here for a relatively unbiased Israeli news source.
About 2 years ago (note - before 9/11) I was consistently reading both Western news sources, as well as Israeli and Arab news sources. (Try this for example). But the discrepencies were overwhelming. Comparing to what I consider a mostly unbiased site (BBC), the US and Israeli sources did have biases, but they almost always mentioned the other sides of the issues, and quoted people on the other side (Yes, Israeli papers often quote Palestinians). Recently, I've heard Saudi Arabia being really miffed at aljazeera for interviewing an occasional Israeli every now and then to get the Israeli point of view.
However, I was both disgusted and horrified at the reporting of the Arab news. If you do find relatively unbiased Arab news site, please let me know. The above site, and also www.arabnews.com, would typically only report crimes committed against Arabs or Muslims, and barely mention similar crimes committed by Muslims. Suicide bombings in Israel and attacks of India's Hindus were not mentioned, although corresponding attacks against Muslims by Israelis or Hindus were reported daily. It really made US news look totally unbiased and factual.
I am frankly sick of watching Israel do some very fucked up things "in retaliation" of the bombings. Why don't they just move their people out of occupied territories and quit fucking with Palestine? Seems like that would be a start.
Firstly, I'm a Jew that doesn't think you're an anti-Semite for the views you've expressed.
Secondly, I agree with Israel responding with too much force for bombings, and not following diplomatic paths to peace instead.
However, there are several dozen other countries doing things far worse than Israel (Sudan for instance, 2 million dead in ongoing civil war, slavery of black Christians, etc), but nobody seems to give a shit about these atrocities. Why is Israel singled out by nearly all countries for most of the evil going on in the world? I think it's because it provides an easy scapegoat. The problems within the entire Arab League can be blamed on Israel, even 9/11 is being blamed on Israel because bin laden claimed he was fighting for the oppressed Palestinians, etc. Of course there are far more oppressed peoples within the Arab Leaque itself, but since they're not oppressed by Israel their story doesn't make it out (Iraqi Kurds, Sudanese Christians, etc).
Secondly, you are either too young or have only a short-term memory. Before there was any occupied territories, there was terror, attacks, and outright war launched at the state of Israel. And even before Israel was a country, there was terror and attacks on the Jews living in the land now called Israel/Palestine. I think Israeli's hearts have hardened, after having fallen prey to Russian pogroms, the Holocaust, and centuries of other European anti-semitism. Golda Meir basically summed it up by saying (rougly) "We'd rather have people not be happy with us than be pitied and dead."
I don't agree with Israel's heavy response to terror, and I don't agree with the occupation. But when people claim that the terror would magically stop when Israel pulls out of the territories, they're disillusional. Hint, hamas and hizbollah do not accept any Jewish state in the region, and only refer to Israel as "the zionist entity". Luckily, most Palestinians don't share these views.
Finally, people like to criticise Israel and read off a memorized list of some dozen-odd UN security resolutions against Israel. Firstly, nearly all of these have provisions that the Palestinians too must adhere too, which they aren't. So it's BOTH Israel and Palestine in violation. Secondly, the entire Arab League is unilaterally unified against Israel (it was created strictly in opposition to the creation of Israel, but now it seems to be a valid entity), and have a significant block of power at the UN. To a lesser extent, the OIC (Organization of Islamic Countries) is nearly organized against Israel, and this is a block of about 50 votes in the 200-odd votes at the UN. So when people complain about Israel not following UN resolutions, it's important to keep in mind that a good block of the UN is specifically biased against Israel itself.
So all this hubbub is about computer-generated rendered boobs? That's hysterical. Brings new meaning to the concept of 'fake boobs' too.
i ain't got the NES internals knowledge...so i pitifully didn't see the troll as obvious.
i figured they couldn't do big sprites, which is why i would have believed it was merely a blown-up sprite, using the same memory, just some kind of different processing.
Actually, I wouldn't doubt it at all. Remember Zelda 2 where at the final board a GIGANTIC one of those animated blue Hershey Kiss guys falls on you. I vaguely remember that guy being pixellated to hell (although it's only visible for like 1 second, and this is recalling 13 years ago or so).
Oh well, I would have believed it. I vaguely thought, back in 87 when I read the article about minus world, that they put a 'few' minus worlds in the game, and there was a trick to get to each one.
Actually, the only fishy thing about the original article was the (1 in 2002) chance of going to -2. other than that i totally fell for it. guess i got schooled by the hardcore nintendo gamers!
site says otherwise.
Also mentions how to get to -2. I read about the minus world back in 1987 or so in Nintendo Power (or was it the Nintendo Fan Club at that time?) at a friend's house, and was only able to make it to Minus world once. All subsequent attempts failed. Maybe I'll try again with tuxnes or nestra.
On a side note, what's people's favorite linux NES emulator?