Relegious fundy lobbyists? Who think dancing leads to fornication?
Don't tell me your fall for this. Many of those organizations who claim this often have church dances for their singles.
They really want to ban all places where "evil" "nonmembers"[1] can socialize and meet. This essentially happened in the place I lived. They believe those who don't join their church shouldn't have the right to the joys of friendship and companionship or even the right to life.
[1] This is what they called everyone who didn't go to the mainline church in where I used to live.
"Media" lobbyists? What do they care, they just want to turn games into movies.
Actually, they want to make it appear they are doing something about the "filth problem" while making sure their big budget titles get the appropriate ratings. They also want to make sure the independant games are locked out of the market as much as possible--one tactic is giving the games a higher rating than they deserve. I have heard allegations it is done with the movie ratings.
MS Windows easier? Easier than Slackware or OpenBSD maybe. They are just used to Windows. Though I think most of them wouldn't notice if you changed their installs to Linux running KDE. Except they would think someone had changed their icons. The only real problem with Linux and other alternative OSes is the fact most software vendors only write programs for MS Windows, and that API is too contrived to easily clone.
Look at Wine. From what I've seen, a lot of people have done quite a bit of work on wine, yet it is still incomplete. In fact, it will probably always be incomplete because MS is constantly adding to their API. Whatever flavor of the month they decided. They most likely do it to make sure they keep their monopoly. (If people clone their API, then their monopoly will die.)
Windows and the win98 clones on linux (KDE, Gnome) are not really that easy to use, just many people have learned to use Windows, so anything like it is called "easy to use" by these people.
Of course most people haven't seen many other OSes lately because MS destroyed the market. So there are no significant examples of anything that is easier to use. How many for-profit OSes have you seen lately? And Linux and the BSDs don't count because they are created by nonprofit groups.
I thought managers chose cubicles because they were trying to save money. You have to wonder why that poster was claiming otherwise. Perhaps he is a manager with budget problems trying to justify himself? It is hard to justify yourself when you blow petty cash on hookers, booze and expensive restaraunts.;-)
Well, "moosmism" is too close to mooseism-- worshiping moose meat. It was mooism for a while until we dropped the "i"-- quite a bit easier to pronounce in the Moo language that way. The cows were having real trouble.;-)
Yeah sure. That is not the only cause of terrorism. Governments not respecting rights may make it worse, but even if all governments did that, it would not change much. The people cause problems too.
There are plenty of religious extremists (and other types of extremists) who do not care. They will kill (or ruin if they can't kill) anyone who doesn't conform to their views or gets in their way. Harsh systems of "justice" may make these extremists more hardened, however it does not create them. Their psychotic point of view creates them.
How do you know the copper doesn't like to stop fat women so he can make fun of them?
I have to agree with Infernal Device, it is your neibors you have to worry about. In the place I used to live, the majority were of one religion. They'd call the police if you didn't have the "right" look or you weren't wearing clothes which conformed to what most of them wear or just if they thought you might not belong to their church.
Hardly a freedom loving people if they don't respect other's freedom. They even manged to close down all the dance clubs and such, so the only place for people to socialize was their church.
Holy crap. It is called "transliteration." Many places use different character sets than English does, so spellings and phonics of the same words may not be interpeted the same. Why complain about it?
Anyway, you are both wrong. My religion is called moosm. I worship cows. Moo! We're having a big fire sacrifice tonight. Lots of cow pieces are thrown in a fire pit. Everyone is invited except the trolls. Where I come from, it is called a Bar B Que.;-)
Forget emulators, they are selling Atari 2600 consoles with a bunch of games built-in for about $20(US). If you look in the toys/game section of your local department store, you may find it.
Nooo! Not Intellivision! When I was a kid I really wanted an Intellivision. I thought they were the coolest thing. Then, a few months ago, someone gave me one of those ancient system on a chip joystick devices--one with an Intellivison and all the games on it. Well, THE GAMES SUCK!!!!!!!!!! They had no point.
One you wonder around a maze until a spider kills you. That is the whole game--well I think another creature might kill you too, but that is all. I don't even think you could advance to the next level if there was one. I can't remember the other ones, but they were just as sucky.
C64 and the 8-bit Ataris would be cool though. I just hope you can program them in Basic. (or Action! or any of the other languages) I had an a Atari 130XE. That's where I first learned assembly.
Hey! I looked for that girl for a half-hour before I realized you were LYING! The boss nearly fired me. I had to give him a bj to calm him down. Now I have a nasty taste in my mouth. You jerk.
Way too many people are obsessed with brands on every little thing. When people look for a web browser, they should try to find where it says "web browser", not just "Firefox" or "Mozilla" or "Netscape" or "Internet Exploder." In fact, those four are really crappy browsers. The only reason I've even used them is because way too many stupid stupid web "designers" insist on tuning all their pages to only work with those browsers. It sucks.
Not to mention the tactics of those two companies ruined the browser market, just like MS ruined the OS market. You can't really find a decent browser. Around '95 or '96 there were several browsers emerging, but they were smashed by the "free" Internet Explorer and Netscape. They may not have been great, but who knows how they would be today.
Anyway, back to our program...
Distro mantainers should put the words "web browser" somewhere in the name or description or the package, and in the name which shows up in menus and where needed (or at least have it under a directory called web browser). This way there is no real confusion, especially if the user hasn't heard of the avaliable browsers.
BTW, real newbies probably won't know what Internet Explorer or Firefox do anyway. You are probably referring to Windows users, and while most of them will be as clueless as newbies (MS likes to keep it that way), they do have some computing experience and some bias (toward MS, because...well brainwashing;-).
I don't see why anyone would want to bias their distro to copying MS so they will please the ex-MS users. They should create their distro with real newbies in mind, but not forget the how the more seasoned users will need it. That way all people could learn how to use the system, even if they never touched a computer--if they learned on another system, they just need to open their mind.
Of course you may have intended to say newbies to Linux in which case most of them will probably have been MS Windows users, however when you said they will be looking for Firefox, they will probably be looking for Internet Explorer instead. Most MS users only know what MS tells them about. Yes, the more technically weary will have heard of it and will be more apt to try another OS, however I doubt making a Windows clone and only intending to stick with the old suite of programs (even firefox) will impress them. Nor will calling Firefox something else be so confusing to these people.
Whatever you say Mr Self-proclaimed Electronics Master.
Even if the power output of RP amp is high enough to cause interference by itself and no shielding was used, then the amature radio geek will still know there is a problem because his voltmeter will be jumping around even when he doesn't have it connected to anything.
That sounds like the md5/sha hash issues. Though those would probably be exploitable on openssl too. Openssl supports hashes. Digital signatures are usually done by hashing the data first then signing the hash. (Because public key algorithms are usually slow, hashes are usually much faster)
The junk shouldn't matter. How often do you look at the source html or all the fields of a cert on secure pages? Probably never. There may be an area or field of certs which most program don't even show, so even if you look, you may not find the junk anyway...
Holy shit. All they need to filter those out are a few resistors and capacitors. It is easy to calculate the values. Any amature electronics geek could do it. It was discussed in my first semester of electronics.
This is no different than how the Taliban says those who create normal pr0n movies will also create suff films, child pr0n, and other unsavory things. It is a load of crap.
Hmmm...that's a good idea. Lets take this to a legal computer network. I want to connect with my neighbors. They're only a few hundred feet away. Should be easy right? Let's see...I could run cables between our houses...no, would be impractical--expensive and what about across the street? How about WiFi? OH YEAH! THE FCC ONLY ALLOWS A TINY BAND AT LOW POWERS WHICH IS SHARED WITH MICROWAVE OVENS. Not only will it not travel far enough to reach even my next door neighbor, if anyone wants to cook a burrito, the connection dies.
The airwaves are a community resource.
No they're not. They were, until the FCC auctioned off almost all the airwaves. Now like the Native Americans, the public is only allowed in areas the rich people don't want.
...simply aren't enough people to sustain the extreme level of specialization we see in society today.
This is a good thing. In the countries where things have gone to the point of having "extreme specialization" (think US and now Japan) create products filled with problems. They'll have all sorts of great features and be built with all the things which make a specialist horny (XML, RPC, DOM, ASP.net), but several important aspects will be neglected--like the thing actually working!!!
True, but I thought 1984 was also based upon what Orwell thought the British empire was becoming. From what I understood, he worked with their government communication office for a while and was displeased at how much information they kept from the public.
"Warranties" purchased in addition to an item are useless. Stores started pushing them and selling them because they found out from Sears almost no one ever makes any claims on these extended "warranties." It isn't really a warranty at all. It is a service contract.
A real warranty is essentially just a guarantee that a vendor will fix any defects if they are found within a certain amount of time. It is to assure customers the product won't fall apart too soon after buying the thing. You don't really buy this, it comes with the product. Some places require them by law for certain things. Purchasing one makes it a completely different thing.
Yeah, with arcade unit prices. Seriously, who would pay $600 for a console? You can buy a fairly decent computer with that. I think the arcades are the only place most people will see the PS3.
Unfortunately, I must agree with all that. This is the reason I stopped buying Sony products. They either have stupid problems or just fall apart. I had a PS1, and it stopped reading half the disks. You had to press down on it at just the right pressure and it MIGHT read. Then I hear about a lawsuit about similar problems for the PS2. Any bets as to if the PS3 will do that?
Well the first order of business would be to hunt down an kill all the "web developers" who insist on using javascript for essential parts of their site. If it wasn't for them, I could just use dillo like I want to and not worry about javascript crap...
Hmmm..that site seems to be down (plus no updates since april 2005) Maybe you should have pointed to the google cache or the wayback machine... Or is it no longer in slashdot fashon to point to mirrors?
Of course, my question is: are there any free programs for Linux which will help anyone write shader programs? I thought I saw something or other a long time ago, but I had an old Voodoo card, so I didn't bother with it.
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Don't tell me your fall for this. Many of those organizations who claim this often have church dances for their singles.
They really want to ban all places where "evil" "nonmembers"[1] can socialize and meet. This essentially happened in the place I lived. They believe those who don't join their church shouldn't have the right to the joys of friendship and companionship or even the right to life. [1] This is what they called everyone who didn't go to the mainline church in where I used to live.
Actually, they want to make it appear they are doing something about the "filth problem" while making sure their big budget titles get the appropriate ratings. They also want to make sure the independant games are locked out of the market as much as possible--one tactic is giving the games a higher rating than they deserve. I have heard allegations it is done with the movie ratings.
MS Windows easier? Easier than Slackware or OpenBSD maybe. They are just used to Windows. Though I think most of them wouldn't notice if you changed their installs to Linux running KDE. Except they would think someone had changed their icons. The only real problem with Linux and other alternative OSes is the fact most software vendors only write programs for MS Windows, and that API is too contrived to easily clone.
Look at Wine. From what I've seen, a lot of people have done quite a bit of work on wine, yet it is still incomplete. In fact, it will probably always be incomplete because MS is constantly adding to their API. Whatever flavor of the month they decided. They most likely do it to make sure they keep their monopoly. (If people clone their API, then their monopoly will die.)
Windows and the win98 clones on linux (KDE, Gnome) are not really that easy to use, just many people have learned to use Windows, so anything like it is called "easy to use" by these people.
Of course most people haven't seen many other OSes lately because MS destroyed the market. So there are no significant examples of anything that is easier to use. How many for-profit OSes have you seen lately? And Linux and the BSDs don't count because they are created by nonprofit groups.
I thought managers chose cubicles because they were trying to save money. You have to wonder why that poster was claiming otherwise. Perhaps he is a manager with budget problems trying to justify himself? It is hard to justify yourself when you blow petty cash on hookers, booze and expensive restaraunts. ;-)
Well, "moosmism" is too close to mooseism-- worshiping moose meat. It was mooism for a while until we dropped the "i"-- quite a bit easier to pronounce in the Moo language that way. The cows were having real trouble. ;-)
Oh, come on. Everyone knows Sony wouldn't recall for that. It needs to explode first, then chop off your fingers.
Yeah sure. That is not the only cause of terrorism. Governments not respecting rights may make it worse, but even if all governments did that, it would not change much. The people cause problems too.
There are plenty of religious extremists (and other types of extremists) who do not care. They will kill (or ruin if they can't kill) anyone who doesn't conform to their views or gets in their way. Harsh systems of "justice" may make these extremists more hardened, however it does not create them. Their psychotic point of view creates them.
How do you know the copper doesn't like to stop fat women so he can make fun of them?
I have to agree with Infernal Device, it is your neibors you have to worry about. In the place I used to live, the majority were of one religion. They'd call the police if you didn't have the "right" look or you weren't wearing clothes which conformed to what most of them wear or just if they thought you might not belong to their church.
Hardly a freedom loving people if they don't respect other's freedom. They even manged to close down all the dance clubs and such, so the only place for people to socialize was their church.
Holy crap. It is called "transliteration." Many places use different character sets than English does, so spellings and phonics of the same words may not be interpeted the same. Why complain about it?
Anyway, you are both wrong. My religion is called moosm. I worship cows. Moo! We're having a big fire sacrifice tonight. Lots of cow pieces are thrown in a fire pit. Everyone is invited except the trolls. Where I come from, it is called a Bar B Que. ;-)
Yeah, great idea, but where do I get an Opencore processor? Or do I just manufacture these in my living room somehow with gum and duck tape?
Forget emulators, they are selling Atari 2600 consoles with a bunch of games built-in for about $20(US). If you look in the toys/game section of your local department store, you may find it.
Nooo! Not Intellivision! When I was a kid I really wanted an Intellivision. I thought they were the coolest thing. Then, a few months ago, someone gave me one of those ancient system on a chip joystick devices--one with an Intellivison and all the games on it. Well, THE GAMES SUCK!!!!!!!!!! They had no point.
One you wonder around a maze until a spider kills you. That is the whole game--well I think another creature might kill you too, but that is all. I don't even think you could advance to the next level if there was one. I can't remember the other ones, but they were just as sucky. C64 and the 8-bit Ataris would be cool though. I just hope you can program them in Basic. (or Action! or any of the other languages) I had an a Atari 130XE. That's where I first learned assembly.
Hey! I looked for that girl for a half-hour before I realized you were LYING! The boss nearly fired me. I had to give him a bj to calm him down. Now I have a nasty taste in my mouth. You jerk.
Way too many people are obsessed with brands on every little thing. When people look for a web browser, they should try to find where it says "web browser", not just "Firefox" or "Mozilla" or "Netscape" or "Internet Exploder." In fact, those four are really crappy browsers. The only reason I've even used them is because way too many stupid stupid web "designers" insist on tuning all their pages to only work with those browsers. It sucks.
Not to mention the tactics of those two companies ruined the browser market, just like MS ruined the OS market. You can't really find a decent browser. Around '95 or '96 there were several browsers emerging, but they were smashed by the "free" Internet Explorer and Netscape. They may not have been great, but who knows how they would be today.
Anyway, back to our program...
Distro mantainers should put the words "web browser" somewhere in the name or description or the package, and in the name which shows up in menus and where needed (or at least have it under a directory called web browser). This way there is no real confusion, especially if the user hasn't heard of the avaliable browsers.
BTW, real newbies probably won't know what Internet Explorer or Firefox do anyway. You are probably referring to Windows users, and while most of them will be as clueless as newbies (MS likes to keep it that way), they do have some computing experience and some bias (toward MS, because...well brainwashing ;-).
I don't see why anyone would want to bias their distro to copying MS so they will please the ex-MS users. They should create their distro with real newbies in mind, but not forget the how the more seasoned users will need it. That way all people could learn how to use the system, even if they never touched a computer--if they learned on another system, they just need to open their mind.
Of course you may have intended to say newbies to Linux in which case most of them will probably have been MS Windows users, however when you said they will be looking for Firefox, they will probably be looking for Internet Explorer instead. Most MS users only know what MS tells them about. Yes, the more technically weary will have heard of it and will be more apt to try another OS, however I doubt making a Windows clone and only intending to stick with the old suite of programs (even firefox) will impress them. Nor will calling Firefox something else be so confusing to these people.
Except the government is suppose to serve its people, not its bottom line.
Whatever you say Mr Self-proclaimed Electronics Master.
Even if the power output of RP amp is high enough to cause interference by itself and no shielding was used, then the amature radio geek will still know there is a problem because his voltmeter will be jumping around even when he doesn't have it connected to anything.
That sounds like the md5/sha hash issues. Though those would probably be exploitable on openssl too. Openssl supports hashes. Digital signatures are usually done by hashing the data first then signing the hash. (Because public key algorithms are usually slow, hashes are usually much faster)
The junk shouldn't matter. How often do you look at the source html or all the fields of a cert on secure pages? Probably never. There may be an area or field of certs which most program don't even show, so even if you look, you may not find the junk anyway...
Holy shit. All they need to filter those out are a few resistors and capacitors. It is easy to calculate the values. Any amature electronics geek could do it. It was discussed in my first semester of electronics.
This is no different than how the Taliban says those who create normal pr0n movies will also create suff films, child pr0n, and other unsavory things. It is a load of crap.
Hmmm...that's a good idea. Lets take this to a legal computer network. I want to connect with my neighbors. They're only a few hundred feet away. Should be easy right? Let's see...I could run cables between our houses...no, would be impractical--expensive and what about across the street? How about WiFi? OH YEAH! THE FCC ONLY ALLOWS A TINY BAND AT LOW POWERS WHICH IS SHARED WITH MICROWAVE OVENS . Not only will it not travel far enough to reach even my next door neighbor, if anyone wants to cook a burrito, the connection dies.
No they're not. They were, until the FCC auctioned off almost all the airwaves. Now like the Native Americans, the public is only allowed in areas the rich people don't want.
This is a good thing. In the countries where things have gone to the point of having "extreme specialization" (think US and now Japan) create products filled with problems. They'll have all sorts of great features and be built with all the things which make a specialist horny (XML, RPC, DOM, ASP.net), but several important aspects will be neglected--like the thing actually working!!!
True, but I thought 1984 was also based upon what Orwell thought the British empire was becoming. From what I understood, he worked with their government communication office for a while and was displeased at how much information they kept from the public.
"Warranties" purchased in addition to an item are useless. Stores started pushing them and selling them because they found out from Sears almost no one ever makes any claims on these extended "warranties." It isn't really a warranty at all. It is a service contract.
A real warranty is essentially just a guarantee that a vendor will fix any defects if they are found within a certain amount of time. It is to assure customers the product won't fall apart too soon after buying the thing. You don't really buy this, it comes with the product. Some places require them by law for certain things. Purchasing one makes it a completely different thing.
Yeah, with arcade unit prices. Seriously, who would pay $600 for a console? You can buy a fairly decent computer with that. I think the arcades are the only place most people will see the PS3.
Unfortunately, I must agree with all that. This is the reason I stopped buying Sony products. They either have stupid problems or just fall apart. I had a PS1, and it stopped reading half the disks. You had to press down on it at just the right pressure and it MIGHT read. Then I hear about a lawsuit about similar problems for the PS2. Any bets as to if the PS3 will do that?
Well the first order of business would be to hunt down an kill all the "web developers" who insist on using javascript for essential parts of their site. If it wasn't for them, I could just use dillo like I want to and not worry about javascript crap...
Hmmm..that site seems to be down (plus no updates since april 2005) Maybe you should have pointed to the google cache or the wayback machine... Or is it no longer in slashdot fashon to point to mirrors?
Of course, my question is: are there any free programs for Linux which will help anyone write shader programs? I thought I saw something or other a long time ago, but I had an old Voodoo card, so I didn't bother with it.