Re:uh,, Black and White anyone?
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Then find a better bit of Christianity - it's not all the same, "Thank God."
Re:uh,, Black and White anyone?
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Disclaimer: Despite any implications in the following, those were all valid and groovy points.
However, I was referring to the current brand of Christianity. This tends to be more liberal, although any religion's purpose is to "convert the world." This is because the followers believe it to be the best way to live, so others should also join.
That said, nowadays large bits of Christianity, and Hinduism apparently, accept that actually there is no one true way and that many religions are just different ways of getting to the same goal. This is quite different to the historical interpretation of "repent or burn (either at the stake or in hell)"
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"Believe or Die?"
Jokes aside, when have you heard any non-fanatic religious person say "believe or die," or something to that effect? Perhaps it is the superficiality of religion in games and popular culture that gives people misconceptions such as these.
Unless of course you're referring to the "true life" offered by Christians, but I think that's supposed to be an offering rather than a threat.
In my experience, most people's opinions of religion are invalid - based on inaccurate/biased sources. Although I'm not religious as most people would understand it (it's complicated) a lot of my Christian experience has been interesting and worthwhile - not boring, irrelevant and "burn the heretics/witches/computers."
Basically, I'd like to say "Don't insult religion until you have hard evidence that that insult is valid." Otherwise you'll unnecessarily piss off a lot of people.
Considering what the rest of us have taken "snipped" to mean, I think you might be sending the wrong stuff, there...
Perhaps a severed tube or a different... type... of hair.
This obviously hasn't been phrased for the average slashdot reader:
If you somehow managed to find a girl that will engage in the twisted geek fetishes you want, but doesn't want you to look at porn, all you need to say to yourself is "computer vs life"
You've been spending too much time on/. - you've absorbed the "Slashdot GPG Signature" into your DNA, which is actually a unique gene, creating a new pheromone. This is received by those of the female gender, and suppresses their sex hormones.
Normally the librarians have the receptor gene suppressed as part of their unique genome, which enables them to be successful as a librarian, gives them extreme miopia, etc. However, the Signature is cumulative, eventually making its way into more and more cells. It seems you're making enough of the/. pheromone to turn off even librarians...
Windows XP has crashed many, many times due to software/hardware, and a couple due to the OS itself. FC2 has crashed a few times due to the former, and never due to the latter.
If we're going on software crashes then Linux will win if we're reviewing only software released as a 1.0 (or equivalent) version. However, since so many projects in Linux are actively developed, many are also unstable, CVS versions.
I'm inclined to agree. The whole rapping style seems so samey to me, that every song merges into one. The music is virtually non-existent, with the lyrics (which are basically said fast, not sung) taking over. A beat and some words is what it sounds like to me.
This kind of (what appears to me) corporate crap really doesn't appear to be music to me, although obviously it's popular.
I've always had different tastes in music (read: been an outcast) to the majority, at the moment it's a crazy icelandic band called sigur-ros who release cool, experimental, esoteric albums at a reasonable price. I got their latest (It's 3 tracks, and it lasts 20 minutes) for £5. Their videos are all completely different, and are... well... odd, to say the least.
Sigur-ros seems to have a great blend of "lyrics" and music, which could never be clicked together, that feels so... musical that corporate notions can't be applied to it.
Well, while we're in that period, you had it easy!
We didn't even have rocks - we had to sacrifice someone for every packet, and throw the dead body, with the information inscribed on it in blood. It could cause havoc with the new fangled automated servers - if the body tumbled mid flight, from a collision or something, then it could fly in the wrong way. I heard tales of the machines trying to extract header information from the footer... not pretty.
This led to many downtimes, of course, with the plagues - potential infested packets were dropped, and if one was missed then it could take the entire server down.
Hey, at least you had a web browser. We didn't even have telnet - we had to shout the GETs down the 'phone line and then listen for an answer. If we were lucky we had paper to write the result down on so we could work out what the site looked like.
Just because something is harder to use doesn't mean the intelligent folks keep away or that the dumb folks gravitate towards it.
The dumb folks are more likely to use whatever is sat in front of them, not having the knowledge or courage to move away from what they know, even though other things could be better.
Intelligents are more likely to try different things, to find the best deal.
Well, you've inspired me to try konqueror, although I expect to stick around with GNOME and Firefox, especially since whenever I have to use Windows I use firefox.
Perhaps you Konquerors aren't as outspoken as those are for firefox/Mozilla?
I haven't had much experience with konqueror (I'm a Gnome, and use firefox) but I guess its lack of attention is due to its being tied up with KDE.
No matter how good it is, if it is a KDE type application not available on Windows it won't be as popular.
Well, this is/., and Mozilla is an open source project - what do you expect?
Admittedly, the birthday of a foundation isn't really "stuff that matters" but the following discussion generally is. Many here love the chance to natter about Mozilla, which is a brilliant example of how OSS can overcome the monopoly and churn out a brilliant piece of software.
Saying "F*** off" is not going to change anything. Next time, put forward a point.
Precisely. What happens if a particularly virulent, yet stealthy and destructive virus has a dormancy period of a week... a month...?
The fastest spreading viruses can infect millions of machines in that time, and then... whammo. Especially effective if it only required a hole to get in, not to take down. Then you have no way of patching your machine against an attack...
In both of those cases, yes the programmer, although, since Microsoft does not make so great pains for customers to run as non-root, the programmers could be seen as making a reasonable shortcut.
However, what I was referring to was the bad documentation and seemingly badly functioning runas service - this means that running as root is necessary for admin, whereas in Linux you just need the user to exist.
It provides a focus point for all the obscure configuration, ever, all in a tree structure.
However, it's still stupid, as the disk is a tree structure. Therefore, it'd be better to have a file/folder hierarchy, so that everything can be directly edited by hand, then build a GUI configurator on top of that so that you have the choice.
You'd have to be careful not to impede the ease of manual config, though, with excessive directory traversing.
If Linus made it difficult for them to run as other than root, then yes, him.
Runas is very badly documented; I never heard about it, yet found the su/sudo commands within minutes of installing Linux and a non-root account, as instructed.
The point is software doesn't need admin functions to run.
Descent 3 would not run as a regular user in XP... It's a game - why on earth does it need to access important stuff?
Sure, require admin privileges to install to global places, but to install into your home-type place, and to run, no-sir-ee.
Except FC3 ISN'T out - the first test release is out.
As already said, the final's set for the 18th of the 10th (8 days after my birthday) and by that time, FC3 should be nice and stable. Ish. Remember that this whole FC thing is a test in itself, so FC3 final will still be a RHEL test 1.
Has anyone noticed a lack of java-vm in Firefox.9? Everytime I open a site requiring the plugin I get a crash.
It would seem to me that this is the gcc version problem... The new FF is 3.3.3, right?
I was consulted by a friend about whether there was something he could get to prevent popups. I sent him to firefox and he set his MSN-nickname as "I have a browser that works."
Sorry, but "satisfactorally" is not a word I'd use to describe IE's workings. 3 People converted to firefox and rising, thanks.
If you can get peeps to swap to FF once, they don't usually look back - it's better.
I'd disagree on that point. It is there, as long as you're willing to learn about your computer, or already know a reasonable amount about it.
Undoubtedly, most distros require more knowledge than windows, but IMO, this should destroy the techno-phobe phenomenon, instead encouraging learning, rather than making everything accessible to idiots.
Yes, Linux requires more work, but the rewards a great. That and the fact that OS X was not supposed to be as secure as thought. That said, when the norm is to run unprivileged, you're better off than Windows.
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Then find a better bit of Christianity - it's not all the same, "Thank God."
However, I was referring to the current brand of Christianity. This tends to be more liberal, although any religion's purpose is to "convert the world." This is because the followers believe it to be the best way to live, so others should also join.
That said, nowadays large bits of Christianity, and Hinduism apparently, accept that actually there is no one true way and that many religions are just different ways of getting to the same goal. This is quite different to the historical interpretation of "repent or burn (either at the stake or in hell)"
Jokes aside, when have you heard any non-fanatic religious person say "believe or die," or something to that effect? Perhaps it is the superficiality of religion in games and popular culture that gives people misconceptions such as these.
Unless of course you're referring to the "true life" offered by Christians, but I think that's supposed to be an offering rather than a threat.
In my experience, most people's opinions of religion are invalid - based on inaccurate/biased sources. Although I'm not religious as most people would understand it (it's complicated) a lot of my Christian experience has been interesting and worthwhile - not boring, irrelevant and "burn the heretics/witches/computers."
Basically, I'd like to say "Don't insult religion until you have hard evidence that that insult is valid." Otherwise you'll unnecessarily piss off a lot of people.
Considering what the rest of us have taken "snipped" to mean, I think you might be sending the wrong stuff, there...
Perhaps a severed tube or a different... type... of hair.
This obviously hasn't been phrased for the average slashdot reader:
If you somehow managed to find a girl that will engage in the twisted geek fetishes you want, but doesn't want you to look at porn, all you need to say to yourself is "computer vs life"
You've been spending too much time on /. - you've absorbed the "Slashdot GPG Signature" into your DNA, which is actually a unique gene, creating a new pheromone. This is received by those of the female gender, and suppresses their sex hormones. /. pheromone to turn off even librarians...
Normally the librarians have the receptor gene suppressed as part of their unique genome, which enables them to be successful as a librarian, gives them extreme miopia, etc. However, the Signature is cumulative, eventually making its way into more and more cells. It seems you're making enough of the
Windows XP has crashed many, many times due to software/hardware, and a couple due to the OS itself. FC2 has crashed a few times due to the former, and never due to the latter.
If we're going on software crashes then Linux will win if we're reviewing only software released as a 1.0 (or equivalent) version. However, since so many projects in Linux are actively developed, many are also unstable, CVS versions.
This kind of (what appears to me) corporate crap really doesn't appear to be music to me, although obviously it's popular.
I've always had different tastes in music (read: been an outcast) to the majority, at the moment it's a crazy icelandic band called sigur-ros who release cool, experimental, esoteric albums at a reasonable price. I got their latest (It's 3 tracks, and it lasts 20 minutes) for £5. Their videos are all completely different, and are... well... odd, to say the least.
Sigur-ros seems to have a great blend of "lyrics" and music, which could never be clicked together, that feels so... musical that corporate notions can't be applied to it.
Well, while we're in that period, you had it easy!
We didn't even have rocks - we had to sacrifice someone for every packet, and throw the dead body, with the information inscribed on it in blood. It could cause havoc with the new fangled automated servers - if the body tumbled mid flight, from a collision or something, then it could fly in the wrong way. I heard tales of the machines trying to extract header information from the footer... not pretty.
This led to many downtimes, of course, with the plagues - potential infested packets were dropped, and if one was missed then it could take the entire server down.
We could only use flash when the imps were in - they were the only ones who could draw things fast enough.
Hey, at least you had a web browser. We didn't even have telnet - we had to shout the GETs down the 'phone line and then listen for an answer. If we were lucky we had paper to write the result down on so we could work out what the site looked like.
Just because something is harder to use doesn't mean the intelligent folks keep away or that the dumb folks gravitate towards it.
The dumb folks are more likely to use whatever is sat in front of them, not having the knowledge or courage to move away from what they know, even though other things could be better.
Intelligents are more likely to try different things, to find the best deal.
Well, you've inspired me to try konqueror, although I expect to stick around with GNOME and Firefox, especially since whenever I have to use Windows I use firefox.
Perhaps you Konquerors aren't as outspoken as those are for firefox/Mozilla?
I haven't had much experience with konqueror (I'm a Gnome, and use firefox) but I guess its lack of attention is due to its being tied up with KDE.
No matter how good it is, if it is a KDE type application not available on Windows it won't be as popular.
Well, this is /., and Mozilla is an open source project - what do you expect?
Admittedly, the birthday of a foundation isn't really "stuff that matters" but the following discussion generally is. Many here love the chance to natter about Mozilla, which is a brilliant example of how OSS can overcome the monopoly and churn out a brilliant piece of software.
Saying "F*** off" is not going to change anything. Next time, put forward a point.
*shudder* notepad was the root of all evil.
Precisely. What happens if a particularly virulent, yet stealthy and destructive virus has a dormancy period of a week... a month...?
The fastest spreading viruses can infect millions of machines in that time, and then... whammo. Especially effective if it only required a hole to get in, not to take down. Then you have no way of patching your machine against an attack...
In both of those cases, yes the programmer, although, since Microsoft does not make so great pains for customers to run as non-root, the programmers could be seen as making a reasonable shortcut.
However, what I was referring to was the bad documentation and seemingly badly functioning runas service - this means that running as root is necessary for admin, whereas in Linux you just need the user to exist.
It provides a focus point for all the obscure configuration, ever, all in a tree structure.
However, it's still stupid, as the disk is a tree structure. Therefore, it'd be better to have a file/folder hierarchy, so that everything can be directly edited by hand, then build a GUI configurator on top of that so that you have the choice.
You'd have to be careful not to impede the ease of manual config, though, with excessive directory traversing.
If Linus made it difficult for them to run as other than root, then yes, him.
Runas is very badly documented; I never heard about it, yet found the su/sudo commands within minutes of installing Linux and a non-root account, as instructed.
Descent 3 would not run as a regular user in XP... It's a game - why on earth does it need to access important stuff?
Sure, require admin privileges to install to global places, but to install into your home-type place, and to run, no-sir-ee.
Except FC3 ISN'T out - the first test release is out.
As already said, the final's set for the 18th of the 10th (8 days after my birthday) and by that time, FC3 should be nice and stable. Ish. Remember that this whole FC thing is a test in itself, so FC3 final will still be a RHEL test 1.
It would seem to me that this is the gcc version problem... The new FF is 3.3.3, right?
Is there a current fix?
Sorry, but "satisfactorally" is not a word I'd use to describe IE's workings. 3 People converted to firefox and rising, thanks.
If you can get peeps to swap to FF once, they don't usually look back - it's better.
Undoubtedly, most distros require more knowledge than windows, but IMO, this should destroy the techno-phobe phenomenon, instead encouraging learning, rather than making everything accessible to idiots.
Yes, Linux requires more work, but the rewards a great. That and the fact that OS X was not supposed to be as secure as thought. That said, when the norm is to run unprivileged, you're better off than Windows.