Exactly... my dad trusted me with firearms (under supervision, of course) at the age of 12 or so, because I am responsible and I can handle them. This is the same reason that I convinced my parents to buy me the GTA games. I'm not an idiot, and, even at 14, I can clearly tell the difference between a game and reality.
I don't believe that entirely. I will say, however, that organized religion is a clusterfuck of insanity. I think that if you work it out for yourself, you should be free to believe in whatever you have found. I suppose that qualifies as spirituality more than religion, though. Spirituality, I have no trouble with, unless it causes you to do stupid, irrational things. Religion is, as Marx said, "the opiate of the masses."
Is your brain fully functional? A 400 MHz PPC chip is much faster than the equivilant Pentium. This has been established. Now, you will notice that he said he has a 366 MHz processer. This means that, even if you had a Pentium, your's would be significantly faster. I will point out, now, that my 233 MHz powerbook does *not* play videos, even when using a dedicated X-server+mplayer, with nothing else running.
Well, there's kernel config (because genkernel sucks), X11, ALSA, and any other things of that nature that you might need. I agree that LFS is much more hardcore, but gentoo still teaches people a good deal about what makes a full linux system (i.e. not just the very base install) tick.
and I was amazed by how well it worked! I think this could easily be the answer to the linux software installation problem. I am a gentoo user, and I like portage, but autopackage is a slick piece of software. Perhaps it could be used in conjunction with portage (i.e. remove the idea of "gentoo packages" for end-user-type-apps and make portage interface to autopackage). Either way, I think that a stable Autopackage definitely is a step forward for desktop linux.
A lot of those ISOs are hosted by universities. There is a possibility that you could grab it without ever having to go outside the university's network.
If I'll be able to understand how this one works. The only algorithm I've ever understood well enough to write an implementation is RC4. I would like to see a strong algorithm that is fairly simple to understand, but I fear that such a thing is not possible.
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Oh my... you seem to, tragically, have been born without a sense of humour. And we're not getting into the "is zero a number" debate either. Take my sig for what it is: a joke.
Paranoia must take over! We must all abandon common sense, because the government is clearly trying to frame us. If someone commits a murder or rape, or other major crime, why should we not be able to find them quickly? Seriously, what is the government going to do with your DNA that's so troublesome? If a loved one were killed, kidnapped, or raped, wouldn't you like to know that the responsible person can be identified with great haste?
This is a pretty cool hack, but I'm getting more and more pissed about this iPod Shuffle. About a year ago, I bought a Creative MuVo. I figured, hey, it's about a quarter of the price, works easily with linux, and can double as a flash drive. Suddenly, everyone has an iPod or some other non-flash-based player, and I look like an idiot. What the fuck did apple do to have such control over the mp3 player market? I mean, being rather satisfied with my current player, I can't imagine what the shuffle does better, as the only thing I want on mine is ogg support, which the shuffle does not have either. Why does apple, traditionally the company of great expense an zealous fanboys, suddenly have such mass market appeal, compared to its competitors? Why do people act like Apple was the first people to make mp3 players?
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This is what I see happening. I'm worried that, by the time I enter the workforce in several years, and almost certainly by the end of it, workers will be no more than a commodity. This seems to happen in capitalism just as much as communism, but with less concern for the people involved. Your conclusions seem interesting. I honestly think that, as far as communist nations go, Cuba has worked the best. Although one could argue that the USSR accomplished more, it was also done at a greater cost to the people, and it did collapse. Oddly enough, it was the collapse of the Soviet Union that shows how well Cuba is actually working. It, unlike most other communist nations, did not collapse, and has now been declared out of its "special period". Its economic hardship is a result, not of the communist government, but of the US embargo. I think that the US is just unable to accept that any system other than its own can work, and, in the case of Cuba, that one of these countries with a different system would dare to defend itself against capitalism!
Ummm... you do know that the Cubans who support Castro would... still be in Cuba? I mean, I don't hear many stories of how great the US is when I talk to those who have moved north to get the hell away from it. The Cuban-Americans are quite an interesting case, because the ones who had the means to move (money) were the ones who were oppressed, because they had money. Does it make sense now?
Easy... you have a sound out port, a line in port, a short cable, and an audio recording utility. Quality may not be the best, but, hey, it works.
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They are still communist in name, and your post only makes my point more accurate: communism is much less harmful to the citizens than fascism, and, although some people fail to admit it, in some ways it does work. Why you can't give Cuba a dime, but you're almost forced into giving money to China is beyond me.
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Your post is quite ignorant. Compared to what the US is doing to Iraqis and Arabs in general, Castro is fairly nice. Also, remember that a lot of what you hear in America regarding Cuba is pure propoganda. It may not be free, but it's several orders of magnitude better than China. You don't seem to have a problem support *those* communists with American money...
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Nope... even if you aren't an American, they don't stamp your passport in case you get hassled going into the US. I've been there twice.
Oh... I'm sorry... 760 dollars. My point still holds that $30 dollars isn't much more, and I was thinking in Canadian dollars... so, $55 to $1000 or $30 to $760. Either way, it's hardly a huge expense.
I am hoping it goes a bit faster than that... and remember, not all longhauls are on airlines. I could, conceivably, be a corporate pilot on a Gulfstream V, BBJ, or ACJ, which all have overseas range, much sooner.
So what's an extra $30 dollars? Since I'm training to be a pilot, I'm hoping that, by the time I have enough hours to captain longhauls, they have this in the cockpit:)
...and I do, I cannot pretend that it is legal, and if they come up with new laws to enforce it, there's really fuck all I can do about it. Since I've discovered F/OSS I haven't engaged in software piracy, but my music piracy is still going strong (well, allofmp3.com... that's a debate for another time), even though I do buy some CDs if I want the whole CD, and I have become recently addicted to BT for shows I can't get here. I would gladly pay for HBO, but due to Canada's stupid laws, they won't let me.
So, my point: often, given the option, I will do the right thing and pay for whatever it is that I'm using. If HBO had a pay-per-download collection, I would use that to get "Real Time" instead of BitTorrent. But I don't. The responsibility falls equally on those that want something for nothing (and I'm one of those on occasion, I'll admit) and those that make it hard to get something that people want (for example, the CRTC, which is the FCC's Canadian counterpart). Is Orrin Hatch the best man to lead the committe? No, he's old and senile, and doesn't have the slightest concept about technology. But I can see why they're doing it, and, surprisingly, I don't find the enforcements of copyrights to be that objectionable. Is it any different when we on/. complain about CherryOS, to when **AA whine about us?
I call bullshit. 555 numbers don't actually exist; the prefix is used exclusively for movies, and other situations where it would be bad to use a real phone number.
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Exactly... my dad trusted me with firearms (under supervision, of course) at the age of 12 or so, because I am responsible and I can handle them. This is the same reason that I convinced my parents to buy me the GTA games. I'm not an idiot, and, even at 14, I can clearly tell the difference between a game and reality.
It's stupid, and it's flamebait, but, dammit, it made me laugh.
Well, actually, I think the problem is that the CD drive, or some other necessary part, is not fast enough for that.
I don't believe that entirely. I will say, however, that organized religion is a clusterfuck of insanity. I think that if you work it out for yourself, you should be free to believe in whatever you have found. I suppose that qualifies as spirituality more than religion, though. Spirituality, I have no trouble with, unless it causes you to do stupid, irrational things. Religion is, as Marx said, "the opiate of the masses."
Well, someone didn't get the joke... this deserves to be modded funny!
Is your brain fully functional? A 400 MHz PPC chip is much faster than the equivilant Pentium. This has been established. Now, you will notice that he said he has a 366 MHz processer. This means that, even if you had a Pentium, your's would be significantly faster. I will point out, now, that my 233 MHz powerbook does *not* play videos, even when using a dedicated X-server+mplayer, with nothing else running.
Well, there's kernel config (because genkernel sucks), X11, ALSA, and any other things of that nature that you might need. I agree that LFS is much more hardcore, but gentoo still teaches people a good deal about what makes a full linux system (i.e. not just the very base install) tick.
and I was amazed by how well it worked! I think this could easily be the answer to the linux software installation problem. I am a gentoo user, and I like portage, but autopackage is a slick piece of software. Perhaps it could be used in conjunction with portage (i.e. remove the idea of "gentoo packages" for end-user-type-apps and make portage interface to autopackage). Either way, I think that a stable Autopackage definitely is a step forward for desktop linux.
A lot of those ISOs are hosted by universities. There is a possibility that you could grab it without ever having to go outside the university's network.
If I'll be able to understand how this one works. The only algorithm I've ever understood well enough to write an implementation is RC4. I would like to see a strong algorithm that is fairly simple to understand, but I fear that such a thing is not possible.
Oh my... you seem to, tragically, have been born without a sense of humour. And we're not getting into the "is zero a number" debate either. Take my sig for what it is: a joke.
Paranoia must take over! We must all abandon common sense, because the government is clearly trying to frame us. If someone commits a murder or rape, or other major crime, why should we not be able to find them quickly? Seriously, what is the government going to do with your DNA that's so troublesome? If a loved one were killed, kidnapped, or raped, wouldn't you like to know that the responsible person can be identified with great haste?
This is a pretty cool hack, but I'm getting more and more pissed about this iPod Shuffle. About a year ago, I bought a Creative MuVo. I figured, hey, it's about a quarter of the price, works easily with linux, and can double as a flash drive. Suddenly, everyone has an iPod or some other non-flash-based player, and I look like an idiot. What the fuck did apple do to have such control over the mp3 player market? I mean, being rather satisfied with my current player, I can't imagine what the shuffle does better, as the only thing I want on mine is ogg support, which the shuffle does not have either. Why does apple, traditionally the company of great expense an zealous fanboys, suddenly have such mass market appeal, compared to its competitors? Why do people act like Apple was the first people to make mp3 players?
This is what I see happening. I'm worried that, by the time I enter the workforce in several years, and almost certainly by the end of it, workers will be no more than a commodity. This seems to happen in capitalism just as much as communism, but with less concern for the people involved. Your conclusions seem interesting. I honestly think that, as far as communist nations go, Cuba has worked the best. Although one could argue that the USSR accomplished more, it was also done at a greater cost to the people, and it did collapse. Oddly enough, it was the collapse of the Soviet Union that shows how well Cuba is actually working. It, unlike most other communist nations, did not collapse, and has now been declared out of its "special period". Its economic hardship is a result, not of the communist government, but of the US embargo. I think that the US is just unable to accept that any system other than its own can work, and, in the case of Cuba, that one of these countries with a different system would dare to defend itself against capitalism!
Ummm... you do know that the Cubans who support Castro would... still be in Cuba? I mean, I don't hear many stories of how great the US is when I talk to those who have moved north to get the hell away from it. The Cuban-Americans are quite an interesting case, because the ones who had the means to move (money) were the ones who were oppressed, because they had money. Does it make sense now?
Easy... you have a sound out port, a line in port, a short cable, and an audio recording utility. Quality may not be the best, but, hey, it works.
They are still communist in name, and your post only makes my point more accurate: communism is much less harmful to the citizens than fascism, and, although some people fail to admit it, in some ways it does work. Why you can't give Cuba a dime, but you're almost forced into giving money to China is beyond me.
Your post is quite ignorant. Compared to what the US is doing to Iraqis and Arabs in general, Castro is fairly nice. Also, remember that a lot of what you hear in America regarding Cuba is pure propoganda. It may not be free, but it's several orders of magnitude better than China. You don't seem to have a problem support *those* communists with American money...
Nope... even if you aren't an American, they don't stamp your passport in case you get hassled going into the US. I've been there twice.
Oh... I'm sorry... 760 dollars. My point still holds that $30 dollars isn't much more, and I was thinking in Canadian dollars... so, $55 to $1000 or $30 to $760. Either way, it's hardly a huge expense.
I am hoping it goes a bit faster than that... and remember, not all longhauls are on airlines. I could, conceivably, be a corporate pilot on a Gulfstream V, BBJ, or ACJ, which all have overseas range, much sooner.
So what's an extra $30 dollars? Since I'm training to be a pilot, I'm hoping that, by the time I have enough hours to captain longhauls, they have this in the cockpit :)
So, my point: often, given the option, I will do the right thing and pay for whatever it is that I'm using. If HBO had a pay-per-download collection, I would use that to get "Real Time" instead of BitTorrent. But I don't. The responsibility falls equally on those that want something for nothing (and I'm one of those on occasion, I'll admit) and those that make it hard to get something that people want (for example, the CRTC, which is the FCC's Canadian counterpart). Is Orrin Hatch the best man to lead the committe? No, he's old and senile, and doesn't have the slightest concept about technology. But I can see why they're doing it, and, surprisingly, I don't find the enforcements of copyrights to be that objectionable. Is it any different when we on /. complain about CherryOS, to when **AA whine about us?
I call bullshit. 555 numbers don't actually exist; the prefix is used exclusively for movies, and other situations where it would be bad to use a real phone number.