First and foremost, in the US, if I want to wear a yalkmaka (skull cap or whatever you want to call it) because my religion requires me to wear a head covering, *Bam* i can. Telling me I can't wear religious garb because the school is netural on religion is like saying everyone has to go around in wheelchairs because the school is neutral on physical dissability. There is a difference between neutrality and forcing everyone to be the same, afterall, overtly religious symbols (and they don't have to be that overt) don't affect anyone and don't require anyone to do anything. Being told how you can and can't dress because is ludicrous (i'm not saying it isn't done here, tehre and everywhere, but I can't see a reason for it). What's more, the ban goes on to include religious facial hair
Many people i know are quite religious and would not be able to live as they do under such laws. Are people really that offended by others practicing their own religion. Their laws show nothing but intollerance and are inexcusable
America for americans
Canada for everyone
I agree that the attempt to whitewash the world and make everyone the same is a horrible thing but the only thing worse is the 'hey you have your own country, go back there,' that this reasoning opens up. I mean have you ever been to Africa? All romantisised notions aside, most of it is in a state of border line anarchy.
I think it's far better to promote diversity then a melting pot society. And political correctness not only destroys individuality, it also, more often tehn not, proves to be more offensive (refering to someone as 'physically disabled' or a 'person of color' really just shows that these distinctions are what you are focusing on)
At the end of the day, Freedom of speech and freedom of Beer are goals everyone should strive for!!!
An, as an aside, when last i was in South Africa and saw a McDonalds, I almost cried. We don't need a united states of the world
maybe he just doesn't like regan...
or funerals...
or dead people
gawdamn zombie hatin' cheese eating french bastards. what did the poor gipper ever do to them? Eat their brains? hardly? I say, in answer to this hatred, the US invade quebec and purge all french from this continent of ours. As a self appointed representative of Canada I say come on in
On a more serious note, France is getting to be a shady place and not somewhere to be if you are visibly religous, that's for sure (Muslim, Catholic, or Jewish primarily). With some very anti-immigrant laws, and a disturbing amount of support for the facist party, you don't have to be a reanimated former president to worry about some of the trends on france and much of europe.
2D, 3D, man that's so yesterday?
My laptop (supplemented with my flux capacitor powered N-Vidia card) has 4 dimensions. Thanks to this wonderful feature I can see it Crashing while it's booting up.
I love FPSs and immersive 3D enviroments as much as the next guy (or FPS loving girl i guess) but people seem to have completly given up on bringing out new 2 dimensional games.
Not every game has to tax my hardware to it's fullest to be enjoyable or emmersive. While some gems stand out, there are far to many games that focus too much on being emmersive and non linear and lose any real fun or engenuity.
All i'm saying is, done well, a 3D game can be amazing, but few, if any games, rival Mario 3 or Commander Keen 4 for playability and enjoyment. Unfortunatly, now that we can make things bigger and better, we assume we should. Essentially, we are seeing, video game bloat.
I don't know about anyone else, but the idea of playing a watterd down tomb raider clone on my cellphone seems... well... just boring. Far better to have minesweeper, tetris, or snake given that these games are supposed to be short distractions.
Of course, if someone comes up with some cool 3D puzzle game that takes 30 seconds tops a session, i could see it catching on
Has anyone noticed that beer is already 'Free as in speech?' At least the good beer anyway
Barley, Hops, Water, Yeast. My favorite open sourced beverage.
Think i'm going to emerge some 1516 compliant lager now
I don't think there's somethign wrong with softwaer bundeling really (KDE does it to no end)
What I see as the major issue with Microsoft selling Anti-Virus Software is not them trying to press their monopoly, but that it creates a conflict of interest
The economic viability of antivirus software depends on a virus checker being able to stop a virus and, more importantly, there being a virus in the first place. Basically, I don't like the idea that IE, having contracted a severe case of malware, is essentially going to be earning the boys at redmond money.
Course, i could be wrong.
Worked fine
if by worked fine i mean didn't get all my extensions and themes
*sigh* And their website doesn't even have half the old themes it used to (and, it has been said before, but the new theme looks orthagonal, flat, and ugly as hell)
Anyway, going to dig through my harddrive for my adblock rules now...
C++ is as cross platform as the libraries you use. The game code i'm writing so far (it's a simple game, doesn't have any assmebly or optimisation... just a keen like side scroller) compiles under both windows and linux. Using the same make file. How? I use SDL for everything. I've had equally pleasent experiences with Qt. Portability in C and C++ is all based on the libraries.
Of course being able to compile on multiple platforms and being cross platform aren't the same thing but I still think that it is in the benefit of people producing software for Linux specifically, to write code that will port to Windows without to much avail (who the hell uses \?)
Oh those thinsg
Is it just me or shoudl my friends cellphone not have more loading time then a 486 running XP, with spyware turned to full?
tried to play a simple game on a fone and got fed up because of all the damnloading bars. For waht? a crappy bmx game that lasted 30 seconds
back to snake for me...
Or he probably didn't
Maby you are misremember histroy because you shouldn't be remember the ever obscure 'those days' at all. You, as with most people, have a very biased picture of what thigns where like 'back then.' And more importantly you have a very biased view of how things are now. Serial killers, drive by shootings (onyl really a factor since the advent of cars and guns), murder, theft, kindnapping, and assault where not common place back 'then' where then is all of human history. Nor are they common place now.
What you say!!!
Just because the news sensationalises stories does not mean they are by any approximation common place. The fact is that the percentage of people who are psychopaths is mroe or less a constant (there aer enviromental variables that have an influence, but a person could just easily have a bad childhood now as back anytime, though many would agree you are more likely to have a healthy childhood now). But, without wide spread communication you never heard about serial killers. And with poor forensics many crimes just went unsolved. Jack the ripper, one of the most notorious serial killers, was never caught.
Back in the 1800s men could be lynched for being black. The average person probably had to worry a lot more about being black, or gay, or just generally disliked, then they do now. Lack of accountability, mob rules, and poorly defined social structure meant that having your horse stolen was generally a minor concern.
Stop living in the glory days of a past that never existed and you know nothign about. And stop being paranoid about the world we live in. Having come to North America from a country that actually has serious crime of the level Grishnakh believes this fair continent to be in (South Africa routinly sets world records for heights rape, murder, and auto theft), I can tell you that we are not living in the midst of civil unrest.
Oh and Grishnakh, there are a lot of other places in the world spammers could go. Every where else isnt' the third world mud hole many people believe it to be.
And yes, I know, I was just trolled...
...is everyone loses
Highbred devices are the best example of this. Just as a swiss army knife is almost passable for everything (except, the knife) a cellphone pda with a camera allows you to take sub par pictures on a sub par cellphone on your barely functional pda while listening to mp3s on your 1 hour of battery life
And, while technology will improve in this area and allow for better hybredisation (everything is going to have an mp3 player built in. even toothbrushes, i'm sure of it) certain devices can only be so small and still be considered useable. The fact is, i have yet to see a PDA/cellphone that wasn't the smallest PDA/blukiest cellphone one could never quite use.
Hybredisation is just a natural symptom of companies lacking true inovation and trying to pretend other wise (hmmm... we have a toaster... we also have staplers... nobody has thought of making TOASTER STAPLERS BEFORE!!!)
Far more likely is the idea of several deviceses intercommunicating and specialising. Design devices like software! Lets call your cellcameraDA Mozilla. Now lets call your cellphone firefox and your camera thunderbird. Avoid the hardware bloat! no good can come of it.
All that aside, I still want a swiss army knife with a usb drive. Now that is the future!!!
I use mailinator. Biggest advantage over a fake e-mail address, you can get the one time e-mail you need to register (that many less reputable sites require).
So if i want to create a yahoo account for games, i just add joeshmoe@mailinator.com. and go to mailinator to receive my 'activate account' email.
Mailinator jsut creats a password free e-mail address when ever it receives an e-mail to the address. It then deletes it about an hour later
So you can't do 2 things at once
A boring tech job doesn't mean that he can't listen to the radio while he works. If his tech job is sytem maintinance or somethign hands on he should be able to listne to radio while he does it.
Besides, soem jobs you can't outsource because they require you to physically be there.
Besides, lack of work ethic and the ability to slack off are what makes corporate america great!
"I'd say, in a given week, I only do about 15 minutes of ACTUAL work" - Peter, Office Space
There is nothing crippeling about a GUI front-end. Noobies love GUI's. They tell you what you need to know and don't require any memorisation.
And, a frontend is just a nice wrapper, so it doesn't in anyway remove the ability to open up your terminal and do anything you could before.
The fact is, computers are good at doing automated tasks. So why should a new user have to work out what steps they are going to need to do when a program designer knwos full well what the average user will be doing
I know many windows users who only use their computers for about 5 or 6 things (e-mail, digital camera, etc) and so setting up a computer for them on linux is simple. But I don't know what they might need in the future and too these people, even typing in everyone's favorite './configure && make && make install' is daunting and should be avoided at all costs.
Why is giving these people a simple option always seen as treading on the toes of the elite (or is that L337).
now if that option could be standerdised...
Oracle: I'd ask you to sit down, but, you're not going to anyway. And don't worry about the exploit.
Neo: What exploit?
[Neo turns Oracles computer and intantly pop up adds start appearing on the Oracle's desktop]
Oracle: That exploit.
Neo: I'm sorry--
Oracle: I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to write a patch for it.
Neo: How did you know?
Oracle: Ohh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would anyone have created that virus if i hadn't have told them about the exploit?
UTC comes up when setting time zones of most (if not all) linux distributions. So most have heard of it
Of course, if you're like me, you ignored it and had your computer watch running 9 hours ahead of your system clock...
But yeah, PST = Pacific Standard Time. So try looking for a city on the pacific (YellowKnive, Vancouer, Seattle, Portland, LA, San Fran, and Tijunana are all common choices i think). Also, the one refers to 01 as there is no pm or am used you can assume its 24 hour time
Maybe McDonalds will buy SCO. Honestly, at some point, what with the companies dropping cost, it will probably be cheaper for them just to own SCO rather then migrate to Linux.
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First and foremost, in the US, if I want to wear a yalkmaka (skull cap or whatever you want to call it) because my religion requires me to wear a head covering, *Bam* i can. Telling me I can't wear religious garb because the school is netural on religion is like saying everyone has to go around in wheelchairs because the school is neutral on physical dissability.
There is a difference between neutrality and forcing everyone to be the same, afterall, overtly religious symbols (and they don't have to be that overt) don't affect anyone and don't require anyone to do anything. Being told how you can and can't dress because is ludicrous (i'm not saying it isn't done here, tehre and everywhere, but I can't see a reason for it). What's more, the ban goes on to include religious facial hair
Many people i know are quite religious and would not be able to live as they do under such laws. Are people really that offended by others practicing their own religion. Their laws show nothing but intollerance and are inexcusable
America for americans
Canada for everyone
I agree that the attempt to whitewash the world and make everyone the same is a horrible thing but the only thing worse is the 'hey you have your own country, go back there,' that this reasoning opens up. I mean have you ever been to Africa? All romantisised notions aside, most of it is in a state of border line anarchy.
I think it's far better to promote diversity then a melting pot society. And political correctness not only destroys individuality, it also, more often tehn not, proves to be more offensive (refering to someone as 'physically disabled' or a 'person of color' really just shows that these distinctions are what you are focusing on)
At the end of the day, Freedom of speech and freedom of Beer are goals everyone should strive for!!!
An, as an aside, when last i was in South Africa and saw a McDonalds, I almost cried. We don't need a united states of the world
maybe he just doesn't like regan...
or funerals...
or dead people
gawdamn zombie hatin' cheese eating french bastards. what did the poor gipper ever do to them? Eat their brains? hardly? I say, in answer to this hatred, the US invade quebec and purge all french from this continent of ours. As a self appointed representative of Canada I say come on in
On a more serious note, France is getting to be a shady place and not somewhere to be if you are visibly religous, that's for sure (Muslim, Catholic, or Jewish primarily). With some very anti-immigrant laws, and a disturbing amount of support for the facist party, you don't have to be a reanimated former president to worry about some of the trends on france and much of europe.
2D, 3D, man that's so yesterday?
My laptop (supplemented with my flux capacitor powered N-Vidia card) has 4 dimensions. Thanks to this wonderful feature I can see it Crashing while it's booting up.
I love FPSs and immersive 3D enviroments as much as the next guy (or FPS loving girl i guess) but people seem to have completly given up on bringing out new 2 dimensional games. ... well... just boring. Far better to have minesweeper, tetris, or snake given that these games are supposed to be short distractions.
Not every game has to tax my hardware to it's fullest to be enjoyable or emmersive. While some gems stand out, there are far to many games that focus too much on being emmersive and non linear and lose any real fun or engenuity.
All i'm saying is, done well, a 3D game can be amazing, but few, if any games, rival Mario 3 or Commander Keen 4 for playability and enjoyment. Unfortunatly, now that we can make things bigger and better, we assume we should. Essentially, we are seeing, video game bloat.
I don't know about anyone else, but the idea of playing a watterd down tomb raider clone on my cellphone seems
Of course, if someone comes up with some cool 3D puzzle game that takes 30 seconds tops a session, i could see it catching on
Has anyone noticed that beer is already 'Free as in speech?' At least the good beer anyway
Barley, Hops, Water, Yeast. My favorite open sourced beverage.
Think i'm going to emerge some 1516 compliant lager now
I don't think there's somethign wrong with softwaer bundeling really (KDE does it to no end)
What I see as the major issue with Microsoft selling Anti-Virus Software is not them trying to press their monopoly, but that it creates a conflict of interest
The economic viability of antivirus software depends on a virus checker being able to stop a virus and, more importantly, there being a virus in the first place. Basically, I don't like the idea that IE, having contracted a severe case of malware, is essentially going to be earning the boys at redmond money.
Course, i could be wrong.
My bad
once i reinstalled adblock, it keeped all my old rules...
Worked fine
if by worked fine i mean didn't get all my extensions and themes
*sigh* And their website doesn't even have half the old themes it used to (and, it has been said before, but the new theme looks orthagonal, flat, and ugly as hell)
Anyway, going to dig through my harddrive for my adblock rules now...
C++ is as cross platform as the libraries you use. The game code i'm writing so far (it's a simple game, doesn't have any assmebly or optimisation... just a keen like side scroller) compiles under both windows and linux. Using the same make file. How? I use SDL for everything. I've had equally pleasent experiences with Qt. Portability in C and C++ is all based on the libraries.
Of course being able to compile on multiple platforms and being cross platform aren't the same thing but I still think that it is in the benefit of people producing software for Linux specifically, to write code that will port to Windows without to much avail (who the hell uses \?)
Oh those thinsg
Is it just me or shoudl my friends cellphone not have more loading time then a 486 running XP, with spyware turned to full?
tried to play a simple game on a fone and got fed up because of all the damnloading bars. For waht? a crappy bmx game that lasted 30 seconds
back to snake for me...
Or he probably didn't
Maby you are misremember histroy because you shouldn't be remember the ever obscure 'those days' at all. You, as with most people, have a very biased picture of what thigns where like 'back then.' And more importantly you have a very biased view of how things are now. Serial killers, drive by shootings (onyl really a factor since the advent of cars and guns), murder, theft, kindnapping, and assault where not common place back 'then' where then is all of human history. Nor are they common place now.
What you say!!!
Just because the news sensationalises stories does not mean they are by any approximation common place. The fact is that the percentage of people who are psychopaths is mroe or less a constant (there aer enviromental variables that have an influence, but a person could just easily have a bad childhood now as back anytime, though many would agree you are more likely to have a healthy childhood now). But, without wide spread communication you never heard about serial killers. And with poor forensics many crimes just went unsolved. Jack the ripper, one of the most notorious serial killers, was never caught.
Back in the 1800s men could be lynched for being black. The average person probably had to worry a lot more about being black, or gay, or just generally disliked, then they do now. Lack of accountability, mob rules, and poorly defined social structure meant that having your horse stolen was generally a minor concern.
Stop living in the glory days of a past that never existed and you know nothign about. And stop being paranoid about the world we live in. Having come to North America from a country that actually has serious crime of the level Grishnakh believes this fair continent to be in (South Africa routinly sets world records for heights rape, murder, and auto theft), I can tell you that we are not living in the midst of civil unrest.
Oh and Grishnakh, there are a lot of other places in the world spammers could go. Every where else isnt' the third world mud hole many people believe it to be.
And yes, I know, I was just trolled...
"Your Bagle is ready. Would you like to add 3-6 inches to your penis?"
they are second in the world for hockey and do you think any of them care
...is everyone loses
Highbred devices are the best example of this. Just as a swiss army knife is almost passable for everything (except, the knife) a cellphone pda with a camera allows you to take sub par pictures on a sub par cellphone on your barely functional pda while listening to mp3s on your 1 hour of battery life
And, while technology will improve in this area and allow for better hybredisation (everything is going to have an mp3 player built in. even toothbrushes, i'm sure of it) certain devices can only be so small and still be considered useable. The fact is, i have yet to see a PDA/cellphone that wasn't the smallest PDA/blukiest cellphone one could never quite use.
Hybredisation is just a natural symptom of companies lacking true inovation and trying to pretend other wise (hmmm... we have a toaster... we also have staplers... nobody has thought of making TOASTER STAPLERS BEFORE!!!)
Far more likely is the idea of several deviceses intercommunicating and specialising. Design devices like software! Lets call your cellcameraDA Mozilla. Now lets call your cellphone firefox and your camera thunderbird. Avoid the hardware bloat! no good can come of it.
All that aside, I still want a swiss army knife with a usb drive. Now that is the future!!!
I use mailinator. Biggest advantage over a fake e-mail address, you can get the one time e-mail you need to register (that many less reputable sites require).
So if i want to create a yahoo account for games, i just add joeshmoe@mailinator.com. and go to mailinator to receive my 'activate account' email.
Mailinator jsut creats a password free e-mail address when ever it receives an e-mail to the address. It then deletes it about an hour later
Wow. Nice case. But what happens when he needs to add a new network card...?
So you can't do 2 things at once
A boring tech job doesn't mean that he can't listen to the radio while he works. If his tech job is sytem maintinance or somethign hands on he should be able to listne to radio while he does it.
Besides, soem jobs you can't outsource because they require you to physically be there.
Besides, lack of work ethic and the ability to slack off are what makes corporate america great!
"I'd say, in a given week, I only do about 15 minutes of ACTUAL work" - Peter, Office Space
There is nothing crippeling about a GUI front-end. Noobies love GUI's. They tell you what you need to know and don't require any memorisation.
And, a frontend is just a nice wrapper, so it doesn't in anyway remove the ability to open up your terminal and do anything you could before.
The fact is, computers are good at doing automated tasks. So why should a new user have to work out what steps they are going to need to do when a program designer knwos full well what the average user will be doing
I know many windows users who only use their computers for about 5 or 6 things (e-mail, digital camera, etc) and so setting up a computer for them on linux is simple. But I don't know what they might need in the future and too these people, even typing in everyone's favorite './configure && make && make install' is daunting and should be avoided at all costs.
Why is giving these people a simple option always seen as treading on the toes of the elite (or is that L337).
now if that option could be standerdised...
I believe it's a small lead case for your wireless network card
Oracle: I'd ask you to sit down, but, you're not going to anyway. And don't worry about the exploit.
Neo: What exploit?
[Neo turns Oracles computer and intantly pop up adds start appearing on the Oracle's desktop]
Oracle: That exploit.
Neo: I'm sorry--
Oracle: I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to write a patch for it.
Neo: How did you know?
Oracle: Ohh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would anyone have created that virus if i hadn't have told them about the exploit?
...this probe was never meant for anal insertion
UTC comes up when setting time zones of most (if not all) linux distributions. So most have heard of it
Of course, if you're like me, you ignored it and had your computer watch running 9 hours ahead of your system clock...
But yeah, PST = Pacific Standard Time. So try looking for a city on the pacific (YellowKnive, Vancouer, Seattle, Portland, LA, San Fran, and Tijunana are all common choices i think). Also, the one refers to 01 as there is no pm or am used you can assume its 24 hour time
Maybe McDonalds will buy SCO. Honestly, at some point, what with the companies dropping cost, it will probably be cheaper for them just to own SCO rather then migrate to Linux.
...are they going to open source their food?!?