It seems that this industry cannot help but 'shoot itself in the face' from here on out. I'm not a christian, but it reminds me of the 'tower of babel'.
How stupid can these people be?....nevermind, they have the US Gov't. backing them. It seems we have a steep slope to climb to get back to our founder's (US Constitution) ideology on the subject.
I hope that the afore mentioned case (under FBI investigation) will make some waves.
If you can answer to this. fine. If not, I understand.
I'll give you one for Judaism, as it predates Buddhism by about 1500 years, but christianity is the 'new kid on the block' here. (Hint: christianity could not have existed until j. christ was born approx. 2,008-2,009 years ago!)
I would hypothesize that compassion has evolved in humans since Alley Oop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Oop figured out that teamwork was better for survival than 'lone wolf mode' was.
Pretty much a no-brainer when the leaders of the pack/tribe/family/etc. figured out that if you take care of one another, there are more resources available to hunt/fight/gather. Part of it also seems to be hardwired into us mammals- do some research on nurturing and protecting the litter/family/herd/etc.
BTW, I notice you are getting a lot of flack for this one. Rightfully so for such a narrow-minded, bigoted, self-centered, and religiously biased point of view. The Romans? You are just pissed that they crucified j.c., and neglect the positive things they did.
I'll admit that crucifying j.c. was a political blunder on their part, but you would have no religion if they had just deported him. Just a roll of the dice, nothing more.
Worked for Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" movie.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)
"A confused Dorothy awakens to discover the house has been caught up in the twister. Through the bedroom window, she sees a parade of people fly by, including Miss Gulch, who seemingly transforms into a frightening witch. Moments later, the twister drops the house, Dorothy and Toto back onto solid ground." Doesn't seem very controllable though.YMMV
Because ducks are funny. It's like putting icing on the cake, or something. It also encourages the continuation of funny ducks. Where would we be without Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, or Howard the Duck?
First off, that was a really good post. Well laid out, reasonable and rational. Good job!
However... I am not an 'anti-IP zealot', even though reading my posts on the subject would indicate I may be one. I can only speak for myself, but I feel I am not alone here:
It's about negotiating. A starting point to be refined.
It's/., so here's a car analogy:
You have a car you want to sell, maybe for as much as you can get for it. I am interested in buying it as cheaply as possible. You start out asking $6,000.00 for the car, and I counter by offering $2,000.00- we start negotiating the price until I finally get you down to $4,500.00- then I have to decide if that will fit my budget, and either buy or not.
IP copyright and patent laws are not working as planned, so it's time to negotiate what they should be to be fair for everyone involved. I'm just trying to 'buy as cheaply as possible' and this is how I see the negotiations starting.
Heh!,although at times, it seems the 'negotiations' have broke out into a free for all- just like an old fashioned 'barroom brawl' from the old Western/Cowboy movies! *ducks flying chair* YeeeHahhh!!
Best results for me with Kubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 have been to install WINE from the distro repository, then run wineconfig to *sort of like* get a combination of 'control panel' and 'device manager', set this up, then for example: I popped in an install cd for Fallout, navigated to the cd in Konqueror, right clicked on the 'setup.exe' file, selcted 'run with wine' and it was just like being on windows after that until I exited the finished install. To further the "Windows" experience, you can then go your applications button (Kmenu for me), go to Wine, then you will have four entries: 1. Programs-select this and it will list the installed app's folder, then the.exe that starts the app- just like using the Windows Start button to launch an app.
You can also use a file manager to do the same-/home/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/yadda yadda yadda.
Or even better open a terminal and just launch the app in wine.
I set up wine in win98 compatibility mode, as the games I like are a bit old and just run better in 98 than xp.
And the forums and online Doc's are a lot better than they used to be. That's how this n00b got back to playing Fallout and Fallout2.
Unfortuneately, I have not been able to get Tom Clancey's SSN to work.:(
Basically, I'm 2 out of 5: Fallout, Fallout 2 both work great. SSN, Flanker 2.0, and Connectix Virtual Game Station, no go-
*grumble* Damn mini horse and wagon goes tearing through the place and jumps into the frikkin tv EVERY time I try to sit down and eat! Worse than those telemarketers! *grumble*
You have obviously not ridden a 'good' working quarter Horse. (working as in: trained and used to work cattle-I've seen cutting horses good enough that once you pointed them on a cow/steer/bull/heifer, you could climb off and the horse would cut the cow out of the main herd and herd it to the holding pen.
Anyway, they can stop and move hella quick!
BTW, I basically agree with you though, Quick starts and maneuvering seem to be the order of the day with both prey and predators...after the danger, you can always slow down, look back, and decide from there.
Very few animals make graceful high-speed stops as a common practice. Horses seem to be one of the few exceptions. Anything from yearling under will engage in a rough form of 'tag' if there are at least three of them, and fequently will use quick high-speed stops w/ direction (okay-this is/.-vector changes!) as dodging tactics.
Keep lurking, 'GrassHopper', all will become clear in time.
"the idiot who used wasted his/her mod points on fanboi-modding down parent post,..." By your UID, I would expect that you already know the answer to your question, but that the answer is still bothering you.
Search inside yourself for the answer, there, you will find all of the questions you want answers for...*head a splodes* WTF?!?!? Uhmm...never mind!
'And in a hundred years from now, who will care?' also comes to mind...just thinking...
1. "They have admitted they need ODF..." Where? When? (citation needed) 2. "...everyone knows OOXML is not ready...." Everyone? Maybe most of us here on/. will agree, (then again, maybe not!) but that hardly accounts for 'everyone'. Come up out of your Mom's Basement and have a look at modern reality. 'Everyone' is just going about their 'own life' and could care less about OOMXL, ODF, and MS. 3. "If they don't really become an honest company,..." WTF?!?!?
Honest Company?...what is that?....like Disney? Sony? MS? Who....name one, I dare you!
All I can think when I read your post is, like something from Frank Zappa's 'Titties and Beer'....'I got me three beers and a fist-full of downs, I'm gonna get ripped, so fuck you clowns!'
Yes, I know that feeding trolls only keeps them coming back, but I could not help this one.
I was cleaning up a slow WinXP SP2 PC for a friend, and after two 'format & re-install' sessions, was still getting virus/trojan found messages as soon as I would install AVG Free.
After poking around, C: is not being reported correctly (total disc size)...Okay, reboot with old Win 98 'rescue'/boot floppy...fdisk, delete all found partitions, make new active partition (use whole disc- or some such), restart, format, reinstall XP, again format (full, not 'quick') and reinstall....same again.
Go back to FDISK, try again....same again!! ARGHHH!!!
Hmmm...WTF?- but with Linux Live CD- what's this 120 MB partition?* Full of files and folders. Go to Google....Ahh! Insidious Infestation! I'm not near my notes for this job, thus can't remember exactly what this crapware was, but finally the only way (with resources available at that time) I finally got rid of this was to start the Linux install, delete all of the partitions, format with VFAT, then escape the install. Then I tried the XP install again, this time it worked, no crap found after the AVG install this time.
After some research, I found out this particularly nasty bit of software apparently creates a small hidden partition, installs itself to BOTH partitions, and modifies the MBR (IIRC) to check for a certain hidden file at boot, and if it doesn't find this file, reinstalls the crapware from the hidden partition at boot time.
I sure I am just rusty from not dealing with Windows for quite a while, but this was hair-pulling frustration until Linux helped me out.
Sometimes you just have to nuke it from orbit...just to be sure.
* BTW, this was the only time I have noticed this one though. I believe that what made it noticeable to start with,it was an old PC w/ a '6 GB' HDD (for base OS install) master/primary and an old 10 GB HDD as master/secondary (for 'my documents' and 'program files'), so I was checking free space after base install, but did not notice the total being wrong at first- my bad- but I don't know I would have caught this on a larger HDD.
Every Windows application CD I've encountered always has this (paraphrase)in the printed directions:
If the installer/aplication does not automatically start, then go to 'start'>'run' and type in 'D:\setup.exe', then hit 'enter'; where 'D:' is your CD-ROM.
I've seen this since at least the Win95 days. It was apparently enough of a problem that they felt the need to put it on every CD.
For that matter, any MS Windows directions that have you go to 'start'>'run'>type 'foo', then hit 'enter', or click 'okay' is just a CLI with enough cammo that most users don't realise they've been suckered into using a CLI.
But let's not ever bring that up in this same, tired discussion.
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This is good to see. Judges starting to look into the tech of a tech issue. Way cool!!!
Here come the Judge! Here come the Judge! http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=1242
P.S. Old Rowan & Martin's Laugh In meme.
BTW mod's:
research before you mod me offtopic,. You youngsters may be surprised!
How will this affect this case?
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/29/2026213http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/29/2026213v
It seems that this industry cannot help but 'shoot itself in the face' from here on out.
I'm not a christian, but it reminds me of the 'tower of babel'.
How stupid can these people be?....nevermind, they have the US Gov't. backing them.
It seems we have a steep slope to climb to get back to our founder's (US Constitution) ideology on the subject.
I hope that the afore mentioned case (under FBI investigation) will make some waves.
If you can answer to this. fine. If not, I understand.
Keep 'Rocking' on', you are doing much good.
"Where is compassion without christianity or judaism I ask you? "
How about the 'Noble Eightfold Path' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_path that is a part of Buddhism, which is older than your Christianity? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddism
I'll give you one for Judaism, as it predates Buddhism by about 1500 years, but christianity is the 'new kid on the block' here. (Hint: christianity could not have existed until j. christ was born approx. 2,008-2,009 years ago!)
I would hypothesize that compassion has evolved in humans since Alley Oop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Oop figured out that teamwork was better for survival than 'lone wolf mode' was.
Pretty much a no-brainer when the leaders of the pack/tribe/family/etc. figured out that if you take care of one another, there are more resources available to hunt/fight/gather. Part of it also seems to be hardwired into us mammals- do some research on nurturing and protecting the litter/family/herd/etc.
BTW, I notice you are getting a lot of flack for this one. Rightfully so for such a narrow-minded, bigoted, self-centered, and religiously biased point of view. The Romans? You are just pissed that they crucified j.c., and neglect the positive things they did.
I'll admit that crucifying j.c. was a political blunder on their part, but you would have no religion if they had just deported him. Just a roll of the dice, nothing more.
That's the spirit!
BTW, well said above! http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=566835&cid=23576531
For the most part I would say pay more attention to the content of a post, and pretty much ignore the UID.
Hang in there for a while, and you will be able to tell who is posting by writing style or sig.
Worked for Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" movie.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)
"A confused Dorothy awakens to discover the house has been caught up in the twister. Through the bedroom window, she sees a parade of people fly by, including Miss Gulch, who seemingly transforms into a frightening witch. Moments later, the twister drops the house, Dorothy and Toto back onto solid ground."
Doesn't seem very controllable though.YMMV
I always use noscrpt and flashblock extensions in firefox on Linux, so I'm not too concerned about this.
No, we will all (and our universe) cease to exist in this form when some trans-dimensional cop dunks our donut universe in his coffee and EATS US!!!
The 'Download Helper' extension for Firefox works just fine. The playback in VLC (on Kubuntu 8.04) was just peachy.
Because ducks are funny. It's like putting icing on the cake, or something.
It also encourages the continuation of funny ducks.
Where would we be without Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, or Howard the Duck?
*ducks*
First off, that was a really good post. Well laid out, reasonable and rational. Good job!
/., so here's a car analogy:
However...
I am not an 'anti-IP zealot', even though reading my posts on the subject would indicate I may be one.
I can only speak for myself, but I feel I am not alone here:
It's about negotiating. A starting point to be refined.
It's
You have a car you want to sell, maybe for as much as you can get for it. I am interested in buying it as cheaply as possible.
You start out asking $6,000.00 for the car, and I counter by offering $2,000.00- we start negotiating the price until I finally get you down to $4,500.00- then I have to decide if that will fit my budget, and either buy or not.
IP copyright and patent laws are not working as planned, so it's time to negotiate what they should be to be fair for everyone involved. I'm just trying to 'buy as cheaply as possible' and this is how I see the negotiations starting.
Heh!,although at times, it seems the 'negotiations' have broke out into a free for all- just like an old fashioned 'barroom brawl' from the old Western/Cowboy movies! *ducks flying chair* YeeeHahhh!!
*looks at picture*
*looks out window into back yard*
*looks back at picture*
Hey, that's my house! OMG! I live on mars!
I only have a Tricky Dick maskhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon, you insensitive clod!
Get off my lawn, you young whippersnapper!
Nerf guns at 20 paces, last nerd standing wins!
Best results for me with Kubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 have been to install WINE from the distro repository, then run wineconfig to *sort of like* get a combination of 'control panel' and 'device manager', set this up, then for example: .exe that starts the app- just like using the Windows Start button to launch an app.
/home/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/yadda yadda yadda.
:(
I popped in an install cd for Fallout, navigated to the cd in Konqueror, right clicked on the 'setup.exe' file, selcted 'run with wine' and it was just like being on windows after that until I exited the finished install.
To further the "Windows" experience, you can then go your applications button (Kmenu for me), go to Wine, then you will have four entries:
1. Programs-select this and it will list the installed app's folder, then the
You can also use a file manager to do the same-
Or even better open a terminal and just launch the app in wine.
I set up wine in win98 compatibility mode, as the games I like are a bit old and just run better in 98 than xp.
And the forums and online Doc's are a lot better than they used to be. That's how this n00b got back to playing Fallout and Fallout2.
Unfortuneately, I have not been able to get Tom Clancey's SSN to work.
Basically, I'm 2 out of 5:
Fallout, Fallout 2 both work great.
SSN, Flanker 2.0, and Connectix Virtual Game Station, no go-
That would probably help a lot, but I don't see it happening soon.
"A computer with a bullet in it is just a paperweight; A map with a bullet in it is still a map.[Maj K. Hauk,USArmy]"
Apparently the Major has not seen this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAuKwTDGnCg
Although I'll wager he is correct FAR more often than not!
Just don't forget to add in a Wireless AP so they can still check their email and pr0n.
Oh, wait....
As long as it's not like Chuck Wagon :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnwppcD-SMc&feature=related
Because if that miniature horse and wagon comes ripping through my place, I'll grab my shotgun, then chase it down...and kill it!
*grumble* Damn mini horse and wagon goes tearing through the place and jumps into the frikkin tv EVERY time I try to sit down and eat! Worse than those telemarketers! *grumble*
You have obviously not ridden a 'good' working quarter Horse. (working as in: trained and used to work cattle-I've seen cutting horses good enough that once you pointed them on a cow/steer/bull/heifer, you could climb off and the horse would cut the cow out of the main herd and herd it to the holding pen.
/.-vector changes!) as dodging tactics.
Anyway, they can stop and move hella quick!
BTW, I basically agree with you though, Quick starts and maneuvering seem to be the order of the day with both prey and predators...after the danger, you can always slow down, look back, and decide from there.
Very few animals make graceful high-speed stops as a common practice.
Horses seem to be one of the few exceptions.
Anything from yearling under will engage in a rough form of 'tag' if there are at least three of them, and fequently will use quick high-speed stops w/ direction (okay-this is
Me.
I'll make that complicated decision for you...honest!
Keep lurking, 'GrassHopper', all will become clear in time.
"the idiot who used wasted his/her mod points on fanboi-modding down parent post,..."
By your UID, I would expect that you already know the answer to your question, but that the answer is still bothering you.
Search inside yourself for the answer, there, you will find all of the questions you want answers for...*head a splodes* WTF?!?!? Uhmm...never mind!
'And in a hundred years from now, who will care?' also comes to mind...just thinking...
1. "They have admitted they need ODF..." Where? When? (citation needed) ...." Everyone? Maybe most of us here on /. will agree, (then again, maybe not!) but that hardly accounts for 'everyone'.
2. "...everyone knows OOXML is not ready
Come up out of your Mom's Basement and have a look at modern reality. 'Everyone' is just going about their 'own life' and could care less about OOMXL, ODF, and MS.
3. "If they don't really become an honest company,..." WTF?!?!?
Honest Company?...what is that?....like Disney? Sony? MS? Who....name one, I dare you!
All I can think when I read your post is, like something from Frank Zappa's 'Titties and Beer'....'I got me three beers and a fist-full of downs, I'm gonna get ripped, so fuck you clowns!'
Yes, I know that feeding trolls only keeps them coming back, but I could not help this one.
"preview button, my computer does't have any preview button"
It's right next to the 'any' key.
Up until about three months ago, I would agree.
I was cleaning up a slow WinXP SP2 PC for a friend, and after two 'format & re-install' sessions, was still getting virus/trojan found messages as soon as I would install AVG Free.
After poking around, C: is not being reported correctly (total disc size)...Okay, reboot with old Win 98 'rescue'/boot floppy...fdisk, delete all found partitions, make new active partition (use whole disc- or some such), restart, format, reinstall XP, again format (full, not 'quick') and reinstall....same again.
Go back to FDISK, try again....same again!!
ARGHHH!!!
Hmmm...WTF?- but with Linux Live CD- what's this 120 MB partition?*
Full of files and folders.
Go to Google....Ahh! Insidious Infestation!
I'm not near my notes for this job, thus can't remember exactly what this crapware was, but finally the only way (with resources available at that time) I finally got rid of this was to start the Linux install, delete all of the partitions, format with VFAT, then escape the install. Then I tried the XP install again, this time it worked, no crap found after the AVG install this time.
After some research, I found out this particularly nasty bit of software apparently creates a small hidden partition, installs itself to BOTH partitions, and modifies the MBR (IIRC) to check for a certain hidden file at boot, and if it doesn't find this file, reinstalls the crapware from the hidden partition at boot time.
I sure I am just rusty from not dealing with Windows for quite a while, but this was hair-pulling frustration until Linux helped me out.
Sometimes you just have to nuke it from orbit...just to be sure.
* BTW, this was the only time I have noticed this one though. I believe that what made it noticeable to start with,it was an old PC w/ a '6 GB' HDD (for base OS install) master/primary and an old 10 GB HDD as master/secondary (for 'my documents' and 'program files'), so I was checking free space after base install, but did not notice the total being wrong at first- my bad- but I don't know I would have caught this on a larger HDD.
And one thing I never see mentioned:
Every Windows application CD I've encountered always has this (paraphrase)in the printed directions:
If the installer/aplication does not automatically start, then go to 'start'>'run' and type in 'D:\setup.exe', then hit 'enter'; where 'D:' is your CD-ROM.
I've seen this since at least the Win95 days.
It was apparently enough of a problem that they felt the need to put it on every CD.
For that matter, any MS Windows directions that have you go to 'start'>'run'>type 'foo', then hit 'enter', or click 'okay' is just a CLI with enough cammo that most users don't realise they've been suckered into using a CLI.
But let's not ever bring that up in this same, tired discussion.
Yes, but then who has to/gets to develop the Canine Anal Sphincter Recognition Software?