... I disagree with you compltely. Just becase most Italians call themselves 'Catholic' doesn't mean they close followers of the church doctrine. And why should it? Does calling yourself French mean that you religiously abide all French laws? There are cultural aspects. Italy has a culture of disregarding authority, as can be seen in their disregard for traffic lights, road death statistics and tax-avoidance among the macho. Italy typifies a first world nation, in this sense much more than countries like the US or Australia. My knowledge of the area is straining here, but I understand their high immigration levels to contribute towards higher birth rates, because of culture carry-over. Whereas Catholics in developing, poorer and most importantly less educated countries are very much more likely to obey the 'wisdom' dolled out to them so generously by the church. If asked in a religious survey what I was, I'd probably answer Anglican - but I don't go to church, and while I consider my morals very close to the spirit of teaching we got at school, I make up my mind on things without religious considerations.
... they probably went into the ship's computer's entertainment forum and used rogue php3 flags within their message to embed a x/0 error into the alien's computer. Then all they had to do was reload and bang - down she goes. Tch Tch.
I wish you dickheads would stop posting this crap. The problem is much more serious than that. That Independent DIDN'T SUPPORT THE NEW TAX SYSTEM. The party who did were _against_ the IC legislation. Get it right! The problem is more serious, because both Liberal AND Labor believe the leglisation is workable, despite significant uproar, particularly within the Liberal Party's own lay membership. That is far more serious than some simple one-for-one deal, because it indicates that the leglsiation has more weight behind it and is likely to be more stubbornly supported and thus damaging. If you can't get your facts straight than just shut the hell up because you confuse the debate.
I really want to talk to you about this issue, but can't find your email address on slashdot anywhere though. Drop me a line on craig@lpf.com.au or give me a call on 0882380001
We bought several licences of OS/2 for Windows I think and then didn't install (or installed and then disabled) Windows and deinstalled DOS support for work.
Microsoft will be declared guilty as hell, given an award for going above and beyond the call to create wealth for the United States at the expense of everybody else, everybody involved will go out and buy Microsoft shares, and then they'll all get over it, because that's how everybody (I was going to say all Americans, but thought the better of it - I'm not feeling that naughty today) solves their differences with companies they dislike these days.
You did that too? I completetly missed the pre-release hype (how nobody knows) and some guy at work got it. I borrowed it for a week, took it home, did the thing with the ear phones, etc. I didn't even know about the marines. How freaky was that bit when you come into the top of that room and that scientist is running down below "at last your here!" and this marine comes out of nowhere and guns him down. The hl music kicks in, you walk a few steps and immediately you seem to be stuck in the middle of this room with all these thinking breathing people with big guns running around trying to kill you. My first ever game 'experience'. It was incredible!
I've always just had the strange feeling that the character closest to Stephenson's heart was the protagonist of Zodiac. This is a completetly njustified comment, and I expect it to be moderated down accordingly:) But that character had the most spelt out and believeable values.
I have yet to read C., but I've found in other books that character development is... not as well done as everything else, dissapointingly. I found this particularly in Interface.
That Stephenson guy has some gaul talking Linux!
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'...he changed the name to "Finux" so this slashdot story wouldn't be full of people saying "Stephenson is an idiot because the Linux boot prompt _actually_ looks different from in the book, and Linux has feature x and not feature y like in the book".'
And does Stephenson have any idea about what the GPL actually means? Why did Windows get a mention - that's not GPL! Personally, I think Stephenson's books should all have to be Open Source, because that would make them better, and he'd sell more, plus he could advertise support. Where does that Stephenson guy get off making his hackers eat that sort of food when everybody knows that they really eat pizza, as is proven by the sky being blue and Gates a bastard. QED.
You absolute legends. I've been trying to get Stephenson fans to confirm whether there was a carry over character since I read DA and SC two years ago. I'd only heard it as a rumour in an online review of the book, and have since tried to find out whether it was true. You absolute legends:) Thankyou and goodnight!
You could maximise a command window and jsut use bash to do whatever you do with a PC. There was an element of sarcasm - his condemned the interface but didn't justify why. But no, BeOS cannot be run just from the command line:)
Thankyou - I should have been more specific. The G3 issues with BeOS was what I was talking about. Apple is stifling Be using very MSy tactics, and it's going to hurt them. Good. There is justice.
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... I disagree with you compltely. Just becase most Italians call themselves 'Catholic' doesn't mean they close followers of the church doctrine. And why should it? Does calling yourself French mean that you religiously abide all French laws? There are cultural aspects. Italy has a culture of disregarding authority, as can be seen in their disregard for traffic lights, road death statistics and tax-avoidance among the macho. Italy typifies a first world nation, in this sense much more than countries like the US or Australia. My knowledge of the area is straining here, but I understand their high immigration levels to contribute towards higher birth rates, because of culture carry-over. Whereas Catholics in developing, poorer and most importantly less educated countries are very much more likely to obey the 'wisdom' dolled out to them so generously by the church. If asked in a religious survey what I was, I'd probably answer Anglican - but I don't go to church, and while I consider my morals very close to the spirit of teaching we got at school, I make up my mind on things without religious considerations.
... I'm surprised that women have not yet been criticised for not being open source.
... they probably went into the ship's computer's entertainment forum and used rogue php3 flags within their message to embed a x/0 error into the alien's computer. Then all they had to do was reload and bang - down she goes. Tch Tch.
I wish you dickheads would stop posting this crap. The problem is much more serious than that. That Independent DIDN'T SUPPORT THE NEW TAX SYSTEM. The party who did were _against_ the IC legislation. Get it right! The problem is more serious, because both Liberal AND Labor believe the leglisation is workable, despite significant uproar, particularly within the Liberal Party's own lay membership. That is far more serious than some simple one-for-one deal, because it indicates that the leglsiation has more weight behind it and is likely to be more stubbornly supported and thus damaging. If you can't get your facts straight than just shut the hell up because you confuse the debate.
I've got personal guarentees from several senators that they will not support a banning of encryption. That's not going to happen (thank God)
You should check your facts a bit better than that, my friend.
I really want to talk to you about this issue, but can't find your email address on slashdot anywhere though. Drop me a line on craig@lpf.com.au or give me a call on 0882380001
We bought several licences of OS/2 for Windows I think and then didn't install (or installed and then disabled) Windows and deinstalled DOS support for work.
If you're going to tap the linux marketing hype, you have to use linux. Nobody has heard of FreeBSD.
- C
I understand that BeOS also uses great chunks of mach.
- C
How can somebody opposing censorship support and isolatoinist/protectionist?
... in the context he meant it in.
In fact, to my knowledge all constitutional monarchies are republics.
... but good call :)
Try to think of we BeOS users as the Jesuits.
Microsoft will be declared guilty as hell, given an award for going above and beyond the call to create wealth for the United States at the expense of everybody else, everybody involved will go out and buy Microsoft shares, and then they'll all get over it, because that's how everybody (I was going to say all Americans, but thought the better of it - I'm not feeling that naughty today) solves their differences with companies they dislike these days.
(bitter, bitter, bitter)
- B
I vote they go after Microsoft again. (For the cameras: just kidding)
You did that too? I completetly missed the pre-release hype (how nobody knows) and some guy at work got it. I borrowed it for a week, took it home, did the thing with the ear phones, etc. I didn't even know about the marines. How freaky was that bit when you come into the top of that room and that scientist is running down below "at last your here!" and this marine comes out of nowhere and guns him down. The hl music kicks in, you walk a few steps and immediately you seem to be stuck in the middle of this room with all these thinking breathing people with big guns running around trying to kill you. My first ever game 'experience'. It was incredible!
I've always just had the strange feeling that the character closest to Stephenson's heart was the protagonist of Zodiac. This is a completetly njustified comment, and I expect it to be moderated down accordingly :) But that character had the most spelt out and believeable values.
I have yet to read C., but I've found in other books that character development is ... not as well done as everything else, dissapointingly. I found this particularly in Interface.
'...he changed the name to "Finux" so this slashdot story wouldn't be full of people saying "Stephenson is
an idiot because the Linux boot prompt _actually_ looks different from in the book, and Linux has feature x and not feature y like in the book".'
And does Stephenson have any idea about what the GPL actually means? Why did Windows get a mention - that's not GPL! Personally, I think Stephenson's books should all have to be Open Source, because that would make them better, and he'd sell more, plus he could advertise support. Where does that Stephenson guy get off making his hackers eat that sort of food when everybody knows that they really eat pizza, as is proven by the sky being blue and Gates a bastard. QED.
You absolute legends. I've been trying to get Stephenson fans to confirm whether there was a carry over character since I read DA and SC two years ago. I'd only heard it as a rumour in an online review of the book, and have since tried to find out whether it was true. You absolute legends :) Thankyou and goodnight!
... and will grace the halls of the underworld in the afterlife.
You could maximise a command window and jsut use bash to do whatever you do with a PC. There was an element of sarcasm - his condemned the interface but didn't justify why. But no, BeOS cannot be run just from the command line :)
Thankyou - I should have been more specific. The G3 issues with BeOS was what I was talking about. Apple is stifling Be using very MSy tactics, and it's going to hurt them. Good. There is justice.
And, if you want "Ooooh, Aaaah" or more 'hidden agenda' (?) stuff:
:) :) :)
... and without ceasing to live, I will cease to exist...
Hey! I've got Hidden Agenda (from Nowhere Man) As my background image.