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  1. Simplicity is beautiful on "Mirror cells" May Be Key To Communication · · Score: 1

    It is those of unearned pride and the paranoia it causes that fear discovery.

    I believe intelligence is easy, simple, beautiful, and quite easy to acquire. Humanity is too busy drooling over its greatness (I say it's great because most aspathetics are impostors anyway) to take advantage of reality.

    Humanity prefers to marvel at a distance than to know, or it seems you do at least.

    It is precisely this humility that splits the world into people who think science is difficult and must kept locked up or they won't be able to profit and those who think science is a joke and completely hate it.

    YOU HAVE NO IDEA how FRUSTRATING that is to a teenager and even someone my age(24) looking for access to knowledge when we already have the skills to acquire it and appreciate it.

    Existentialism is for responsible existentialists only. Your kind of fear-based logic pisses me off.

  2. Does it support 5 proc types in at the same time? on Dual Athlon Preview: Linux Kernel Compile Smokes · · Score: 1

    My Amiga does :)

  3. I give up on Jef Raskin On OS X: "It's UNIX, It's backwards." · · Score: 1

    Who cares? Just don't kill each other over it.

  4. SHIT lameness flitter on Jef Raskin On OS X: "It's UNIX, It's backwards." · · Score: 1

    Use the &lt to redirect to a file.

  5. To put into text file: use "" on Jef Raskin On OS X: "It's UNIX, It's backwards." · · Score: 1

    I think he did exactly as asked.

  6. People can steer, type, and click more accurately on Jef Raskin On OS X: "It's UNIX, It's backwards." · · Score: 1

    than they can talk.

    Voice command had its heyday 4 years ago. I know. Computer Shopper ads full of voice enabled systems.

    It died because you had to know GUI to use voice.

    Instead of saying "Save this" you had to say "File menu, save."

  7. Completely false on KDE 2.1 Beta 2 and Nautilus PR 3 - are out · · Score: 1

    Not only can you cut and paste (you get a cool color shaded selection too), but you can also send them to the trash.

    And any locally deleted items appear in a virtual directory called .trash-username. I believe they're all in One Main Trash. Nautilus just brings it over for you to see what you may have deleted without hunting for dirs and such.

  8. Re:Pitch developmwnt for the L600 to Sega and we w on Sega Confirms Death of Dreamcast · · Score: 1

    Indrema is shit... How do you figure that? Especially since I don't need to buy a devbox to make games. I can develop right in Debian. The chief hiimself said so durinmg an online chat. I need one later on just to certify my game and libraries. And even that's not necessarily true. PS2 dev nightmare... I can't qualify this. but I sure as hell am not buying a devbox. Though I hear they use Linux for development as well. XBox... This is a definite contender, only because Microsoft plays it smart when they get started in a market, then they get lazy. It has all the features of upcoming boxes because Microsoft can juggle all the effort. Course they're STILL using Linux to develop for it, cross-compiling until NT boots on it. NT 351 did however boot but MS went mikrokernel happy. As far as I can see all are using Linux on the machines. I've already got a devbox, I already have the libraries, I have perfect freedom to add my own libraries. Indrema is a win for me.

  9. Re:Pitch developmwnt for the L600 to Sega and we w on Sega Confirms Death of Dreamcast · · Score: 1

    Indrema is shit... How do you figure that? Especially since I don't need to buy a devbox to make games. I can develop right in Debian. The chief hiimself said so durinmg an online chat. I need one later on just to certify my game and libraries. And even that's not necessarily true. PS2 dev nightmare... I can't qualify this. but I sure as hell am not buying a devbox. Though I hear they use Linux for development as well. XBox... This is a definite contender, only because Microsoft plays it smart when they get started in a market, then they get lazy. It has all the features of upcoming boxes because Microsoft can juggle all the effort. Course they're STILL using Linux to develop for it, cross-compiling until NT boots on it. NT 351 did however boot but MS went mikrokernel happy. As far as I can see all are using Linux on the machines. I've already got a devbox, I already have the libraries, I have perfect freedom to add my own libraries. Indrema is a win for me.

  10. Re:Pitch developmwnt for the L600 to Sega and we w on Sega Confirms Death of Dreamcast · · Score: 1

    So it's gamers vs devers now? Lovely.

  11. Pitch developmwnt for the L600 to Sega and we win on Sega Confirms Death of Dreamcast · · Score: 1

    Get sega to do dev for Indrema's box.

  12. Re:My Linux Goes Down... on Linux Is Going Down · · Score: 1

    Hot Swappable PCI is in 2.4.0

  13. Re:Direct3D port could be bad for Linux... on Direct3D Applications And Wine · · Score: 1

    The technology would be demonstrated by the toolkits.

  14. Loki would concentrate on making games then on Direct3D Applications And Wine · · Score: 1

    However it may end up being Loki who ports from Linux to Windows. The toolkits are less flashy, and more versatile than the windows counter parts.

  15. It's not emulation it's mimicing natively on Direct3D Applications And Wine · · Score: 1

    The DLLs are 0 byte files. They're just there to make windows apps happy.

  16. Re:Microsoft would do this precisely because of mo on Kernel 2.4.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I honestly believe that public ownership of stocks coupled with the hero worship can turn capitalist ideals into communist reality.

  17. Re:Troll Fugue in B# Major on Kernel 2.4.1 Released · · Score: 1

    The how come I'd doing Video recording Linux?

  18. 2.x.y is compatible fully with 2.x.z on Kernel 2.4.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Microsoft cannot claim that at all.

  19. Troll Fugue in B# Major on Kernel 2.4.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Wait now slow down, you gotta build it up to a climax.

    The counterpoint in disagreement and in FUD, well that was just delicious.

    However for those confused I must explain.

    Linux is as modular as makes sense. If I need a new driver I untar the driver files and compile.

    No reloading of the OS, no reboot no recompile of the kernel.

    The reason drivers are in the kernel tree though separate, is because they're built by the Linux developers. That mneans the code is optimized on a level most compilers can't touch: the basic interface to the kernel.

    Fully modularized code leads to bloat, conflicts between similar drivers from different companies, a lot of unnecessary bookkeeping exercises while drivers operate, LOSS of performance.

    Thank you.

  20. Microsoft would do this precisely because of money on Kernel 2.4.1 Released · · Score: 1

    A commercial company like Microsoft would do this because their market desires upgrades just as Linuxers do. They are frothing at the mouth to pay Microsoft.

    Paying Microsoft has the following benefits:
    1. You are in the presence of unearned fame when you use their software.
    2. Unearned fame is the staple of many industries. It's a basic fact of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, AOLTimerica.
    3. Unearned fame means progress.
    4. Therefore by association you have progressed.
    5. Even Karl Marx agrees with #4.

    Thank you.

  21. Let the Jihad begin on Sega Announces Dreamcast Successor · · Score: 1

    So what if they're playing catch up, their model fits into the lamebrain consumer market's notion of quality: Some things are better than others. You pay for the better ones.

    The general population is stuck in a timewarp where the concept of interchangeable parts simply doesn't exist.

    The fact that quality is a fleeting thing and that the world changes never crosses their mind.

    I can't wait to see the jihad start. Consolers vs Computer users with companies like Sega and Microsoft blurring the edges.

    No one will be innocent in this one. Ideals will clash and fall. The madness that lurks will make itself known.

    Then we can get back to good software and hardware without the Church of 1995 Tech taking 2001 prisoner or vice versa.

  22. Re:95 episodes? on Napster Introduces Subscription Charge · · Score: 1

    The one and only. I have the OVAs. The latter came out fantastic subbed by AnimeBall. But it was hell trying to find them.

    And I do intend to get ADV's version as much as ADV sucks at subbing.

    As the other post noted, I don't really have a 100Mbit connection, but I did pay $400 for it. Why? In the hopes that it would improve in the future. Maybe it will. I like paying for things. I just like having them when I can.

  23. There's an upper limit at which the net chokes on Napster Introduces Subscription Charge · · Score: 1

    Funny how even on my 100Mbit Ethernet dorm connection I can't do shit because I'm queued behind 50+ 56kers on a Cable share.

    I'm not impressed. With MP3s it's kinda simple, go for the high bitrates to get quality.

    I tried using Gnutella for other media. Now it's even worse.

    Rips of movies where you can't read subtitles, real media files that stop and refuse to fast forward, Gig wasting but better quality mpegs and divxen.

    I recently dumped a certain 5Gig anime series (95 episodes) to CD. They're in real media. They go from so-so to crap. Viewable if you like babysitting the controls.

    The mpegs would be at least 5 to 6 times the size or even double that because these 50MBs average files were monaural.

    The divx would be leaner but it already takes 9 CDs to hold them. On a few DVDs (I'm so getting those as soon as get the drive) I would get better quality HDTV support and less space wasted.

    On the other hand if we had somne sort of multicast tuning for the unicast net, you could conceivably get all the data as it strobes across.

  24. Re:Better or not? on Does .NET Sound Like Java? · · Score: 1

    Get it right. Sun created a spec and called it Java. MS made one and called it Java. Sun said. That won't work with Java.

    Court agreed. MS is barred from inventing Java.

    They're not barred from making products for Java.

  25. Sollipsism:I am what I am if I think I think I am on Violence's Niche In Cartoons · · Score: 1

    Effect: To produce a causally related event or condition

    Response: To act or become in a way in relation to a stimulus

    They're the same you moron, except for the bit about responsibility. That is the only difference.

    You are reducing the topic to "We are 'effect'ed by such and such". The poster responded of his own will not just because you have "such an effect on people." He responded because he believes your c ontext is deceptively and intentionally narrow
    as if other contexts did not exist.

    In an attempt to open up the context so that truthful discussion could take place he proposed a coounter example. Your nit picking is irrelevant. It does not answer the point he was making. And so I will now ask:

    Do you think your children should read the passage about Lot's Daughters, might it cause them to try to fuck you?

    It's a bit like asking what effect does rain have on people in a way that avoids arguing with someone who might bring up skin cancer caused by ultraviolet rays.