No. But I wouldn't mind throwing those that create graffiti in jail for a good 10 years.
Yet another example where the punishment does not fit the crime. You're willing to take away 10 years of some punk kid's life because him and his friends went out one night, got a little toasted, and painted somebody's garage?
Give me a break. That's so insane I can't even fathom it. Imagine 10 freakin' years of your life, 10 YEARS gone, just like that, because you did something stupid and relatively harmless. Insane!!
If you REALLY want to punish people do it properly. Chain the fucker to the garage, give him some paint thinner and a toothbrush. Don't let him leave until the graffiti is gone.
I guarantee you he won't make graffiti again, the garage would be clean, and our prison systems wouldn't be overflowing with people who SHOULD NOT BE THERE.
Why should they? If they linked to their sources, you might actually go read them. Heaven forbid you then come up with your own opinion that doesn't tow the corporate line.
Oh, and let's not forget, once you know who the sources are, you might just skip right past the major media outlets. We can't have that, no we can't. How else are they going to make their money if they aren't inundating us with incorrect news and flash ads?
The powers that be have decided, no linky linky for you.
Just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for everybody and that is exactly the problem. Linux developers get things working just well enough, that if you have the right hardware, and the right amount of tinkering things will work for you. Hell, you may even be one of the lucky few who have the exact same setup as the original devs and don't have to tinker at all.
Unforutnately, for the rest of us, I have better things to do with my time that mess around with asoundrc files. All I want is for every freakin program to properly output over my SPDIF channel. Is that really too much to ask for? Apparently it is, and I've almost switched back to windows on numerous occasions because of this.
In fact, the ONLY thing keeping me on Linux right now is MythTV. If it wasn't for MythTV, all my servers would probably be OSX by now and my Media box would be Windows.
Just because it's not important to you does not mean it's not important to me. I play old games all the time, and have gone out of my way to get MAME, ZSNES, MESS, and a lot of other emulators running on single system.
I very much would like to play some of my old XBox games and NOT have keep another system hooked up in what already amounts to a spider's nest of wires behind my television set.
And yes, I DO play old Playstation 1 games on my Playstation 2. Einhander and R-Type demand it.
I am not a PS3 fan boy by any stretch of the imagination. Hell, I've owned every console BUT the N64 and Gamecube (I'm a little tired of Nintendo's kid centric approach to their systems).
That being said, I was, to say the least, very underwhelmed. Ghost Recon 3 looked interesting, and the Sports games looked good (even though I hate sports games). Nothing else looked particularly impressive and some of the games looked worse than existing current generation games.
Microsoft is pulling the trigger way to early. The current systems have at least another good solid year in them, and a year of additional development can make a helluva difference in quality for the new systems.
As it is, it looked more like the transition from Sega Genesis to Sega 32x than from Sega Genesis to the PlayStation/2, and that's not a good thing.
Here's to hoping they can pull off a miracle in 6 months, but I'm skeptical.
Well, I actually own this thing and have had mine for a few months now. This is the first D-Link product I have owned (and I've owned and returned quite a few by now) that truly doesn't suck.
Is it perfect? Hell no, but it does do what it's advertised to do. I can play a nice lag free game of World of Warcraft while my roomie downloads video and my computer saturates a bit torrent network.
This happens every year. It's stupid. It's a waste of time. And it usually takes me till about 10am to realize it's happening again, how much I hate this site AND this day of the year, and to not come back until tomorrow.
Question... do any of these processors come in the socket 478 form factor, or is intel forcing us to upgrade our motherboards yet again? If I have to buy a new mother board, I might as well go AMD this time around!!
Come to Chicago. iPods have been multiplying like a plague here over the last few months. EVERYBODY I see has them and you can tell because of the crappy little white ear plugs they come with.
I'd buy one, but I'm waiting for one of the small form factor iPods to have about 40-60gig of disk space. The full size iPods are a little too big for my tastes.
I have a Sony MP3 CD player and the battery life is great. It's the primary reason I bought it in the first place (that and it reads CDRWs).
That being said, the battery life comes at a cost and that cost is volume. These little MP3 players simply don't have enough juice to drive a decent pair of headphones at a reasonable level for, oh as an example, subway train or air plane rides.
Of course, Sony are the best at squeezing a lot of quality sounds out using a low amount of power, but it only goes so far.
huh. Not in my experience. First of all, FC3 suffers from the same problem as FC1 and FC2: Too many possible places to get RPMs.
RedHat? fedora.us? atrpms? Linva?
And a bunch of others. Problem is, I don't know which ones are trustworthy, which ones are official, and which ones are reliable. I'm constantly forced into using others than the official RedHat mirrors because RedHat is missing MANY valuable packages (not the least of which is MP3 support).
Second, try installing FC3 w/KDE instead of GNOME. It doesn't work so well. In fact, it ALWAYS defaults to loading XVWM which is idiotic. If I have KDE installed, I certainly don't want to default to XVWM, and I shouldn't have to go find some obscure config file buried deep in my system to change that.
Those are just a few of the many many problems I've had with Fedora Core 3 so far (clean install on a system that has been running Debian with no major issues).
I've recently tried SuSE for the first time, and so far it's much more polished and reliable than Fedora. I've also used Debian extensively, and even though Debian isn't as polished (i.e. pretty looking), can't seem to get a stable release out, and can't upgrade to Xorg for some stupid reason, it's still in a league of it's own when it comes to community based Linux distributions.
I'll try Fedora again with Core 4 comes out, but right now Core 3 has left a sour tast in my mouth (so did Core 1 when I tried that).
Delegates, operator overloading, better reflection, CodeDom based code generation, faster startup, better IDE, better GUI technology (but it does have it's own problems), ASP.Net, the list goes on.
That's not to say there aren't ways Java is better. Better web frameworks, community acceptance of OS projects, stronger enterprise support, larger user base, livlier community, aspect oriented development, the list goes on.
It's a native OSX app using the Mac OSX port of QT. I've run the previous version (0.16) on my iBook. It was a bit unstable and crashed often, but it ran. I suspect 0.17 will be considerably more stable but haven't tried it yet.
Slashdot Mirror
7 years now. That's how long it's been since I've purchased anything from Amazon.
7 years Jeff. 7 years of lost revenue that has gone to other companies because of your stubborn insistence on doing crap like this.
My boycott shall continue.
May I suggest some of Amazon's competition?
Barnes and Noble
Buy.com
New Egg
Ebay
Bryan
No. But I wouldn't mind throwing those that create graffiti in jail for a good 10 years.
Yet another example where the punishment does not fit the crime. You're willing to take away 10 years of some punk kid's life because him and his friends went out one night, got a little toasted, and painted somebody's garage?
Give me a break. That's so insane I can't even fathom it. Imagine 10 freakin' years of your life, 10 YEARS gone, just like that, because you did something stupid and relatively harmless. Insane!!
If you REALLY want to punish people do it properly. Chain the fucker to the garage, give him some paint thinner and a toothbrush. Don't let him leave until the graffiti is gone.
I guarantee you he won't make graffiti again, the garage would be clean, and our prison systems wouldn't be overflowing with people who SHOULD NOT BE THERE.
Have some sense, and have some creativity please.
Bryan
Why should they? If they linked to their sources, you might actually go read them. Heaven forbid you then come up with your own opinion that doesn't tow the corporate line.
Oh, and let's not forget, once you know who the sources are, you might just skip right past the major media outlets. We can't have that, no we can't. How else are they going to make their money if they aren't inundating us with incorrect news and flash ads?
The powers that be have decided, no linky linky for you.
Bryan
And would you have done that in the first place if you weren't inundated with flash ads and popups?
I lived quite happily with ads until flash ads and popups started taking over. Now I block them.
If they weren't loud, obnoxious, flashing and blocking the content I was trying to read, I'd be less inclined (i.e. too lazy) to block them.
If they want people to stop blocking advertising, they have to make it less obnoxious and more usefull. Until that time, well, screw them.
Bryan
Let me think...
Long hours. Hard work. Decent, but not great pay (let's face it, only a few become millionaires).
Stinky, unshowered people, and hardly a womam in site.
Why am I not surprised?
Bryan
Just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for everybody and that is exactly the problem. Linux developers get things working just well enough, that if you have the right hardware, and the right amount of tinkering things will work for you. Hell, you may even be one of the lucky few who have the exact same setup as the original devs and don't have to tinker at all.
Unforutnately, for the rest of us, I have better things to do with my time that mess around with asoundrc files. All I want is for every freakin program to properly output over my SPDIF channel. Is that really too much to ask for? Apparently it is, and I've almost switched back to windows on numerous occasions because of this.
In fact, the ONLY thing keeping me on Linux right now is MythTV. If it wasn't for MythTV, all my servers would probably be OSX by now and my Media box would be Windows.
Bryan
Can we please get a seperate category for Dvorak editorials so I can filter them out?
Thanks,
Bryan
Just because it's not important to you does not mean it's not important to me. I play old games all the time, and have gone out of my way to get MAME, ZSNES, MESS, and a lot of other emulators running on single system.
I very much would like to play some of my old XBox games and NOT have keep another system hooked up in what already amounts to a spider's nest of wires behind my television set.
And yes, I DO play old Playstation 1 games on my Playstation 2. Einhander and R-Type demand it.
Bryan
I am not a PS3 fan boy by any stretch of the imagination. Hell, I've owned every console BUT the N64 and Gamecube (I'm a little tired of Nintendo's kid centric approach to their systems).
That being said, I was, to say the least, very underwhelmed. Ghost Recon 3 looked interesting, and the Sports games looked good (even though I hate sports games). Nothing else looked particularly impressive and some of the games looked worse than existing current generation games.
Microsoft is pulling the trigger way to early. The current systems have at least another good solid year in them, and a year of additional development can make a helluva difference in quality for the new systems.
As it is, it looked more like the transition from Sega Genesis to Sega 32x than from Sega Genesis to the PlayStation/2, and that's not a good thing.
Here's to hoping they can pull off a miracle in 6 months, but I'm skeptical.
Bryan
Well, I actually own this thing and have had mine for a few months now. This is the first D-Link product I have owned (and I've owned and returned quite a few by now) that truly doesn't suck.
Is it perfect? Hell no, but it does do what it's advertised to do. I can play a nice lag free game of World of Warcraft while my roomie downloads video and my computer saturates a bit torrent network.
It's the only D-Link product I would recommend.
Bryan
Ubuntu has shot right past Debian to become my favorite Linux Distribution by far (and I've run them all at one point or another).
They definitely are onto something.
Bryan
This happens every year. It's stupid. It's a waste of time. And it usually takes me till about 10am to realize it's happening again, how much I hate this site AND this day of the year, and to not come back until tomorrow.
Bryan
Clean up your google searches!
:)
Every time you do a search on google, add the following:
-amazon -google -search -ebay
You'd be amazed at how much cleaner the search becomes!
Bryan
720p ATSC? Are you kidding me? Any next generation console that can't output 1920x1080i is dead in the water.
I guarantee that Sony won't make that mistake. What do you think BluRay is afterall?
Bryan
What makes you think they always get away with it? Sometimes they don't. They just don't always make the headlines on SlashDot.
Bryan
Question... do any of these processors come in the socket 478 form factor, or is intel forcing us to upgrade our motherboards yet again? If I have to buy a new mother board, I might as well go AMD this time around!!
Bryan
Come to Chicago. iPods have been multiplying like a plague here over the last few months. EVERYBODY I see has them and you can tell because of the crappy little white ear plugs they come with.
I'd buy one, but I'm waiting for one of the small form factor iPods to have about 40-60gig of disk space. The full size iPods are a little too big for my tastes.
Bryan
Clearly you have no idea how to write secure software. Security is a concern that must be taken into account everywhere, every step along the way.
It's either built into your DNA or it isn't and if it isn't good luck retroactively fixing your DNA.
Security belongs in the browser, in the OS, at the door when you walk into the building, everywhere, otherwise it simply doesn't work.
Bryan
I have a Sony MP3 CD player and the battery life is great. It's the primary reason I bought it in the first place (that and it reads CDRWs).
That being said, the battery life comes at a cost and that cost is volume. These little MP3 players simply don't have enough juice to drive a decent pair of headphones at a reasonable level for, oh as an example, subway train or air plane rides.
Of course, Sony are the best at squeezing a lot of quality sounds out using a low amount of power, but it only goes so far.
Bryan
Don't forget Apple branded Tivo's play Playstation 3 games.
We can dream can't we?
Bryan
I pay for HBO. Why? HBO doesn't suck. I also record HBO and watch it later. Why? HBO doesn't suck.
:)
I don't pay for Showtime. Why? Showtime sucks.
If Showtime wants to get my business, the first thing they need to do is stop sucking.
Then their problem is solved.
Same applies for all the other networks.
Bryan
huh. Not in my experience. First of all, FC3 suffers from the same problem as FC1 and FC2: Too many possible places to get RPMs.
RedHat?
fedora.us?
atrpms?
Linva?
And a bunch of others. Problem is, I don't know which ones are trustworthy, which ones are official, and which ones are reliable. I'm constantly forced into using others than the official RedHat mirrors because RedHat is missing MANY valuable packages (not the least of which is MP3 support).
Second, try installing FC3 w/KDE instead of GNOME. It doesn't work so well. In fact, it ALWAYS defaults to loading XVWM which is idiotic. If I have KDE installed, I certainly don't want to default to XVWM, and I shouldn't have to go find some obscure config file buried deep in my system to change that.
Those are just a few of the many many problems I've had with Fedora Core 3 so far (clean install on a system that has been running Debian with no major issues).
I've recently tried SuSE for the first time, and so far it's much more polished and reliable than Fedora. I've also used Debian extensively, and even though Debian isn't as polished (i.e. pretty looking), can't seem to get a stable release out, and can't upgrade to Xorg for some stupid reason, it's still in a league of it's own when it comes to community based Linux distributions.
I'll try Fedora again with Core 4 comes out, but right now Core 3 has left a sour tast in my mouth (so did Core 1 when I tried that).
Bryan
I meant to say more variety in web frameworks for Java.
Bryan
Delegates, operator overloading, better reflection, CodeDom based code generation, faster startup, better IDE, better GUI technology (but it does have it's own problems), ASP.Net, the list goes on.
That's not to say there aren't ways Java is better. Better web frameworks, community acceptance of OS projects, stronger enterprise support, larger user base, livlier community, aspect oriented development, the list goes on.
Bryan
It's a native OSX app using the Mac OSX port of QT. I've run the previous version (0.16) on my iBook. It was a bit unstable and crashed often, but it ran. I suspect 0.17 will be considerably more stable but haven't tried it yet.
Bryan