Exactly. The term 'sailor' that you use is being used incorrectly (to my definition). A person cannot go sailing on a boat without sails, it's just that simple. But a person in the navy is called a sailor even though they probably have never been sailing in their life. This is most likey because the navy used to use the term 'sailor' as a person who works on a sailing ship. Now with the advent of internel combustion engines/nuclear power no new term has been adopted (except for maybe seaman). So real sailors, ie people who perform the task of sailing, resent their term being used improperly. Obviously 'sailor' has been around for hundreds of years meaning one thing. Now society has warped the meaning of it because of their own stupidity. This is exactly the same debate as 'Hackers vs. Crackers'. It's sad how the creators of a term can be isolated by the rest of the public and that their word's meaning is being warped beyond recognition.
I can see it now. Microsoft execs running for their lives from an army of GNU Freedom Fighters! If they got the patent and it was enforced me thinks that Micros~1 would not be in business anymore:)
Bill Gates: Please Tux! I didnt mean to file the patent and bribe the patent office. This is a total misunderstanding!
Tux: Muwahahahahahahahahah
(Tux rips Billy's head off by throwing a stack of Linux CDs)
Earlier today a Pentium Celeron 300a overclocked to 550MHz was resposible for killing a computer user by the name of John E. Overclocker. Witnesses to the murder gave a description of the assailant to be a small silicon wafer, charred beyond recognition muttering the phrase "Who's the bitch now?" fallowed by large outbursts of "Muwhahahahahhahahaha". No autopsy has been performed yet, but the authorities suspect the murder weapon was actually a large quantity of toxic gases. "And I thought Microsoft was evil..." says one local user of the Linux operating system. The CEO of Intel, I.P. Freely qouted in his press confrence today that "Phase 1 of Project Annihilation is complete!!! Engage the Death Ray(TM)". Intel's CEO, after the press confrence, was reportedly caught by the Australian Internet Police weilding a large, death ray like, metallic device. The Australians said to have caught him zapping their army of cyborg Koalas.
-Insane ramblings by Kwikymart (dont mind my spelling)
Why exactly is my post stupid? i did email NVIDIA a couple of days ago. So What? Does that make it stupid. Looks like I have contributed, (very little) but I still try. That is more than you can say you have done. If you had any balls at all you would post that reply with your user account. Go back to your "First Post" and "Hot Grits" postings and leave the conversation to people who aren't lammas like you. IMHO The Anonymous Coward option should be taken out of Slashdot.org
I emailed them asking to release their drivers a couple of days ago. Maybe it worked. This was probably allready in the works beforehand though, so i doubt that I actually made any difference.
Your logic is flawed. What about all the people who only have one eye and can only see in 2D? HUH? what about the people who cannot see at all? HUH? Well, the real point in having 3D accelerators (for home use anyways) is to play games where people can act superhuman or have an adventure without leaving their homes. You could argue that you only need books to have an adventure in your home. But I have one and a half words for you: 3D PORN!
Really??? so it will work just as good for windows as it will under linux? And where is this "correct" driver? I sure hope its not the one NVIDIA released, becuase that one is a P.O.S. Unless you are an 31337 H4x0r d00d and you h4x0r3d the NVIDIA'S development team for Linux drivers computers I doubt that you can actually say that your Viper 770 TNT2 works perfectly under Linux.
Good luck, I tried installing a counter-strike server on a P166 with a 1GB harddrive and it was really difficult. I tried the smallest Slackware 7 install I could do, i got the server up and all but it was still really hard. I suggest not using a new version of a distro and go for something with a 2.0 kernel (like Red Hat 5.2 or Slackware 4.0)
I emailed Real a while back, and after bullshitting around by questions they did seem to say that Linux is their main priority in their products but will still be making there products availbable for other Unix flavors. I am not sure when this will happen but they said the would a long time ago!
No one in the Linux world was willing to shell out $10000 for the DVD license. I don't see anyone wanting to shell out more money for more restrictions anytime soon. well, actually somebody did. http://www.csh.rit.edu/lsdvd/
The computer they installed on the hubble space telescope had to be freed of radioation or some crap. That is why they only put in a 486. I wonder if that would apply to the space shuttle? I guess that it wouldnt matter, but it is just a thought. Why do you want a ppc so bad? I think the best thing would be that new Transmeta Crusoe chip. That would be schweet!
BLECCCCHHHHHH!!!!!! GACK! 6000 * 4000 == $24,000,000 (price * units == cost). I have no idea what that vioa or whatever that damn thing is called nor the what price. aNYWAYS! That is hell of a lot of money. Not like cost ever stopped nasa before!
The only reason a car manufactorer would get sued would be because they would have injured or killed a person through their own negligence. I know Windows is bad, but it isn't that bad.
(cue seizure from badly written microsoft program)
Everybody knows Lucas is a cheap bastard with no intent on the happiness of his customers. All he cares about is the billions of dollars he makes. When the Star Wars TPM comes out on DVD if you want it you will have to buy it in a huge Star Wars collectible set. This is bound to cost upwards of $200 CAN, just another billion in Lucas' pocket.
This cant be good for business so to speak. But does it really make any difference, even if the GPL is violated by someone, legal or illegal, who will represent GPL in sueing their asses???
I think that company should be able to implement as much cryptography as they want to prevent people from copying there products. There should, however, be no law against copying or decrypting any inforamation. Why should any government support the persicution of Joe Shmoe because "he stole" under a hundred dollars worth of copyrighted material that he probably wouldn't have bought anyway???? If you are not making any money from ripping a CD or copying a DVD (snicker) why should it be illegal??? I can go buy a car and take it apart, there is no illegal activity there??? Then I could go and find all the parts and build me another car, exactly the same in every detail, to the car that I bought. Nothing illegal there!!! That is loosely what pirating music and movies is all about. Why should it be any different?? I dont mind supporting the actual artist who made the media, but the money I would pay would go straight to lining the pockets of a record company or a movie company?? (well, the movie companies do make the movies and then they distribute them so I guess that I dont mind that). Really if you break it dowm, these are just estimates, of a 15 dollar CD, $1.50 to the artist, 50c for CD and Jewel Case, $2 to the store that sells it, $5 for labour off everything. This leaves $6 for the record label, all of which would probably be profit. I have no regret pirating anything (not that I do or anything). And for this DeCSS stuff, good, I am all for it. The company or organization that is sueing all of you (half of you are probably reading the ask slashdot aritcle now), should go to hell, information is free. If anyone thinks otherwise they can go kiss my ass. If the info is not free, then we take it and alter it in anyway we please (as long as we are not reselling it) Big Companies can shut up and go to hell (including micros~1).
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Exactly. The term 'sailor' that you use is being used incorrectly (to my definition). A person cannot go sailing on a boat without sails, it's just that simple. But a person in the navy is called a sailor even though they probably have never been sailing in their life. This is most likey because the navy used to use the term 'sailor' as a person who works on a sailing ship. Now with the advent of internel combustion engines/nuclear power no new term has been adopted (except for maybe seaman). So real sailors, ie people who perform the task of sailing, resent their term being used improperly. Obviously 'sailor' has been around for hundreds of years meaning one thing. Now society has warped the meaning of it because of their own stupidity. This is exactly the same debate as 'Hackers vs. Crackers'. It's sad how the creators of a term can be isolated by the rest of the public and that their word's meaning is being warped beyond recognition.
I can see it now. Microsoft execs running for their lives from an army of GNU Freedom Fighters! :)
If they got the patent and it was enforced me thinks that Micros~1 would not be in business anymore
Bill Gates: Please Tux! I didnt mean to file the patent and bribe the patent office. This is a total misunderstanding!
Tux: Muwahahahahahahahahah
(Tux rips Billy's head off by throwing a stack of Linux CDs)
Wanted for the murder of John. E. Overclocker...
Earlier today a Pentium Celeron 300a overclocked to 550MHz was resposible for killing a computer user by the name of John E. Overclocker. Witnesses to the murder gave a description of the assailant to be a small silicon wafer, charred beyond recognition muttering the phrase "Who's the bitch now?" fallowed by large outbursts of "Muwhahahahahhahahaha". No autopsy has been performed yet, but the authorities suspect the murder weapon was actually a large quantity of toxic gases. "And I thought Microsoft was evil..." says one local user of the Linux operating system.
The CEO of Intel, I.P. Freely qouted in his press confrence today that "Phase 1 of Project Annihilation is complete!!! Engage the Death Ray(TM)". Intel's CEO, after the press confrence, was reportedly caught by the Australian Internet Police weilding a large, death ray like, metallic device. The Australians said to have caught him zapping their army of cyborg Koalas.
-Insane ramblings by Kwikymart
(dont mind my spelling)
Why exactly is my post stupid? i did email NVIDIA a couple of days ago. So What? Does that make it stupid. Looks like I have contributed, (very little) but I still try. That is more than you can say you have done. If you had any balls at all you would post that reply with your user account. Go back to your "First Post" and "Hot Grits" postings and leave the conversation to people who aren't lammas like you. IMHO The Anonymous Coward option should be taken out of Slashdot.org
I emailed them asking to release their drivers a couple of days ago. Maybe it worked. This was probably allready in the works beforehand though, so i doubt that I actually made any difference.
Your logic is flawed. What about all the people who only have one eye and can only see in 2D? HUH?
what about the people who cannot see at all? HUH?
Well, the real point in having 3D accelerators (for home use anyways) is to play games where people can act superhuman or have an adventure without leaving their homes. You could argue that you only need books to have an adventure in your home. But I have one and a half words for you: 3D PORN!
Really??? so it will work just as good for windows as it will under linux? And where is this "correct" driver? I sure hope its not the one NVIDIA released, becuase that one is a P.O.S. Unless you are an 31337 H4x0r d00d and you h4x0r3d
the NVIDIA'S development team for Linux drivers computers I doubt that you can actually say that your Viper 770 TNT2 works perfectly under Linux.
Good luck, I tried installing a counter-strike server on a P166 with a 1GB harddrive and it was really difficult. I tried the smallest Slackware 7 install I could do, i got the server up and all but it was still really hard. I suggest not using a new version of a distro and go for something with a 2.0 kernel (like Red Hat 5.2 or Slackware 4.0)
8. After receiving that information go over to nvidia and beat the shit out of the CEO, making sure to cook his brains with an overclocked Geforce
[disgrunteld Geforce customer who was *expecting* support in XFree86 4.0]
the brand of tape is "tesa Multi-Film, kristallklar" or some shit like that. IT IS NOT SCOTCH TAPE
-many people on earth
-people communicate
-many people on earth communicate
-need bandwidth for many people to communicate
-not many people have a Backbone connected to their house
-Max speed any one person would really get out of it is 10Mbps (if used as a backbone)
-hard drives can keep up with that
-Internet backbone needed for Millions of people communicating will be a lot
-that is why they invented a 3.28 Tbps Fiber Network
Hey, if it wasn't for dumb people I wouldn't be smart.
makes ya think you should actually get an account at slashdot to collect those moderator points (positive or negative)
I emailed Real a while back, and after bullshitting around by questions they did seem to say that Linux is their main priority in their products but will still be making there products availbable for other Unix flavors. I am not sure when this will happen but they said the would a long time ago!
No one in the Linux world was willing to shell out $10000 for the DVD license. I don't see anyone wanting to shell out more money for more restrictions anytime soon. well, actually somebody did. http://www.csh.rit.edu/lsdvd/
The computer they installed on the hubble space telescope had to be freed of radioation or some crap. That is why they only put in a 486. I wonder if that would apply to the space shuttle? I guess that it wouldnt matter, but it is just a thought. Why do you want a ppc so bad? I think the best thing would be that new Transmeta Crusoe chip. That would be schweet!
BLECCCCHHHHHH!!!!!! GACK! 6000 * 4000 == $24,000,000 (price * units == cost). I have no idea what that vioa or whatever that damn thing is called nor the what price. aNYWAYS! That is hell of a lot of money. Not like cost ever stopped nasa before!
The only reason a car manufactorer would get sued would be because they would have injured or killed
a person through their own negligence. I know Windows is bad, but it isn't that bad.
(cue seizure from badly written microsoft program)
i know its not old, and i am sorry, if you would just read my other post before yours you would have noticed that i acknowledged my mistake.
sorry I didnt read the article, please don't flame me :-)
what? this is old see this slashdot article
hey, the more the marier
Everybody knows Lucas is a cheap bastard with no intent on the happiness of his customers. All he cares about is the billions of dollars he makes. When the Star Wars TPM comes out on DVD if you want it you will have to buy it in a huge Star Wars collectible set. This is bound to cost upwards of $200 CAN, just another billion in Lucas' pocket.
Wow, I was right, AOL are communists!!!!
This cant be good for business so to speak. But does it really make any difference, even if the GPL is violated by someone, legal or illegal, who will represent GPL in sueing their asses???
why should it be illegal??? I can go buy a car and take it apart, there is no illegal activity there??? Then I could go and find all the parts and build me another car, exactly the same in every detail, to the car that I bought. Nothing illegal there!!! That is loosely what pirating music and movies is all about. Why should it be any different?? I dont mind supporting the actual artist who made the media, but the money I would pay would go straight to lining the pockets of a record company or a movie company?? (well, the movie companies do make the movies and then they distribute them so I guess that I dont mind that). Really if you break it dowm, these are just estimates, of a 15 dollar CD, $1.50 to the artist, 50c for CD and Jewel Case, $2 to the store that sells it, $5 for labour off everything. This leaves $6 for the record label, all of which would probably be profit. I have no regret pirating anything (not that I do or anything). And for this DeCSS stuff, good, I am all for it. The company or organization that is sueing all of you (half of you are probably reading the ask slashdot aritcle now), should go to hell, information is free. If anyone thinks otherwise they can go kiss my ass. If the info is not free, then we take it and alter it in anyway we please (as long as we are not reselling it) Big Companies can shut up and go to hell (including micros~1).