Who would be silly enough to spend money on Linux distributions? If you like their work, donate, but you already pay for bandwidth, you might as well use that for something.
That's my model at least, I've never purchased a distribution, and I probably never will, all I can find around on shelves around here are distributions I would *never* use. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
that the RIAA is trying to do this. The RIAA has been screwing artists for years, and when the artists finally realize that they don't need record companies to distribute their music for them, their little plastic empire will fall. I look forward to urinating on the grave of the RIAA.
Although, I'm kind of glad the exist for one reason, they produce pop music, and in that, I can avoid all bad pre-fabricated artists by simply avoiding major record labels. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Ninja Scroll (yes, Scroll) was not Hentai. Thus, relating it to "console porn" is inaccurate.
Now, Legends (yes, Legends) of the Overfiend...now I don't want to sound queer or nothin', but there is something really beautiful about anything that involves fifty flaming phalli. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
the fact that Mandrake and Red Hat are pretty much the same bloated pieces of crap that most Linux distributions have become before you purchase any form of Linux from a vendor, regardless of their technical support.
-Not Advocating any [use slackware] Distributions as to not start [or BSD] a Holy War, just [redhat sucks] telling it like [debian rules] it is. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The reason Fox Animation, and many good American Animation studios, have died, is due to the simple fact that most animation is falling into a very simple, and boring, cliche. Most of America would refer to animation as "something for kids" and not give it a second thought. It's something they'd take little Jimmy to go see for his birthday, but if given the opportunity to see it on their own, it's not bloody likely, unless it's made by Disney.
Oddly enough, it was Disney that started the boring childrens storybook form that pervades through American Animation (herein known as AA). AA tends to have a plot operating around kids or teenagers (child's role model) that does something truly epic against all odds, and the hero gets the girl. Stereotypical of our society.
Now, Japanese Animation (herein known as anime) has mastered the art of producing these things as well, but they have significantly more far reaching affects. Ask your local random-Joe-skippy what he thinks about anime, and chances are he'll think the same thing that he'd say about AA. Something along the lines of "oh, that stuff with the electric mouse?" Ask the same person if they've ever heard of Hentai (animated pornography), and they'll look at you funny.
Japan has managed to turn animation into the art form that we failed to turn it into during the 80s. During the 80s the anime we saw kids watching on Saturday wasn't a *mon or other similar ripoff, no, we had Transformers and Voltron. Those, while admittedly made for children, show a kind of sophistication not matched in most AA.
So, what animation studios need to learn from is the model put forth not by Disney, but by TVTokyo. Watch something produced by Gainax, such as Neon Genesis: Evangelion. Watch a comedy like The Slayers. Enjoy serious, thoughtful, animation, like Serial Experiments: Lain. Do not, on the other hand, explore the finer points of making the next Mulan. It's been done, it's no longer interesting. It still sells because it's the institution. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Seem to be reading this from the perspective of Linux activists that don't understand the difference between two operating systems, only that using Red Hat makes them more elite. Grow up, any idiot can see that X is an oversized, bloated piece of [software] that is completely and totally outdated.
Yes, X11 is cool. We all know the configurability, etc, etc, but realistically people, configurability isn't what the end user market truly desires. A 35 year old Jane Doe that uses her computer only to check her hotmail account doesn't CARE if she can have pretty colors, she wants to be able to open a browser, and read her mail. Nothing more.
Yes, remote connect rules, but people, I think the community could devise a better way of doing things. Right now X is becoming strikingly similar to Windows. Lots of features that 90% of the people don't know about, huge size, and layer of code on top of layer of code on top of layer of code. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I work at a University (I won't say which one for fear of job saftey) that has repeatedly made ignorant security decisions like the one above. The first was to disallow outside access to all ports less than or equal to 1024 (except for those machines in the server farm). While this can argueably make sense, it's painfully annoying when trying to get on irc.
Yes, I stopped caring about trying to get directly on irc and just used a shell. Not having ident is extremely painful at times, though, I must tell you.
The second ignorant decision? Firewalling off ICQ. Yes, ICQ. Apparantly ICQ presents such an amazing security risks that they cannot allow students to use it on their own computers. Naturally, I used a previously mentioned shell to run a socks5 proxy, but that's not the issue. Most people wouldn't do such things. They think that all security is the responsibility of the network administrator, and not the end user.
I should mention that they advocate the use of AIM, and use nothing but Netscape on the network right now....
Are IT professionals at colleges as ignorant as they appear to be? I find it hard to believe that people who set up a hetereogenous network of solaris, linux, aix, windows nt, and macos x servers using an oc3 uplink and fiber optic backbone connections between buildings could think that ICQ was enough of a security risk to justify firewalling it off.
Then again, they blocked port 4000 alltogether.
Maybe it is possible. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
In the text of this "story" we see the line "you to can be Lars."
It should read "you too can be Lars." To can be makes no grammatical sense. If you're going to be valued as a media site, please don't contribute to the degradation of the English language by using improper grammar. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Note: some of the Monty Python troupe are known as leaders of their field in Medival studies. In one of my Brit Lit classes we used MPATHG quite frequently to explain some of the "more advanced" concepts to our introductory level class.
Well, MPATHG and the Kids in the Hall. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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C'mon man, buy some real anime. Like, get as much of Neon Genesis: Evangelion as it comes out on DVD, or better yet, Vampire Hunter D.
But...Tenchi...at least get something equally silly like Slayers. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What is WRONG with you people. I switch to minimum 2 and I see crap like this!
Cobalt's don't even HAVE soundcards, and I guarantee you if you throw in any card to that pci slot it won't work without SERIOUS horking. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I think it does a great disservice to the 2.0 series kernel to say that the 2.2 series kernel has "better firewall features." This isn't a holy war or an attack on the kernel developers, but it's been my experience that the last of the 2.0 series kernels performs awe-inspiringly fast on lower-end machines and handles packets like a ninja should.
Basically, I'm happy the little Gateway box is running 2.0. It's leaner, meaner, and far more tested (ie: they don't have to upgrade it every month). -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You can't take on all of the worlds problems. Solve the problems within your sphere of influince.
First of all, on a picky note, you spelled "influence" wrong. As a member of the grammar mafia, spelling falls underneath my sphere of influence.
Now, to the meat of what I actually intended to say. Good sir, your logic seems to be as obfuscated as the code that I write (trust me, this is not a compliment). That viewpoint is exactly the same system of thought that leads to oppression and the stifling of progress. What would have happened if certain key historical figures had decided to focus on their spheres of influence?
First of all, unlike what you said, they wouldn't have founded the Black Panthers. Rosa Parks would have never moved on the bus, a Catholic would not have sought out the English throne after King James...et cetera.
Secondly, your view is dependent upon the idea that a person can objectively define what is within their sphere of influence. Objectivity within this statement implies that a persons social role is fixed from birth and unchangeable.
Please don't make ignorant statements such as these, they hinder progress and make you sound intelligent to the stupid. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I think that it would be wise to swap the server/desktop arguement you just made. BSD is for servers, Linux is for desktops (and Windows is for cluebies). -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
First of all, I don't think that the Air Force should have anything to do with space. It seems to me that the Navy has far more experience being able to navigate in three degrees. They also have a great deal of experience dealing with large areas far away from any of their much needed resources and isolation.
Face it, submarine people are ideal for long space voyages.
As far as all of the whining resorted from the next topic, one of the first topics here, moderated up to two even though it was atopical as hell, had to do with it, so I'm going to toss in my two cents.
The "Open Source" community and "Geek Culture" shouldn't be putting the amount of emphasis on wealth that we've been seeing in recent times. Geeks play the stock market because they think it's great that they have "inside knowledge" of who to put their money into. But face it kids, the stock market is arbitrary, and if you're going to play it and lose, don't whine.
The last thing slashdot needs to become is a news service that perpetuates the greed of America. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
In addition to your flawless academic record and English, you're not even remotely concieted! -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'm not trying to be a troll, but I think the importance of some movements, and the timing of others is being mistaken both ways. First of all, the Open Source Movement, which seems to be becoming very similar to a Big Brother figure for the/. community, is impressive as well as cool, but it doesn't really define the internet. The fact that Microsoft web browsers still dominate the web surfing market proves that Open Source really isn't a big deal.
The Internet isn't just the web you say? You're right, but keeping in mind that we're talking about internet culture, society and culture are often defined by the majority, and the majority of people who use the internet surf the web using Windows 98 and MSIE 5.x. These people often participate in chat...but not our all too familiar IRC. No, they use AIM, ICQ and even web-based Java chat clients.
As far as this female online movement that our wonderful Jon Katz is speaking of (I'm actually not being sarcastic, I usually like Katz columns as found in/., but I do not appreciate the depreciation of this movement that Jon Katz is creating by giving it a new stereotyped name. I can call myself a geek, but I would prefer not to have Jon Katz refer to everyone as a geek. In the same way, girls who use the internet are not "ChickClickers" or "GeekGirls", but they are girls that happen to use the internet.
Also, female useage of the net is not a new phenomena. I've been speaking to the same four or five girls on the internet for almost seven years. Also, these girls aren't unattractive geeky people, they don't care about Open Source, and they could care less about the new Feminist movements or being part of the online "community". What they do do is carry on conversations with myself and a small group of our friends on IRC.
Women have been using the net as long as men have, and any implication that the stereotypically named female online community is becoming a major factor only NOW is merely perpetuating the idea that men are the only driving force behind technology, which also seems to be a point of Katz's column.
Please, Mr. Katz, do not insult my intelligence, and do not perpetuate this patriarchal crap. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A LOT of people have been talking about hardware requirements, and all of those who have done it say that anything above a pentium 200 will do it. I have a p233mmx, and it CAN NOT do encoding of 192kbps (or anything above 96) in anything close to realtime with any encoder. Perhaps you should talk about something which has quite a bit to do with compression, how much ram you have and what's loaded into memory. With 32 megs of ram a machine simply can't do high quality realtime encoding. 32 Megs is absurdly low you say? Most cheaper computers, and many older computers (you know, a little over a year) still have only 32 megs of ram in them. Also, financial considerations are always important to any church that isn't...okay, I'm not going to go into that, but that's my.02. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When our children, and our children's children, look back upon these most recent years, they will either laugh with amusement, or gasp in horror. They will not gasp in horror or laugh at the tragedy of Columbine, oh no, they shall gasp in horror at our unthinking reactionism towards it.
Such movements as gun control, school "safety" legislation (such as we see with this Pinkerton situation), and general parenting paranoia are unthought and motivated simply by the gag reaction the media has become so good at producing. "Oh my GOD! Look at what happened on TV Charlie! Kids are dying again!" Desensitation? No, we can't have that, we must put on our soccer mom facade and parade around promoting unrealistic ideals. That is the only way to make us look better than the neighbors.
Kids will always have access to things that kill. If you make guns illegal, only criminals and six year olds that live in crackhouses will have guns. Or anyone else who is willing to step outside the law for one. Yes, you can make things more difficult, but the only people you're going to hurt are the lawful gun owners. Look at what the war on drugs has caused. Yes, pursuits of "justice" are fine as long as they don't directly affect you.
Maybe someday people will have the common sense to think for a few seconds before they start to take a stance on something because the media tells them to. Perhaps someday people will pry the noose of NBC from their cereberum and think for themselves. Unfortunately, that day is not today. -- If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'm shocked that until now no one has said "Hey, Cool, we can have data storage like the Enterprise (NCC-1701D)!" And to think...you call yourselves geeks. --
MHO, most of this problem could be solved by having smarter browsers. Granted, it is a difficult problem, but what is this about ActiveX controls allowing you to reformat a hard drive!? That is utterly ridiculous. I can't believe that any browser manufacturer would even consider allowing this kind of access to the underlying OS (and I actually _like_ IE).
This idea seems to have one very major flaw. If your solution is to make a smarter web browser, you'd also have to make sure that everyone used said web browser. As was the point issued by the man whose post you replied to, you cannot trust the end-user. He may be using the latest "safe" version of netscape, or he may download the code with wget, and then telnet into port 80 and issue the malicious request in this manner.
In short, client software should never be held responsible for server inadequacy. --
It seems to be in poor taste to mention this as a result of this tragedy, but it seems as if Slashdot is quickly becoming a service for me to find out what's going on that's crappy in the world. The media came to the realization during the Vietnam war that bad news sells more ads than good news. Please don't let slashdot go the same way. Let's at least balance good with bad.
Don't get me wrong, I like everyone else think that Microsoft is a little big for its own good. However, now that I've realized that AOL is truly Big Brother, I have significantly less antipathy towards the not-quite-so-evil empire that is Microsoft.
But...if Microsoft wants to release Media Player for Linux, DON'T COMPLAIN. Media player would bring a much needed full media application to Linux. Right now, playing most foreign media types in linux is just a nightmare. I don't want to have to use fifteen different applications to watch files because they're in a different format. I would be perfectly content with my friend, Microsoft Media Player, playing all of my.asf files without a care. --
I think that *everyone* is overestimating NASAs processing power. Those who aren't are proposing that we form a new open source project to figure out what's up with the polar lander. Isn't it possible to take this open source thing too far? NASA gets PAID, albiet not well, to deal with this. They also know what's going on far better than most "experts" would who would be working on the project.
I hate to be a party pooper, but leave this to the experts. --
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Who gets your warez when they throw you in the joint? Did you have a distribution plan for this, or will they just raid your house like the feds did?
Who would be silly enough to spend money on Linux distributions? If you like their work, donate, but you already pay for bandwidth, you might as well use that for something.
That's my model at least, I've never purchased a distribution, and I probably never will, all I can find around on shelves around here are distributions I would *never* use.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
that the RIAA is trying to do this. The RIAA has been screwing artists for years, and when the artists finally realize that they don't need record companies to distribute their music for them, their little plastic empire will fall. I look forward to urinating on the grave of the RIAA.
Although, I'm kind of glad the exist for one reason, they produce pop music, and in that, I can avoid all bad pre-fabricated artists by simply avoiding major record labels.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Ninja Scroll (yes, Scroll) was not Hentai. Thus, relating it to "console porn" is inaccurate.
Now, Legends (yes, Legends) of the Overfiend...now I don't want to sound queer or nothin', but there is something really beautiful about anything that involves fifty flaming phalli.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
the fact that Mandrake and Red Hat are pretty much the same bloated pieces of crap that most Linux distributions have become before you purchase any form of Linux from a vendor, regardless of their technical support.
-Not Advocating any [use slackware] Distributions as to not start [or BSD] a Holy War, just [redhat sucks] telling it like [debian rules] it is.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The reason Fox Animation, and many good American Animation studios, have died, is due to the simple fact that most animation is falling into a very simple, and boring, cliche. Most of America would refer to animation as "something for kids" and not give it a second thought. It's something they'd take little Jimmy to go see for his birthday, but if given the opportunity to see it on their own, it's not bloody likely, unless it's made by Disney.
Oddly enough, it was Disney that started the boring childrens storybook form that pervades through American Animation (herein known as AA). AA tends to have a plot operating around kids or teenagers (child's role model) that does something truly epic against all odds, and the hero gets the girl. Stereotypical of our society.
Now, Japanese Animation (herein known as anime) has mastered the art of producing these things as well, but they have significantly more far reaching affects. Ask your local random-Joe-skippy what he thinks about anime, and chances are he'll think the same thing that he'd say about AA. Something along the lines of "oh, that stuff with the electric mouse?" Ask the same person if they've ever heard of Hentai (animated pornography), and they'll look at you funny.
Japan has managed to turn animation into the art form that we failed to turn it into during the 80s. During the 80s the anime we saw kids watching on Saturday wasn't a *mon or other similar ripoff, no, we had Transformers and Voltron. Those, while admittedly made for children, show a kind of sophistication not matched in most AA.
So, what animation studios need to learn from is the model put forth not by Disney, but by TVTokyo. Watch something produced by Gainax, such as Neon Genesis: Evangelion. Watch a comedy like The Slayers. Enjoy serious, thoughtful, animation, like Serial Experiments: Lain. Do not, on the other hand, explore the finer points of making the next Mulan. It's been done, it's no longer interesting. It still sells because it's the institution.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Seem to be reading this from the perspective of Linux activists that don't understand the difference between two operating systems, only that using Red Hat makes them more elite. Grow up, any idiot can see that X is an oversized, bloated piece of [software] that is completely and totally outdated.
Yes, X11 is cool. We all know the configurability, etc, etc, but realistically people, configurability isn't what the end user market truly desires. A 35 year old Jane Doe that uses her computer only to check her hotmail account doesn't CARE if she can have pretty colors, she wants to be able to open a browser, and read her mail. Nothing more.
Yes, remote connect rules, but people, I think the community could devise a better way of doing things. Right now X is becoming strikingly similar to Windows. Lots of features that 90% of the people don't know about, huge size, and layer of code on top of layer of code on top of layer of code.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I work at a University (I won't say which one for fear of job saftey) that has repeatedly made ignorant security decisions like the one above. The first was to disallow outside access to all ports less than or equal to 1024 (except for those machines in the server farm). While this can argueably make sense, it's painfully annoying when trying to get on irc.
Yes, I stopped caring about trying to get directly on irc and just used a shell. Not having ident is extremely painful at times, though, I must tell you.
The second ignorant decision? Firewalling off ICQ. Yes, ICQ. Apparantly ICQ presents such an amazing security risks that they cannot allow students to use it on their own computers. Naturally, I used a previously mentioned shell to run a socks5 proxy, but that's not the issue. Most people wouldn't do such things. They think that all security is the responsibility of the network administrator, and not the end user.
I should mention that they advocate the use of AIM, and use nothing but Netscape on the network right now....
Are IT professionals at colleges as ignorant as they appear to be? I find it hard to believe that people who set up a hetereogenous network of solaris, linux, aix, windows nt, and macos x servers using an oc3 uplink and fiber optic backbone connections between buildings could think that ICQ was enough of a security risk to justify firewalling it off.
Then again, they blocked port 4000 alltogether.
Maybe it is possible.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
In the text of this "story" we see the line "you to can be Lars."
It should read "you too can be Lars." To can be makes no grammatical sense. If you're going to be valued as a media site, please don't contribute to the degradation of the English language by using improper grammar.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Note: some of the Monty Python troupe are known as leaders of their field in Medival studies. In one of my Brit Lit classes we used MPATHG quite frequently to explain some of the "more advanced" concepts to our introductory level class.
Well, MPATHG and the Kids in the Hall.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
C'mon man, buy some real anime. Like, get as much of Neon Genesis: Evangelion as it comes out on DVD, or better yet, Vampire Hunter D.
But...Tenchi...at least get something equally silly like Slayers.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
HOW, tell me, HOW did this get moderated up?
What is WRONG with you people. I switch to minimum 2 and I see crap like this!
Cobalt's don't even HAVE soundcards, and I guarantee you if you throw in any card to that pci slot it won't work without SERIOUS horking.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I think it does a great disservice to the 2.0 series kernel to say that the 2.2 series kernel has "better firewall features." This isn't a holy war or an attack on the kernel developers, but it's been my experience that the last of the 2.0 series kernels performs awe-inspiringly fast on lower-end machines and handles packets like a ninja should.
Basically, I'm happy the little Gateway box is running 2.0. It's leaner, meaner, and far more tested (ie: they don't have to upgrade it every month).
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You can't take on all of the worlds problems. Solve the problems within your sphere of influince.
First of all, on a picky note, you spelled "influence" wrong. As a member of the grammar mafia, spelling falls underneath my sphere of influence.
Now, to the meat of what I actually intended to say. Good sir, your logic seems to be as obfuscated as the code that I write (trust me, this is not a compliment). That viewpoint is exactly the same system of thought that leads to oppression and the stifling of progress. What would have happened if certain key historical figures had decided to focus on their spheres of influence?
First of all, unlike what you said, they wouldn't have founded the Black Panthers. Rosa Parks would have never moved on the bus, a Catholic would not have sought out the English throne after King James...et cetera.
Secondly, your view is dependent upon the idea that a person can objectively define what is within their sphere of influence. Objectivity within this statement implies that a persons social role is fixed from birth and unchangeable.
Please don't make ignorant statements such as these, they hinder progress and make you sound intelligent to the stupid.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I think that it would be wise to swap the server/desktop arguement you just made. BSD is for servers, Linux is for desktops (and Windows is for cluebies).
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
First of all, I don't think that the Air Force should have anything to do with space. It seems to me that the Navy has far more experience being able to navigate in three degrees. They also have a great deal of experience dealing with large areas far away from any of their much needed resources and isolation.
Face it, submarine people are ideal for long space voyages.
As far as all of the whining resorted from the next topic, one of the first topics here, moderated up to two even though it was atopical as hell, had to do with it, so I'm going to toss in my two cents.
The "Open Source" community and "Geek Culture" shouldn't be putting the amount of emphasis on wealth that we've been seeing in recent times. Geeks play the stock market because they think it's great that they have "inside knowledge" of who to put their money into. But face it kids, the stock market is arbitrary, and if you're going to play it and lose, don't whine.
The last thing slashdot needs to become is a news service that perpetuates the greed of America.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
In addition to your flawless academic record and English, you're not even remotely concieted!
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'm not trying to be a troll, but I think the importance of some movements, and the timing of others is being mistaken both ways. First of all, the Open Source Movement, which seems to be becoming very similar to a Big Brother figure for the /. community, is impressive as well as cool, but it doesn't really define the internet. The fact that Microsoft web browsers still dominate the web surfing market proves that Open Source really isn't a big deal.
The Internet isn't just the web you say? You're right, but keeping in mind that we're talking about internet culture, society and culture are often defined by the majority, and the majority of people who use the internet surf the web using Windows 98 and MSIE 5.x. These people often participate in chat...but not our all too familiar IRC. No, they use AIM, ICQ and even web-based Java chat clients.
As far as this female online movement that our wonderful Jon Katz is speaking of (I'm actually not being sarcastic, I usually like Katz columns as found in /., but I do not appreciate the depreciation of this movement that Jon Katz is creating by giving it a new stereotyped name. I can call myself a geek, but I would prefer not to have Jon Katz refer to everyone as a geek. In the same way, girls who use the internet are not "ChickClickers" or "GeekGirls", but they are girls that happen to use the internet.
Also, female useage of the net is not a new phenomena. I've been speaking to the same four or five girls on the internet for almost seven years. Also, these girls aren't unattractive geeky people, they don't care about Open Source, and they could care less about the new Feminist movements or being part of the online "community". What they do do is carry on conversations with myself and a small group of our friends on IRC.
Women have been using the net as long as men have, and any implication that the stereotypically named female online community is becoming a major factor only NOW is merely perpetuating the idea that men are the only driving force behind technology, which also seems to be a point of Katz's column.
Please, Mr. Katz, do not insult my intelligence, and do not perpetuate this patriarchal crap.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A LOT of people have been talking about hardware requirements, and all of those who have done it say that anything above a pentium 200 will do it. I have a p233mmx, and it CAN NOT do encoding of 192kbps (or anything above 96) in anything close to realtime with any encoder. Perhaps you should talk about something which has quite a bit to do with compression, how much ram you have and what's loaded into memory. With 32 megs of ram a machine simply can't do high quality realtime encoding. 32 Megs is absurdly low you say? Most cheaper computers, and many older computers (you know, a little over a year) still have only 32 megs of ram in them. Also, financial considerations are always important to any church that isn't...okay, I'm not going to go into that, but that's my .02.
--
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When our children, and our children's children, look back upon these most recent years, they will either laugh with amusement, or gasp in horror. They will not gasp in horror or laugh at the tragedy of Columbine, oh no, they shall gasp in horror at our unthinking reactionism towards it.
Such movements as gun control, school "safety" legislation (such as we see with this Pinkerton situation), and general parenting paranoia are unthought and motivated simply by the gag reaction the media has become so good at producing. "Oh my GOD! Look at what happened on TV Charlie! Kids are dying again!" Desensitation? No, we can't have that, we must put on our soccer mom facade and parade around promoting unrealistic ideals. That is the only way to make us look better than the neighbors.
Kids will always have access to things that kill. If you make guns illegal, only criminals and six year olds that live in crackhouses will have guns. Or anyone else who is willing to step outside the law for one. Yes, you can make things more difficult, but the only people you're going to hurt are the lawful gun owners. Look at what the war on drugs has caused. Yes, pursuits of "justice" are fine as long as they don't directly affect you.
Maybe someday people will have the common sense to think for a few seconds before they start to take a stance on something because the media tells them to. Perhaps someday people will pry the noose of NBC from their cereberum and think for themselves. Unfortunately, that day is not today.
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If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'm shocked that until now no one has said "Hey, Cool, we can have data storage like the Enterprise (NCC-1701D)!" And to think...you call yourselves geeks.
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MHO, most of this problem could be solved by having smarter browsers. Granted, it is a difficult problem, but what is this about ActiveX controls allowing you to reformat a hard drive!? That is utterly ridiculous. I can't believe that any browser manufacturer would even consider allowing this kind of access to the underlying OS (and I actually _like_ IE).
This idea seems to have one very major flaw. If your solution is to make a smarter web browser, you'd also have to make sure that everyone used said web browser. As was the point issued by the man whose post you replied to, you cannot trust the end-user. He may be using the latest "safe" version of netscape, or he may download the code with wget, and then telnet into port 80 and issue the malicious request in this manner.
In short, client software should never be held responsible for server inadequacy.
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It seems to be in poor taste to mention this as a result of this tragedy, but it seems as if Slashdot is quickly becoming a service for me to find out what's going on that's crappy in the world. The media came to the realization during the Vietnam war that bad news sells more ads than good news. Please don't let slashdot go the same way. Let's at least balance good with bad.
Just my 2x10^-2
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Don't get me wrong, I like everyone else think that Microsoft is a little big for its own good. However, now that I've realized that AOL is truly Big Brother, I have significantly less antipathy towards the not-quite-so-evil empire that is Microsoft.
But...if Microsoft wants to release Media Player for Linux, DON'T COMPLAIN. Media player would bring a much needed full media application to Linux. Right now, playing most foreign media types in linux is just a nightmare. I don't want to have to use fifteen different applications to watch files because they're in a different format. I would be perfectly content with my friend, Microsoft Media Player, playing all of my .asf files without a care.
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I think that *everyone* is overestimating NASAs processing power. Those who aren't are proposing that we form a new open source project to figure out what's up with the polar lander. Isn't it possible to take this open source thing too far? NASA gets PAID, albiet not well, to deal with this. They also know what's going on far better than most "experts" would who would be working on the project.
I hate to be a party pooper, but leave this to the experts.
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