I'm not trolling, but I really do not like Star/Open Office. I really dislike the way it works. I've tried several versions and they all just annoy the crap out of me.
Sure, things are worse in other places. That does not, in any way, diminish the loos of fundimental freedoms here in the US. You can say that someone with two broken legs is in more pain than someone with only one broken leg. But that doesn't stop the one broken leg from hurting you.
All of my systems still have floppy drives. I'll go without using them for months at a time, however. My server's floppy drive has not been used in about a year. My primary workstation's floppy was last used three days ago, but I was only moving a small file around the sneaker net.
At work almost no one uses them anymore. I could probably remove them all and only three people would notice.
I'm amazed at all the posters who are getting their panties in a twist over this; claiming it is a waste of time or a debasement of th "art" of the image.
Is it a waste of time? It's his/her time to spend in any way that pleases him/her. Many would say that Linux, and other OSS projects are a complete waste of time and that you'd be better of persuing thier pet project. What I see a LOT here is an amazing level of myopia with people so convinced that thier pet project is the ONLY possible "productive" use for anyone's time that it makes one ill. One person's "must do!" is another person's "why bother?".
As for teh argument of somehow sullying the "art" with "math" or "science"; why is it so bad to analyze something to see the underlying structure and better understand it? Is it a debasement of nature to see teh fractal designs in a flower? Is it a debasement in the work of a great composer or painter to see the mathematical complexity and subtlety in their work? Can you not appreciate the beauty of a work if you know the level of complexity that went into it? Must enjoyment and understanding always be seperated by a wall of ignorance?
Of all the things that have diminished here in the last few years, a sense of perspective seems to be the one most reduced.
All militaries do things that are reprehencable! That's the nature of their job: the enforce the political will of their leaders through force.
And the US Military does have a very good, and deserved, reputation for being more huimanitarian than most. We havn't always been that way with all "enemies", but it's hard to be humane when your leaders tell you to exterminate the Amiercan Indains; which is not a black mark against the US Army so much as it is a black mark against the President of that period of US history.
Consider WWII: When Germany was falling, who did the Nazi's walk MILES to surrender to? The Americans. When Japan fell, who did the the Japanese in China and other contested areas flee to surrender to? The Americans.
War is hell. It is organized and legailzed murder. It twists and corrupts all involved. But we've managed to keep our troops relatively sane and under control. They are not always perfect. The reason we know what's happened is that the US news media has the freedom to tell the world about every fuckup and abuse incident that they find out about. The press of most other nations do not have this freedom.
You can do whatever you want to YOUR PS2/XBox/GameCube/pile of dirty tidy-whities. It is illegal, however, to sell the mod-chips for PS2's as they violate some copyright law.
They don't care whio they anger because they don't make anything. They bought the IP of a failed comapny and are making their money back by mining through the patents an seeing who they can extort money from. Public image means nothing to muggers like this.
I installed SLS back in 1993, IIRC. Downloaded it with my brand-new 14.4K modem. One of the last diskettes in one of the sets (I think it might have been X) was bad and I had to start over. I used it for a few months, then nuked that partition and gave it back to DOS.
I've tried again with RedHat 4.0, 5.0 and 7.2, and I keep nuking the install and giving the drive space back to Windows.
What happens when your motherboard dies, and the only replacement you can find needs Palladium because Intel/AMD decided to play close and snuggky with Microsoft? Or that new soundcard/NIC/RAID controller, etc... you need that also will only run with a Palladium based OS? Then what? Are you still in an "opt in" situation, or are you totally screwed?
I just love people like you. That whole "who cares if System X has been fucked up beyond reason by stupid laws? Use System Y!" What happens when they move in on System Y? Do we move to System Z?
You are not doing anything illegal that you are aware of, you mean. I'm willing to bet a year's wages that you regularly break laws without knowing it. The simple fact of the matter is that it is impossile for any living person in the USA, or most other nations, to not break at least one law every day of their lives.
Or maybe you feel that you are not doing anything so illegal that the government is going to bother to arrest you for it. And that might be true right now. But what happens when laws get shoved down your face making some minor crime serious? Say, believing in the "wrong" branch of Christianity?
And more to the point; it's not just criminals that have to worry about their privacy. We all have our secrets that we'd rather no one knew about. all of us. Even you. Privacy is the right to keep those secrets secret.
Okay, I can see a Catwoman movie. I can see a Batman: Beyond movie. But a Wondertwins movie? Why the hell do they think I'm going to pay momney to see a purple teen-ager turn into a bucket of water?
You are getting a bit jaded.
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You are getting a bit jaded. I mean no insult by this. Honest. It has happened to me as well. DOOM was a "wet my pants" game. My wife used to quietly laugh at me when I would duck and dodge in my chair, or peer at my monitor at an angle trying to see around a corner. No game since has enthralled me like DOOM did. Is that because DOOM was so good that nothing as good has been made in the last 9.5 years? No. I've just gotten used to FPS games and know what to expect. It's no longer "Gee, whiz! This is all so new!".
It's kinda like sex. The first few times you get some it's an amazing, life-changing thing. After (counts on fingers) 19 years of an active sex life, it's not quite so amazing anymore. It's still fun, and it still fills a need and all, but I don't think about the last tiime for weeks afterwords like I did 19 years ago.
Your problem is the SB Live! card. The drivers for that card are complete shit. I've seen more stability issues arrise from that card than from anything else since it came out.
I will never put another Creative sound card in any of my computers again. Ever.
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I'm not trolling, but I really do not like Star/Open Office. I really dislike the way it works. I've tried several versions and they all just annoy the crap out of me.
All it needs is an automated dashboard plug-n-suck and he'd be set for life.
Actually, his best comedy is "A History of Man". Talk about grand farce of the highest order! I nearly pissed my pants reading that book!
Sure, things are worse in other places. That does not, in any way, diminish the loos of fundimental freedoms here in the US. You can say that someone with two broken legs is in more pain than someone with only one broken leg. But that doesn't stop the one broken leg from hurting you.
All of my systems still have floppy drives. I'll go without using them for months at a time, however. My server's floppy drive has not been used in about a year. My primary workstation's floppy was last used three days ago, but I was only moving a small file around the sneaker net.
At work almost no one uses them anymore. I could probably remove them all and only three people would notice.
I'm amazed at all the posters who are getting their panties in a twist over this; claiming it is a waste of time or a debasement of th "art" of the image.
Is it a waste of time? It's his/her time to spend in any way that pleases him/her. Many would say that Linux, and other OSS projects are a complete waste of time and that you'd be better of persuing thier pet project. What I see a LOT here is an amazing level of myopia with people so convinced that thier pet project is the ONLY possible "productive" use for anyone's time that it makes one ill. One person's "must do!" is another person's "why bother?".
As for teh argument of somehow sullying the "art" with "math" or "science"; why is it so bad to analyze something to see the underlying structure and better understand it? Is it a debasement of nature to see teh fractal designs in a flower? Is it a debasement in the work of a great composer or painter to see the mathematical complexity and subtlety in their work? Can you not appreciate the beauty of a work if you know the level of complexity that went into it? Must enjoyment and understanding always be seperated by a wall of ignorance?
Of all the things that have diminished here in the last few years, a sense of perspective seems to be the one most reduced.
I don't think www.fu-fme.com will be a joke for very much longer.
All militaries do things that are reprehencable! That's the nature of their job: the enforce the political will of their leaders through force.
And the US Military does have a very good, and deserved, reputation for being more huimanitarian than most. We havn't always been that way with all "enemies", but it's hard to be humane when your leaders tell you to exterminate the Amiercan Indains; which is not a black mark against the US Army so much as it is a black mark against the President of that period of US history.
Consider WWII: When Germany was falling, who did the Nazi's walk MILES to surrender to? The Americans. When Japan fell, who did the the Japanese in China and other contested areas flee to surrender to? The Americans.
War is hell. It is organized and legailzed murder. It twists and corrupts all involved. But we've managed to keep our troops relatively sane and under control. They are not always perfect. The reason we know what's happened is that the US news media has the freedom to tell the world about every fuckup and abuse incident that they find out about. The press of most other nations do not have this freedom.
It is God!
Yes, but these people are not agents of any law enforcement agency. By what right do they claim exemption from The Law?
You can do whatever you want to YOUR PS2/XBox/GameCube/pile of dirty tidy-whities. It is illegal, however, to sell the mod-chips for PS2's as they violate some copyright law.
They don't care whio they anger because they don't make anything. They bought the IP of a failed comapny and are making their money back by mining through the patents an seeing who they can extort money from. Public image means nothing to muggers like this.
Mind-numbing dork alert!
I installed SLS back in 1993, IIRC. Downloaded it with my brand-new 14.4K modem. One of the last diskettes in one of the sets (I think it might have been X) was bad and I had to start over. I used it for a few months, then nuked that partition and gave it back to DOS.
I've tried again with RedHat 4.0, 5.0 and 7.2, and I keep nuking the install and giving the drive space back to Windows.
What happens when your motherboard dies, and the only replacement you can find needs Palladium because Intel/AMD decided to play close and snuggky with Microsoft? Or that new soundcard/NIC/RAID controller, etc... you need that also will only run with a Palladium based OS? Then what? Are you still in an "opt in" situation, or are you totally screwed?
There already was a "turbo" version of OS/2. Version 4, I beleive.
I just love people like you. That whole "who cares if System X has been fucked up beyond reason by stupid laws? Use System Y!" What happens when they move in on System Y? Do we move to System Z?
Damn, do people ever fucking THINK anymore?
You are not doing anything illegal that you are aware of, you mean. I'm willing to bet a year's wages that you regularly break laws without knowing it. The simple fact of the matter is that it is impossile for any living person in the USA, or most other nations, to not break at least one law every day of their lives.
Or maybe you feel that you are not doing anything so illegal that the government is going to bother to arrest you for it. And that might be true right now. But what happens when laws get shoved down your face making some minor crime serious? Say, believing in the "wrong" branch of Christianity?
And more to the point; it's not just criminals that have to worry about their privacy. We all have our secrets that we'd rather no one knew about. all of us. Even you. Privacy is the right to keep those secrets secret.
iMAX pron in 3-D would be pretty damned scary. Remember the porn theatre episode of "WKRP"?
He missed a very important point:
5: Don't be an elitest dickhead!
Why is it every story here there is some asshat whinging about people soending their own free time on projects other than Linux?
And everyone has been posting the same link to the same article and whining about it not being a news item. Everybody knows already!
Okay, I can see a Catwoman movie. I can see a Batman: Beyond movie. But a Wondertwins movie? Why the hell do they think I'm going to pay momney to see a purple teen-ager turn into a bucket of water?
You are getting a bit jaded. I mean no insult by this. Honest. It has happened to me as well. DOOM was a "wet my pants" game. My wife used to quietly laugh at me when I would duck and dodge in my chair, or peer at my monitor at an angle trying to see around a corner. No game since has enthralled me like DOOM did. Is that because DOOM was so good that nothing as good has been made in the last 9.5 years? No. I've just gotten used to FPS games and know what to expect. It's no longer "Gee, whiz! This is all so new!".
It's kinda like sex. The first few times you get some it's an amazing, life-changing thing. After (counts on fingers) 19 years of an active sex life, it's not quite so amazing anymore. It's still fun, and it still fills a need and all, but I don't think about the last tiime for weeks afterwords like I did 19 years ago.
Your problem is the SB Live! card. The drivers for that card are complete shit. I've seen more stability issues arrise from that card than from anything else since it came out.
I will never put another Creative sound card in any of my computers again. Ever.