It turns out there are some very smart people who believe that the earth is flat because it can mathamatically proved,
Yeah, and I had a calculus prof who wrote very believable-looking proofs that black is white and that two plus two actually equals five. He then went on to show how such mathematically lazy proofs are more common than you think. It may not be that no one has been able to find flaws in the proof, but rather, the people capable of finding them simply couldn't be bothered to play into the games of such kooks.
Anyone who would believe such "mathematical proofs" hardly deserves to be called very smart. ChodaBoy
So basically if you use your computer 8 hours a day, the monitor will be dead in 3 years.
While this is hardly a ringing endorsement for OEL to replace CRT on the desktop, it's not such a bad thing for laptops. Chances are, your three year old laptop is hopelessly antiquated and effectively obsolete by that time (three years ago, the average laptop was a Pentium 166, now effectively obsolete in many cirles). Given the less than upgradeable nature of laptops, it's just another step towards true forced obsolescence.
I'm not saying it's good for us as consumers, but I can see how Toshiba, IBM, et. al. would like it. It would be another way to somewhat subtly force you to buy a new laptop.
Even in previous releases, this stuff wasn't installed if you chose "Workstation"
True, Mandrake is the one notorious for leaving various unneeded, even unwanted services and daemons activated. Even when specifically turned off during the install.
My big concern for RH 7.1 is have they wisely abandoned the 2.96 branch of gcc?
I agree, Rama seems far too grand to really translate to the big screen without being cut up so much that aside from the character names and a general plot line, it would no longer tell the actual story. Basically, I could see this turning into another Dune, a good enough movie in it's own right but in the end, it wasn't Dune.
Now the Foundation could work, but it would have to be a mini-series. To do it proper justice it would have to be several parts which would cost a lot.
Truth is, a lot of the classic science fiction is just too intelligent for the big screen.
Have you not read Rama Revealed yet? I thought it tied things up fairly well while leaving the aliens still something of an enigma
I just hope they don't try to cram all of the books into one movie like they tried to do with Dune (it still irks me to see the miraculous rainstorm at the end, pretty much ignores what the whole series was about, but that's another rant).
The majority of casual software pirates are just that - causual. They wouldnt do it except it's so damn easy.
Yes, but the casual pirates aren't the ones "hurting" MS' balance sheet, it's the mass piracy folks out of Taiwan, etc, burning several tens of thousands of copies and flooding the black market with them. And this new scheme is hardly likely to stop them for long, someone will eventually hack the reg. key or bypass it altogether and the pirates will be right back at it.
This one is just going to make it difficult for the casual (and hardly harmful) pirate and make it very annoying for the average user who will now have to either ask Bill's permission to upgrade his PC or buy a new copy of Windows.
Uh, have you not seen the number of USB devices already running under Linux?
I've already managed to get my Zip 250 USB, Intel USB webcam and HP USB scanner working under Redhat 7.0 with the 2.2.X kernel that shipped (with USB backport). Iomega themselves are currently working on a Linux version of Ioware, the device support in many cases is already in the kernel.
Perhaps it's not just Linus who should keep his yap shut.
Yes, I'll admit Wordstar had it's points but I still say Volkswriter was the WP of the time (at least around S.F.U. Comp Sci labs) It was reasonably powerful and easy to use and fit on a single 1.2MB 5.25" disk, two if you wanted the spell checker.
I'm sorry, I've played D&D and it's variations for more years than I'm willing to admit and I still think the movie is riper than three week old linberger cheese.
I wasn't expecting perfection (no one in their right mind would after seeing the already campy commercials), but I was expecting more than this dreck put out And to paraphrase, heck, to twist your comment helstar, just because the director claims to know the subject matter doesn't mean he can make a good movie.
Sometimes, just wanting to do something isn't enough. Maybe the director should have sharpened his skills on a few movies first before attempting to breech a genre like this.
Dragon Slayer still remains the best attempt at the D&D style movies. Hopefully, Lord of the Rings will clean all their clocks.
"Wrong, slashdot. The voodoo5 6000 will not be sold to gamers at all. Never. It's a higher end card now."
Would you care to back that up, like with some facts? Maybe even a rumour or something, like "My best friend's neighbour's aunt's second cousin on her mother's side said that the CEO of 3Dfx was telling her that they just couldn't keep up with Nvidea."
Is this Tom Pabst writing under an alias? Kinda sounds like his style, sound absolutely certain of something negative with regards to 3Dfx, just don't back it up with facts or anything pertinent like that.
There may have been a time about four or five years ago when Tom's opinion on some piece of hardware was actually worth something. Frankly, he's reached the point now where not only do I (and no doubt countless others) refuse to take any of his reviews seriously, I flat out refuse to even visit his site, period.
Ever since he started pimping for Nvidea, his opinion has been about as valuable as a truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory. He may have had something important to say, he might even have an intelligent opinion but his credibility is shot. My guess is he's probably dumping on the P4 because Intel refused to give in to his demands for free stuff.
Face it, Tom Pabst would call his own mother a syphillitic crack whore if someone else's mother gave him an apple pie and told him there were more if he kept it up.
I'm really not surprised at the awfulness of this movie....I can't think of a single good movie that was based on a novel by Heinlein....Heinlein is a master writer and I am a big fan of his.
How can you claim to be a fan of Heinlein and think this movie is based on his novel? All during the summer we've been warned that the only thing this movie has in common with the novel is the title and the setting of Mars. The movie was in no way based on Heinlein's Red Planet and if you'd actually read the book, you might know that.
Now granted, you do have a point with Starship Troopers and Puppet Masters. Both movies trivialized great classic Sci-Fi stories and turned intelligent writing into typical Mental Pablum sci-fi, hollywood style. I too hope 'they' never attempt to make a movie based on SISL, there is no way hollywood could possibly do it justice. The censors and religious fundamentalists would have the story cut down to one useable page before the script could even be penned.
But seriously, think before making statements like your opening, or at least read the book first.
The special effects *were* good for the most part, but there were some definite iffy places here and there. (that underwater monster thing for one)
Underwater monster thing? I've racked my brains, even considered re-watching Matrix but sorry, I just don't recall any "underwater monster things" in Matrix.
It's a small point to pick on in your critique of Matrix, but it's hard to take you seriously when it appears you're wandering off into some kind of movie halucination right off the start.
Besides, IMHO at least, the main allure of The Matrix to/.'ers and the like is the special effects and the slightly (I did say slightly) Gibsonesque quality of the story.
For what it's worth, Mandrake 7.2beta3 is definitely more stable than RH 7.0. Sure, I've found a couple annoying bugs, namely with the way MDK implemented the KDE 1.94 beta (screensaver doesn't work, but I don't use it anyway).
I used to be a big RH fan, but this one swung me over to the Mandrake camp in a big way.
The only "compatibility" that the Voodoo has over the TNT2 is glide, which is dying. Even 3dfx have admitted so, and will concentrate on Direct3d and OpenGL, which all games are now designed around anyway.
People have been predicting the death of Glide for about three years now and it's still supported. Granted Q3A knocked a nail into its coffin by going OpenGL only, but it is still around, eg. UT, etc.
Direct3d is still a poor cousin (maybe the upcoming DirectGL will be an improvement). OpenGL is improving now that it's actually being used.
Frankly, the main reason I still by 3dfx is a personal one on a matter of principal, I find it hard to support a company that condones whores like Tom Pabst. But that's just my opinion, someday I'll give nVidea a try, maybe.
It seems more and more these days George Lucas is turning into a 21st Century version of Howard Hughes. He's a genius in his industry, but becoming very eccentric and shunning the rest of humanity.
He's carefully weeding the human actors out of his movies and replacing them with CGI simulacra, I wouldn't be surprised if by Ep 3 when Darth Vader gets "introduced", Vader himself will be replaced by a CGI creation.
He's certainly lost touch with his fans though, it seems Jar Jar is coming back for Ep 2 simply out of spite considering even the few children I know in his target audience didn't like the loathsome toad.
I don't know if I even really want to face the possible disappointment of seeing Ep 2, maybe Matrix 2 will release at the same time and clean it's clock.
I'm already well started on this and then some. I bought the first trilogy on Laserdisc (The Definitive Collection) when it was looking like the Special Edition wouldn't be released on Laserdisc (was it?). I then bought the Widescreen VHS set of the Special Edition movies. Frankly, I won't bother with a VHS copy of Ep 1, I didn't like it that much that I *have* to own it now. I might buy the DVD if/when it comes out mainly because I can chapter skip all the scenes with Jar-Jar in 'em. Actually, just skip right to the big sabre battle and maybe the pod race.
The thing that makes me wonder is the name of the station. Is there in fact a station called KROQ in LA? Because if you sound the name out you get "crock" as in "of sh*t". I'm not from LA, so I don't know.
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It turns out there are some very smart people who believe that the earth is flat because it can mathamatically proved,
Yeah, and I had a calculus prof who wrote very believable-looking proofs that black is white and that two plus two actually equals five. He then went on to show how such mathematically lazy proofs are more common than you think. It may not be that no one has been able to find flaws in the proof, but rather, the people capable of finding them simply couldn't be bothered to play into the games of such kooks.
Anyone who would believe such "mathematical proofs" hardly deserves to be called very smart.
ChodaBoy
So basically if you use your computer 8 hours a day, the monitor will be dead in 3 years.
While this is hardly a ringing endorsement for OEL to replace CRT on the desktop, it's not such a bad thing for laptops. Chances are, your three year old laptop is hopelessly antiquated and effectively obsolete by that time (three years ago, the average laptop was a Pentium 166, now effectively obsolete in many cirles). Given the less than upgradeable nature of laptops, it's just another step towards true forced obsolescence.
I'm not saying it's good for us as consumers, but I can see how Toshiba, IBM, et. al. would like it. It would be another way to somewhat subtly force you to buy a new laptop.
As a practicing homosexual, I've had to replace my vaio 4 times already due to a cracked screen.
... er, on second thought I really don't want to know the relevance of that statement.
What in the world,
Oh good, so I'm not the only one thinking "How in the world do you hang a software bug from a bridge?"
Even in previous releases, this stuff wasn't installed if you chose "Workstation"
True, Mandrake is the one notorious for leaving various unneeded, even unwanted services and daemons activated. Even when specifically turned off during the install.
My big concern for RH 7.1 is have they wisely abandoned the 2.96 branch of gcc?
I agree, Rama seems far too grand to really translate to the big screen without being cut up so much that aside from the character names and a general plot line, it would no longer tell the actual story. Basically, I could see this turning into another Dune, a good enough movie in it's own right but in the end, it wasn't Dune.
Now the Foundation could work, but it would have to be a mini-series. To do it proper justice it would have to be several parts which would cost a lot.
Truth is, a lot of the classic science fiction is just too intelligent for the big screen.
Have you not read Rama Revealed yet? I thought it tied things up fairly well while leaving the aliens still something of an enigma
I just hope they don't try to cram all of the books into one movie like they tried to do with Dune (it still irks me to see the miraculous rainstorm at the end, pretty much ignores what the whole series was about, but that's another rant).
Amen, tech support can test the patience of Job some days and you get to meet some of the most amazingly dense people around.
Worse yet is the fact that it is quite possibly one of the lowest paying "technology" jobs out there.
I think I'm subconsciously paying penance for some tremendously horrible crime in a past life, because I'm still a tech.
Go with the second one ;-)
The majority of casual software pirates are just that - causual. They wouldnt do it except it's so damn easy.
Yes, but the casual pirates aren't the ones "hurting" MS' balance sheet, it's the mass piracy folks out of Taiwan, etc, burning several tens of thousands of copies and flooding the black market with them. And this new scheme is hardly likely to stop them for long, someone will eventually hack the reg. key or bypass it altogether and the pirates will be right back at it.
This one is just going to make it difficult for the casual (and hardly harmful) pirate and make it very annoying for the average user who will now have to either ask Bill's permission to upgrade his PC or buy a new copy of Windows.
Uh, have you not seen the number of USB devices already running under Linux?
I've already managed to get my Zip 250 USB, Intel USB webcam and HP USB scanner working under Redhat 7.0 with the 2.2.X kernel that shipped (with USB backport). Iomega themselves are currently working on a Linux version of Ioware, the device support in many cases is already in the kernel.
Perhaps it's not just Linus who should keep his yap shut.
How on earth could that post be considered a flame? All the statements are true, they don't attack any person or group.
If anyone is posting flame-bait, it's you.
Yes, I'll admit Wordstar had it's points but I still say Volkswriter was the WP of the time (at least around S.F.U. Comp Sci labs) It was reasonably powerful and easy to use and fit on a single 1.2MB 5.25" disk, two if you wanted the spell checker.
Sadly, it was also crushed out of the market.
I'm sorry, I've played D&D and it's variations for more years than I'm willing to admit and I still think the movie is riper than three week old linberger cheese.
I wasn't expecting perfection (no one in their right mind would after seeing the already campy commercials), but I was expecting more than this dreck put out And to paraphrase, heck, to twist your comment helstar, just because the director claims to know the subject matter doesn't mean he can make a good movie.
Sometimes, just wanting to do something isn't enough. Maybe the director should have sharpened his skills on a few movies first before attempting to breech a genre like this.
Dragon Slayer still remains the best attempt at the D&D style movies. Hopefully, Lord of the Rings will clean all their clocks.
"Wrong, slashdot. The voodoo5 6000 will not be sold to gamers at all. Never. It's a higher end card now."
Would you care to back that up, like with some facts? Maybe even a rumour or something, like "My best friend's neighbour's aunt's second cousin on her mother's side said that the CEO of 3Dfx was telling her that they just couldn't keep up with Nvidea."
Is this Tom Pabst writing under an alias? Kinda sounds like his style, sound absolutely certain of something negative with regards to 3Dfx, just don't back it up with facts or anything pertinent like that.
There may have been a time about four or five years ago when Tom's opinion on some piece of hardware was actually worth something. Frankly, he's reached the point now where not only do I (and no doubt countless others) refuse to take any of his reviews seriously, I flat out refuse to even visit his site, period.
Ever since he started pimping for Nvidea, his opinion has been about as valuable as a truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory. He may have had something important to say, he might even have an intelligent opinion but his credibility is shot. My guess is he's probably dumping on the P4 because Intel refused to give in to his demands for free stuff.
Face it, Tom Pabst would call his own mother a syphillitic crack whore if someone else's mother gave him an apple pie and told him there were more if he kept it up.
I'm really not surprised at the awfulness of this movie. ...I can't think of a single good movie that was based on a novel by Heinlein. ...Heinlein is a master writer and I am a big fan of his.
How can you claim to be a fan of Heinlein and think this movie is based on his novel? All during the summer we've been warned that the only thing this movie has in common with the novel is the title and the setting of Mars. The movie was in no way based on Heinlein's Red Planet and if you'd actually read the book, you might know that.
Now granted, you do have a point with Starship Troopers and Puppet Masters. Both movies trivialized great classic Sci-Fi stories and turned intelligent writing into typical Mental Pablum sci-fi, hollywood style. I too hope 'they' never attempt to make a movie based on SISL, there is no way hollywood could possibly do it justice. The censors and religious fundamentalists would have the story cut down to one useable page before the script could even be penned.
But seriously, think before making statements like your opening, or at least read the book first.
The special effects *were* good for the most part, but there were some definite iffy places here and there. (that underwater monster thing for one)
/.'ers and the like is the special effects and the slightly (I did say slightly) Gibsonesque quality of the story.
Underwater monster thing? I've racked my brains, even considered re-watching Matrix but sorry, I just don't recall any "underwater monster things" in Matrix.
It's a small point to pick on in your critique of Matrix, but it's hard to take you seriously when it appears you're wandering off into some kind of movie halucination right off the start.
Besides, IMHO at least, the main allure of The Matrix to
For what it's worth, Mandrake 7.2beta3 is definitely more stable than RH 7.0. Sure, I've found a couple annoying bugs, namely with the way MDK implemented the KDE 1.94 beta (screensaver doesn't work, but I don't use it anyway).
I used to be a big RH fan, but this one swung me over to the Mandrake camp in a big way.
The only "compatibility" that the Voodoo has over the TNT2 is glide, which is dying. Even 3dfx have admitted so, and will concentrate on Direct3d and OpenGL, which all games are now designed around anyway.
People have been predicting the death of Glide for about three years now and it's still supported. Granted Q3A knocked a nail into its coffin by going OpenGL only, but it is still around, eg. UT, etc.
Direct3d is still a poor cousin (maybe the upcoming DirectGL will be an improvement). OpenGL is improving now that it's actually being used.
Frankly, the main reason I still by 3dfx is a personal one on a matter of principal, I find it hard to support a company that condones whores like Tom Pabst. But that's just my opinion, someday I'll give nVidea a try, maybe.
After only ten tries, I got through to redhat's ftp and started downloading the iso's (five of them).
/pub/redhat/releases/guiness/iso
:)
A bit of advice though, don't look for the iso's in the 7.0/iso directory, they are empty links. Look under
And be patient
It seems more and more these days George Lucas is turning into a 21st Century version of Howard Hughes. He's a genius in his industry, but becoming very eccentric and shunning the rest of humanity.
He's carefully weeding the human actors out of his movies and replacing them with CGI simulacra, I wouldn't be surprised if by Ep 3 when Darth Vader gets "introduced", Vader himself will be replaced by a CGI creation.
He's certainly lost touch with his fans though, it seems Jar Jar is coming back for Ep 2 simply out of spite considering even the few children I know in his target audience didn't like the loathsome toad.
I don't know if I even really want to face the possible disappointment of seeing Ep 2, maybe Matrix 2 will release at the same time and clean it's clock.
I'm already well started on this and then some. I bought the first trilogy on Laserdisc (The Definitive Collection) when it was looking like the Special Edition wouldn't be released on Laserdisc (was it?). I then bought the Widescreen VHS set of the Special Edition movies. Frankly, I won't bother with a VHS copy of Ep 1, I didn't like it that much that I *have* to own it now. I might buy the DVD if/when it comes out mainly because I can chapter skip all the scenes with Jar-Jar in 'em. Actually, just skip right to the big sabre battle and maybe the pod race.
The thing that makes me wonder is the name of the station. Is there in fact a station called KROQ in LA? Because if you sound the name out you get "crock" as in "of sh*t". I'm not from LA, so I don't know.
Hardly surprising, considering Tom's well-known bias towards nVidia. Can't have something that might possibly make it look like less than the best.