Sure, it sounds like a good idea, but how would a Lone Gunmen drinking game work? Take one drink every time someone admits someone else's kung fu is the best? I don't know...
Wow, this is kind of fascist. I mean, seriously. One can make a good argument for only allowing campus internet connections to be used for educational purposes. I don't agree that it's worth the effort, but I can see the argument.
But restricting opposite-sex dorm visitation? Excuse me? Most college students are above 18 (re: the age of consent). I don't think that the government has any right, or reason, to tell me that I can't have a girl in my dorm room, for any purpose, at any time of day.
You seem to have forgotten the chief advantage of a winmodem. They're cheap. The average user is concerned more with cost than with the difference in performance between a Winmodem and a regular modem. The performance hit for a winmodem is there, of course, but it's not incredibly noticeable to Joe Six-Pack.
If the Linux community ever wants to see Linux catch on for the general public, Linux will have to address the needs of the general public. One of those needs is that we'd like our winmodems to work under it. If the Linux community banded together and decided that they didn't want winmodems supported, it could only hurt the OS's chances of winning over "average" users.
If you're to have Linux as the OS of the elite, that's one thing. But if you're looking to see Linux catch on, this is a step that I think needs to be taken.
Humminah? Come again? I mean, granted, this is a Linux advocacy site, and I'm probably just going to get flamed, but I think that saying that Bill Gates and Microsoft aren't worth watching, as Berst seems to have done, is insane. Billy-boy still has $80 bil TO HIS NAME. His company is richer than a goodly chunk of the world's governments.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that everyone should like MS because they're rich. I'm just saying, David didn't beat Goliath simply by telling him that he had a better way, closing his eyes, and pretending Goliath wasn't there.
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The night before I read the notice here about the accident I saw Desmond on either Entertainment Tonight or Access Hollywood saying how much he enjoyed doing the movies and that he wanted to continue to play the character for as long as the producers wanted him.
Ok, now I'm confused. Anyone who read the Salon article this story is linked to (or saw The World is Not Enough)knows that Q was written out in the latest movie. He (Desmond) was ready to retire, and so the character was written out, in favor of the character of R, his protege, played by John Cleese. I can't imagine Desmond would have said that he wanted to keep playing the character as long as the producers would have him, given that this was the last movie he planned to appear in.
Seriously, I think it would have been in Id's best interest to release all versions of this as far before Christmas as they could. (at least, as far before Christmas, but this month) I don't know what the reasons for the delay were, but I doubt that it was intentional.
I love how the natural superiority of Linux in every possible way is unquestioned here on/.. I mean, if something goes wrong with any sort of Linux-related event or phenomenon, the first conclusion people jump to is some sort of Gatesian conspiracy. I know Linux is a religion, a new Christianity being persecuted in the Roman Empire of Windows, but please, don't go looking in every corner for the latest sign of collaboration against it.
That's a horrible way to get more users. Personally, I would NOT install a new OS, just because it came with a game. I mean, seriously. Let's look at the typical Windows user who happens to pick up Q3A for Linux by mistake.
"Oh, shoot, I need to install a new operating system."
"Hey! Wait! This comes with Linux! Let's see... I can either take this back, or reformat the hard drive, install Linux, learn how to get it set up and working, and not be able to run things like Word, until I find their Linux equivalents."
I fail to see how this would "evangelize" anyone to the "cause."
...how the sales figures turn out. If Linux gaming is really going to have much of a future, this version had better sell like hotcakes.
I mean, seriously, what is the percentage of the gaming community that runs Linux? It's going to be very interesting to see how many copies they sell for Linux vs. for Windows (and, I suppose, for the Mac). It will be a big indicator of things to come. If this sells well, expect to see more Linux games. If it doesn't... Well, we'll see.
This has been going on for hundreds of years. At the very least, it's the ultimate goal of the Enlightenment project. The core value of loyalty, which was the most important value society held before Machiavelli, was replaced with freedom, so bosses could fire workers. I wouldn't be willing to give up all of my freedom, but, at the same time, if the laws passed to help corporations lead to this kind of crap, maybe their freedom needs to be curtailed a bit.
I don't know... My former roommate could remove a Linux partition and get a Win95 install going in under a minute. Of course, it would take another 40 to install, but that's really beyond our control...
Then again, I think (though I have no humane way to prove it) that he had the Microsoft brain implant, so perhaps he's not a good case study.
Man, he was the best part of some of those movies. He will be missed sorely. I know he was retiring, but it's still tragic that he died, of course -- if he was anything at all like the character he played, he'd have been a great person to be around.
They're not going to make as much as, say, VA Linux or Amazon, because they actually sell something, and they're actually a real business. So, odds are the IPO will flop.
I can't help but wonder -- of those ~15% who are anxious, how many are anxious because of Uncle Sam? One could argue that we have nothing to fear from our government, but this century, time and again, that has been proven to be wrong.
Wow. Katz really, really, really, really didn't like End of Days. It's been said already, but it's not nearly as bad as he makes it out to be. That's not to say that, by any stretch of the imagination, it's good. It's not. It is not a good movie at all. It's more or less vanilla. However, if it's that or Pokemon, I suggest you see End of Days. I don't know if Katz has some animosity towards Arnold Schwarzenegger, religion or both, but I think his review was a little harsh. Perhaps it's time to hang up the reviewing pen.
As for other holiday movies...
American Beauty is so good it's not even funny. It's not really a holiday movie, given how long ago it came out, but if you get the opportunity, check it out.
The new Bond flick was pretty good, though I think some of the conventions are starting to get a bit too cliche.
Dogma was awesome. In spite of what's been said, it does appeal to a geek set. It just so happens that it's not necessarily the same geeks who read Slashdot. Kevin Smith knows what he's doing, though, and the whole movie seems rather personal for him. It's great.
Finally, I thought Sleepy Hollow was just bad. It's even darker than a lot of Tim Burton's other crap, but it wasn't at all scary. Perhaps if you go into it not expecting any sort of fear, you won't be as disappointed as I was.
It was a defense computer network gone wild. It just happened to be based on technology that it invented in the future. Try not to think about it too much. That's the best advice I have. Just watch the pretty explosions.
That's the thing that always bugged me about Terminator. Robot goes back in time, gets crushed. Someone finds the robot's arm, uses it to build Skynet. Skynet builds robot, sends it back in time. Robot gets crushed. Someone finds the robot's arm, uses it to build Skynet. You get the idea.
I'm sure there are lots of scientific ways to avoid circles of causality like that, but I don't know how. That's one of those things (along with conservation of matter) that leads me to think that time travel is a practical impossibility.
I think this is relatively harmless for a couple of reasons. First, at least in my case, I don't visit very many web sites that use the comet cursor. Unless I missed something, it can only track what you're doing on sites that use the cursor. I may have misread that, though.
Secondly, the information they're collecting seems to be fairly harmless. I don't know how malicious they could be with it if they want.
Frankly, the thing that worries me is the fact that I have a static IP and hostname. Every site I visit no doubt stores that. I suppose that, in a way, that's less dangerous, because they don't get any sort of picture of what I'm doing, just that I've visited them. But still, it kind of makes my skin crawl.
And now I'll prepare to get flamed. I don't think that comments about the "closed source community" are incredibly appropriate here. Since I haven't seen any sort of open source competition for the comet cursor (which is slightly nifty, in a really dorky way), I don't think that there is any reason to use this as an opportunity to rip on closed source.
First off, my dad had it maybe four years ago, and it seemed to work pretty well for him. His night vision, however, is shot to hell. I don't know if that is related to the surgery or not, though.
Secondly, check with your health insurance provider. Under our health insurance, the surgery was covered.
For the record, I should probably go ahead and say that I don't really think that the First Amendment is necessarily a bad thing -- I'm playing the Devil's Advocate. I'm not willing to say that said amendment is untouchable, though -- what if it turns out that free speech isn't really a good idea? Granted, I'm not sure how we'd come to that conclusion, but who knows.
As for the whole thing about Locke and weakening religion, you have to consider that from the other perspective, too. Suppose for a second that everything in Christianity is true. In that case, Locke's philosophies have damned millions, if not billions, to hell. However, we're kind of going off topic here, and I really don't want to get into a big theological debate, so I'll leave it at that.
Um, ok. I don't really follow you on this one. Let's see if I can handle this... America is not free because a lot of people dislike Peter Singer's ideas and say so? That's not censorship. Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee you the right to have your views respected -- it just guarantees you the right to express them.
Speaking of challenging assumptions, who says free speech is really such a great thing? After all, the First Amendment to the U.S. constitution stems directly from the ideas of John Locke. Locke had an agenda in his ideas -- he aimed to weaken religion. By preaching tolerance for all religions, he removed religion from the forefront of every day life, and relegated it to something that's part of one's private life.
So really, the First Amendment is just a conspiracy designed by heathens to eliminate God's influence for the world -- of course, it sounds like you're all for that. There. If that doesn't get me moderated back into last week, I don't know what will. Oh, but wait, it shouldn't. I'm challenging popular assumptions, and my ideas should be heard by everyone. While we're at it, I think they should be subsidized with tax money. Oh well. Perhaps if I attach some elephant dung to this post...
This will probably never get read now, but so what. The Geneva convention isn't perfect. Furthermore, I don't think the U.S. is actually a signatory. Finally, Milosevic doesn't really seem to have any problems doing it himself.
Besides, how is it different from bombing a bridge? It may be chiefly used by citizens, but if the military needs it, too, then I don't see a problem with keeping them from using it.
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Sure, it sounds like a good idea, but how would a Lone Gunmen drinking game work? Take one drink every time someone admits someone else's kung fu is the best? I don't know...
Moderated. I deserve to be moderated into the stone age. Whatever. I think it's a given, anyway.
Wow. I can't believe I just made a Magic: The Gathering reference. I deserve to be modified into the stone age.
But restricting opposite-sex dorm visitation? Excuse me? Most college students are above 18 (re: the age of consent). I don't think that the government has any right, or reason, to tell me that I can't have a girl in my dorm room, for any purpose, at any time of day.
If the Linux community ever wants to see Linux catch on for the general public, Linux will have to address the needs of the general public. One of those needs is that we'd like our winmodems to work under it. If the Linux community banded together and decided that they didn't want winmodems supported, it could only hurt the OS's chances of winning over "average" users.
If you're to have Linux as the OS of the elite, that's one thing. But if you're looking to see Linux catch on, this is a step that I think needs to be taken.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that everyone should like MS because they're rich. I'm just saying, David didn't beat Goliath simply by telling him that he had a better way, closing his eyes, and pretending Goliath wasn't there.
Ok, now I'm confused. Anyone who read the Salon article this story is linked to (or saw The World is Not Enough)knows that Q was written out in the latest movie. He (Desmond) was ready to retire, and so the character was written out, in favor of the character of R, his protege, played by John Cleese. I can't imagine Desmond would have said that he wanted to keep playing the character as long as the producers would have him, given that this was the last movie he planned to appear in.
Seriously, I think it would have been in Id's best interest to release all versions of this as far before Christmas as they could. (at least, as far before Christmas, but this month) I don't know what the reasons for the delay were, but I doubt that it was intentional.
I love how the natural superiority of Linux in every possible way is unquestioned here on /.. I mean, if something goes wrong with any sort of Linux-related event or phenomenon, the first conclusion people jump to is some sort of Gatesian conspiracy. I know Linux is a religion, a new Christianity being persecuted in the Roman Empire of Windows, but please, don't go looking in every corner for the latest sign of collaboration against it.
That's a horrible way to get more users. Personally, I would NOT install a new OS, just because it came with a game. I mean, seriously. Let's look at the typical Windows user who happens to pick up Q3A for Linux by mistake.
"Oh, shoot, I need to install a new operating system."
"Hey! Wait! This comes with Linux! Let's see... I can either take this back, or reformat the hard drive, install Linux, learn how to get it set up and working, and not be able to run things like Word, until I find their Linux equivalents."
I fail to see how this would "evangelize" anyone to the "cause."
I mean, seriously, what is the percentage of the gaming community that runs Linux? It's going to be very interesting to see how many copies they sell for Linux vs. for Windows (and, I suppose, for the Mac). It will be a big indicator of things to come. If this sells well, expect to see more Linux games. If it doesn't... Well, we'll see.
This has been going on for hundreds of years. At the very least, it's the ultimate goal of the Enlightenment project. The core value of loyalty, which was the most important value society held before Machiavelli, was replaced with freedom, so bosses could fire workers. I wouldn't be willing to give up all of my freedom, but, at the same time, if the laws passed to help corporations lead to this kind of crap, maybe their freedom needs to be curtailed a bit.
Then again, I think (though I have no humane way to prove it) that he had the Microsoft brain implant, so perhaps he's not a good case study.
Man, he was the best part of some of those movies. He will be missed sorely. I know he was retiring, but it's still tragic that he died, of course -- if he was anything at all like the character he played, he'd have been a great person to be around.
They're not going to make as much as, say, VA Linux or Amazon, because they actually sell something, and they're actually a real business. So, odds are the IPO will flop.
I can't help but wonder -- of those ~15% who are anxious, how many are anxious because of Uncle Sam? One could argue that we have nothing to fear from our government, but this century, time and again, that has been proven to be wrong.
As for other holiday movies...
American Beauty is so good it's not even funny. It's not really a holiday movie, given how long ago it came out, but if you get the opportunity, check it out.
The new Bond flick was pretty good, though I think some of the conventions are starting to get a bit too cliche.
Dogma was awesome. In spite of what's been said, it does appeal to a geek set. It just so happens that it's not necessarily the same geeks who read Slashdot. Kevin Smith knows what he's doing, though, and the whole movie seems rather personal for him. It's great.
Finally, I thought Sleepy Hollow was just bad. It's even darker than a lot of Tim Burton's other crap, but it wasn't at all scary. Perhaps if you go into it not expecting any sort of fear, you won't be as disappointed as I was.
Well, that's my two cents.
It was a defense computer network gone wild. It just happened to be based on technology that it invented in the future. Try not to think about it too much. That's the best advice I have. Just watch the pretty explosions.
I'm sure there are lots of scientific ways to avoid circles of causality like that, but I don't know how. That's one of those things (along with conservation of matter) that leads me to think that time travel is a practical impossibility.
Secondly, the information they're collecting seems to be fairly harmless. I don't know how malicious they could be with it if they want.
Frankly, the thing that worries me is the fact that I have a static IP and hostname. Every site I visit no doubt stores that. I suppose that, in a way, that's less dangerous, because they don't get any sort of picture of what I'm doing, just that I've visited them. But still, it kind of makes my skin crawl.
And now I'll prepare to get flamed. I don't think that comments about the "closed source community" are incredibly appropriate here. Since I haven't seen any sort of open source competition for the comet cursor (which is slightly nifty, in a really dorky way), I don't think that there is any reason to use this as an opportunity to rip on closed source.
I mean, seriously, is the endorsement of the government of the PRC really a good thing?
Secondly, check with your health insurance provider. Under our health insurance, the surgery was covered.
Ugh. Memetics. (shudder) The best proof I've ever seen that analogies can get way too out of hand.
As for the whole thing about Locke and weakening religion, you have to consider that from the other perspective, too. Suppose for a second that everything in Christianity is true. In that case, Locke's philosophies have damned millions, if not billions, to hell. However, we're kind of going off topic here, and I really don't want to get into a big theological debate, so I'll leave it at that.
Speaking of challenging assumptions, who says free speech is really such a great thing? After all, the First Amendment to the U.S. constitution stems directly from the ideas of John Locke. Locke had an agenda in his ideas -- he aimed to weaken religion. By preaching tolerance for all religions, he removed religion from the forefront of every day life, and relegated it to something that's part of one's private life.
So really, the First Amendment is just a conspiracy designed by heathens to eliminate God's influence for the world -- of course, it sounds like you're all for that. There. If that doesn't get me moderated back into last week, I don't know what will. Oh, but wait, it shouldn't. I'm challenging popular assumptions, and my ideas should be heard by everyone. While we're at it, I think they should be subsidized with tax money. Oh well. Perhaps if I attach some elephant dung to this post...
Besides, how is it different from bombing a bridge? It may be chiefly used by citizens, but if the military needs it, too, then I don't see a problem with keeping them from using it.