Whats wrong with having April Fools Jokes? After/. has done it so many times, why can't you just expect it and look at it as a tradition rather than beating up Taco? Oh yeah.. karma whores;-)
Not too mention that this story did not originate within the/. crew, but rather from Linus himself.
Well, first of all, I should mention that I have the "smart" feature turned off. I do this because hard drive space is not always easy to come by, and I want to make sure that I always have the programs that I actually selected to record available. But I do believe I can answer your question.
Basically, TiVo looks at how you rate certain shows, from a score of -4 to 4. Based on what types of shows you rate highest it will record similar shows it "thinks" you would like. So if you watch Space Ghost and South Park and *rate* them high, it would probably go out and record some more adultish cartoons like some stuff on cartoon network, simpsons, and the family guy. Not all perhaps, but I listed a couple to give you a general idea. Note, that I emphasize rate. The smart feature is based upon the ratings you give not the shows you choose to record.
I do not think that it correlates the different categories you rate highly. So if you watch Space Ghost, and your brother watches "I Love Lucy" and you both rate them highly, it would probably just go out and record some more shows of both categories, not necessarily trying to find some Space Ghost/I Love Lucy hybrid (scary thought). Hope this helps.
I don't need to remind you that the media shapes most of public opinion. I wish I could say that the population was not caught up in this psuedo-patriotic bullshit. Why is it bullshit? No one was that patriotic before sept 11, and I don't think that a tragedy really makes people like their country any more. If they didn't love their country before, why now?
Moreover, it is my opinion that "the people", discussed so much in our history, have very little input into the decision making process of our gov't. US policies do not reflect the will of the people, and quite obviously, the so called "patriot act" is a blatant restriction on our civil liberties, and no one wished that upon themselves.
Actually this is semi-accurate. I can vouch for this as I just did a report on the Enigma. For some good reading check out the transcript of a show nova did about it at www.pbs.org/wghb/nova (search for enigma). The poles did give England one of the original Enigma machines before the US entered the war. However, German high command added another rotor to the machine and the workers at Bletchley Park were again out of luck. Alan Turing figured out that the Germans were using tables to configure the machines each day, but they did not have this table to decode German intercepts. It was an American ship that captured a U-Boat and gained these tables.
Netscape 6.0 is bad. However, I have been using konqueror and mozilla exclusively for about 2 months now and I love it. The only problem I've seen is that lack of flash support in mozilla (maybe it's possible, I haven't tried) and the lack of java support in konqueror. Konqueror does have the phatass support of Anti-Aliased fonts, but it is a bit slower than moz. I'm happy that I can go to websites without having to see netscape's ridiculous attempts to render them (tables support in netscape is a joke). You're going to have to back up your statement with some evidence. I think most people (including myself) would rate browsers as such, with the best first:
Mozilla
Netscape
Konqueror
Nautilus
Opera
By the way, I'm typing this in mozilla.9 and I don't see how it's bad.
This is pretty inaccurate. You have to keep in mind that wine is not an emulator. It translates windows code into native linux code, so once the debugging code is removed from wine, it *SHOULD* run windows apps as fast as Windows itself does. This can only help linux. One of the most important factors in what OS is most popular is an app base. Linux already has it's own app base, and wine is going to add all of those windows games/apps to Linux as well. Then the killer apps will be available for windows and linux with no extra effort from vendors.
That's a weak argument dude. X supports the same TTF fonts that windows uses. Hell, QT even supports Anti-Aliased fonts (sooo pretty!). You just need to put a little effort in. I'm sure though that soon enough TTF and AA will be pretty standard and accessible on linux.
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I'm really sick of hearing economists that sound a lot like you talking about how linux is a passing trend. Linux has nothing to do with America's fucked up stock market. Seems people only judge things anymore by how an associated stock does on the market. I'm fucking sick and tired of hearing about the stock market. It has no value to me. Yes this product may be crap. I'm not sure when 'linux' and 'open source' were magic words. I'm in a bad mood right now and you sound like an idiot. By the way, I think you'd find it hard to prove that Clinton damaged the economy. The past 8 years have proved to be wonderful economically.
I also saw that so called review.
To me that guy sounds like a complete idiot. He focuses the whole review on Reeves and ignores all of the genius in the movie's plot and the great acting by Laurence Fishburne. Looking at this guy's bio, he blames Hollywood for selling out. I don't think anyone with an anti-establishment attitude can not like the Matrix. Sounds to me like he adopted that atitude as a front to sound like a hip movie reviewer. Too bad he's a moron.
For those using ximian on a debian system know, updating packages can often bork your system because Debian wants you to download debian gnome and I want ximian gnome. Becuase of this, if I don't specify all of the ximian packages over the possible more recent debian packages, the system gets borked. Will RC make sure that it only installs ximian gnome packages, but still install standard debian packages?
Umm.. it's not that they hate slack, but slack does not have much of a packaging system. At least not as sophisticated as apt/dpkg let alone rpm. Hence it makes their jobs harder. I doubt they'll get around it.
Acually, I never noticed the blood in Gundam uncut. The main difference I saw was characters saying things like 'destroy him' rather than kill, and certain un-kosher words like damn, hell, and I think I heard a shit.
Eliminating a keyboard in favor of a pen tablet has to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard. I can type roughly 10x as fast as I can write. Not only that, but after about a page of writing, my hand starts to hurt terribly. I can type for hours on end with no fatigue. The next step in data input I believe will have to be mind-recognition before keyboards will be eliminated.
Why is it on here? What is slashdot? New For Nerds. Stuff that matters. Which essentially mean anything that Jeff, Rob, Pater, or any other slashdot author find interesting. That's what makes slashdot great. A wide variety of information. If you're looking for canned news go to msnbc.com. You can't bitch about stuff that is posted, the site is intended to be vague in focus.
PS. Moderators- don't moderate me down because I responded to a flamatory comment. ( Or because I said bitch )
1 - I feel that this is very close to a reality. RedHat ( and other distros ) have already created update utility's for their respective packaging systems. Updating a driver isn't all that different from updating your favorite app. Helix-code's update system is the best example. I'm sure it's open source, so perhaps RH, Mandrake, or even slack will wake up and modify it.
2 - I like having a choice in the X server. But it's hard to argue that most people don't use XFree86. As far as X, I'd say it's pretty standard. Antialiasing would be sweet, coming soon? I really have to disagree with your statement about setting up Windows 98 and hardware. Think about it, you have to go find drivers from god knows where, and install them for every goddamned peice of hardware. You have to restart everytime you install a driver. Windows hardware installation is a pain in the ass. I for one feel that hardware installation in linux is much better. Most of your hardware is automatically setup, you may have to hunt around for 1 or 2 drivers. Mostly video. USB support is in the latest kernel, and will probably be in distributions soon. I use Mandrake 7.1 after trying out lots of different distros. It has a hardware detection script that runs at startup that will help you setup your hardware.
3 - The game developers need to be shown that there are standards and that linux is evolving.
A huge portion of America views AOL as 'the internet'. They think everything else but aol is just a vehicle for porn and illegal activity. AOL has these people brainwashed. Then AOL puts forward filters, and parents think, 'oh, this is great now we can *control* what our children see'. Perhaps we should burn books too. I've met Parents who think they are irresponsible if they didn't implement AOL parental controls.
In order to be fair, I have to say that the violence in Soldier of Fortune cannot compare to quake3 or myth2. SoF makes the gore zones, 10 or so different places on the enemy that evoke different actions in the character when shot, a selling point. It is extreme. Personally I like it, and I'm not saying what BC did was right, I only wish to point out the extremity.
I'm not sure why so many people have poo-poo'd this idea. Obviously the professor understands that he is giving his/her students an 'open book' quiz. So how is this different than a normal open book test? Some people are better at finding information in a book/reference source than others. It's merely a skill that needs to be developed. The same is true with the internet. Some are better at finding info, but does this make the test unfair? I think not.
I know many linux users will not buy ported games because they are commercial, closed source products. Have you ever thought of how to justify selling linux-ports? Do you think this attitude affects sales? Do you think that games are the exception to the linux community's attitude towards free/non-free software?
This is more of a media stunt than anything else. What are demodays intended to do? They are intended to demonstrate linux to potential users. By staging one on the same day as the win2k release, we are saying that we will not tolerate and it will appear to potential users that you have to choose Linux OR Windows. That is not what the potential user wants to hear.
Do we not remember when Win98 was released. People lined up outside of stores as if they were buying tickets to a concert. Most users are so blind to the truth, and accept MS propaganda, that by staging a demo day on the same day as the win2k release, it makes us appear as the enemy.
I thought that my New Year's eve sucked. I stayed at home. I didn't go and party, or celebrate in any fancy way. However I appreciate my quiet evening a lot more after reading this. It did make me feel better about my NYE. However, this letter, or at least these sentiments, should be expressed in the "mainstream media". People should understand what media hype does.
It is very obvious why some people like Man on The Moon and why some people do. Kauffman was a character that you either loved or hated. For the most part he was hated, but I think that this movie aims to give the viewer a look back at Andy's life and then decide again what you think of him. To look at him as an artist and see what he was doing. I think that although he might not have been humorous all the time, he was entertaining. Perhaps even a genius.
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Not too mention that this story did not originate within the /. crew, but rather from Linus himself.
Basically, TiVo looks at how you rate certain shows, from a score of -4 to 4. Based on what types of shows you rate highest it will record similar shows it "thinks" you would like. So if you watch Space Ghost and South Park and *rate* them high, it would probably go out and record some more adultish cartoons like some stuff on cartoon network, simpsons, and the family guy. Not all perhaps, but I listed a couple to give you a general idea. Note, that I emphasize rate. The smart feature is based upon the ratings you give not the shows you choose to record.
I do not think that it correlates the different categories you rate highly. So if you watch Space Ghost, and your brother watches "I Love Lucy" and you both rate them highly, it would probably just go out and record some more shows of both categories, not necessarily trying to find some Space Ghost/I Love Lucy hybrid (scary thought). Hope this helps.
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Moreover, it is my opinion that "the people", discussed so much in our history, have very little input into the decision making process of our gov't. US policies do not reflect the will of the people, and quite obviously, the so called "patriot act" is a blatant restriction on our civil liberties, and no one wished that upon themselves.
Adds To Tension Between The White House and China. The whole thing wouldn't fit in the subject :(
Actually this is semi-accurate. I can vouch for this as I just did a report on the Enigma. For some good reading check out the transcript of a show nova did about it at www.pbs.org/wghb/nova (search for enigma). The poles did give England one of the original Enigma machines before the US entered the war. However, German high command added another rotor to the machine and the workers at Bletchley Park were again out of luck. Alan Turing figured out that the Germans were using tables to configure the machines each day, but they did not have this table to decode German intercepts. It was an American ship that captured a U-Boat and gained these tables.
Netscape 6.0 is bad. However, I have been using konqueror and mozilla exclusively for about 2 months now and I love it. The only problem I've seen is that lack of flash support in mozilla (maybe it's possible, I haven't tried) and the lack of java support in konqueror. Konqueror does have the phatass support of Anti-Aliased fonts, but it is a bit slower than moz. I'm happy that I can go to websites without having to see netscape's ridiculous attempts to render them (tables support in netscape is a joke). You're going to have to back up your statement with some evidence. I think most people (including myself) would rate browsers as such, with the best first: .9 and I don't see how it's bad.
Mozilla
Netscape
Konqueror
Nautilus
Opera
By the way, I'm typing this in mozilla
This is pretty inaccurate. You have to keep in mind that wine is not an emulator. It translates windows code into native linux code, so once the debugging code is removed from wine, it *SHOULD* run windows apps as fast as Windows itself does. This can only help linux. One of the most important factors in what OS is most popular is an app base. Linux already has it's own app base, and wine is going to add all of those windows games/apps to Linux as well. Then the killer apps will be available for windows and linux with no extra effort from vendors.
That's a weak argument dude. X supports the same TTF fonts that windows uses. Hell, QT even supports Anti-Aliased fonts (sooo pretty!). You just need to put a little effort in. I'm sure though that soon enough TTF and AA will be pretty standard and accessible on linux.
I'm really sick of hearing economists that sound a lot like you talking about how linux is a passing trend. Linux has nothing to do with America's fucked up stock market. Seems people only judge things anymore by how an associated stock does on the market. I'm fucking sick and tired of hearing about the stock market. It has no value to me. Yes this product may be crap. I'm not sure when 'linux' and 'open source' were magic words. I'm in a bad mood right now and you sound like an idiot. By the way, I think you'd find it hard to prove that Clinton damaged the economy. The past 8 years have proved to be wonderful economically.
I also saw that so called review. To me that guy sounds like a complete idiot. He focuses the whole review on Reeves and ignores all of the genius in the movie's plot and the great acting by Laurence Fishburne. Looking at this guy's bio, he blames Hollywood for selling out. I don't think anyone with an anti-establishment attitude can not like the Matrix. Sounds to me like he adopted that atitude as a front to sound like a hip movie reviewer. Too bad he's a moron.
For those using ximian on a debian system know, updating packages can often bork your system because Debian wants you to download debian gnome and I want ximian gnome. Becuase of this, if I don't specify all of the ximian packages over the possible more recent debian packages, the system gets borked. Will RC make sure that it only installs ximian gnome packages, but still install standard debian packages?
Umm.. it's not that they hate slack, but slack does not have much of a packaging system. At least not as sophisticated as apt/dpkg let alone rpm. Hence it makes their jobs harder. I doubt they'll get around it.
In debian's aptitude program, you can hit ctrl+c on a package to see it's changelog
Acually, I never noticed the blood in Gundam uncut. The main difference I saw was characters saying things like 'destroy him' rather than kill, and certain un-kosher words like damn, hell, and I think I heard a shit.
PS. Moderators- don't moderate me down because I responded to a flamatory comment. ( Or because I said bitch )
1 - I feel that this is very close to a reality. RedHat ( and other distros ) have already created update utility's for their respective packaging systems. Updating a driver isn't all that different from updating your favorite app. Helix-code's update system is the best example. I'm sure it's open source, so perhaps RH, Mandrake, or even slack will wake up and modify it.
2 - I like having a choice in the X server. But it's hard to argue that most people don't use XFree86. As far as X, I'd say it's pretty standard. Antialiasing would be sweet, coming soon? I really have to disagree with your statement about setting up Windows 98 and hardware. Think about it, you have to go find drivers from god knows where, and install them for every goddamned peice of hardware. You have to restart everytime you install a driver. Windows hardware installation is a pain in the ass. I for one feel that hardware installation in linux is much better. Most of your hardware is automatically setup, you may have to hunt around for 1 or 2 drivers. Mostly video. USB support is in the latest kernel, and will probably be in distributions soon. I use Mandrake 7.1 after trying out lots of different distros. It has a hardware detection script that runs at startup that will help you setup your hardware.
3 - The game developers need to be shown that there are standards and that linux is evolving.
Tell me what you think.
I know many linux users will not buy ported games because they are commercial, closed source products. Have you ever thought of how to justify selling linux-ports? Do you think this attitude affects sales? Do you think that games are the exception to the linux community's attitude towards free/non-free software?
This is more of a media stunt than anything else. What are demodays intended to do? They are intended to demonstrate linux to potential users. By staging one on the same day as the win2k release, we are saying that we will not tolerate and it will appear to potential users that you have to choose Linux OR Windows. That is not what the potential user wants to hear.
Do we not remember when Win98 was released. People lined up outside of stores as if they were buying tickets to a concert. Most users are so blind to the truth, and accept MS propaganda, that by staging a demo day on the same day as the win2k release, it makes us appear as the enemy.
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I thought that my New Year's eve sucked. I stayed at home. I didn't go and party, or celebrate in any fancy way. However I appreciate my quiet evening a lot more after reading this. It did make me feel better about my NYE. However, this letter, or at least these sentiments, should be expressed in the "mainstream media". People should understand what media hype does.
It is very obvious why some people like Man on The Moon and why some people do. Kauffman was a character that you either loved or hated. For the most part he was hated, but I think that this movie aims to give the viewer a look back at Andy's life and then decide again what you think of him. To look at him as an artist and see what he was doing. I think that although he might not have been humorous all the time, he was entertaining. Perhaps even a genius.