These kind of predictions always remind me of Bill Gates asserting that "640 K should be enough for anybody."
I doubt Bill Gates ever said that. He's claimed the contrary on several occasions...
Be that as it may, it's still fun to claim otherwise.
Obligatory (but not irrelevant) xkcd:
They don't need to see my credentials. These aren't the droids they're looking for.
Move along.
It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality'...
Should... should we mark this as funny?
While I too wish he'd eat his own ass, every attempt I've made so far to configure ubuntu 8.10 to use a static IP rather than a DHCP IP has resulted in failure.
I wondered if I was the only person having that problem. I eventually gave up and just punched my IP address in manually each time I rebooted. If it's any consolation, 9.04 is working just dandy.
I have a DFI motherboard with dual NICs, and I use a 192.168.2.0 network address. Hope that helps.
... You know, like some dude with spiky hair who describes himself as a 'hacker' would be typing furiously on a keyboard, and then suddenly yell, "Oh no! We're in too many firewalls and cyberspace is almost full! All of our computers are going to crash if I don't do something quick!"
Citation needed.
If this is the flavor of stupid being put out by respect think tanks I would hate to see what the less respected tanks are churning out.
How about a think tank spearheading the effort to teach creationism in public schools? http://www.discovery.org/
I first tried Linux last year. I was in the US Air Force doing my 4-months in Iraq, and had just inadvertently destroyed my USB drive. The cable plug inside the drive housing had snapped clean off, I wasn't skilled (l33t, perhaps?) enough to re-solder it, and to my chagrin the Crazy Glue gambit met with limited success.
When I took the USB drive apart however, the 2.5 inch drive itself was fine. Thought I,
1: Cool, A 2.5 inch PATA. This drive will fit inside my laptop.
2: The dudes over in the IT shop have a Drake version of Kubuntu floating around on CD. They'd probably let me borrow it.
3:
4: No profit whatsoever. I hated that crap. I could not figure out how to give myself root in X. Instead of prompting for [Password:], the X interface in Drake took great delight in the [You do not have permission to access this drive. Ha ha, you're screwed!] Learning to even use the interface was a task in itself, I JUST WANTED TO LOOK AT PICTURES OF WOMEN ON MY COMPUTER! I kept at it though, because learning new things is fun, and switched over to Ubuntu once I got back to the US of A.
And then dual-booted on my home machine.
And then began installing it old computers around the house.
And most recently, installed it on the toaster... seriously, though. I found that once I got past the learning curve, it was mostly easy to work with. Objectively, I can't even say the learning curve was worse than the Windows 95 curve was.
The article is missing the tag: andnothingofvaluewaslost
kthxbye
... If you go by the number of games that can't *be* completed...
Oh, good. So you remember Ghosts 'n' Goblins for the NES. Tell me, did anybody on
This was, unsurprisingly, the moment I stopped trying to beat the game in a figurative sense and began to seriously consider beating it in a literal sense. Like, with a hammer.
I eventually completed the game with an emulator, but that's not the same thing at all.
I did both. I sincerely wish I hadn't. Experience is a bitch.
Your remorse suggests you learned from the experience, and 300 pounds (500 dollars?) isn't that expensive a lesson, depending on what you brought away from it.
Experience is awesome.
Unless Brazil has laws against doing that, it's legal in Brazil. Doesn't matter what the US military thinks.
I honestly can't remember a time when the US government ever thought that way.
...I wonder, was it due to limitations in the timing granularity of the devices used, or just a bad MIDI file?
Your suggestion that there are good MIDI files confuses and angers me.
Don't forget the Linux games!
- Why Isn't My Wireless Working? (Fun for the whole family!)
- Write Your Own Driver
- rm -rf ~/* roulette
- The Uptime Game (See how long your server's up! Prizes for +100 day or 6 sigma uptimes!)
- Condescension (Make Windows users feel so bad about their OS they switch to *nix. Bonus points for Gentoo.)
Anyway, Linux has tons of games for the creative and inquiring mind.
"Hey Ivan, check your six." -- Sidewinder missile jacket patch, showing a Sidewinder driving up the tail of a Russian Su-27
