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New Microsoft Pricing Structure: Steal OS TwiceVery soon, you will have to find two pilfered keycodes from two different CDs in order to install Windows, the OS of Champions.
Today: Yahoo Serious lights Olympic Flame, Millions Weep
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Hurray! Another excuse to delay DTVWhat if they held a revolution and nobody showed up?
By the time these corporate vultures and bureaucratic sycophants finally get the job done, the standard will be an absolute unmanufacturable mess- and consumers will no longer care.
Standard definition is dead. Long live standard def.
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OSX A Success (On the 5 computers that meet specs)When your "next generation" OS is delayed six years, rumors are all you have. Hell, I've often wondered if macosrumors.com is a marketing wing of Apple.
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Quake 3 Arena: The Text AdventureYou are now in a large room with steel girders supporting an arching ceiling with walkways to the NORTH and to the EAST.
A guy dressed in green with the handle "WrathMonkey" stands ten yards in front of you with a large shot gun.
>:Change weapons
I don't know what you mean.
>:Inventory
In your sack of plenty you have:
1. Pointed Stick
2. Nail Gun - 100 Rounds
3. BFG - 1 round
>:2
You are now holding the Nail Gun
>:Gib the green guy.
I don't know what you mean.
>:Shoot the green guy with the Nail Gun
That won't work. Try something else.
>: Load ammunition.
OK.
>:Shoot the green guy with the Nail Gun.
OK. The green guy is now dead. I hope you feel good about yourself.
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OMM's Big News: Consumers are StupidWow, consumers of games are - on the whole, rather dim. But so is the argument that your grandfather used on you when you played with your Star Wars gear when you were a kid.
"Back in my day, you needed imagination to have fun." We now see the Old Man in Old Man Murray, going for the easy old school gripe (and updating three times per decade).
If you want adventure games get "Pyramid" for the TRS-80 model 1 - and something called "YoHo" (which had nothing to do with managing a stable of Hos as I later found out).
Ha! It's fun to search multimedia.lycos.com for "adventure" and post them on your site. Who needs photo research?
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The Narcoleptic DialecticI noticed all the shill posts for other crappy
Buy me, you cheap jerks! I'm only 2 bucks!Would sales increase if I put clip-art of a penguin on the virtual cover?
Sensitive, purple prose for purple times.
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f*cked company lists themselves as f*ckedA few months ago when the game was hot and heavy (I was in the top 100 for a week or so!), lots of people picked (or to use the proper verb, f*cked) f*cked company itself- predicting that they would be swallowed up or simply bust under its own PR weight.
Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick, some days I'm thankful that ridiculopathy.com is non-profit (i.e. we're too lazy to set up an ad contract).
TODAY'S NUGGET: Advice: That weird guy you work with is destined to shoot up the place one day. Learn how to get him to spare your life and even position you for a promotion on the big day.
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f*cked company lists themselves as f*ckedA few months ago when the game was hot and heavy (I was in the top 100 for a week or so!), lots of people picked (or to use the proper verb, f*cked) f*cked company itself- predicting that they would be swallowed up or simply bust under its own PR weight.
Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick, some days I'm thankful that ridiculopathy.com is non-profit (i.e. we're too lazy to set up an ad contract).
TODAY'S NUGGET: Advice: That weird guy you work with is destined to shoot up the place one day. Learn how to get him to spare your life and even position you for a promotion on the big day.
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You've gotta love amateur-sourceFrom a consumer's point of view, Mozilla makes no sense as an open-source project. It was already free.
Give the people the power they want and they screw it up by giving more emphesis to skins than to archetecture.
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like lawsuits, smarmy unresearched rants are goodSuck's formula has been obvious for about a year now. Since they lost some of their better writers, they have been sticking to what works for them: pick a demographic you want to attract to the site and lambast them- the group's own media will cover it and presto instant publicity.
According to the Suck.com essay template: That car crash I was in two years ago was the best thing for me. It taught me a lesson, it did. And getting beaten up every day in eighth grade- character building.
When suck goes under, we'll say that it was good for them and the cause of open-source internet humor.
I get my smarmy rants from a more pure source... www.ridiculopathy.com
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I d0n"t need no ederkashun!They say that the time to go to college is in a recession, not a boom. But since the only way to know when a recession hits is when you're out of a job- wouldn't that be too late to have a well-rounded range of experience?
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The knights who say "Nih!"
say "Oh, let's be nice to him." www.ridiculopathy.com
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so, now it's OK to shill your stuff on slashdot?
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so, now it's OK to shill your stuff on slashdot?
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so, now it's OK to shill your stuff on slashdot?
http://www.ridiculopathy.com
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so, now it's OK to shill your stuff on slashdot?
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We predicted this...Subpoenas in every iMac box!you!
Apple: America's Cutest Company
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We predicted this...Subpoenas in every iMac box!you!
Apple: America's Cutest Company
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We predicted this...Subpoenas in every iMac box!you!
Apple: America's Cutest Company
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why crappy established musicians need napster
dr. dre & metalica can't explain bad record sales any other way... Napster in the Crapster
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Amazon not to be left out of radioactive e-market
In an effort to stay in the middle of the e-tailing fray, Amazon.com has just opened its weapons-grade plutonium site. And as it has done with other business segment introductions, Amazon will stage an enormous give-away of nearly a metric ton of radioactive material. "We're very excited about this new market," said amason president Jeff Bezos. "We feel that other hazardous materials may come on line very soon, including oily mung and vials of anthrax!" www.ridiculopathy.com
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The CPU of the beastI thought only Intel made 666mHz processors...
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Ping me, baby. Ping me!Is that an rj-47 jack you've got in your Levi's or are you just happy to see me?
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end Western cultural imperialism (?)We will code in assembly language only with the system of tongue clicks and barks used by natives of the Amazon rainforest.
The Open-source is too consciously PC as it is. This looks like the same slippery slope argument that allows vegans to make fun of vegitarians.
www.ridiculopathy.com Tomorrow's update will concern how guilt-ridden Range-Rover-driving Democrats will protest their own convention, hoping to bring themselves to their knees.
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AOL for Linux meets an undercounted market...(?)What Linux AOL users are saying:
- "I want to use my tricked-out Land Rover as a golf cart."
- "Recompiling the kernel was no big deal - but the Internet is really hard."
- "At last! I can pretend to be a 12-year-old-girl and hang out in the Britney Spears chat rooms."
- "You've got stale."
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At hockey game/reform party convention breaks outPitchfork Pat rises again. In spite of their choice of server, this 3rd party's convention looked more like community theater than political theater.
Open-source is nice - closed nominating process is not. Bouncers turned away anyone who didn't support Pat "Ruler of the Pit" Buchanan.
Read the rest in friday's news update:
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Re:ridiculopathy.com to sue over ZERO Click Orderi
Here is the link to info about Zero Click Ordering. Enjoy.
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ridiculopathy.com to sue over ZERO Click Ordering
Zero Click Ordering is the ultimate in convenience - no more wasted time selecting a product to buy. You won't even be aware that you've purchased anything until you get our invoice. It's worked for the long distance industry for years and now WE own the patent- Suffer, Bezos, suffer! www.ridiculopathy.com
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Grandma can't grokHow long will it take for people to get over the idea of Unix being all things to all people? It's a great server OS- and some people use it on the desktop without problems because it fits their needs.
Why does anyone care what OS grandma is going to use on her web-pad? It's like arguing about the curtains on an oil rig. Forking for the sake of desktop market share will only serve to weaken the elements that made it strong to begin with.
[posted from an IRIX box]
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Apple sues everyone!
From now on, anyone purchasing an Apple product will be named in a reverse class-action suit. A court order will be packaged with the unit itself. www.ridiculopathy.com
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Impractical? Not if you have Popeye arms
No one mentioned that the watch would not be much of a minitaturization feat- the thing will weigh in at 40 lbs and have a 10"x12" footprint.
Basically it's a laptop with a wrist strap.
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Casio's monopoly _must_ be broken!
Let us gather together and rise up against the evil thick techno-watch monopoly, Casio! Damn you and your 80's synth watch complete with Samba _and_ samba2!!
Today on the rid: Napster in the Crapster
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Casio's monopoly _must_ be broken!
Let us gather together and rise up against the evil thick techno-watch monopoly, Casio! Damn you and your 80's synth watch complete with Samba _and_ samba2!!
Today on the rid: Napster in the Crapster
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Family Values Picnic Marred by Presence of The Man
A lot of us were hoping for a real old-school dust-up in Philly. There's a story at ridiculopathy.com on the subject, complete with faked-up images of Greoge W. in full riot gear.
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Apple's big secret: next iMac will be beige
They're marketing them by color now- the next "innovation" will be beige- and while we're also buying them by shape - it will be rectangular as well. How dare someone leak to the press the fact that Apple is still selling what amounts to their 1984 OS! www.ridiculopathy.com>www.ridiculopathy.com
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Casio is in BIG trouble
They not only use Samba as a rhythm pattern on all their way-kewl 80's synths, but they had the audacity to add - Samba 2 to the mix! "Boop boop. beep beep. Bah!(TM)" www.ridiculopathy.com
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when checking hotmail.com - spell it correctly.
otherwise, you'll end up with something you didn't expect and can't easily explain. check saturday's update for more: www.ridiculopathy.com
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This is how the Russians got the bombOppenheimer should have never given out those custom-printed shirts to the Los Alamos team members with exact instructions for purifying weapons grade plutonium.
forget one click ordering® - we've got zero click ordering®. www.ridiculopathy.com
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the market
The recording industry cannot dictate market conditions. Of course, they can pretend that they do. But people who buy music (yes, PAY for music) set the rules of the game. The napster/warez world may make headlines, but it won't budge the music industry one inch. The course of history is rarely influenced significantly by the activities of cheap bastards and thieves. If you want legal downloadable music, pay for it. convention coverage. satire. today: learn how to spot the naughty bits in your wife's romance novels. www.ridiculopathy.com
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What do you want to grow today?Genomics will get fat and monopolistic, releasing biennial genetic therapies: Cancer2005, Cancer2007 which will be incompatible. Also, there will be huge security holes, allowing script kiddies to ply their root kits on my genetic code...
Then someone will opensource the genome allowing folks to grow extra fingers to post to
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50k tech employees losing their jobs - a myth?It's fun to take an antithetical position to generate hits.
If it's a thesis that is obviously misguided but overly long, people won't read it all and will assume that the author is super-smart.
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All cultures are self-designing, self-regulatoryYou cannot design an on-line community. You can write software and move buttons around. But the part that makes it an actual community is under no single person or group's control.
Cultures change in the same way that languages do. They regulate themselves. "Ain't" may not be officially a word, but if you know what it means, then it certainly is.
Talk to a member of the Academie Francaise. As representatives of the French government, they want to decide what is and what is not propper for the language- and here's the kicker- they back it up with laws to that effect. It is not legal, for example, to inject an Americanised French word in an official document. Germany's recent foray into spelling reform is another example.
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Tommy Hilfiger knows: people steal stuff they likeWithout bootlegs, who would know about Nick Drake? The Grateful Dead built a fan base larger than the population of the Roman empire by not agressively persuing user-level copyright violations.
Sure, stealing is stealing. But those guys on MTV with their "FU*K NAPSTER" t-shirts are just using the service as an excuse for poor record sales. Memo to Metalica: you're a VH-1 act now and nobody likes you.
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Tommy Hilfiger knows: people steal stuff they likeWithout bootlegs, who would know about Nick Drake? The Grateful Dead built a fan base larger than the population of the Roman empire by not agressively persuing user-level copyright violations.
Sure, stealing is stealing. But those guys on MTV with their "FU*K NAPSTER" t-shirts are just using the service as an excuse for poor record sales. Memo to Metalica: you're a VH-1 act now and nobody likes you.
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Tommy Hilfiger knows: people steal stuff they likeWithout bootlegs, who would know about Nick Drake? The Grateful Dead built a fan base larger than the population of the Roman empire by not agressively persuing user-level copyright violations.
Sure, stealing is stealing. But those guys on MTV with their "FU*K NAPSTER" t-shirts are just using the service as an excuse for poor record sales. Memo to Metalica: you're a VH-1 act now and nobody likes you.