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The CPL themselves, when they deigned to talk to us mere mortals, came across as arrogant, dictatorial, fickle and often highly irrational. They're intensely sensitive of criticism and think nothing of throwing their weight around. Fortunately, my direct dealings with them have been very limited, but I've heard frequent horror stories from players, sponsors and even those who won their competitions.

The CPL themselves, when they deigned to talk to us mere mortals, came across as arrogant, dictatorial, fickle and often highly irrational. They're intensely sensitive of criticism and think nothing of throwing their weight around. Fortunately, my direct dealings with them have been very limited, but I've heard frequent horror stories from players, sponsors and even those who won their competitions.

Offtopic, but your post doesn't make sense unless you include the plot

From the link, "The plot of the game is simple: aliens from Jupiter want to wipe out the humans because a human Jupiter probe killed a good number of aliens."

Unreal Tournament 2003 will be a great boon to machinema artists, from what I've seen. During their UT2003 Mod Summit, they previewed a lot their tools for movie and cut-scene production. Matinee is the UT2k3 component that movie makers will be able to use in order to execute tailored bot scripts and set up special time- or animation-related notifications to trigger specific events. I'm not really into that kind of stuff myself, but what I saw did look very useful and very powerful. Now if we can all get easy access to the kind of motion-capture systems the industry has....

A very lengthy review

Hahahaha! Hahahaha! Haahahahahaha!

Ahem. Hehehe.

If this ever happened, I might pay *JUST* to see integrity on Slashdot.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH! HEHEHEHEEH!
Bad Mojo

...is a helicopter.

Now that we've clouded the issue with facts, let's all move along.

Bad Mojo

I suppose slander or yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is covered under this freedom? It's free speech, right?

NO! Just as much as the Pro-Censorship movement spends time miring it's followers in propaganda, so, too, do the free speech advocates. Not all speech is free. Get used to it. Suck it up and deal with it. You may have the right to say what you want in the US, but don't assume it's always protected as free speech.

I'm sick of this polarization of us vs. them in my society. Call me a realist, but everything has it's limits.

Bad Mojo

The point is that it is written in Java and works on Solaris, AIX, and Windows. Linux support is a side effect as much as a profit making venture.

Bad Mojo

Why didn't they use this tactic against Napster? At least they aren't attacking the tool and are focusing on the people violating the law. What possible excuse could the MPAA have for treating Gnutella different other than, "We could attack the tool with Napster." Bah.

Bad Mojo

You, my friend, are an idiot.

Any casual observer who was familiar with the games mentioned would realize that the source code had NOTHING to do with the explosion of the mod comunity that id helped foster. People were creating mods and `hacking' Doom long before id even thought about releasing the source code.

Releasing the source to those games might have been a bad idea, but that is not the point of the post you are responding to.

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A TON? Maybe you aren't applying it in the most optimum fasion.

Bad Mojo

Last time I checked, SlashDot was not beholden to you or anyone else insofar as what gets posted as news items. The whim of Taco is enough to determine what we see and what we don't. And just as you have the right to bitch about it, you don't see everyone else clamoring to try and force you to make a worthy post (which you havn't).

If you don't like reading these news articles, STOP READING SLASHDOT you MORON! No one is MAKING you stay here and frankly the entire /. community would be better off if you LEFT! So pack your sand filled pussy up and GET THE HELL OUT!

P.S.: I appologize for not using the word "fuck" more in my posts. All praise to Lewis Black.


Bad Mojo

Now you're trying to to read way too much into that analogy.

"Please think about things before you make a non-sensical comparison."

No way. I know you're trying to make a difference in the world or something, but someday you will realize that the world makes NO SENSE to begin with. So stop trying to stuff me into your idea of what makes sense and get on with your life so I can get on with my own. Thank you.

Bad Mojo

I purchased a car that they said would work great with the 91+ Octane gasoline. I didn't like that octane gasoline, so I put jet fuel in the car. Now the car won't work and after I sent it to the shop, it's back with parts missing. What is wrong with ?!?! What ever happened to service?

Moral of the story? None really. Just be glad it's VA and not IBM. IBM would have just told you to stick the server up your butt after hearing you installed Mandrake.

Bad Mojo

"I mean, just stopping buying CDs isn't going to do it, we need some kind of way to elt them know that we're consciously choosing not to buy CDs because of their lameness quotient."

This is a valid point. If the RIAA doesn't know there is a boycott, they will figure the loss in sales is due to gnutella or other illegal forms of music trading.

Bad Mojo

"Although I agree that Counterstrike is played by more people and that you can shoot through walls, the best gamers play Quake 3 (as evidenced by the CPL), and because of that, everyone's looking for a little advantage."

What you say about the `best' gamers is not unlike saying "the best athletes play football (as evidenced by the SuperBowl)". When you get that foot out of your mouth, try to think about what you say before you start talking again.

Bad Mojo

Dare I ask? Do you even WORK at IBM?


Bad Mojo

Pay attention to my final remark. SoF does NOT show what ACTUALLY happens when you shoot someone. Sure, it's more realistic than Quake III, but it is NOT REAL! Study some ballistics and review some coroner reports of gunshot victims and you'll discover something. A gunshot is not just getting shot and turning gorey. There are complicated physics and sometimes very unexpected physical results. Most people shot with a simple handgun in the stomach do not spill their guts. People shot in the head don't fall down slowly. These are only a FEW of the differences I could note.

Bad Mojo

I realize I said "banning the game" when I meant to say "banning the sale of this game to minors". Sorry about that.

Bad Mojo

So I'll post about the actual game, SoF. I have played it. I have also played many other recent PC games that are somewhat violent in nature. I don't think that banning minors from buying SoF is such a bad idea. SoF is not a good game, but it does do one thing well. It depicts violence pretty graphically. Commendable. You can shoot people in the stomach and watch they intestines fall out. You can shoot them in the knee and watch them hop around in pain. You can even blow half their head off and eye the gorey remains of half a human head. WOO! Is it any substitute for good gameplay? NO WAY! I am starting to believe that SoF was made just to show how realistic PC game violence can be, and see how hot it sells a mediocre game.

Is banning the game the best long term solution to keep small children from turning into killers? No. This is a fix to a symptom. Instead of parents caring what their kids play, the government is having to step in and force the parents to buy the game for them, or turn the kids towards pirating the game. Once again, our complex society has done and end-run on some people who thought they were making a good decision. Those who do not comprehend their own lack of control over a complex system, are doomed to be at its mercy.

P.S.: Anyone who thinks that a video game(console, PC, or arcade) is a training simulator has either never played one, or never been on an actual killing spree.

Bad Mojo

"Unless there was a rule that only applied to me and it was really cool. I might like that one."

Now you know why I like my rules! And you are free to take mine, re-arrange them to fit you, and use them. ;)

Bad Mojo

I submit that this is going to be the leading edge of `civilizing' the net. Us heathens and blood thirsty animals will need to be `saved' from our own desires. Microsoft is going to become the Catholic church of the internet if it isn't allready. I think King Gates is gearing up for Crusade v1.0.

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So where are the pictures of the cute booth babes?
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Ok, you're using my rules to create a truth that applies to other people. All I am saying is that if you have first hand experience that penicillin is bad for you, don't let someone else say penicillin is good for you. I think you're reading a tad too much into them. ;)

Besides, these are simple rules from ME. Don't trust me to tell you the truth when you have experienced different. Aren't those rules cool like that? Hehehe.

Bad Mojo

1) Just because there is a world full of information, doesn't mean you need to sort and access all of it.

2) There are millions of items of information you will never need to know.

3) You will not see everything or know everything before you die.

4) You should learn to make sense of things you witness firsthand before you take the word of another person.

5) No matter how much you trust someone else to tell you something (be it `sensemakers' or the media at large), don't trust them as much as you trust what you know from your own experience.

6) Realize that when group X tells group Y what you know and gets it wrong, that what group X tells you about group Y is also suspect.

I'm sure this is redundant and simple, but I find most people don't know how to do this. Then when they hit the net and get inundated with info, they fold faster than superman on laundry day.

Bad Mojo

Just a reminder. For every scientific advancement that brings us closer to a (1984|Brave New World|Logan's Run|etc) future, there will always be a few of us freaks who will refuse to do as we're told. We'll escape, find weapons, learn to pilot harrier jets (or something similar) and come back and free everyone.

We owe it to the world to make sure that if `unlikely horrible technology driven society' comes to pass, that `unlikely rebel hero saviors' will exist. Am I right or am I right?

Bad Mojo

I don't care, I just want a hottie in a short skirt. And if that means genetic engineering, then so be it!


Bad Mojo

Do we realy need to hire someone to dig up dirt on MS? That's like trying to find out if President Clinton is cheating on his wife. DUH!

Now, digging up more dirt on MS allies ... that could still be worth something. Who knows?

P.S.: I don't mind MS doing this type of stuff either. But then, I don't think MS could make me look any worse than I do. ;)

Bad Mojo

How about keeping it at the level of:

Hardware you can touch and pickup and throw.
Software you can't (unles you turn it into HARDcopy).


Bad Mojo

If you were a real scientist, you would have realized that there is a door in the back of each dryer which leads to another dimension. Offhandedly refered to as the `lost sock dimension', this place is chock full of the stuff we lose in the dryer. Not to mention a ton of lint.

The lord of this domain is a large createure I grew in my bathtub. I placed a peice of white bread over the drain and proceded to take showers (as normal) daily. The skin cells washed off during the normal task of washing collected in the bread, a matrix if you will. Eventually the cells started to create a new organism that quickly grew to about my height and became sentient. In trying to get rid of the `creature', I stuffed it into the dryer, making a weird situation even weirder.

Anyways! To make a long story meaningless, I appologize for the lord of the lost sock dimension, but I feel my scientific exploration more than justifies any loss of life. Or loss of socks for that matter.

Bad Mojo

"IMO if you read the general opinion on Slashdot (which is at least an attempt to listen to the whole community, rather than one self-appointed spokesman), it becomes obvious that on at least some issues ESR represents a small minority opinion."

I think that by your logic, using Slashdot to get a consensus of the general Hacker opinion is no different that getting it from ESR. IMHO of course.

Bad Mojo

"We'll stampede to a new leader. But it could be months or years before the talking heads notice. It took them years to notice that we existed in the first place."

I submit that this is a problem with media that has no true intrest or ties to the community it is reporting on/about. Even other groups have this problem, and I'm sure we won't be the first to deal with it.

"Bad Mojo is right."

Can I quote you on that? You know, for when I run for mouthpeice of the movement? Hehehe.

Bad Mojo

No, because chances are very good that what ESR says is what most hackers think. People like ESR and RMS don't get their ability to be heard from their own power, we attribute it to them.

If you are going to be annoyed, go be annoyed at elected officials telling you what you think. Or get mad at the media for telling you what laws you break and what a horrible person you are as a hacker. Go be annoyed with society or something. But don't try to construct ESR as `the man'. Last I checked, ESR was viewed as typical hacker with ideas that lined up pretty well with a good many open source and free software people out there.

When that changes, I'm sure the majority will finger some other willing soul to be a mouthpiece for the movement. Maybe even you.

Bad Mojo

"Expensive boxes: Quake3 Arena. OK. It looked cool. But why did the box need to be made out of metal! This one was even worse: two guys I worked with at the time BOUGHT Q3A soley to get the metal box."

This was the collectors edition. It was NOT the regular Q3A box. Most people purchased the regular paper box and NOT the metal box.

Boy, you go and get the collectors edition of a game and complain about it? Geesh. What is the world coming to?

Bad Mojo

"Try Heavy Metal."

OMG. I've seen 3rd graders draw better art than Heavy Metal. Actually, imagine the artistic ability of a 3rd grader and the hormones of a 15 year old boy run amok.

Sometimes I wonder how they made the movie with all the crayon eating going on.

Bad Mojo

I have been really looking forward to HALO. Bungie seemed like a group who seriously took their fans opinions to heart. If they decide to release HALO only for the XBox, I'll feel seriously betrayed. Bungie has had a very die hard following of Mac and PC users ever since HALO has been announced and if Bungie suffers for ditching those people in order to get more `say' on how the XBox is created, then so be it.

Oh well, there are other games coming out. I'm sure someone can fill Bungies shoes in the PC/Mac arena.

Bad Mojo

There are other things besides sheer power that make people choose one architecture over another. Often times availability and cost are much more important, especially to the Linux geek (IMHO). Other `geek' factors play in as well as just raw speed pulsing inside the heart of your machine.

x86 is fairly cheap, highly available, and easily self servicable. Therefore it is a quasi jack of all trades, master of none. That's not a bad thing in my book.

Bad Mojo

I disagree. Purchasing an RS/6000 is a sure way to have your soul consumed. Therefore I say it is a consumer product.

Bad Mojo

It was John Romero's head on a stake. Perhaps an omen of things to come?


Bad Mojo

From my understanding, there is no way to know for sure what a wide spread deployment of solar cells may do to the Earth. In any situation, the Earth is a system that gains energy from the Sun and we just move energy and matter arround down here on the surface. It's just that when we burn fossil fuels, we end up moving the matter into a form that isn't good for some aspects of the Earth system. Wether solar or wind power would do the same is unknown, but I'm sure willing to find out.

Contrary to popular opinion, the unknown is a better choice than certain doom.

Bad Mojo

Would we really be taking energy out of the system? Or just moving it? All the windmills in the world would only act as trees do when it comes to removing wind energy from the atmosphere. No problem there, we could make up for all those trees we cut down. And paving more land could generate more wind. And solar power is just eleminating the middle man and getting power direct. No problem there that I can see.

Bad Mojo

Damn the squirrels! Full speed ahead!

Bad Mojo

I stand corrected.

I won't argue that to get the full value of using Linux, you need to be a sysadmin. But to say that will never change is a bit short sighted IMO. If Caldera has its way, Linux will come in a distro easier to use than Windows. There are questions about its usefulness, but that's a dead horse of a different color to beat later.


Bad Mojo

No article that I have seen has gone into much depth over this fact. But unless they are killing the gecko, am I to believe that they can survive in a vacuum? Is this the next animal set to destroy our species and rule the planet? Let's just hope no one breeds these things with Komodo Dragons.

Bad Mojo

Ok, you need to examine the source of the quote and why it was said. JWZ said this in the early '90s when setting up Linux to do development work wasn't quick and painless. It also wasn't the best OS at the time to be writing apps for. So, in this sense, he was correct. His time was worth money and messing with Linux at the time was wasting his time. Not to mention that this is all HIS opinion from HIS experience.

Nowadays he doesn't hold the same opinion from what I've heard. I go through all the trouble of explaining that soundbites are USELESS in a serious debate and yet you sit down and try to argue against a soundbite when you, obviously, didn't read my post or understand WHY or WHEN JWZ said what he did.

Honestly, think before you post.


Bad Mojo

Basically your describing using anonymity as a tool for Free Speech, not anonymity to escape prosecution. Anonymity is a tool, not a basic right of being human like we take Free Speech to be. 'nuff said.


Bad Mojo

In reality? The same thing that kept Microsoft from violating the laws they were found guilty of today. That is to say, nothing except the threat of litigation from the government.


Bad Mojo

Well, I would take it with a grain of reality. Linux is more difficult for most people out there to understand and work with. It's also his opinion about Linux in a very short, very shallow interview. It's like when JWZ said "Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing." I can't say I totally disagree with that idea. But the issue and intent are always more complex than a sound bite can ever convey.


Bad Mojo

I have taken Rombuu's summary of Jon's article and run it through my patented RPS filter of Death to create a summary. Enjoy ...

CULTURE BAD! I SUCK! WAH! GAMES GOOD! I SUCK AT QUAKE! VALIDATE ME! WAH!

Thank you.

Bad Mojo