Youtube, Google Video, etc; aren't captioned at all. It'd be great if videos were captioned- it'd also serve as a nice way for people to browse those sites at work without having to deal with people overhearing the videos.
You know what this guy sounds like? "Science is a threat"?
Sounds like a religious crusader to me. It's the exact same thing: "the majority must be right, nevermind that the experts who have spent years studying the subject specifically say the majority is wrong!"
"If we can't restrict the use (of the two obscenities) during prime time, Hollywood will be able to say anything they want, whenever they want."
Good. Fuck you. They should be able to say anything they want, whenever they want. Read the First Amendment sometime.
There's a reason I despise the Republican party. If you guessed "stripping away our constitutional rights for the sake of catering to the moral majority/religious right" you win.
"Start your own company and do it yourself?"
The market is saturated- there's already a large number of major OEM computer manufacturers. Trying to reach that level from scratch isn't going to work. That's like saying "You don't like Coca-Cola or Pepsi? Start your own soda company then." It's wholly impractical and simply dodges the issue.
Excellent point. I wish games indicated how you were supposed to orient the controllers. To use warioware terminology, it appears that Zelda wants the Nunchuck in "The Diner A" whereas it wants the Wiimote in "The Diner B" (or "The Remote Control"). This makes sense from a 'sword and shield' perspective.
Madden '07 wants it in "The Diner B"- both wiimote and nunchuck horizontal, otherwise you end up doing a tackle boost when you want to jump to catch a ball.
The problem with the BSD License was not that you had to mention Berkeley. The problem was that you had to mention UC Berkeley, then John Smith kept the clause in there so you have to name him, and then you have to name Nick Johnson, then you have to name.... you get the idea.
Well, yes, but you won't get it in a cooking recipe form. Consider an apple- you'd get things like "fructose", "sodium", etc. You wouldn't point it at an apple and get "apple". It'd take a lot more effort to do what you suggest than you think.
Watching the video, I couldn't help but notice that this lacked arms. It strikes me as rather odd to see this, because arms are one of the key features of human balance, but then again they do make for more variables.
Congratulations, sir. You've just shown to me just how important the frame of mind is. I'm taking a lesson from this, one almost worthy of the Tao of Computing.
you might be a little happy that what you paid for others can't get for free.
Why would I care? The value of the program lies in what it does for me- if I thought it was worth $50 (or whatever), I'd buy it. If I didn't, I wouldn't buy it.
I'm not paying $50 so "nobody else can use this program for free". I'm paying $50 for whatever the software's functionality is.
You're speaking of schadenfreude at its worst.
I wouldn't call the GB Color over the GB Pocket minor.
I wouldn't call a properly-lit screen (SP) over the GBA's terrible screen "minor"- portablemonopoly existed for a reason.
They're not even telling us what Wii 2 is going to have as an update- if it's simply HDTV support, that's tolerable (for me at least). If it's something that drastically improves the Wii- something on par with the color graphics or the SP light- then Nintendo can fuck off for screwing over everyone that bought one this year.
They could at least have had the decency to say "we're considering changing the wii hardware" ahead of time so people could make an informed decision rather than get pwned after spending approx $400 on the system, controllers, and games.
The game boy pocket was quite a few years after the original game boy, so I'll pass on that. However, people who got it had no idea there was a GB Color upcoming. People who got a GB Advance had no idea Nintendo would release a version that not only was rechargeable but had a light in less than two years. DS, late 2004. People had no idea that they would make a version with better brightness in early 2006.
So basically, people are getting screwed over because Nintendo releases a better version in less than 2 years, and they have no way to anticipate it. I'm a bit pissed that I had no way of knowing Nintendo would release a better Wii in a couple years instead of the usual 5 or so for consoles, and not only that, we're not even being told what new features it's going to have.
Nintendo should be telling us this stuff to start with, and letting the consumer make an informed decision.
New hardware? Gah. The abominable hardware upgrade tactics they used on the game boy (2-3 versions of each!) really shouldn't be taken to the console market.
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Yes. You shouldn't use automatix at all.
/etc/apt/sources.list
gksudo gedit
Make the lines have this ending:
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty restricted main universe multiverse
Uh... if it was compressed by itself, how would anyone else ever decompress it to use it?
Probably because it has to be bundled in with GTK for windows.
That'd be all well and good if everyone started out on the same footing, but unfortunately inheritance gets in the way there.
The only reason they oppose embryonic stem cells is because of the possibility of it affecting abortion case law.
Of course, they'll likely decide this is the work of satan because it could maybe lend credence to "evilution".
The *real* problem here is religion.
"There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven."- Robert Green Ingersoll
Youtube, Google Video, etc; aren't captioned at all. It'd be great if videos were captioned- it'd also serve as a nice way for people to browse those sites at work without having to deal with people overhearing the videos.
Google should get on it.
Cue the FUD comments about Linux and Communism now. :(
You know what this guy sounds like? "Science is a threat"?
Sounds like a religious crusader to me. It's the exact same thing: "the majority must be right, nevermind that the experts who have spent years studying the subject specifically say the majority is wrong!"
Why do you still see ads at all? I almost never see ads, and those I do, I only see once.
"If we can't restrict the use (of the two obscenities) during prime time, Hollywood will be able to say anything they want, whenever they want."
Good. Fuck you. They should be able to say anything they want, whenever they want. Read the First Amendment sometime.
There's a reason I despise the Republican party. If you guessed "stripping away our constitutional rights for the sake of catering to the moral majority/religious right" you win.
If you need to be able to see your keyboard to type, you're doing it wrong.
"Start your own company and do it yourself?" The market is saturated- there's already a large number of major OEM computer manufacturers. Trying to reach that level from scratch isn't going to work. That's like saying "You don't like Coca-Cola or Pepsi? Start your own soda company then." It's wholly impractical and simply dodges the issue.
Blu-ray wasn't hacked. The guy who did it implemented the actual specification. So it wasn't "hacked", it was "unpermissibly implemented."
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to gargle with some bleach to clean the marketroid speak out of my mouth.
Excellent point. I wish games indicated how you were supposed to orient the controllers. To use warioware terminology, it appears that Zelda wants the Nunchuck in "The Diner A" whereas it wants the Wiimote in "The Diner B" (or "The Remote Control"). This makes sense from a 'sword and shield' perspective.
Madden '07 wants it in "The Diner B"- both wiimote and nunchuck horizontal, otherwise you end up doing a tackle boost when you want to jump to catch a ball.
The problem with the BSD License was not that you had to mention Berkeley. The problem was that you had to mention UC Berkeley, then John Smith kept the clause in there so you have to name him, and then you have to name Nick Johnson, then you have to name .... you get the idea.
If that were factual, Microsoft would make sure that all GNUs are extinct the day after the next Patch Tuesday.
Well, yes, but you won't get it in a cooking recipe form.
Consider an apple- you'd get things like "fructose", "sodium", etc. You wouldn't point it at an apple and get "apple". It'd take a lot more effort to do what you suggest than you think.
Watching the video, I couldn't help but notice that this lacked arms. It strikes me as rather odd to see this, because arms are one of the key features of human balance, but then again they do make for more variables.
Regardless, this is excellent to see.
Plain text that would cost them billions to decrypt unless they've got a working quantum computer. You're prematurely paranoid.
Congratulations, sir. You've just shown to me just how important the frame of mind is. I'm taking a lesson from this, one almost worthy of the Tao of Computing.
Why would I care? The value of the program lies in what it does for me- if I thought it was worth $50 (or whatever), I'd buy it. If I didn't, I wouldn't buy it.
I'm not paying $50 so "nobody else can use this program for free". I'm paying $50 for whatever the software's functionality is.
You're speaking of schadenfreude at its worst.
I wouldn't call the GB Color over the GB Pocket minor. I wouldn't call a properly-lit screen (SP) over the GBA's terrible screen "minor"- portablemonopoly existed for a reason. They're not even telling us what Wii 2 is going to have as an update- if it's simply HDTV support, that's tolerable (for me at least). If it's something that drastically improves the Wii- something on par with the color graphics or the SP light- then Nintendo can fuck off for screwing over everyone that bought one this year. They could at least have had the decency to say "we're considering changing the wii hardware" ahead of time so people could make an informed decision rather than get pwned after spending approx $400 on the system, controllers, and games.
The game boy pocket was quite a few years after the original game boy, so I'll pass on that. However, people who got it had no idea there was a GB Color upcoming.
People who got a GB Advance had no idea Nintendo would release a version that not only was rechargeable but had a light in less than two years.
DS, late 2004. People had no idea that they would make a version with better brightness in early 2006.
So basically, people are getting screwed over because Nintendo releases a better version in less than 2 years, and they have no way to anticipate it. I'm a bit pissed that I had no way of knowing Nintendo would release a better Wii in a couple years instead of the usual 5 or so for consoles, and not only that, we're not even being told what new features it's going to have.
Nintendo should be telling us this stuff to start with, and letting the consumer make an informed decision.
New hardware? Gah. The abominable hardware upgrade tactics they used on the game boy (2-3 versions of each!) really shouldn't be taken to the console market.
See also: "Ballmer repeats threats against Linux" thread below.