I've been a huge fan of the Ultima games, and even besides that Origin used to put out good, wacky stuff. (rembember Tangled Tales?)
The last few Ultima offerings were pretty poor in comparison, (I'm a big fan of Ultima VI, and everything before that) so I hope that Lord British brings us some new, original stuff. (even if it isn't Ultima)
Damn you, Slashdot. You finally put out a story I'm interested in, and now I can't wait! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Just wait until some cop or politician or something in India gets their history published all over the tabloids.
Even if it's fake, people will soon see that stupid technology like this cuts both ways, and can easily turn on its implementors.... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Don't worry, you'll hear from the consumers soon enough.
I've got a copy of Windows XP Beta 2 from my University, and it annoys me greatly that I can't disable MSN Messenger.
I don't use it, I don't have an account, I don't want it. And yet, it runs on startup. Even if I try to get rid of it. And now msconfig does too, for no apparent reason.
It's bothersome, not helpful. The last thing I need is more crap automatically running whenever I login. Crap I don't use. Crap I don't want. Microsoft.
Good thing I never boot into Windows XP.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I didn't think I'd see the day when someone got actual content posted on Slashdot.
Or, for that matter, that you'd post a Java article that I thought was somewhat interesting and useful...:)
Anyhow, wouldn't it be easier to integrate all this with C? Especially considering the huge body of existing code, and the well-known primitives involved.
And are there any less proprietary OODBMSes out there that anyone would recommend? --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
The entire reason that.mp3's were successful is that encoders, data, and players, regardless of their legality, became easy to find and use. That made it a de-facto standard.
No content service gets more users by censoring them, or restricting their rights; it's quite the opposite, really. They get more users *either* by dumping lots of money into advertising, and squashing their competitors, and keeping their service closed, (see AOL, Microsoft, MSN, and now Napster...) *or* by letting their service, integrity and reputation do their advertising for them. (a great example of this is google)
...and given a choice between the two kinds of companies, I'd always pick the latter. Unfortunately, people who don't know enough to ignore the advertising or find the alternatives will back the former, and more's the pity. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
That's what 'anonymous' means, and it's about time someone realized that.
My question is, does the judge care about privacy, i.e., would he do the same thing if the company in question was Microsoft, or if the.com's were still successful.
I know we still have some good judges out there, but commercial interests are rapidly taking over our gov't, and I don't think our judicial system alone will be enough to salvage it. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
That's actually pretty funny. And I'd like it if you kept posting articles with such decent explanations and interesting articles.
But then, how could I distinguish Slashdot from, say, The Onion, or BBSpot, or other weblogs with such high journalistic standards? --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Unfortunately, that doesn't give me much more information. It did load eventually, though.
However: download PDF files? Bah. And they call themselves "on the web". In my day, we had HTML documents. And content that wasn't marketing gibberish...
pb is obviously an old, crotchety websurfer, from 1994. (and a BBSer before that...) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Exactly. That's almost as worthless as the original description, and definitely worse than writing a coherent story submission.
Oh, and by the way: what do you call a suggestion to raise the bar of "Slashdot Journalism"? Troll, of course!
For bonus points, why is it a troll? Because "Slashdot Journalism" is a made-up phrase; it doesn't exist! Therefore, anyone who mentions it is obviously trolling. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Although that's not really acceptable for a released, commercial processor, I must say that it sure beats overheating!
Why can't processors dynamically adjust their clock speed based on temperature in the first place? Transmeta does this somewhat, but it'd be nice if my chip could overclock itself, insofar as that is safe.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
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Yea, you're right. I was, of course, writing a reply to a slashdot review of a movie by Katz, instead of going to see the movie in question.
However, no movie theaters in my area seem to be showing the movie in question, so it seems that it would be unlikely for me to have seen it. I could similarly harangue you to "check the listings in my area before you post a useless reply", but that would be equally pointless.
However, if you think it was a good mystery, then maybe I'll rent it sometime, or even see it in the theater if it catches on the way CTHD did... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
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There's a fine line between "think" and "intentionally confuse".
If Hollywood wanted to make me think, they could give me a traditional mystery, with some complex characters and interaction.
If they wanted to, instead, intentionally confuse me, they could run the whole thing backwards.
It sounds like they tried to do both, and put it in a blender for a while. And I'm not sure if I like that yet.
And I have no idea where you get off with the "politically correct" "Steven Seagal movie" bit, but I'm curious.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Those Makefiles run as root on your system, and can therefore do anything, bla bla bla.
Besides, all an rpm file is, is a fancy cpio archive. You can rip it apart and not let rpm do anything extra. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Yea, I found it, eventually. No help from slashdot, though. A.I. is such a generic term that "AI Movie Promo" doesn't help me. I mean, shit, that could be "Short Circuit 3", for all I know.
You're right about that movie file: "Sorensen Codec, Unsupported"
The IMDB has links to different trailers, as well. But I already posted a link to the official site, and if Slashdot can't be bothered to tell people WTF they're reporting on, then I sure as hell can't be anymore... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Is the thing in the second frame the name of the movie?
How about a link to the IMDB instead?
Christ. If this is journalism, then I'll just read M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead for news.
P.S. Whatever the codec is for that.AVI, it's unsupported in XAnim. So could you please just *tell* me something about the movie in a coherent fashion this time? --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Sorry, Ben; I couldn't find an easy way to get to the source, but google could.
Perhaps in the future you might consider using a robots.txt file to help restrict this as well?
Since it doesn't look like I'll be able to build this on Linux easily, you won't have to worry about my copy of the source.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
It's not a problem, and it's easily explained. Most likely, there is no vast conspiracy at work here.
First, AmIHotOrNot does calculate your percentiles against everyone else; they probably all have a similar distribution.
Second, that spike is probably from people who load up the site with both "Girls and Guys" and don't notice, when they only want one or the other. They get to your picture, give you a 1, and switch to Girls only...
But whatever the case, assuming no one is out to get you, the percentiles should still be pretty fair, and accurate insofar as they compare you to the rest of the people on AmIHotOrNot...
And if it were 'just a site about rating women', it would probably still belong on Slashdot. Slashdot posts what the editors want to post. Period. "News for Slashdot Editors, Stuff that they think is cool." They've said this on several occasions. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Hahah, cool. I've been here for about five years now. If you're curious, drop me an e-mail, and I'll tell you what's messed up with the Realm now, and why.
Basically the platforms on campus are Solaris, Windows NT, and Linux, and none of them are standardized. It used to be that at least any Unix on the realm mapped to the same sort of locker space, but now it's pretty messed up... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Actually, I think we will have at least E-Bay and Paypal in a year or so, if they don't fuck it up. I'm not so sure about Amazon, but they'll probably still be there too.
But, more to the point, there will always be work for people who fill that same economic niche, and I think there is a niche there now.
And yes, there have been times like that, it depends on external history, and you're exaggerating greatly. Prohibition, cocaine, and stuff like that are good examples. Even the stock market (NASDAQ and tech stuff) hasn't gone down by more than 60% since its peak; certainly not 99.4%
And of course they're tired of $20/month dialup; that's because dialup is slow. They're getting cable modems or DSL. They're all addicted to e-mail, have websites, and have favorite websites. Some of them are on lists, and some of them use chat programs. And I'm not even talking about the geeks I know here...
Oh. Nice post, and I have to ask: why are you still here? If there's any has-been site that should be mentioned here, it's SLASHDOT.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been a huge fan of the Ultima games, and even besides that Origin used to put out good, wacky stuff. (rembember Tangled Tales?)
The last few Ultima offerings were pretty poor in comparison, (I'm a big fan of Ultima VI, and everything before that) so I hope that Lord British brings us some new, original stuff. (even if it isn't Ultima)
Damn you, Slashdot. You finally put out a story I'm interested in, and now I can't wait!
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Just wait until some cop or politician or something in India gets their history published all over the tabloids.
Even if it's fake, people will soon see that stupid technology like this cuts both ways, and can easily turn on its implementors....
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Don't worry, you'll hear from the consumers soon enough.
:)
I've got a copy of Windows XP Beta 2 from my University, and it annoys me greatly that I can't disable MSN Messenger.
I don't use it, I don't have an account, I don't want it. And yet, it runs on startup. Even if I try to get rid of it. And now msconfig does too, for no apparent reason.
It's bothersome, not helpful. The last thing I need is more crap automatically running whenever I login. Crap I don't use. Crap I don't want. Microsoft.
Good thing I never boot into Windows XP.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Great job, Carnage4Life!
:)
I didn't think I'd see the day when someone got actual content posted on Slashdot.
Or, for that matter, that you'd post a Java article that I thought was somewhat interesting and useful...
Anyhow, wouldn't it be easier to integrate all this with C? Especially considering the huge body of existing code, and the well-known primitives involved.
And are there any less proprietary OODBMSes out there that anyone would recommend?
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Then don't use Napster, silly!
.mp3's were successful is that encoders, data, and players, regardless of their legality, became easy to find and use. That made it a de-facto standard.
The entire reason that
No content service gets more users by censoring them, or restricting their rights; it's quite the opposite, really. They get more users *either* by dumping lots of money into advertising, and squashing their competitors, and keeping their service closed, (see AOL, Microsoft, MSN, and now Napster...) *or* by letting their service, integrity and reputation do their advertising for them. (a great example of this is google)
...and given a choice between the two kinds of companies, I'd always pick the latter. Unfortunately, people who don't know enough to ignore the advertising or find the alternatives will back the former, and more's the pity.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
That's what 'anonymous' means, and it's about time someone realized that.
.com's were still successful.
My question is, does the judge care about privacy, i.e., would he do the same thing if the company in question was Microsoft, or if the
I know we still have some good judges out there, but commercial interests are rapidly taking over our gov't, and I don't think our judicial system alone will be enough to salvage it.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
That's actually pretty funny. And I'd like it if you kept posting articles with such decent explanations and interesting articles.
But then, how could I distinguish Slashdot from, say, The Onion, or BBSpot, or other weblogs with such high journalistic standards?
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Unfortunately, that doesn't give me much more information. It did load eventually, though.
However: download PDF files? Bah. And they call themselves "on the web". In my day, we had HTML documents. And content that wasn't marketing gibberish...
pb is obviously an old, crotchety websurfer, from 1994. (and a BBSer before that...)
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Exactly. That's almost as worthless as the original description, and definitely worse than writing a coherent story submission.
Oh, and by the way: what do you call a suggestion to raise the bar of "Slashdot Journalism"? Troll, of course!
For bonus points, why is it a troll? Because "Slashdot Journalism" is a made-up phrase; it doesn't exist! Therefore, anyone who mentions it is obviously trolling.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Similarly, that post deserved your -2 Bonus. :)
And yea, they obviously rushed this one even more than usual. Intel sucks...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Although that's not really acceptable for a released, commercial processor, I must say that it sure beats overheating!
:)
Why can't processors dynamically adjust their clock speed based on temperature in the first place? Transmeta does this somewhat, but it'd be nice if my chip could overclock itself, insofar as that is safe.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Yea, you're right. I was, of course, writing a reply to a slashdot review of a movie by Katz, instead of going to see the movie in question.
However, no movie theaters in my area seem to be showing the movie in question, so it seems that it would be unlikely for me to have seen it. I could similarly harangue you to "check the listings in my area before you post a useless reply", but that would be equally pointless.
However, if you think it was a good mystery, then maybe I'll rent it sometime, or even see it in the theater if it catches on the way CTHD did...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
There's a fine line between "think" and "intentionally confuse".
:)
If Hollywood wanted to make me think, they could give me a traditional mystery, with some complex characters and interaction.
If they wanted to, instead, intentionally confuse me, they could run the whole thing backwards.
It sounds like they tried to do both, and put it in a blender for a while. And I'm not sure if I like that yet.
And I have no idea where you get off with the "politically correct" "Steven Seagal movie" bit, but I'm curious.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
What, so now I should pay Katz?
:)
I'm sorry, but after Columbine, I don't think I could afford it.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
What a great idea: harrass the audience by not telling them the story in a straightforward manner.
So... if we don't understand it all, can we pay half-price?
Similarly, I'm glad I read your content for free, Katz!
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
These plans are always sketchy, but I'd love to see a Linux PDA.
More importantly, I'd love to see the software!
Heck, I wouldn't mind having handwriting recognition apps on regular Linux to play around with...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Yeah, and guess what.
Those Makefiles run as root on your system, and can therefore do anything, bla bla bla.
Besides, all an rpm file is, is a fancy cpio archive. You can rip it apart and not let rpm do anything extra.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Yea, I found it, eventually. No help from slashdot, though. A.I. is such a generic term that "AI Movie Promo" doesn't help me. I mean, shit, that could be "Short Circuit 3", for all I know.
You're right about that movie file: "Sorensen Codec, Unsupported"
The IMDB has links to different trailers, as well. But I already posted a link to the official site, and if Slashdot can't be bothered to tell people WTF they're reporting on, then I sure as hell can't be anymore...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
A search on IMDB actually found an "A.I." movie.
And they at least bothered to link to the official site.
But really. Is that too much to ask?
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
The trailer for *what*?
.AVI, it's unsupported in XAnim. So could you please just *tell* me something about the movie in a coherent fashion this time?
Is the thing in the second frame the name of the movie?
How about a link to the IMDB instead?
Christ. If this is journalism, then I'll just read M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead for news.
P.S. Whatever the codec is for that
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Sorry, Ben; I couldn't find an easy way to get to the source, but google could.
:)
Perhaps in the future you might consider using a robots.txt file to help restrict this as well?
Since it doesn't look like I'll be able to build this on Linux easily, you won't have to worry about my copy of the source.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
It's not a problem, and it's easily explained. Most likely, there is no vast conspiracy at work here.
First, AmIHotOrNot does calculate your percentiles against everyone else; they probably all have a similar distribution.
Second, that spike is probably from people who load up the site with both "Girls and Guys" and don't notice, when they only want one or the other. They get to your picture, give you a 1, and switch to Girls only...
But whatever the case, assuming no one is out to get you, the percentiles should still be pretty fair, and accurate insofar as they compare you to the rest of the people on AmIHotOrNot...
And if it were 'just a site about rating women', it would probably still belong on Slashdot. Slashdot posts what the editors want to post. Period. "News for Slashdot Editors, Stuff that they think is cool." They've said this on several occasions.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
VTP looks really cool.
:)
Source Download Is Here
I'll tell you if I can build it.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Hahah, cool. I've been here for about five years now. If you're curious, drop me an e-mail, and I'll tell you what's messed up with the Realm now, and why.
Basically the platforms on campus are Solaris, Windows NT, and Linux, and none of them are standardized. It used to be that at least any Unix on the realm mapped to the same sort of locker space, but now it's pretty messed up...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Actually, I think we will have at least E-Bay and Paypal in a year or so, if they don't fuck it up. I'm not so sure about Amazon, but they'll probably still be there too.
:)
But, more to the point, there will always be work for people who fill that same economic niche, and I think there is a niche there now.
And yes, there have been times like that, it depends on external history, and you're exaggerating greatly. Prohibition, cocaine, and stuff like that are good examples. Even the stock market (NASDAQ and tech stuff) hasn't gone down by more than 60% since its peak; certainly not 99.4%
And of course they're tired of $20/month dialup; that's because dialup is slow. They're getting cable modems or DSL. They're all addicted to e-mail, have websites, and have favorite websites. Some of them are on lists, and some of them use chat programs. And I'm not even talking about the geeks I know here...
Oh. Nice post, and I have to ask: why are you still here? If there's any has-been site that should be mentioned here, it's SLASHDOT.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.