I don't mind sequels, really, as long as there's something there, some more story to be told. A sequel to a movie which is already a bad take on an existing franchise... that just has no potential at all.
Please tell me this is the start of April Fool's Day. The new movie looks like it's totally disrespecting the source material (seriously, the trailer made it look like a mindless sex-and-violence movie)... I'd rather not see more like that.
Nothing is 100% stable. That's an awfully high standard to reach. And I get uptimes of a month on my Vista machine too, so I fail to see how you're demonstrating a point of how Windows is so far behind.
Agreed. People who will sit and tell me with a straight face that Vista, in their experience, is unstable are either very unlucky, or liars. Windows stopped being generally unstable years ago. Get with the times.
I'm a fan of capitalism myself, but it's naive to pretend socialism doesn't have benefits. The main benefit of socialism is that everyone gets taken care of, so you don't have to worry about your own situation so much. Additionally, regulation of companies is much more acceptable in a socialistic system, so you can't have companies screwing you over to the extent that they do in the US today.
I think the drawbacks outweigh the benefits, but come now... let's not pretend the benefits don't exist.
The gov't MUST respect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
This has not a damn thing to do with capitalism or socialism. Either system is perfectly compatible with our constitution.
While I don't agree with what happened to that girl, you're misrepresenting the facts. The school officials didn't make her strip to get their jollies, they made her strip in the overzealous application of school policy. It was certainly wrong, but miscasting what happened is wrong too.
The best part of Capitalism is letting bad business fail.
If the bailouts Congress has been handing out so freely haven't convinced you that we aren't really in a capitalistic society any more, nothing ever will. We're running an unholy union of capitalism and socialism right now, and I really wish we'd pick one of the two and stick with it. As it is, we get the drawbacks of both, and the benefits of neither.
You think I give a damn about my fellow man enough to waste my time on him? Hah. No, I meant being disciplined about improving one's own lot in life. If, for example, I had worked hard in college, I'd have a nicer job today. As it is, I'm making do with what I have because of poor choices I made in the past. That's the kind of discipline I mean.
True experience is not about mastery of some obsolete-but-cool-in-its-day technology, but the improved judgment that stems from being able to analyze situations and relate them to similar problems you have encountered in the past, which in turn helps you find a better solution.
So true, modern programming languages have automatic garbage collection and have eliminated pointers because modern programmers don't learn how to use them anymore.
That's circular reasoning. How can lack of pointer education (only possible because of automatic garbage collection) be the reason automatic garbage collection was made? It can't. Automatic garbage collection has caught on because memory management fucking sucks. Not because people aren't taught to do it.
On the other hand, if you can be disciplined (not that I've managed to do that so far...), you'll reap the benefits for ages. Nothing wrong with short-changing yourself now to improve the future.
Whatever school you went to fucked up your reasoning skills, that's for sure. My siblings and I were all home schooled, as were several other people I know... we all turned out perfectly damn normal. Why? Because we had decent parents, for one. Because we weren't cut off from interacting with our peers, for another (there's no rule about home schooling that means you have to sit at home 24/7).
Bad parenting fucks up your social skills (among other things). It has not a damn thing to do with home schooling.
Specs at the time I installed Vista (upgraded a bit since then for gaming performance reasons, Vista itself was rock-solid with these specs): Athlon 64 4000 (ish, I forget exactly what it was), 2 GB RAM, GeForce 7600 GT, WD Caviar 320 GB x2 (in RAID 0), Abit AN8-V mobo, optical drive.
I prefer products which I KNOW will work in the future. You know, like physical DVDs with no on-line authentication.
We're in complete agreement. Even if Valve has the best of intentions (which isn't a given), any number of things may happen which prevent them from following through. That's why their promise to shut off the DRM is hollow to me.
Second, Gabe himself said that if steam were ever to go down, he would remove any and all restrictions from playing your game, without the steam servers.
Pardon me if I don't believe the promises of a man who isn't fully in control of what may happen in the future. He may intend to do that, but that doesn't mean it will, in fact, be done.
Speaking from personal experience, the system is broken. On two separate occasions, I've gone from the karma cap to neutral or bad, just because I got involved in a lively debate, and had the nerve to take up a position the moderators that day disagreed with.
Then there's no reason to avoid Vista. I've used it since release: the only time I've had issues with crashing was when the new WoW expansion came out, and it's been compatible with everything except KOTOR 2. I'd say that's pretty damn good.
Yeah, cause aliens are so much less realistic than the Holy Grail, or the Ark of the Covenant. Oh wait..
The newest Indiana Jones movie was in line with the rest of the series, get over your devoted fanboyism to the originals.
Oh, and stop pretending that new material can somehow "ruin" the old. The original material is always there if you prefer it. Ignore the bits you don't like and be happy, rather than whining to everyone about how XYZ was "ruined". The only way it's ruined is if you allow it to be ruined... and if you choose to let that happen, you don't deserve to complain.
And for that matter, in the end, there's a monotheistic Christian-ish god, visions, angels, an afterlife, and a divine plan.
All of those things, except the afterlife, have been there since the first goddamn season. I find it hard to blame the show when they've been consistent about this stuff, and it's just now that you're picking on them.
WTF in my original comment was "trolling", BTW? Pointing out that/. is an American site or having the nerve to come out against one aspect of the metric system?
The latter. For some reason, people are real zealots about the metric system here.
No it's not. They're two equally arbitrary units of measurement, and no one except the most pedantic gives a damn. Furthermore, as this is primarily a US site (as they say in several places), US measurements should be expected to be the primary ones.
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I don't mind sequels, really, as long as there's something there, some more story to be told. A sequel to a movie which is already a bad take on an existing franchise... that just has no potential at all.
Please tell me this is the start of April Fool's Day. The new movie looks like it's totally disrespecting the source material (seriously, the trailer made it look like a mindless sex-and-violence movie)... I'd rather not see more like that.
Nothing is 100% stable. That's an awfully high standard to reach. And I get uptimes of a month on my Vista machine too, so I fail to see how you're demonstrating a point of how Windows is so far behind.
Agreed. People who will sit and tell me with a straight face that Vista, in their experience, is unstable are either very unlucky, or liars. Windows stopped being generally unstable years ago. Get with the times.
I'm a fan of capitalism myself, but it's naive to pretend socialism doesn't have benefits. The main benefit of socialism is that everyone gets taken care of, so you don't have to worry about your own situation so much. Additionally, regulation of companies is much more acceptable in a socialistic system, so you can't have companies screwing you over to the extent that they do in the US today.
I think the drawbacks outweigh the benefits, but come now... let's not pretend the benefits don't exist.
The gov't MUST respect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
This has not a damn thing to do with capitalism or socialism. Either system is perfectly compatible with our constitution.
While I don't agree with what happened to that girl, you're misrepresenting the facts. The school officials didn't make her strip to get their jollies, they made her strip in the overzealous application of school policy. It was certainly wrong, but miscasting what happened is wrong too.
Nothing about the world changes when you reproduce. Your perception may change, but the facts remain the same.
The best part of Capitalism is letting bad business fail.
If the bailouts Congress has been handing out so freely haven't convinced you that we aren't really in a capitalistic society any more, nothing ever will. We're running an unholy union of capitalism and socialism right now, and I really wish we'd pick one of the two and stick with it. As it is, we get the drawbacks of both, and the benefits of neither.
You think I give a damn about my fellow man enough to waste my time on him? Hah. No, I meant being disciplined about improving one's own lot in life. If, for example, I had worked hard in college, I'd have a nicer job today. As it is, I'm making do with what I have because of poor choices I made in the past. That's the kind of discipline I mean.
True experience is not about mastery of some obsolete-but-cool-in-its-day technology, but the improved judgment that stems from being able to analyze situations and relate them to similar problems you have encountered in the past, which in turn helps you find a better solution.
Well said.
So true, modern programming languages have automatic garbage collection and have eliminated pointers because modern programmers don't learn how to use them anymore.
That's circular reasoning. How can lack of pointer education (only possible because of automatic garbage collection) be the reason automatic garbage collection was made? It can't. Automatic garbage collection has caught on because memory management fucking sucks. Not because people aren't taught to do it.
On the other hand, if you can be disciplined (not that I've managed to do that so far...), you'll reap the benefits for ages. Nothing wrong with short-changing yourself now to improve the future.
Whatever school you went to fucked up your reasoning skills, that's for sure. My siblings and I were all home schooled, as were several other people I know... we all turned out perfectly damn normal. Why? Because we had decent parents, for one. Because we weren't cut off from interacting with our peers, for another (there's no rule about home schooling that means you have to sit at home 24/7).
Bad parenting fucks up your social skills (among other things). It has not a damn thing to do with home schooling.
Specs at the time I installed Vista (upgraded a bit since then for gaming performance reasons, Vista itself was rock-solid with these specs): Athlon 64 4000 (ish, I forget exactly what it was), 2 GB RAM, GeForce 7600 GT, WD Caviar 320 GB x2 (in RAID 0), Abit AN8-V mobo, optical drive.
I prefer products which I KNOW will work in the future. You know, like physical DVDs with no on-line authentication.
We're in complete agreement. Even if Valve has the best of intentions (which isn't a given), any number of things may happen which prevent them from following through. That's why their promise to shut off the DRM is hollow to me.
Second, Gabe himself said that if steam were ever to go down, he would remove any and all restrictions from playing your game, without the steam servers.
Pardon me if I don't believe the promises of a man who isn't fully in control of what may happen in the future. He may intend to do that, but that doesn't mean it will, in fact, be done.
Speaking from personal experience, the system is broken. On two separate occasions, I've gone from the karma cap to neutral or bad, just because I got involved in a lively debate, and had the nerve to take up a position the moderators that day disagreed with.
So yes, it does happen. It happened to me twice.
Any desktop without virtual desktops is pretty much unusable for anything non-trivial.
You really exaggerate "unusable", "non-trivial", or both. People doing non-trivial work get by just fine without virtual desktops all the time.
I use an OS for stability, compatibility, etc.
Then there's no reason to avoid Vista. I've used it since release: the only time I've had issues with crashing was when the new WoW expansion came out, and it's been compatible with everything except KOTOR 2. I'd say that's pretty damn good.
Yeah, cause aliens are so much less realistic than the Holy Grail, or the Ark of the Covenant. Oh wait..
The newest Indiana Jones movie was in line with the rest of the series, get over your devoted fanboyism to the originals.
Oh, and stop pretending that new material can somehow "ruin" the old. The original material is always there if you prefer it. Ignore the bits you don't like and be happy, rather than whining to everyone about how XYZ was "ruined". The only way it's ruined is if you allow it to be ruined... and if you choose to let that happen, you don't deserve to complain.
And for that matter, in the end, there's a monotheistic Christian-ish god, visions, angels, an afterlife, and a divine plan.
All of those things, except the afterlife, have been there since the first goddamn season. I find it hard to blame the show when they've been consistent about this stuff, and it's just now that you're picking on them.
Except, you know, for the fact that all that stuff was in there from season 1.
WTF in my original comment was "trolling", BTW? Pointing out that /. is an American site or having the nerve to come out against one aspect of the metric system?
The latter. For some reason, people are real zealots about the metric system here.
No it's not. They're two equally arbitrary units of measurement, and no one except the most pedantic gives a damn. Furthermore, as this is primarily a US site (as they say in several places), US measurements should be expected to be the primary ones.
Congratulations! You have set a policy for your web site that actually drives significant traffic away! You really won out there!