There is probably a parking lot full of fire hydrants. Not a cat in sight of the place. And probably any human around the place has protective knee covers.
We'll both cuddle up on the couch and play. Even though only one person can control the game at once, you can keep the game so it involves both of you. Usually when reading the story line conversations we'll make comments about what we think is going on, some subtle point of intrigue that we think the other might have missed or something. Usually the person not with control will squeeze the other's foot or hand when they are done reading the current page of text so the person with the controller knows to goto the next page.
Some games that we really enjoy are: Wildarms (1 excellent, 2 pretty good, 3 pretty good) Star Ocean (eagerly waiting for 3 this fall for US release) Breath of Fire (3 and 4 were both pretty good, haven't played 5 yet) Suikoden (1 was good and different, never found 2, 3 we are playing now) Legend of Legaia (sp?) (1 was a blast, 2 was equally good)
Theres plenty more, but those are the ones off the top of my head. They are fun and have good stories. Also, playing with your spouse is a lot of fun.
Tech: I'm having trouble with the radar sir. {Talking in microphone} Colonel Sanders: You don't need that Private, we're right here. Now what is it? Tech: I'm having trouble with the radar sir. {talking like the microphone} Dark Helmet: {Pulls the microphone off the hook} Now what is it? Tech: I'm having trouble with the radar sir. Dark Helmet: What's wrong with it? Tech: I've lost the bleeps, I've lost the sweeps, and I've lost the creeps. Dark Helmet: The what? Colonel Sanders: The what? Dark Helmet: And the what? Tech: You know the bleeps, {makes noise} the sweeps, {makes noise} and the creeps {makes noise} Dark Helmet: That's not all he lost. Tech: Sir, the radar sir. It appears to be jammed. Dark Helmet: Jammed...raspberry. {puts down face mask} There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry. Lone Starr. {camera hits him. He falls}
Hmmm, my wife and I have thought about this quite a bit, and the good news is, we have an answer.
(Oh, the underwear topic that is)
There always seems to be an inverse proportion to amount of cloth and sexiness of it. Less cloth, more sexy and more cloth, less sexy.
Example: Flanel pajamas. Thick, heavy cloth, usually covers head to toe. Definitely not sexy.
Well, out theory evaluates as this as to why this is the case. Usually the less cloth, the more string on the underwear. Usually string isn't the most comfortable. Since it isn't comfortable, usually the woman wants to take it off sooner. And hence, well, you are in a realtionship, you get the idea.
Back on topic a bit now. My wife and I both work at the same place, in different departments so we only see each other maybe 10-20 minutes a day at work. However, we commute together which gives us a ton of time to spend chatting and talking. Quite often it can be meaningless banter or about bills and what not. However, this time is wonderful to discuss things much deeper than surface only things too.
As far as it being difficult to be in a relationship, I disagree. I have never really run into a difficult time with my wife. I think the hardest part (easy if you are having fun) is to serve your spouse. Put their enjoyment before your own. Find your enjoyment in making your spouse happy. Refering to that as sadomaschism I think is the wrong way to think of it. It is simpley serving.
And there are many ways to do this. Here is a little anectdote:
When I first met my wife, she told me quite often of how she would love to live in Colorodo. Myself, I was from the east coast area and dreamed of moving back. We were both in college in Michigan (near where her folks lived). All through college we talked about where we would like to live and she always would tell me we'd move out east, and I said we would go where ever she desired (and I assumed she wanted to go out to Colorodo). Well, through college and such we dated, and finally got married when we finished. We settled down in Michigan. At a Valentines Day church get together there were some games, such as trying to guess what your spouse would answer to certain questions. One of the questions was, "Where would you love to live?" I guessed she would say "Maine" as her answer, cause that is where she thought I would want to live. Instead, she said what I had told her for nearly four years, "Where ever you want to live."
That is the kind of thing I am talking about. The love that is willing to put your happiness in the other hands. It is not sadomasochism, its love.
MS does have a huge market share, no doubt. However, according to google's search history for the last month there are 8% machines out there that are not using MS operating systems.
These are desktop machines, not including servers. I'd say things are getting better and better. Maybe not fast, but I don't think too many folks figured the revolution would occur overnight anyways.
Possibley. However, what if the ump consistently called high pitches strikes and the machine consistently called low pitches strikes? Or something of that nature.
It would be nice to see what the overlap was though.
Like oh my god! Susie said, Sally said, Johny said, like oh my god, who heard it from Billy who overheard it from Chrissy and Tony talking behind the, like oh my god, place they shouldn't have been.
You know, I like fresh Lobster but... it's not that common to get some in Switzerland... So, I just wait and only dring a little of the genuine thing from time to time... And meanwhile, I just experiment other things hoping I'll like these as much as lobster...
My favorite vacation was on my honeymoon in Bar Harbor, Maine. I still enjoy most of my other vacations.
My favorite cheesecake is chocolate raspberry. I still like my wife's pumpkin cheesecake.
Just because I have a favorite, does not mean that I cannot enjoy substitutes.
Anyways, also about my sig. My wife and I were chatting after seeing someone else having the actual quote from the movie about how silly it was. So, I changed my sig to kind of mock the follower/sheep nature of that fellow. Taking a jab at French people is amusing as they seem to be all high and mighty holier than though kind (as a general rule and from experience when visiting France).
You see, my sig is a subtle change to the quite, enough to miss if you don't read it right. At first it was too subtle as folks thought I simpley mistyped it as there were a half dozen replies saying I typed it wrong. Well, at that point I decided to put in the "[sic]" and while the "You typed it wrong!" posts slowed down, some still don't get it that it was intentional.
Anyways, my wife suggested a less subtle one, and I wish I could have taken credit for it, but she is the master mind.
"I like swearing in german, its like wiping your ass with sandpaper."
Damn those guys for trying to make a profit! It must be EVIL businesses only doing this. I'd be much more interested in readying your posts if they weren't anti capitalistic instead of karma whoring of the slasddot left.
As far as pointless, maybe, but maybe this was a simple one to handle and they learned something doing it. Maybe they will be able to create a better product after this one, or because of the profits from this one.
I can't stand sheep that get insightful because they don't personally see a use for something. I don't see a use for briefs, so I wear boxers. You don't see me complaining that the evil corporation Hanes and its profit grubbing business interests make briefs even though I don't wear them.
Hmmm, I actually like the taste of coffee. As I don't drink it too often now since my wife isn't able to drink it. Caffine is bad for her. Maybe something like this would be a good thing as she like coffee also.
Agreed. I don't filter any stories on the main page and it seem like 90% of the articles are games.slashdot. I wish they'd slow down on the games content.
Especially when the games articles usually only get 10-20 replies, instead of 100+.
I remember back in college running around as the sheep with a rocket tied on its back. Those were the days. Life was simpler running around as a sheep blowing up folks into gibs.
1. MS would design and publish standards that are so nasty and obscure that even skilled coders would have a hard time making any sense of it. That would get them off the hook and still not achieve open standards.
I would doubt this in some fashion. While it would be possible do this, it would still be possible to create something that only your software could understand. Once something is documented, it can be implemented with enough work. And the FOSS idea of a million monkeys with keyboards...
Open standards are nice for interoperability, but not so nice for new development. Most standards are not easily made extensible with any sense. If they are extensible that's a loop for MS to exploit.
Actually I'll call you on this one. Most of the better standards are extensible. Consider SMTP, it has an original RFC around 811 (going from memory) and another in the 2100's (again, from memory). Look at many of the other classic rfc's for other examples. Another example is OpenGL, there are extensions for all the major manufacturers of video cards.
Sure, many standards are not extensible, but those are usually private or propietary "standards". However, with true standards within the software community you find that there is usually a board that reviews and ratifies standards. How do they do that? They review propositions from companies/sources within the field and allow them to be extensions until ratified.
Another point I would add here is that the majority of software that the government is putting on the desktops is going to be office suite style software. There is not going to be the need for a terribley large amount of diversity here. And if there is a specialized application required then the government is probably going to pay for the software to be written for it anyways and not by off the shelf software.
MS's customers will simply suffer an additional 10% or more price raise which they are still mostly required to pay.
True, but the idea of this is that the 10% goes to FOSS areas to bring up the level of competition within the market, at which point even if they keep buying MS software MS will have to compete on the merits instead of customer lock in and monoploy status.
Now, I guess I would look at this idea as kind of bad also though. Some of the things I would put in this sort of grant system, where a folks (FOSS or a company) would be able to apply for a certain amount of cash to write the software, otherwise this is solely benefitting only FOSS. I would not be able to abide the idea of only supporting FOSS here.
Another thing that might be required would be a sunset clause. The sole purpose of supporting this kind of legislation would be to remove the monopoly situation we are currently within.
Yeah, its a dream... I think I mentioned that though.
Agreed on the idea that we shouldn't have the government or MS deciding on what mail should be going through our systems. Granted I don't really get a terribly large amount of spam (Though my work address is getting stuff about stock quotes now, kinda annoying).
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FreeCiv?
Dogs like fire hydrants. Dogs like cats (tasty). Dogs like doing things to people's knees.
Dogs like bones.
There is probably a parking lot full of fire hydrants. Not a cat in sight of the place. And probably any human around the place has protective knee covers.
Hmm, I missed that one.
I was originally just going to say "squeeze the other", but figured I needed to put in "hand or foot" to keep it clean for folks.
I guess I don't have enough of a potty mind to catch all my "think-o's".
My wife and I play storyline (rpgs) a lot.
We'll both cuddle up on the couch and play. Even though only one person can control the game at once, you can keep the game so it involves both of you. Usually when reading the story line conversations we'll make comments about what we think is going on, some subtle point of intrigue that we think the other might have missed or something. Usually the person not with control will squeeze the other's foot or hand when they are done reading the current page of text so the person with the controller knows to goto the next page.
Some games that we really enjoy are:
Wildarms (1 excellent, 2 pretty good, 3 pretty good)
Star Ocean (eagerly waiting for 3 this fall for US release)
Breath of Fire (3 and 4 were both pretty good, haven't played 5 yet)
Suikoden (1 was good and different, never found 2, 3 we are playing now)
Legend of Legaia (sp?) (1 was a blast, 2 was equally good)
Theres plenty more, but those are the ones off the top of my head. They are fun and have good stories. Also, playing with your spouse is a lot of fun.
Tech: I'm having trouble with the radar sir. {Talking in microphone}
Colonel Sanders: You don't need that Private, we're right here. Now what is it?
Tech: I'm having trouble with the radar sir. {talking like the microphone}
Dark Helmet: {Pulls the microphone off the hook} Now what is it?
Tech: I'm having trouble with the radar sir.
Dark Helmet: What's wrong with it?
Tech: I've lost the bleeps, I've lost the sweeps, and I've lost the creeps.
Dark Helmet: The what?
Colonel Sanders: The what?
Dark Helmet: And the what?
Tech: You know the bleeps, {makes noise} the sweeps, {makes noise} and the creeps {makes noise}
Dark Helmet: That's not all he lost.
Tech: Sir, the radar sir. It appears to be jammed.
Dark Helmet: Jammed...raspberry. {puts down face mask} There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry. Lone Starr. {camera hits him. He falls}
Hmmm, my wife and I have thought about this quite a bit, and the good news is, we have an answer.
(Oh, the underwear topic that is)
There always seems to be an inverse proportion to amount of cloth and sexiness of it. Less cloth, more sexy and more cloth, less sexy.
Example: Flanel pajamas. Thick, heavy cloth, usually covers head to toe. Definitely not sexy.
Well, out theory evaluates as this as to why this is the case. Usually the less cloth, the more string on the underwear. Usually string isn't the most comfortable. Since it isn't comfortable, usually the woman wants to take it off sooner. And hence, well, you are in a realtionship, you get the idea.
Back on topic a bit now. My wife and I both work at the same place, in different departments so we only see each other maybe 10-20 minutes a day at work. However, we commute together which gives us a ton of time to spend chatting and talking. Quite often it can be meaningless banter or about bills and what not. However, this time is wonderful to discuss things much deeper than surface only things too.
As far as it being difficult to be in a relationship, I disagree. I have never really run into a difficult time with my wife. I think the hardest part (easy if you are having fun) is to serve your spouse. Put their enjoyment before your own. Find your enjoyment in making your spouse happy. Refering to that as sadomaschism I think is the wrong way to think of it. It is simpley serving.
And there are many ways to do this. Here is a little anectdote:
When I first met my wife, she told me quite often of how she would love to live in Colorodo. Myself, I was from the east coast area and dreamed of moving back. We were both in college in Michigan (near where her folks lived). All through college we talked about where we would like to live and she always would tell me we'd move out east, and I said we would go where ever she desired (and I assumed she wanted to go out to Colorodo). Well, through college and such we dated, and finally got married when we finished. We settled down in Michigan. At a Valentines Day church get together there were some games, such as trying to guess what your spouse would answer to certain questions. One of the questions was, "Where would you love to live?" I guessed she would say "Maine" as her answer, cause that is where she thought I would want to live. Instead, she said what I had told her for nearly four years, "Where ever you want to live."
That is the kind of thing I am talking about. The love that is willing to put your happiness in the other hands. It is not sadomasochism, its love.
Not quite.
MS does have a huge market share, no doubt. However, according to google's search history for the last month there are 8% machines out there that are not using MS operating systems.
These are desktop machines, not including servers. I'd say things are getting better and better. Maybe not fast, but I don't think too many folks figured the revolution would occur overnight anyways.
Possibley. However, what if the ump consistently called high pitches strikes and the machine consistently called low pitches strikes? Or something of that nature.
It would be nice to see what the overlap was though.
No good. They never make it to the sea anyways.
Go buy a SCSI hard drive.
SUPERMODEL!
Like oh my god! Susie said, Sally said, Johny said, like oh my god, who heard it from Billy who overheard it from Chrissy and Tony talking behind the, like oh my god, place they shouldn't have been.
You know, I like fresh Lobster but... it's not that common to get some in Switzerland...
So, I just wait and only dring a little of the genuine thing from time to time...
And meanwhile, I just experiment other things hoping I'll like these as much as lobster...
My favorite vacation was on my honeymoon in Bar Harbor, Maine. I still enjoy most of my other vacations.
My favorite cheesecake is chocolate raspberry. I still like my wife's pumpkin cheesecake.
Just because I have a favorite, does not mean that I cannot enjoy substitutes.
Anyways, also about my sig. My wife and I were chatting after seeing someone else having the actual quote from the movie about how silly it was. So, I changed my sig to kind of mock the follower/sheep nature of that fellow. Taking a jab at French people is amusing as they seem to be all high and mighty holier than though kind (as a general rule and from experience when visiting France).
You see, my sig is a subtle change to the quite, enough to miss if you don't read it right. At first it was too subtle as folks thought I simpley mistyped it as there were a half dozen replies saying I typed it wrong. Well, at that point I decided to put in the "[sic]" and while the "You typed it wrong!" posts slowed down, some still don't get it that it was intentional.
Anyways, my wife suggested a less subtle one, and I wish I could have taken credit for it, but she is the master mind.
"I like swearing in german, its like wiping your ass with sandpaper."
Damn those guys for trying to make a profit! It must be EVIL businesses only doing this. I'd be much more interested in readying your posts if they weren't anti capitalistic instead of karma whoring of the slasddot left.
As far as pointless, maybe, but maybe this was a simple one to handle and they learned something doing it. Maybe they will be able to create a better product after this one, or because of the profits from this one.
I can't stand sheep that get insightful because they don't personally see a use for something. I don't see a use for briefs, so I wear boxers. You don't see me complaining that the evil corporation Hanes and its profit grubbing business interests make briefs even though I don't wear them.
Brussels sprouts, broccoli and swedes are all genetically modified turnips.
Is that a typo? Either way I got a good chuckle out of it.
Hmmm, I actually like the taste of coffee. As I don't drink it too often now since my wife isn't able to drink it. Caffine is bad for her. Maybe something like this would be a good thing as she like coffee also.
But, nah, coffee is bad. Why is coffee bad?
Usually when I read your posts I don't think much of your signature.
This time however, the system is full of glitches.
Hmm, it seems to me that a more cost effective way to handle this would be to buy one linux/*bsd box and put nmap on it.
I don't often nmap the host I am on as that usually defeates the purpose. Normally I nmap another host to see what is open.
Just a though.
The point is that if you do not actively defend a trademark you can lose it. Once you lose it you are unable to reclaim the trademark.
However, with copyright/patents you are able to ignore the fact until you want to sue. Remember the unisys/gif patent?
Agreed. I don't filter any stories on the main page and it seem like 90% of the articles are games.slashdot. I wish they'd slow down on the games content.
Especially when the games articles usually only get 10-20 replies, instead of 100+.
Actually, apples and oranges here.
One is trademark, the other is copyright/patent.
Trademark you have to protect to retain it and I do not believe it expires.
Copyright/patent are granted and are valid until it expires.
I remember back in college running around as the sheep with a rocket tied on its back. Those were the days. Life was simpler running around as a sheep blowing up folks into gibs.
A couple ideas to add to the proposed legislation/policy.
-Add a sunset clause so that the policy ends at some point.
-Allow anyone (FOSS organization or private company) to request a grant package to develop a certain product.
1. MS would design and publish standards that are so nasty and obscure that even skilled coders would have a hard time making any sense of it. That would get them off the hook and still not achieve open standards.
I would doubt this in some fashion. While it would be possible do this, it would still be possible to create something that only your software could understand. Once something is documented, it can be implemented with enough work. And the FOSS idea of a million monkeys with keyboards...
Open standards are nice for interoperability, but not so nice for new development. Most standards are not easily made extensible with any sense. If they are extensible that's a loop for MS to exploit.
Actually I'll call you on this one. Most of the better standards are extensible. Consider SMTP, it has an original RFC around 811 (going from memory) and another in the 2100's (again, from memory). Look at many of the other classic rfc's for other examples. Another example is OpenGL, there are extensions for all the major manufacturers of video cards.
Sure, many standards are not extensible, but those are usually private or propietary "standards". However, with true standards within the software community you find that there is usually a board that reviews and ratifies standards. How do they do that? They review propositions from companies/sources within the field and allow them to be extensions until ratified.
Another point I would add here is that the majority of software that the government is putting on the desktops is going to be office suite style software. There is not going to be the need for a terribley large amount of diversity here. And if there is a specialized application required then the government is probably going to pay for the software to be written for it anyways and not by off the shelf software.
MS's customers will simply suffer an additional 10% or more price raise which they are still mostly required to pay.
True, but the idea of this is that the 10% goes to FOSS areas to bring up the level of competition within the market, at which point even if they keep buying MS software MS will have to compete on the merits instead of customer lock in and monoploy status.
Now, I guess I would look at this idea as kind of bad also though. Some of the things I would put in this sort of grant system, where a folks (FOSS or a company) would be able to apply for a certain amount of cash to write the software, otherwise this is solely benefitting only FOSS. I would not be able to abide the idea of only supporting FOSS here.
Another thing that might be required would be a sunset clause. The sole purpose of supporting this kind of legislation would be to remove the monopoly situation we are currently within.
Yeah, its a dream... I think I mentioned that though.
Agreed on the idea that we shouldn't have the government or MS deciding on what mail should be going through our systems. Granted I don't really get a terribly large amount of spam (Though my work address is getting stuff about stock quotes now, kinda annoying).