>Some people simply should not be allowed to carry guns.
...and most people aren't.
To legally carry a gun in most states requires training, a license application, background check, and approval of local law enforcement.
Then once you HAVE that license, if you draw, discharge, brandish, or otherwise display that gun in public in less than a life-threatening situation, you lose that license AND are charged with any and all crimes committed as a result.
I realize this conflicts with your view of America as the land of the gun-toting wacko, but hey...
I don't think it's MS's fault that Netscape seems to lack the ability to make a browser that can't resize the window without rerendering the entire document (this is more of an annoyance than a show-stopper, but it's one that comes up often enough to make me not use it).
I don't think it's MS's fault that Netscape crashes all the time (wait for it...)...on my Solaris box.
There's two examples. There are others.
Of course, I could be wrong.
On the other hand, IE is fast, stable, and displays pages the way I expect them, downloads files the way I expect them, and behaves the way I feel it should when I do something as simple as accidentally drag the right window border a few pixels in either direction.
>What laws protect and allow broadcast radio to >exist, but not music sharing on the internet?
Radio stations pay a license fee (to ASCAP?) for the music they broadcast.
AFAIK, ASCAP is not interested in licensing broadcast rights to internet "stations" (I seem to recall someone approaching them about this at one point, but I could be wrong, and I'm sure someone'll smack me for it).
>I've done on-site consulting work, and when you >are sitting there on a customer site, both the >NT and the Unix job will work out to 4-6 hours >no matter what the little details are
>He wasn't whining about Windows users, though, >was he?
Boy, talk about TOTALLY missing the point.
>It's amazing how many whiny shitheads crawl out >of the woodwork whenver x86-only software gets >announced.
Wasn't it basically the same type of "whiny shitheads" that decided things could be done better by open, free software? The guys that figured that just because something was one way didn't mean it was the right way or the only way?
>Either get off your ass and contribute some >portable software to the community, get x86 >hardware, or shut the hell up.
I think the point he's making (and that you're entirely failing to grasp) is that one of the major strengths of Linux (and [Open,Net]BSD) is that it IS so portable. Releasing code that's so platform specific basically eliminates one of Linux's major strengths.
Addam's Family was certainly one of the best pins to come out in YEARS. I wasn't a big fan of the other TV/movie "theme" games you mentioned, but Addam's Family was a fantastic machine, one of the best designs I've ever seen.
As far as the "Amusement Park variations", I assume you mean things like Whirlwind, Earthshaker, and Funhouse... Again, Funhouse is one of the better machines to be released in ages. I wasn't a big Whirlwind or Earthshaker fan (primarily because the arcade I worked in at the time didn't have either, but had Funhouse right next to Addam's Family.. er..), but something about smacking Rudy in the face every time I made that left orbit shot...
I started out on the EM pins of the 70's, but it was modern design and tech that brought me back into it in the late 80's.
And really, they HAVE tried to make some interesting variations. Ever played "Twilight Zone"? The machine's a wee bit wider than most and includes the "powerball", made of a different material so it behaves differently and the machine knows when you're using it for different point schemes. Though I guess if you saw this one you'd just dismiss it as another of the "rip-offs of really bad movies and television shows"...
>Now that I'm making a handsome salary, I need to >consider buying a vintage pinball machine for my >apartment. Every eccentric geek needs one.
Okay, this one I'll agree with. 'cept for me, "vintage" would be Black Knight, maybe High Speed (the original, *not* Getaway, ick). I'm just not sure how I'd get it up the stairs or how the downstairs neighbors would feel about it.
Well, unless you happen to notice via thermal monitoring utilities that the CPU is running much hotter than normal, you'll probably kill the chip.
However, you also shoot your own argument in the foot right here:
>Athlon CPU runs quite hot even when NOT overclocked.
So do Celerons, P2s, and P3s. If the fan dies or falls off or otherwises stops providing air circulation around my CPU, it will make no difference if my system is overclocked or not. Without cooling, the chip will die. Period. The only difference between my CPU's death at 300 vs 450 is that it will take a little longer to cook itself at 300.
>Things like the Expedition, Suburban, and >Excursion should require CDL's
AFAIR, the Excursion has a high enough GVWR that it *DOES* legally reqiure a class B license in Texas.
As far as how often that gets enforced... well, I'd be real surprised if it's EVER been enforced, give the number of yuppie soccer moms I see driving these things yakkin' on their cell phones while reaching behind 'em to get their mascara out of their purses...
I play PC games because the type of games I like are BETTER on the PC than any console.
Show me a realistic full-featured flight simulator on the PSX or Dreamcast. I don't care about things like FF8 or Super Mario Blaster Mega World or whatever. I care about things like European Air War and the Steel Panthers series and Close Combat and... well, you get the idea.
Not to mention the variety of controllers available for the PC... I heart my Sidewinder 3D Pro and wheel mouse and and and...
Let's also not forget that I can play these games on my PC in double the resolution (or more) of anything I can put through my TV.
Add to that the fact that I'm typically ALREADY sitting at my PC a few feet from my 20" monitor as opposed to across the room from my 21" TV, and the choice from my point of view is clear...
Unless you are the copyright holder, you do NOT own the music. You own the media the music is on, and you have a license to play the music. Very similar to a software license.
I have a Windows 98 CD here. Does this mean I OWN Windows and can do whatever I want with it? I bet the law would disagree if I started burning copies and handing 'em out on the street corner.
I have a Redhat CD here. Does this mean I OWN Linux and can do whatever I want with it, licenses be damned?
Now, once I get M.U.L.E., the Archon Games, the Ultima games, Crush, Crumble, and Chomp, the Spy vs. Spy games, the Eidolon, Seven Cities of Gold and Temple of Apshi I will have completely recreated my childhood... mwa-ha-ha-ha...
Not all of the Ultimas (only up till.. 5 I think), but the rest of these games are all available as images on some of the various emulator sites for older systems like the Apple ][ or Commodore 64/128...
There are open source interpreters for the Infocom game "databases" (for lack of a better word) available, and a while back Activision (who now owns the rights to these, I suppose) released a CD with about 30 or so games on it, including the three Zorks. In fact, it had just about everything except Hitchhiker's Guide... It also included the Invisiclues hint/map books and promotional material (well, like the little magazines and such, no toys) in PDF format.
Here it is, still available. 15 bucks. I can't recall how it stores the files on the CD, so you might have to extract the files under dosemu or wine or something...
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Most of the parents that see this will see an evilbadwrong heavy metal band trying to sue a highly respected univeristy.
I doubt Metallica can do a speck of damage to Harvard's reputation.
-LjM
>Some people simply should not be allowed to carry guns.
...and most people aren't.
To legally carry a gun in most states requires training, a license application, background check, and approval of local law enforcement.
Then once you HAVE that license, if you draw, discharge, brandish, or otherwise display that gun in public in less than a life-threatening situation, you lose that license AND are charged with any and all crimes committed as a result.
I realize this conflicts with your view of America as the land of the gun-toting wacko, but hey...
-LjM
>But isn't it slightly their fault?
...on my Solaris box.
No, I don't think it is.
I don't think it's MS's fault that Netscape seems to lack the ability to make a browser that can't resize the window without rerendering the entire document (this is more of an annoyance than a show-stopper, but it's one that comes up often enough to make me not use it).
I don't think it's MS's fault that Netscape crashes all the time (wait for it...)
There's two examples. There are others.
Of course, I could be wrong.
On the other hand, IE is fast, stable, and displays pages the way I expect them, downloads files the way I expect them, and behaves the way I feel it should when I do something as simple as accidentally drag the right window border a few pixels in either direction.
-LjM
Good lord I get tired of this argument.
I'm not a programmer (well, some perl, but..). I do sysadmin and support work.
What possible contribution can I make to Mozilla?
I can't. I can, however, point out what's lacking in the project from my point of view.
Do you ever criticize movies or books or music?
If you're so interested, you better be diving in and making your own!
-LjM
Waiting for the "This is Internet Explorer's fault!" cries to begin...
-LjM
>Plus, companies in Hong Kong seem to be affected
>by little things
Damn little earthquakes!
(yes, I know that was in Japan)
-LjM
IANAL. I am also not a professional broadcaster.
>What laws protect and allow broadcast radio to
>exist, but not music sharing on the internet?
Radio stations pay a license fee (to ASCAP?) for the music they broadcast.
AFAIK, ASCAP is not interested in licensing broadcast rights to internet "stations" (I seem to recall someone approaching them about this at one point, but I could be wrong, and I'm sure someone'll smack me for it).
-LjM
>Whats the differnce between gambling and
>Wednesday night Church bingos?
Depends.
Legalized gambling (ie, in Vegas or Atlantic City) pays taxes.
Illegal gambling and church bingos do not.
-LjM
Illegal gambling provides MUCH better odds of winning.
-LjM
Sounds like the Twiddler.
-LjM
>I've done on-site consulting work, and when you
>are sitting there on a customer site, both the
>NT and the Unix job will work out to 4-6 hours
>no matter what the little details are
ESPECIALLY when billing by the hour, huh?
-LjM
>He wasn't whining about Windows users, though,
>was he?
Boy, talk about TOTALLY missing the point.
>It's amazing how many whiny shitheads crawl out
>of the woodwork whenver x86-only software gets
>announced.
Wasn't it basically the same type of "whiny shitheads" that decided things could be done better by open, free software? The guys that figured that just because something was one way didn't mean it was the right way or the only way?
>Either get off your ass and contribute some
>portable software to the community, get x86
>hardware, or shut the hell up.
I think the point he's making (and that you're entirely failing to grasp) is that one of the major strengths of Linux (and [Open,Net]BSD) is that it IS so portable. Releasing code that's so platform specific basically eliminates one of Linux's major strengths.
-LjM
>Sorry buddy, but 95% of the Linux users are
>running it on Intel compatible chips not Alphas
>or Sparcs or even PPC's. Deal with it.
Sorry buddy, but 95% of the computing world is running Windows of some variety not Linux or *BSD or even BeOS. Deal with it.
Just because something is that way doesn't mean you have to like it, or accept it.
-LjM
[ various OpenBSD vs. FreeBSD comments snipped ]
But you leave out the big kicker: what if I'm not using an x86 or Alpha based system?
In this case, FreeBSD does me no good at all, and NetBSD or OpenBSD are my *BSD flavors to choose between.
I'd love to use FreeBSD (more experience with it from a prior job) on my old Mac IIci, but it just ain't gonna happen.
-LjM
>If you have any moderator points, then just
>moderate any post in this story, and your
>post goes *poof*.
Doesn't work that way. Once you post in a thread, you can no longer moderate in that thread. Like, the boxes no longer appear beneat posts.
Posting in a thread you've moderated in removes your moderation points already used, but not the other way around.
-LjM
Wooooah hold on there.
Addam's Family was certainly one of the best pins to come out in YEARS. I wasn't a big fan of the other TV/movie "theme" games you mentioned, but Addam's Family was a fantastic machine, one of the best designs I've ever seen.
As far as the "Amusement Park variations", I assume you mean things like Whirlwind, Earthshaker, and Funhouse... Again, Funhouse is one of the better machines to be released in ages. I wasn't a big Whirlwind or Earthshaker fan (primarily because the arcade I worked in at the time didn't have either, but had Funhouse right next to Addam's Family.. er..), but something about smacking Rudy in the face every time I made that left orbit shot...
I started out on the EM pins of the 70's, but it was modern design and tech that brought me back into it in the late 80's.
And really, they HAVE tried to make some interesting variations. Ever played "Twilight Zone"? The machine's a wee bit wider than most and includes the "powerball", made of a different material so it behaves differently and the machine knows when you're using it for different point schemes. Though I guess if you saw this one you'd just dismiss it as another of the "rip-offs of really bad movies and television shows"...
>Now that I'm making a handsome salary, I need to
>consider buying a vintage pinball machine for my
>apartment. Every eccentric geek needs one.
Okay, this one I'll agree with. 'cept for me, "vintage" would be Black Knight, maybe High Speed (the original, *not* Getaway, ick). I'm just not sure how I'd get it up the stairs or how the downstairs neighbors would feel about it.
-LjM
>what happens if the fan dies?
Well, unless you happen to notice via thermal monitoring utilities that the CPU is running much hotter than normal, you'll probably kill the chip.
However, you also shoot your own argument in the foot right here:
>Athlon CPU runs quite hot even when NOT overclocked.
So do Celerons, P2s, and P3s. If the fan dies or falls off or otherwises stops providing air circulation around my CPU, it will make no difference if my system is overclocked or not. Without cooling, the chip will die. Period. The only difference between my CPU's death at 300 vs 450 is that it will take a little longer to cook itself at 300.
-LjM
>Things like the Expedition, Suburban, and
>Excursion should require CDL's
AFAIR, the Excursion has a high enough GVWR that it *DOES* legally reqiure a class B license in Texas.
As far as how often that gets enforced... well, I'd be real surprised if it's EVER been enforced, give the number of yuppie soccer moms I see driving these things yakkin' on their cell phones while reaching behind 'em to get their mascara out of their purses...
-LjM
>Well, assuming you (eventually) get a quantum
>CPU... IO and other resources might not like
>being accessed simultaneously by multiple OSes...
Well, obviously we'd have to have some level of virtualization going on... some underlying arbitrator of resources.
We do this now with stuff like VMWare, I don't see why it's such a reach to assume that we couldn't do the same thing with quantum processing.
-LjM
Everquest and UO take place in a persistent world, with *large* server farms supporting each shard/continent/whatever metaphor.
Those farms are connected to big fat network pipes.
Those farms and network pipes are supported by system and network administrators.
None of these things are free.
-LjM
>Why do I play PC games? BECAUSE THEY ARE CHEAPER
I play PC games because the type of games I like are BETTER on the PC than any console.
Show me a realistic full-featured flight simulator on the PSX or Dreamcast. I don't care about things like FF8 or Super Mario Blaster Mega World or whatever. I care about things like European Air War and the Steel Panthers series and Close Combat and... well, you get the idea.
Not to mention the variety of controllers available for the PC... I heart my Sidewinder 3D Pro and wheel mouse and and and...
Let's also not forget that I can play these games on my PC in double the resolution (or more) of anything I can put through my TV.
Add to that the fact that I'm typically ALREADY sitting at my PC a few feet from my 20" monitor as opposed to across the room from my 21" TV, and the choice from my point of view is clear...
YMMV, of course.
-LjM
>If I OWN the music
This is incorrect.
Unless you are the copyright holder, you do NOT own the music. You own the media the music is on, and you have a license to play the music. Very similar to a software license.
I have a Windows 98 CD here. Does this mean I OWN Windows and can do whatever I want with it? I bet the law would disagree if I started burning copies and handing 'em out on the street corner.
I have a Redhat CD here. Does this mean I OWN Linux and can do whatever I want with it, licenses be damned?
-LjM
Am I the only one that thinks "neutralino" sounds like an Italian food place in Switzerland?
"Come! Dine at Neutralino's, where your fettucini is always protected by our stricly anonymous dining laws!"
-LjM
Now, once I get M.U.L.E., the Archon Games, the Ultima games, Crush, Crumble, and Chomp, the Spy vs. Spy games, the Eidolon, Seven Cities of Gold and Temple of Apshi I will have completely recreated my childhood... mwa-ha-ha-ha...
Not all of the Ultimas (only up till.. 5 I think), but the rest of these games are all available as images on some of the various emulator sites for older systems like the Apple ][ or Commodore 64/128...
Might be worth a search.
-LjM
There are open source interpreters for the Infocom game "databases" (for lack of a better word) available, and a while back Activision (who now owns the rights to these, I suppose) released a CD with about 30 or so games on it, including the three Zorks. In fact, it had just about everything except Hitchhiker's Guide... It also included the Invisiclues hint/map books and promotional material (well, like the little magazines and such, no toys) in PDF format.
Here it is, still available. 15 bucks. I can't recall how it stores the files on the CD, so you might have to extract the files under dosemu or wine or something...
-LjM