Another true story: at my university a few years ago, a math prof gave a gr. 10 algebra test from the 30s to a bunch of education majors. 13 out of 50 or so couldn't factor x^2 - 2x + 1.
Definitely. I remember downloading it years ago on my 486, tweaking my settings so that it would run properly, and being scared shitless playing at midnight with the sound cranked up.
An amazing game. It's up there with Star Control 2 on the "best games ever" list.
We use the word "Tory" to describe our (Canadian) conservative party, as well.
For those like me who have had an almost life-long interest in the Irish language, would you be able to recommend some good resources? I want to make it my third language (I speak English and a fair amount of French), but where I live (Saskatchewan), there's zero in the way of Irish speakers.
Gore does not have any kind of God-given right to non-Republican votes. Perhaps the Democratic party should have listened to its left-leaning dissenters instead of moving further right?
That's because the constitution was written in the 18th century, and the move towards free public education for all people didn't occur until the early-mid 19th century. Most people today see free public education as a rather essential thing.
There are two types of libertarians: those who believe in shrinking the government and staying true to the ideals of liberty and freedom; and those, like the Libertarian Party in the United States, who believe in radically cutting the government and pulling out of everything, leaving people to fend for themselves. This is not what libertarianism is supposed to be.
The first type of libertarian that I mentioned is similar to the republicans of old, those who believed in personal freedoms and privacy (I can't say that I'm very fond of the direction that the party has chosen to go, defining itself by snuggling up to megacorps). That's the type of libertarian I'd vote for. I could never vote for the second sort, and I never will; I don't believe that their selfishness will get them anywhere.
Summarized? Libertarianism is a wonderful ideology, but as usual, people have managed to fuck it up.
Sorry, I'll be voting for the NDP. I know they won't form the next government, but I will never vote for the alliance, and I can't vote for a government that has done little more than fuck around for four years.
Do minors have constitutional rights? I'm not incredibly familiar with the American constitution, being a Canadian and all, but I was under the impression that they didn't.
And no, due process doesn't exist in schools. It never has. That's not likely to change.
Computer: $2000
Nintendo: $150
Besides, I already had an old 8086 that I played King's Quest and 4x4 Offroad Racing on. It couldn't, however, play Final Fantasy or Dragon Warrior IV.
I prefer games like Myth II over Rogue anyday, but I also prefer games like ZAngband (a descendent of rogue, and being developed very regularly) over Myth II. The roguelike genre has to be the most addictive that I have ever come across.
This is Slashdot; you seriously expect some knowledgeable people in the crowd? This is the place where people say, "Well, I'm not a lawyer, but I read a magazine once, so I feel that makes me qualified to give legal advice."
This is mildly funny, not offtopic. And, as a bonus, it's totally ontopic: Grendel was the monster that Beowulf fought in the old english epic, "Beowulf".
I've got a fairly low user id, since I've been here for around two and a half years or so. Anyway, I've been a moderator less than a dozen times; if I had to guess, I'd say somewhere around six to eight. I've got a karma of 12.
Just a few bits of information; maybe you can make sense of them.
Workers were being offered heavy, regulated, industrial work in exchange to a farming lifestyle
Regulated? You didn't take high school history, did you? The Industrial Revolution offered jobs alright - jobs with absolutely horrible conditions, no guarantee of continual employment, beatings; jobs where you were more slave than human, essentially owned by your employer. It wasn't until the fights for the right to unionize that these jobs became more tolerable. I consider the 8 hour workday one of the greater accomplishments in semi-recent history.
Before you spout off next time, I suggest that you read a high school history text. You may be surprised that the world does not form itself around your whims and perceptions.
Slashdot is not the place to continually advertise your website. Please respect common courtesy: Slashdot is a news/rumour site, not your personal playpen.
I think what I was trying to say was "fuck off and die."
Bojay: this is not funny. It is also redundant, as the same idea has been done and done again by many other posters. Please refrain from posting this trash.
Unlike your other dislikers, I'm not afraid to use my account name.
Anyway, I ran into this trouble a couple weeks ago. What I _REALLY_ hate is if you have a GIF that's a solid color (say #006000) and you set the BGCOLOR of a table or body to the EXACT SAME COLOR, the browser displays the GIF and the BG differently. Drives me nuts.
You're not alone. My work-around is to create a 1x1 background graphic, and use that instead of specifying the colour in the body tag or stylesheet. Hopefully, that stupid little hack will one day be unnecessary.
That was the first thing that crossed my mind as well.:)
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Did they? I don't know. I started using computers in the mid to late 80s, as a child, back in those glorious days of incompatabilities. I had an old Xerox 8086 with DOS 3.0, and was happy with that for many years. I liked playing around in DOS, and quickly learned WordPerfect. I never once thought, "Man, this sucks, what I really need is a visual metaphor."
I know, I know. Kids learn well, and pick things up quickly. But I think that there's more to it than that: I learned computers with no preconceived notions of how computers should be. I was not told, "You should have a graphical interface; command lines are for cretins". I was not told, "The command line is the One True Way." I just learned things. I think that part of the problem with these "modern" OSs (Windows and Macintosh to be specific, I've used BeOS once and actually really liked it) is that they try to dictate style. That's why I'm really partial to Unix and X: I can have a powerful command line and GUI, and I can customize both to my heart's content.
This is how "a modern OS" should be, in my opinion. Choice. Visual metaphors are fine for most people most of the time, but sometimes I just want a shell prompt.
Could you be any more lame? Good Lord. I guess an intelligent response was too much to hope for, eh, siggy? You didn't even defend your original position! A yoda quote. Christ.
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Another true story: at my university a few years ago, a math prof gave a gr. 10 algebra test from the 30s to a bunch of education majors. 13 out of 50 or so couldn't factor x^2 - 2x + 1.
Exactly. I use the card that came with my machine because it works fine. I'm not a gamer; I don't need a $300 3-D card.
If it can display Windows/X, that's all I require of it, and my card does just that.
Definitely. I remember downloading it years ago on my 486, tweaking my settings so that it would run properly, and being scared shitless playing at midnight with the sound cranked up.
An amazing game. It's up there with Star Control 2 on the "best games ever" list.
We use the word "Tory" to describe our (Canadian) conservative party, as well.
For those like me who have had an almost life-long interest in the Irish language, would you be able to recommend some good resources? I want to make it my third language (I speak English and a fair amount of French), but where I live (Saskatchewan), there's zero in the way of Irish speakers.
Not necessarily. Some of us have tried assembly and went happily back to our high level languages. :)
Gore does not have any kind of God-given right to non-Republican votes. Perhaps the Democratic party should have listened to its left-leaning dissenters instead of moving further right?
That's because the constitution was written in the 18th century, and the move towards free public education for all people didn't occur until the early-mid 19th century. Most people today see free public education as a rather essential thing.
There are two types of libertarians: those who believe in shrinking the government and staying true to the ideals of liberty and freedom; and those, like the Libertarian Party in the United States, who believe in radically cutting the government and pulling out of everything, leaving people to fend for themselves. This is not what libertarianism is supposed to be.
The first type of libertarian that I mentioned is similar to the republicans of old, those who believed in personal freedoms and privacy (I can't say that I'm very fond of the direction that the party has chosen to go, defining itself by snuggling up to megacorps). That's the type of libertarian I'd vote for. I could never vote for the second sort, and I never will; I don't believe that their selfishness will get them anywhere.
Summarized? Libertarianism is a wonderful ideology, but as usual, people have managed to fuck it up.
Sorry, I'll be voting for the NDP. I know they won't form the next government, but I will never vote for the alliance, and I can't vote for a government that has done little more than fuck around for four years.
Do minors have constitutional rights? I'm not incredibly familiar with the American constitution, being a Canadian and all, but I was under the impression that they didn't.
And no, due process doesn't exist in schools. It never has. That's not likely to change.
Computer: $2000 Nintendo: $150 Besides, I already had an old 8086 that I played King's Quest and 4x4 Offroad Racing on. It couldn't, however, play Final Fantasy or Dragon Warrior IV.
Christ.
You're not funny. Don't you see that you're not funny?
I prefer games like Myth II over Rogue anyday, but I also prefer games like ZAngband (a descendent of rogue, and being developed very regularly) over Myth II. The roguelike genre has to be the most addictive that I have ever come across.
This is Slashdot; you seriously expect some knowledgeable people in the crowd? This is the place where people say, "Well, I'm not a lawyer, but I read a magazine once, so I feel that makes me qualified to give legal advice."
This is mildly funny, not offtopic. And, as a bonus, it's totally ontopic: Grendel was the monster that Beowulf fought in the old english epic, "Beowulf".
I've got a fairly low user id, since I've been here for around two and a half years or so. Anyway, I've been a moderator less than a dozen times; if I had to guess, I'd say somewhere around six to eight. I've got a karma of 12.
Just a few bits of information; maybe you can make sense of them.
Nope.
My 8086 can run elks, but that's only because it has 640kb of ram. This computer, on the other hand, has only a few kb. It's not going to work.
Regulated? You didn't take high school history, did you? The Industrial Revolution offered jobs alright - jobs with absolutely horrible conditions, no guarantee of continual employment, beatings; jobs where you were more slave than human, essentially owned by your employer. It wasn't until the fights for the right to unionize that these jobs became more tolerable. I consider the 8 hour workday one of the greater accomplishments in semi-recent history.
Before you spout off next time, I suggest that you read a high school history text. You may be surprised that the world does not form itself around your whims and perceptions.
Bowie:
Slashdot is not the place to continually advertise your website. Please respect common courtesy: Slashdot is a news/rumour site, not your personal playpen.
I think what I was trying to say was "fuck off and die."
Unlike your other dislikers, I'm not afraid to use my account name.
You're not alone. My work-around is to create a 1x1 background graphic, and use that instead of specifying the colour in the body tag or stylesheet. Hopefully, that stupid little hack will one day be unnecessary.
That was the first thing that crossed my mind as well. :)
Did they? I don't know. I started using computers in the mid to late 80s, as a child, back in those glorious days of incompatabilities. I had an old Xerox 8086 with DOS 3.0, and was happy with that for many years. I liked playing around in DOS, and quickly learned WordPerfect. I never once thought, "Man, this sucks, what I really need is a visual metaphor."
I know, I know. Kids learn well, and pick things up quickly. But I think that there's more to it than that: I learned computers with no preconceived notions of how computers should be. I was not told, "You should have a graphical interface; command lines are for cretins". I was not told, "The command line is the One True Way." I just learned things. I think that part of the problem with these "modern" OSs (Windows and Macintosh to be specific, I've used BeOS once and actually really liked it) is that they try to dictate style. That's why I'm really partial to Unix and X: I can have a powerful command line and GUI, and I can customize both to my heart's content.
This is how "a modern OS" should be, in my opinion. Choice. Visual metaphors are fine for most people most of the time, but sometimes I just want a shell prompt.
Could you be any more lame? Good Lord. I guess an intelligent response was too much to hope for, eh, siggy? You didn't even defend your original position! A yoda quote. Christ.