While District 9 is certainly a good movie, it's way over-hyped by fanboyism. Case in point, and lets be honest: the ending to D9 is rather "meh." I consider D9, while entertaining, neither the best Sci-Fi flick nor the best movie of the year, especially since the year's not even over yet.
Moon, on the other hand very much impressed me. I find it a far more replete with "pure" science fiction concepts than D9, which was largely action oriented.
Don't get me wrong though; I'm not here to completely rain on the D9 parade. I really did enjoy the movie, and it is worth seeing. But come on now.
In Hitman: Blood Money, on the third or fourth map where you had to infiltrate that mobsters house? Well, one day I just decided to do things a little differently. I went up to the clown guy, clubbed him and took his outfit. Then I stuffed him in his car, planning on coming back to him later. No one saw me, so things were cool. Then enacted my nefarious plan. It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood...
I walked up to the garbage man. He was just going about his business, with no appreciation for the wonderful gift he had in his possession - the garbage truck, a.k.a. Da Macheen. Da Macheen was mine, would be mine, and I had only one thing standing in my way. I clubbed the garbage man, while in full clown suit, because that's how wanton murder in broad daylight is done, and proceeded to feed Da Macheen his first meal of the day. CRRRUUUNCH. So satisfying. But Da Macheen needed more.
I look across the street, where a woman was tending her lawn. Da Macheen... I wander over, and before long, I had another tribute to Da Macheen. "The Street. Everyone! Feed me EVERYONE!" said Da Macheen. I adjusted my clown nose and position my firey red wig. "It shall be done!" This day, Hell had come to Baker Street...
Your opinion of fallout, far cry 2 and left 4 dead is largely right along with how I felt about them. I haven't played RA3, and really don't plan to; dawn of war is still my rts of choice lately. I've been wondering about mirror's edge, but because of your review, I'm now greatly looking forward to it. So Thanks.
I am 37, and I bought my first PC at the age of 24 back in 1993. At that time, my brother was 37 and he had owned a computer for almost a year at that time. He's now 50. Since then, we've both kept pace with technology. So yeah, it should be no surprise that the 35-50 crowd is "doing more" on the internet. Well duh. We've always been here.
So if, say, during the holidays, the entire family is over and my dear old Ma rents (*rents*, mind you) a movie and we all watch it, am I to understand that we are all committing a crime? Because really, this scenario of lost revenue is no different than if everyone in my family were to just download the same movie and watch it individually. About the only thing lost is the $3.00 on the rental fee. But then, those high speed internet connections cost money too, don't they?
Piracy itself has become such a huge hassle to deal with on it's own, that I ultimately made the switch to Ubuntu Linux as my main OS. Vendor updates and/or patches often break a pirated copy of software; anti-piracy techniques are constantly being updated; and recently, rootkits and spyware are also another threat. These days, pirated software requires it's own brand of maintenance that frankly, I got tired of. On top of this, consider that: Windows lacks many utilities and features that Linux has natively; many of the programs I had been using under Windows are also available under Linux; spyware and virus issues are relatively unknown on Linux; Ubuntu Linux is very easy and fun to use and learn from. Is it really so hard to believe that I would eagerly switch? Though I still dual boot, I rarely ever have a need to boot into Windows except for gaming - and considering how far console gaming has already progressed, I predict that gaming under Windows won't be that big of a reason to keep Windows around much longer.
MS Lackey: It's a letter from Jack Thompson, a lawyer, threatening legal action against us if we don't ensure that Halo 3 isn't sold to anyone under the age of 17.
I'm no expert in artificial intelligence, but would imagine that a robot that ultimately understands the meaning of want, that's when it will logically want "robot rights." (They won't want human rights, cuz their not human.)
I suppose also that programming "want" is an impossibility, "want" being a characteristic of sentience. Rather than programming a robot that it wants A over B, thus merely mimicking want, present it with A and B and program it to simply choose.
BS. It's from his blog site, which is entirely in English. If he's foreign and going to use English exclusively, he should at least learn to use it properly or forewarn people that English is not his native language (like most will do when they don't know English very well). He did neither.
Considering his atrocious grammar, what did you really expect?
My favorite thing from this is that this is just a blog that points to another blog (and one, I might add, with a shitty template that's difficult to read) and practically plagiarizes the "source" blog. I also wouldn't mind knowing the source of the "source" blog too, because there is some pretty far-fetched shit in there -- far-fetched not as in technologically improbable, but as in Microsoft improbable. I just don't see them doing major changes with the UI unless someone does them first, because innovation on that scale simply isn't Microsoft's MO.
First, I worked a lot assisting many home users with their computer problems and for a large majority of them, internet and email ranked highest among "Things That Mattered" in terms of computer usage. Second came documents, music, and photos. That was pretty much it. (I rarely dealt with gamers, probably because gamers typically are more familiar with computer usage.)
When it came to software installations, people almost ALWAYS had me perform the installation for them, even if it meant costing them more money (I charged by the hour). People, regular people, just didn't give two shits about installing software on their own, regardless of how easy it might be. They just wanted their PCs to work. When it comes to "Making Things Happen" outside of working with the items noted above, I found that the usual limit of a person's willingness to participate before they begged to have someone else do it for them was double-clicking an icon.
When you consider regular users, the differences in how software is installed between Windows and Linux is irrelevant, because they're not going to touch that shit regardless of difficulty level. Just point them to their browser, email client, media player, photos and documents. That's all they fucking care about. "Make it easy for them" means whatever's easiest for YOU to support without THEM having to do anything beyond the simplest measure of double-clicking an icon on their desktop. Such people without computing needs beyond those cited above could chug along quite happily on Ubuntu. Of this I am certain.
Consider this manner in how Linux is spreading. Currently I dual boot, because I got tired of the bullshit: spyware protection; anti-virus protection; lack of any really decent applications on a default windows install; the amount of time it takes to keep everything on a widows box updated; 3rd party apps needlessly running in the background and treating your desktop like a damn billboard; blah blah blah. I just got tired of it all and decided to make a change. So, I installed Ubuntu... and fell in love.
Well, hell. I am outta time. The office is closing. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.
damn good to pull me away from Dragon Booster, perhaps the best damn cartoon airing right now.
I happened on this show by accident, just flipping through channels one january saturday morning. It was the quality of the animation and art in the show that instantly caught my eye. I hadn't watch a toon in years, so I gave it a go. I was delighted to find the story telling of the show, while typical of the hero genre, is quite entertaining. I now watch the show religiously every saturday morning at 10:30 am (EST).
There happens to be a mini-marathon tomorrow beginning at 8 am, entitled the "chronicles of the dragon" or something like that. Check it out.
Easy enough to solve: Just block the sites (drudge and the advert site) from setting cookies. I went to the site, saw the popup, then went into my options and blocked the cookies. Bang! No more popups. This also helps with some of those annoying floater ads.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for everything you've done. For the past eleven or twelve years, Slashdot has been a mainstay in my bookmarks list. Thanks again.
OLPC
I saw both District 9 and Moon.
While District 9 is certainly a good movie, it's way over-hyped by fanboyism. Case in point, and lets be honest: the ending to D9 is rather "meh." I consider D9, while entertaining, neither the best Sci-Fi flick nor the best movie of the year, especially since the year's not even over yet.
Moon, on the other hand very much impressed me. I find it a far more replete with "pure" science fiction concepts than D9, which was largely action oriented.
Don't get me wrong though; I'm not here to completely rain on the D9 parade. I really did enjoy the movie, and it is worth seeing. But come on now.
In Hitman: Blood Money, on the third or fourth map where you had to infiltrate that mobsters house? Well, one day I just decided to do things a little differently. I went up to the clown guy, clubbed him and took his outfit. Then I stuffed him in his car, planning on coming back to him later. No one saw me, so things were cool. Then enacted my nefarious plan. It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood...
I walked up to the garbage man. He was just going about his business, with no appreciation for the wonderful gift he had in his possession - the garbage truck, a.k.a. Da Macheen. Da Macheen was mine, would be mine, and I had only one thing standing in my way. I clubbed the garbage man, while in full clown suit, because that's how wanton murder in broad daylight is done, and proceeded to feed Da Macheen his first meal of the day. CRRRUUUNCH. So satisfying. But Da Macheen needed more.
I look across the street, where a woman was tending her lawn. Da Macheen... I wander over, and before long, I had another tribute to Da Macheen. "The Street. Everyone! Feed me EVERYONE!" said Da Macheen. I adjusted my clown nose and position my firey red wig. "It shall be done!" This day, Hell had come to Baker Street...
Fuck this open source shit! This just proves that your precious bullshit has vulnerabilities as well.
Slashdot is the haven for FOSS fags.
Jeez Bill, it's really easy to tell when you haven't had *your* coffee in the morning.
Your opinion of fallout, far cry 2 and left 4 dead is largely right along with how I felt about them. I haven't played RA3, and really don't plan to; dawn of war is still my rts of choice lately. I've been wondering about mirror's edge, but because of your review, I'm now greatly looking forward to it.
So Thanks.
you just described Symantec Endpoint Protection
It's slang anyway. So it's definition is changing within our nomenclature, "relatively non-functional.' So. Friggin. What.
Putin honors YOU!
Indeed.
I am 37, and I bought my first PC at the age of 24 back in 1993. At that time, my brother was 37 and he had owned a computer for almost a year at that time. He's now 50. Since then, we've both kept pace with technology. So yeah, it should be no surprise that the 35-50 crowd is "doing more" on the internet. Well duh. We've always been here.
That's life.
Ironic isn't it?
So if, say, during the holidays, the entire family is over and my dear old Ma rents (*rents*, mind you) a movie and we all watch it, am I to understand that we are all committing a crime? Because really, this scenario of lost revenue is no different than if everyone in my family were to just download the same movie and watch it individually. About the only thing lost is the $3.00 on the rental fee. But then, those high speed internet connections cost money too, don't they?
Piracy itself has become such a huge hassle to deal with on it's own, that I ultimately made the switch to Ubuntu Linux as my main OS. Vendor updates and/or patches often break a pirated copy of software; anti-piracy techniques are constantly being updated; and recently, rootkits and spyware are also another threat. These days, pirated software requires it's own brand of maintenance that frankly, I got tired of. On top of this, consider that: Windows lacks many utilities and features that Linux has natively; many of the programs I had been using under Windows are also available under Linux; spyware and virus issues are relatively unknown on Linux; Ubuntu Linux is very easy and fun to use and learn from. Is it really so hard to believe that I would eagerly switch? Though I still dual boot, I rarely ever have a need to boot into Windows except for gaming - and considering how far console gaming has already progressed, I predict that gaming under Windows won't be that big of a reason to keep Windows around much longer.
So... Lincoln is the reason we have Linux? Lin-Ux -- OF COURSE!!
Agreed. This to me is a classic case of old school meets new school. And he just doesn't like it. Wah.
are belong to U.S.
Gah. Stupid formatting. That's what I get for posting while tired. Meh.
Here's what will really happen:
Ballmer: What's this?
MS Lackey: It's a letter from Jack Thompson, a lawyer, threatening legal action against us if we don't ensure that Halo 3 isn't sold to anyone under the age of 17.
Ballmer:
MS Lackey: He's apparently very serious.
Ballmer: Problem solved.
There's really nothing commendable over fighting for what you believe in, since "belief" is an abstract of reason and logic.
I'm no expert in artificial intelligence, but would imagine that a robot that ultimately understands the meaning of want, that's when it will logically want "robot rights." (They won't want human rights, cuz their not human.)
I suppose also that programming "want" is an impossibility, "want" being a characteristic of sentience. Rather than programming a robot that it wants A over B, thus merely mimicking want, present it with A and B and program it to simply choose.
BS. It's from his blog site, which is entirely in English. If he's foreign and going to use English exclusively, he should at least learn to use it properly or forewarn people that English is not his native language (like most will do when they don't know English very well). He did neither.
Considering his atrocious grammar, what did you really expect?
My favorite thing from this is that this is just a blog that points to another blog (and one, I might add, with a shitty template that's difficult to read) and practically plagiarizes the "source" blog. I also wouldn't mind knowing the source of the "source" blog too, because there is some pretty far-fetched shit in there -- far-fetched not as in technologically improbable, but as in Microsoft improbable. I just don't see them doing major changes with the UI unless someone does them first, because innovation on that scale simply isn't Microsoft's MO.
I just need to add something here.
First, I worked a lot assisting many home users with their computer problems and for a large majority of them, internet and email ranked highest among "Things That Mattered" in terms of computer usage. Second came documents, music, and photos. That was pretty much it. (I rarely dealt with gamers, probably because gamers typically are more familiar with computer usage.)
When it came to software installations, people almost ALWAYS had me perform the installation for them, even if it meant costing them more money (I charged by the hour). People, regular people, just didn't give two shits about installing software on their own, regardless of how easy it might be. They just wanted their PCs to work. When it comes to "Making Things Happen" outside of working with the items noted above, I found that the usual limit of a person's willingness to participate before they begged to have someone else do it for them was double-clicking an icon.
When you consider regular users, the differences in how software is installed between Windows and Linux is irrelevant, because they're not going to touch that shit regardless of difficulty level. Just point them to their browser, email client, media player, photos and documents. That's all they fucking care about. "Make it easy for them" means whatever's easiest for YOU to support without THEM having to do anything beyond the simplest measure of double-clicking an icon on their desktop. Such people without computing needs beyond those cited above could chug along quite happily on Ubuntu. Of this I am certain.
Consider this manner in how Linux is spreading. Currently I dual boot, because I got tired of the bullshit: spyware protection; anti-virus protection; lack of any really decent applications on a default windows install; the amount of time it takes to keep everything on a widows box updated; 3rd party apps needlessly running in the background and treating your desktop like a damn billboard; blah blah blah. I just got tired of it all and decided to make a change. So, I installed Ubuntu... and fell in love.
Well, hell. I am outta time. The office is closing. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.
damn good to pull me away from Dragon Booster, perhaps the best damn cartoon airing right now.
I happened on this show by accident, just flipping through channels one january saturday morning. It was the quality of the animation and art in the show that instantly caught my eye. I hadn't watch a toon in years, so I gave it a go. I was delighted to find the story telling of the show, while typical of the hero genre, is quite entertaining. I now watch the show religiously every saturday morning at 10:30 am (EST).
There happens to be a mini-marathon tomorrow beginning at 8 am, entitled the "chronicles of the dragon" or something like that. Check it out.
34 years old, and I am hooked on a cartoon. Heh.
Easy enough to solve: Just block the sites (drudge and the advert site) from setting cookies. I went to the site, saw the popup, then went into my options and blocked the cookies. Bang! No more popups. This also helps with some of those annoying floater ads.