...Do I even need to say what is so wrong with this?
Eh, I will anyways:
Mozilla is a non-profit organization (though they do have a subsidiary named Mozilla Corporation, the profits from that go directly to Mozilla Foundation)
Firefox is a browser, not a browser company; they're thinking of Mozilla Corp/Foundation
Given how popular Google and Wikipedia are these days, mess-ups like this should have completely vanished by now.
Now I never have to leave my parents' basement^W^W girlfriend's house due to health concerns! Take that, mom! Err, hot girlfriend that I definitely have!:D
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (which, in case you haven't guessed, is a game title that is just as terrible to type out as it is to say with your mouth)
Not nearly as terrible as Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, which was announced the same day. The title just reeks of "quick, we need to come up with something '3D' can stand for!" I do admit that the game looks pretty neat, as does XIII-2... I just hope that they don't screw it up.
By default on Windows, it's replaced by the Firefox Menu. Just right-click anywhere on the UI (besides the page) and turn the menu bar back on. You can also do this from the preferences menu inside the Firefox Menu itself.
Wasn't this supposed to be the answer to Chrome - yet Chrome has shipped several iterations in the time it took them to get from 3 to 4?
Version numbers mean absolutely nothing; they only determine important milestones... or, in Chrome's case, pure marketing by making several "releases" painted as milestones, when in reality they're all quite minor updates. Firefox has a much more stable (and less confusing) version numbering system.
If you don't like closed content, just don't use it!
How can I reasonably walk into a grocery store without hearing closed (non-free) background music over the speaker system?
I believe he means the other kind of closed, as in, DRM or closed-source-ness. The difference with audio is that it has to become analog sometime (which is the whole point of it), even if the file itself has DRM. As far as licenses go, as long as I'm allowed to listen to it, I don't see a problem; CC and CC-like licenses, though, are always appreciated (see: Jamendo, Magnatune).
What the heck are you babbling about? Do you have the slightest idea?
I believe he's babbling about this. Sandy Bridge will have DRM in it (though they don't call it that for some weird reason), and Sandy Bridge is directly related to Ivy Bridge, so therefore it could possibly inherit the DRM features of Sandy Bridge.
Disclaimer: I am a total n00b when it comes to discussing processor architectures, so I could be wrong about something.
So... PC gamers with better input devices for the style of game (FPS) beat console gamers at one specific task in one specific game, and it qualifies as "PC Gamers Crush Console Brethren"? Seriously? This is news to some people, sure, like those who had the experiment in the first place, but this isn't even close to/.-worthiness.
You need to like puzzle games (and cute things) to like it. It's not exactly action-packed (except in the later levels) but yeah, just a cutesy puzzle game.
I do agree with what you said though. I paid $25 for HIB2. I played Osmos but the rest are of no interest to me.
Woah, none of the other 10 games in the bundle (they added the first 6 if you paid more than the average)? World of Goo, Braid, Penumbra, Gish, Machinarium... practically every single game in both bundles is worth playing and completing. You need to at least play World of Goo; that's amazing.
If you don't take it literally, then you're free to treat the psalms as historical narrative or the laws as poetry, etc. In other words, you could make it mean whatever you want it to.
Rather large misconception on your part. You're forgetting what the Bible was intended to be in the first place, and in effect making the Bible more than it was meant to be. Yes, the Bible is "inspired", as in, "God-breathed", but it isn't 100% correct on everything, nor was it intended to be. The Bible was written for the Church, by the Church with God's guidance, not for peoples' own interpretation. The Bible was never meant to be a super-accurate scientific document and it shows in various places with metaphors, similes, analogies, and other various wordings that are thousands of years old, therefore not necessarily following standard language and writing practices of today.
The Bible was always intended to be a collection of stories from the Jewish and Christian past, presented in a variety of narratives by a variety of authors (though all inspired). The Bible does not account for the intricate details of every single Jewish and Catholic tradition, simply because it wasn't meant to be the sole rule of faith. In the same way, it doesn't account for every scientific detail in a perfectly accurate manner at all times, and while it may be accurate about spiritual matters (assuming that's what you believe), there is nothing in the Bible or Catholic/Jewish tradition that says it is also 100% scientifically accurate, or meant to be, and Catholic/Jewish tradition has been around for a very long time and the Catholic church believes the very things that the original Church fathers believed back in their time; if anybody knew the correct way to interpret scripture, it would be the direct successors of the Apostles themselves, yes?
Obviously, the Bible isn't meant to be taken 100% literally at all times. Why then is the beginning of Genesis exempt from this? You'll find in Genesis that God said Adam would die "the day", not millennium, that he ate from that tree (depending on the translation: the NIV doesn't have it, but KJV, etc., have it). Yet, he lived to be well over 900 years old. Does this mean that each "day" in the beginning of Genesis was approximately a thousand years? No, but it does show that the word "day" is (and can be) used loosely to illustrate a biblical truth. When Genesis was written, I wouldn't expect Moses (or whoever wrote it) to use the exact number of millions and billions of years for everything that was made (or even to describe the process that they were made) hence the use of "day".
Note that the Catholic Church, from it's very inception (which is when Jesus made Peter his successor), never believed that the Bible was to be taken literally at all times (especially in Genesis). My source (Also, check out some of the other writings on that site: awesome resource!).
Please note, Cortex Command and Revenge of the Titans are still under active development.
Cortex Command is one of those "always in Alpha" games, like Minecraft, seemingly. According to their website, they've been working on it since at least 2008 or 2009, so it's not like a proof-of-concept and, by now, should be very close to a finished game. Of course, you still get any and all updates to the game on the humble bundle website, so this negates the problem rather effectively.
As for Revenge of the Titans, it runs perfectly for me, and according to this here slashdot comment, the game is "released", AKA "1.0" or, at the very least, "RC" status, so it's launching in the bundle. If there are any problems discovered or anything else added/changed, you will still get those updates.
It's a little baroque, but i've had really good success with GLC ( http://nullkey.ath.cx/projects/glc/ ). It only works with OpenGL games though, so non-GL based 2D games won't work with it.
On the first page, while describing the bug on said Intel CPU, the author defines floating-point numbers as "numbers too large to be represented as integers".
I believe they meant a number that would take a crapload (or infinite amount) of screen space to display, not the other kind of "large".
This reminds me of a hilarious Lemon Demon song about harvesting the dead body of Alec Guinness (who played Obi-Wan in the original trilogy)
Gonna dig up Alec Guinness. Gonna harvest Obi-Wan. Gonna put his body on display with his Jedi costume on.
Gonna go down to the highway. Gonna build myself a sign. Gonna advertise to everyone, tell ‘em where to form the line.
Gonna build him some bionic robot limbs. Gonna code an electronic voice for him. So when the people come to glance him, he'll be singing songs and dancin'. All right, all right. All right.
Gonna dig up Alec Guinness. Gonna raise him from the dead. Gonna charge some nerds to swat their toy Lightsabers at his head.
Gonna pull out all the stops now. Gonna do this, no remorse. Gonna show them all the meaning of “a great disturbance in the Force.”
Gonna raise him up on wires above the land. Gonna have him launch some fireworks from his hands. And if police come knockin' at my door, he'll say “These aren't the droids you're looking for.”
I just got a letter saying that I better desist. Some legal mucus. Seems that Mr. Lucas is pissed.
Whatever happened to fair use? You know? Whatever happened to free speech? Where'd it go? I'm only using my First Amendment right. You know I won't go down without a fight.
Gonna dig up Alec Guinness. If I can't, then that's a shame. I could dig up Alec Baldwin, But it wouldn't be the same.
Psst, if you like the song, you can get Lemon Demon's first four albums here and check out the other awesome songs that Neil Cicierega (who made Lemon Demon, The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, Potter Puppet Pals, Brodyquest, etc.) made on this website. Support the indie musicians:)!
DS: Sonic Rush / Adventure / Colors Zelda Phantom Hourglass / Spirit Tracks Professor Layton [insert subtitle here] Phoenix Wright / Apollo Justice / Miles Edgeworth - Ace Attorney [Investigations] Picross and Picross 3D Mega Man ZX / ZX Advent / Zero Collection
All of those are high-scoring (in terms of popular review sites) games that deserve to be played at least once, Picross/3D in particular; both of those games have so many challenging puzzles that I still haven't beaten both of them since I got them! If you can spare the cash, you can get an R4 (and an EZ Flash 3-in-one) or some other type of homebrew cart and back them all up on to a microsd card to take them all wherever you go! My DS has replaced my iPod as well, since the Moonshell homebrew program can play music and video (way, way more audio formats than an ipod, but the video format's specialized and you need to pre-convert videos).
As for the PSP, I heard that Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker are really good.
And while we're on that topic, why is always considered a bad thing when wealth redistribution benefits the lower-middle income, but it's a good thing when it benefits the upper 2% (e.g. tax breaks for the wealthy)?
Whoa whoa whoa, there. Who ever said anything about only certain kinds of redistribution being good? All redistribution is bad on the grounds that it's my money. Tax breaks for the wealthy are equally bad because it's unfair to smaller businesses. Capitalism != "ignoring the poor and helping the wealthy"; quite a common misconception. Trickle-down Economics is flat-out false because we've tried it and it clearly doesn't work.
As I said, if I earn money working at my job, taking it away and giving it to someone that didn't earn it is just disheartening. Now, I can understand why that money would benefit them (and if I was them I'd sure appreciate it), but that's what private charity/donations are for. Also, you don't know who or what your money's supporting once it's taken from you via wealth redistribution. What if my money's used for something that I don't support? What if my money is given to someone who will immediately waste it? If I want to give my money away, that's my choice and I should get to choose who it goes to; you can't force me to do it because it's so ethically distasteful to do so.
Leaves might be a better choice. Given the country's forests every citizen would become quite wealthy overnight and it wouldn't require any additional infrastructure.
I know you're joking (hehe), but in reality that wouldn't exactly be true. The more of a currency there is, the less one unit of it is worth. For example, lets say there are a quadrillion dollars in existence; one dollar by itself isn't worth very much. However, if there were only a billion dollars, the dollar is worth a heck of a lot more. Same with leaves; the more leaves there are, the less each leaf by itself is worth. Every time someone plants a tree and waits for it to grow (err, that might take a while, but disregard that) the value of the currency drops, thus inflation.
One small problem with 10/GUI: what about people with one hand, or people with only so many fingers? It looks more confusing to use than useful, honestly. Plus, the title bars for the windows are sideways; not exactly usable. The mouse is still here because it works pretty well, and I don't see a reason to "upgrade" unless it improves things substantially.
Slashdot Mirror
Mozilla's Firefox, a popular browser company
...Do I even need to say what is so wrong with this?
Eh, I will anyways:
Given how popular Google and Wikipedia are these days, mess-ups like this should have completely vanished by now.
Now I never have to leave my parents' basement^W^W girlfriend's house due to health concerns! Take that, mom! Err, hot girlfriend that I definitely have! :D
Woosh!
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (which, in case you haven't guessed, is a game title that is just as terrible to type out as it is to say with your mouth)
Not nearly as terrible as Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, which was announced the same day. The title just reeks of "quick, we need to come up with something '3D' can stand for!" I do admit that the game looks pretty neat, as does XIII-2... I just hope that they don't screw it up.
By default on Windows, it's replaced by the Firefox Menu. Just right-click anywhere on the UI (besides the page) and turn the menu bar back on. You can also do this from the preferences menu inside the Firefox Menu itself.
Wasn't this supposed to be the answer to Chrome - yet Chrome has shipped several iterations in the time it took them to get from 3 to 4?
Version numbers mean absolutely nothing; they only determine important milestones... or, in Chrome's case, pure marketing by making several "releases" painted as milestones, when in reality they're all quite minor updates. Firefox has a much more stable (and less confusing) version numbering system.
If you don't like closed content, just don't use it!
How can I reasonably walk into a grocery store without hearing closed (non-free) background music over the speaker system?
I believe he means the other kind of closed, as in, DRM or closed-source-ness. The difference with audio is that it has to become analog sometime (which is the whole point of it), even if the file itself has DRM. As far as licenses go, as long as I'm allowed to listen to it, I don't see a problem; CC and CC-like licenses, though, are always appreciated (see: Jamendo, Magnatune).
What the heck are you babbling about? Do you have the slightest idea?
I believe he's babbling about this. Sandy Bridge will have DRM in it (though they don't call it that for some weird reason), and Sandy Bridge is directly related to Ivy Bridge, so therefore it could possibly inherit the DRM features of Sandy Bridge.
Disclaimer: I am a total n00b when it comes to discussing processor architectures, so I could be wrong about something.
Not quite. Facebook is all of those at once, therefore the cycle doesn't exactly apply to it.
Sounds like the whimpering bleatings of a CRUSHED CONSOLE PLAYER!
I play on both, you insensitive clod :P.
So... PC gamers with better input devices for the style of game (FPS) beat console gamers at one specific task in one specific game, and it qualifies as "PC Gamers Crush Console Brethren"? Seriously? This is news to some people, sure, like those who had the experiment in the first place, but this isn't even close to /.-worthiness.
You need to like puzzle games (and cute things) to like it. It's not exactly action-packed (except in the later levels) but yeah, just a cutesy puzzle game.
I do agree with what you said though. I paid $25 for HIB2. I played Osmos but the rest are of no interest to me.
Woah, none of the other 10 games in the bundle (they added the first 6 if you paid more than the average)? World of Goo, Braid, Penumbra, Gish, Machinarium... practically every single game in both bundles is worth playing and completing. You need to at least play World of Goo; that's amazing.
If you don't take it literally, then you're free to treat the psalms as historical narrative or the laws as poetry, etc. In other words, you could make it mean whatever you want it to.
Rather large misconception on your part. You're forgetting what the Bible was intended to be in the first place, and in effect making the Bible more than it was meant to be. Yes, the Bible is "inspired", as in, "God-breathed", but it isn't 100% correct on everything, nor was it intended to be. The Bible was written for the Church, by the Church with God's guidance, not for peoples' own interpretation. The Bible was never meant to be a super-accurate scientific document and it shows in various places with metaphors, similes, analogies, and other various wordings that are thousands of years old, therefore not necessarily following standard language and writing practices of today.
The Bible was always intended to be a collection of stories from the Jewish and Christian past, presented in a variety of narratives by a variety of authors (though all inspired). The Bible does not account for the intricate details of every single Jewish and Catholic tradition, simply because it wasn't meant to be the sole rule of faith. In the same way, it doesn't account for every scientific detail in a perfectly accurate manner at all times, and while it may be accurate about spiritual matters (assuming that's what you believe), there is nothing in the Bible or Catholic/Jewish tradition that says it is also 100% scientifically accurate, or meant to be, and Catholic/Jewish tradition has been around for a very long time and the Catholic church believes the very things that the original Church fathers believed back in their time; if anybody knew the correct way to interpret scripture, it would be the direct successors of the Apostles themselves, yes?
Obviously, the Bible isn't meant to be taken 100% literally at all times. Why then is the beginning of Genesis exempt from this? You'll find in Genesis that God said Adam would die "the day", not millennium, that he ate from that tree (depending on the translation: the NIV doesn't have it, but KJV, etc., have it). Yet, he lived to be well over 900 years old. Does this mean that each "day" in the beginning of Genesis was approximately a thousand years? No, but it does show that the word "day" is (and can be) used loosely to illustrate a biblical truth. When Genesis was written, I wouldn't expect Moses (or whoever wrote it) to use the exact number of millions and billions of years for everything that was made (or even to describe the process that they were made) hence the use of "day".
Note that the Catholic Church, from it's very inception (which is when Jesus made Peter his successor), never believed that the Bible was to be taken literally at all times (especially in Genesis). My source (Also, check out some of the other writings on that site: awesome resource!).
...which is exactly what I said, I believe ;)
He's probably talking about this:
Please note, Cortex Command and Revenge of the Titans are still under active development.
Cortex Command is one of those "always in Alpha" games, like Minecraft, seemingly. According to their website, they've been working on it since at least 2008 or 2009, so it's not like a proof-of-concept and, by now, should be very close to a finished game. Of course, you still get any and all updates to the game on the humble bundle website, so this negates the problem rather effectively.
As for Revenge of the Titans, it runs perfectly for me, and according to this here slashdot comment, the game is "released", AKA "1.0" or, at the very least, "RC" status, so it's launching in the bundle. If there are any problems discovered or anything else added/changed, you will still get those updates.
It's a little baroque, but i've had really good success with GLC ( http://nullkey.ath.cx/projects/glc/ ). It only works with OpenGL games though, so non-GL based 2D games won't work with it.
I love GLC! Here's a tutorial of it that I found, for those of you wanting to try it: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/glc.html.
And a video I made with it a little while ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNNY6cGNpgc
On the first page, while describing the bug on said Intel CPU, the author defines floating-point numbers as "numbers too large to be represented as integers".
I believe they meant a number that would take a crapload (or infinite amount) of screen space to display, not the other kind of "large".
This reminds me of a hilarious Lemon Demon song about harvesting the dead body of Alec Guinness (who played Obi-Wan in the original trilogy)
Gonna dig up Alec Guinness.
Gonna harvest Obi-Wan.
Gonna put his body on display with his Jedi costume on.
Gonna go down to the highway.
Gonna build myself a sign.
Gonna advertise to everyone, tell ‘em where to form the line.
Gonna build him some bionic robot limbs.
Gonna code an electronic voice for him.
So when the people come to glance him, he'll be singing songs and dancin'.
All right, all right.
All right.
Gonna dig up Alec Guinness.
Gonna raise him from the dead.
Gonna charge some nerds to swat their toy Lightsabers at his head.
Gonna pull out all the stops now.
Gonna do this, no remorse.
Gonna show them all the meaning of “a great disturbance in the Force.”
Gonna raise him up on wires above the land.
Gonna have him launch some fireworks from his hands.
And if police come knockin' at my door, he'll say “These aren't the droids you're looking for.”
I just got a letter saying that I better desist.
Some legal mucus.
Seems that Mr. Lucas is pissed.
Whatever happened to fair use?
You know?
Whatever happened to free speech?
Where'd it go?
I'm only using my First Amendment right.
You know I won't go down without a fight.
Gonna dig up Alec Guinness.
If I can't, then that's a shame.
I could dig up Alec Baldwin,
But it wouldn't be the same.
Psst, if you like the song, you can get Lemon Demon's first four albums here and check out the other awesome songs that Neil Cicierega (who made Lemon Demon, The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, Potter Puppet Pals, Brodyquest, etc.) made on this website. Support the indie musicians :)!
DS:
Sonic Rush / Adventure / Colors
Zelda Phantom Hourglass / Spirit Tracks
Professor Layton [insert subtitle here]
Phoenix Wright / Apollo Justice / Miles Edgeworth - Ace Attorney [Investigations]
Picross and Picross 3D
Mega Man ZX / ZX Advent / Zero Collection
All of those are high-scoring (in terms of popular review sites) games that deserve to be played at least once, Picross/3D in particular; both of those games have so many challenging puzzles that I still haven't beaten both of them since I got them! If you can spare the cash, you can get an R4 (and an EZ Flash 3-in-one) or some other type of homebrew cart and back them all up on to a microsd card to take them all wherever you go! My DS has replaced my iPod as well, since the Moonshell homebrew program can play music and video (way, way more audio formats than an ipod, but the video format's specialized and you need to pre-convert videos).
As for the PSP, I heard that Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker are really good.
AMD (Assange of Mass Dissemination)
So THAT'S what it stands for! Finally, I've figured it out! I guess I should just buy Intel/Nvidia from now on...
And while we're on that topic, why is always considered a bad thing when wealth redistribution benefits the lower-middle income, but it's a good thing when it benefits the upper 2% (e.g. tax breaks for the wealthy)?
Whoa whoa whoa, there. Who ever said anything about only certain kinds of redistribution being good? All redistribution is bad on the grounds that it's my money. Tax breaks for the wealthy are equally bad because it's unfair to smaller businesses. Capitalism != "ignoring the poor and helping the wealthy"; quite a common misconception. Trickle-down Economics is flat-out false because we've tried it and it clearly doesn't work.
As I said, if I earn money working at my job, taking it away and giving it to someone that didn't earn it is just disheartening. Now, I can understand why that money would benefit them (and if I was them I'd sure appreciate it), but that's what private charity/donations are for. Also, you don't know who or what your money's supporting once it's taken from you via wealth redistribution. What if my money's used for something that I don't support? What if my money is given to someone who will immediately waste it? If I want to give my money away, that's my choice and I should get to choose who it goes to; you can't force me to do it because it's so ethically distasteful to do so.
Leaves might be a better choice. Given the country's forests every citizen would become quite wealthy overnight and it wouldn't require any additional infrastructure.
I know you're joking (hehe), but in reality that wouldn't exactly be true. The more of a currency there is, the less one unit of it is worth. For example, lets say there are a quadrillion dollars in existence; one dollar by itself isn't worth very much. However, if there were only a billion dollars, the dollar is worth a heck of a lot more. Same with leaves; the more leaves there are, the less each leaf by itself is worth. Every time someone plants a tree and waits for it to grow (err, that might take a while, but disregard that) the value of the currency drops, thus inflation.
One small problem with 10/GUI: what about people with one hand, or people with only so many fingers? It looks more confusing to use than useful, honestly. Plus, the title bars for the windows are sideways; not exactly usable. The mouse is still here because it works pretty well, and I don't see a reason to "upgrade" unless it improves things substantially.