"Harry Potter and the Troll of Reading Comprehension," wherein Harry finds that despite all best efforts, people still forget that italicized text is supplied by submitters, not editors!
Difference being, of course, that with Camelot you MUST agree to the EULA to play. Judge ruled that despite one of the Plaintiffs not having installed or paid for the account, he agreed to the EULA to play it, thus he's bound by the arbitration decision.
How is the Brooks article unintentionally funny?
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The Almighty Buck
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It seems that upon reading the article, David Brooks has placed his tongue firmly in cheek while writing about how we as Americans (#include ) are richer than most anybody in the world.
It's true.
Fact is, we spend more than most people in the world make. We're a consumptionist society. We invented disposable plates and cups and diapers and everything else. Sake of convienience, isn't it?
I agree with his article where it describes the 'poor' of the US as wanting things they can't afford. Poor here is defined as "earning between $17,000 and $34,000 a year."
I don't make much more than that, and I've got all of these computers, and an XBox, and a Dreamcast, and...well, not to get too far into it, but I've bought a lot of crap I don't need, but I want. I have nobody but myself to blame.
But don't hide under a rock and take this article as a joke. I've started to think about what the hell I'm spending all of this money on long before I read the article.
Next time you buy 3 DVD's at Best Buy, take a step back. Do yourself a favor.
CSFB's Yatko was just as direct. "We don't treat Linux as a toy. We've got real business problems that we need to solve."
I've all of a sudden got this mental picture of a little squeaky Tux toy. You know, the ones that your dog would just LOVE to chew on for a while before swallowing them.
The only problem is that after the first capsule, they were hungry again after an hour.
You know, I've started to wonder... (-1, Troll)
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Movie Review: John Q
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Jon, have you EVER seen a movie you've liked? I mean, it seems that no matter the movie, you haven't been entertained by it. I think you've reached the point where you need to stop doing the movie review thing and actually start writing about things you like.
Then again, it seems flames and attacks by/.'ers drive you to continue to post aggravating reviews of crap movies that most of us weren't going to see anyway.
Nonetheless, I wish you luck on your future, non-movie-reviewing endeavors.
He wasn't try to compete with Infogames, trying to hurt their profits...
He may not have been trying to hurt their profits, but seeing as how Infogrames Germany doesn't make money off the US version, he was hurting their profits. Would you buy two copies of a game if the first one worked fine but the second one happened to be localized?
I didn't think so.
Let's use a little common sense that we/.'ers are vaunted for, please.
Maybe these guys should have looked at the history of these "exercise" controllers and noticed that they're not exactly a huge market.
After all, from my standpoint as a stereotypical overweight Gamer-American, the last thing I want to do is peddle on a bike while I'm playing Dark Age of Camelot. If I want to get exercise, which though rare I do from time to time, I get out in the Fresh Air.
'Course, it could make my spawn-camping so much more productive...
If their cat was anything like my cat, she'd just sit in the nearest windowsill all day and refuse to do anything, and if you tried to pick her up there'd be shreds of arm-flesh all over the room.
When I was an undergrad, I had one machine. It was a Pentium 120 I got for a graduation gift freshman year. Man, that thing TRUCKED! 21 megs of RAM, 4 GB HDD...smokin', man! Smokin'!
Summer before senior year I upgraded it to a 166MMX, 96 MB of RAM and a RIVA 128ZX. Cost, about 400.
Near the end of senior year I got a great credit card that enabled me to get my second PC, a PIII-600/128 Dell system. I now had two. The fastest one was my gaming machine. The slower one, my Linux box.
I don't use Linux at home. HERESY!
I have a single computer at home, a Win98 box. It is my gaming rig. The office itself has no "power gaming rig" so to speak other than that P4 I have with a TNT2 video card in it. the 16 meg NVidia came standard on the new Dell.
My home rig is what I would consider "standard." Linux will never become the standard on the desktop until Compaq starts bundling it with their horrible low-end machines.
'Til then...nothing we do to improve the desktop will make a difference.
And YES, I know that WINE Is Not an Emulator. But you're splitting hairs...let's call it a kludge. Happy? I'm not one to kludge my games into running on a Linux box at work. But the Linux box at work is the 166/96 MB RAM workhorse...oh well. Guess I'll get back to playing NetHack on it.
If I'm going to play games, I'm not going to run them through an emulator. I keep 3 machines on my desk at work. One is a Win2K machine I use to get to network shares etc. that exist on the campus Novell network. One is an Apple G4 Cube to assist Apple users in trouble (remote workstation management). The other is the Linux machine I use to get actual work done.
The division between work and play is simple: if I have a Ferrari and an '85 Volvo Wagon, I drive one when I want to do something fun and the other when I need to get from point A to point B. I'm not taking the Ferrari out of the garage anytime soon.
Why waste time attempting "transgaming" when most gaming takes place on Windows boxes that people pick up at Best Buy for $599 minus MSN rebates that they're always hawking?
From the ZDNet Article: Red Hat 7.2 isn't quite a knife in the heart of Windows yet. However, we can't help but feel that it will certainly nick a major artery.
I nicked a major artery this morning shaving. Those things hurt pretty badly and bleed profusely.
I hope to see Bill Gates with many little pieces of toilet paper on his cheeks at the XP launch.
But I had been planning to switch to Comcast @Home if/when my office begins paying for my connection because supposedly we'll be getting the 2Mbit business connection. At this rate, Comcast will own everything cable-based with the exception of Time-Warner and Cablevision (and other West-coast based cable companies I may not know about).
Guess I might just ask to have my ADSL kicked up to business SDSL...
I'd worry about the benefits of paying attention in English class instead of the money you'll be saving. It's not going to have much of an effect on your spending habits, but just think of all the benefits you could get with a good college education!
I mean, it looks like you're working so hard at it!
Being a responsible sysadmin for any type of network includes shutting down problem areas that are clogging your network with unwelcome traffic, much like Nimda did this week.
Our campus was affected rather badly by Nimda, and as a result the students were cut off from the network to make sure that they weren't infecting or being infected by the worm. The outage only lasted as long as it took McAfee to distribute the cleaning agent for it.
If you have cancer, you cut it out, right?
It's not unwelcome nannying, it's a necessary precaution. You do what you have to do to ensure that you maintain your level of service.
For a radio station to list these songs out and say 'you know, these might cause hurt and anguish to some of our listeners, so maybe we shouldn't play them' is absolutely a great call, and I commend them for it.
Could you PLEASE explain to me what hurt and anguish could be caused by 99 Red Balloons?
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In an interview with the AP, he said he "trains up" by drinking so much water his stomach expands. He starts out about 3 weeks before the competition.
being a native New Yorker I love the Nathan's contest, but I'd like to see Bob Kratchie the Maspeth Monster make a comback one of these years.
And yeah, it IS a samuraized sport in Japan now. *sigh*
"Harry Potter and the Troll of Reading Comprehension," wherein Harry finds that despite all best efforts, people still forget that italicized text is supplied by submitters, not editors!
No no no, your email address is gatesw@microsoft.com!
Difference being, of course, that with Camelot you MUST agree to the EULA to play. Judge ruled that despite one of the Plaintiffs not having installed or paid for the account, he agreed to the EULA to play it, thus he's bound by the arbitration decision.
It's true.
Fact is, we spend more than most people in the world make. We're a consumptionist society. We invented disposable plates and cups and diapers and everything else. Sake of convienience, isn't it?
I agree with his article where it describes the 'poor' of the US as wanting things they can't afford. Poor here is defined as "earning between $17,000 and $34,000 a year."
I don't make much more than that, and I've got all of these computers, and an XBox, and a Dreamcast, and...well, not to get too far into it, but I've bought a lot of crap I don't need, but I want. I have nobody but myself to blame.
But don't hide under a rock and take this article as a joke. I've started to think about what the hell I'm spending all of this money on long before I read the article.
Next time you buy 3 DVD's at Best Buy, take a step back. Do yourself a favor.
Am I the only one who thought "Where'd he find a PC and a Mac that cheap?"
was that before or after your first three free minutes?
Here's some more info regarding what Slack is.
Simplicity. Stability. We don't need no steekin' RPM's.
The only problem is that after the first capsule, they were hungry again after an hour.
Then again, it seems flames and attacks by /.'ers drive you to continue to post aggravating reviews of crap movies that most of us weren't going to see anyway.
Nonetheless, I wish you luck on your future, non-movie-reviewing endeavors.
Gene Siskel's dead. This means LOTR can bring people BACK TO LIFE!
But for a revived movie reviewer, you think Gene would be a little more forgiving. Resurrection ain't cheap, you know.
Specifically I'm thinking of when he sends the Uruk-Hai and says, "One of the hobbits have a very valuable item. Bring them to me alive."
To me, that was an example of Saruman's desire to actually become greater than Sauron...
It was subtle. Subtle is good.
Super Deformed? Does this mean my head will expand to 200x its normal size if I utilize the SD slot? My girlfriend's gonna get ticked...
He may not have been trying to hurt their profits, but seeing as how Infogrames Germany doesn't make money off the US version, he was hurting their profits. Would you buy two copies of a game if the first one worked fine but the second one happened to be localized?
I didn't think so.
Let's use a little common sense that we /.'ers are vaunted for, please.
Doesn't that sounds more like a Ron Jeremy movie than a George Lucas movie?
After all, from my standpoint as a stereotypical overweight Gamer-American, the last thing I want to do is peddle on a bike while I'm playing Dark Age of Camelot. If I want to get exercise, which though rare I do from time to time, I get out in the Fresh Air.
'Course, it could make my spawn-camping so much more productive...
Maybe that was their nefarious plan all along!
Summer before senior year I upgraded it to a 166MMX, 96 MB of RAM and a RIVA 128ZX. Cost, about 400.
Near the end of senior year I got a great credit card that enabled me to get my second PC, a PIII-600/128 Dell system. I now had two. The fastest one was my gaming machine. The slower one, my Linux box.
I don't use Linux at home. HERESY!
I have a single computer at home, a Win98 box. It is my gaming rig. The office itself has no "power gaming rig" so to speak other than that P4 I have with a TNT2 video card in it. the 16 meg NVidia came standard on the new Dell.
My home rig is what I would consider "standard." Linux will never become the standard on the desktop until Compaq starts bundling it with their horrible low-end machines.
'Til then...nothing we do to improve the desktop will make a difference.
And YES, I know that WINE Is Not an Emulator. But you're splitting hairs...let's call it a kludge. Happy? I'm not one to kludge my games into running on a Linux box at work. But the Linux box at work is the 166/96 MB RAM workhorse...oh well. Guess I'll get back to playing NetHack on it.
The division between work and play is simple: if I have a Ferrari and an '85 Volvo Wagon, I drive one when I want to do something fun and the other when I need to get from point A to point B. I'm not taking the Ferrari out of the garage anytime soon.
Why waste time attempting "transgaming" when most gaming takes place on Windows boxes that people pick up at Best Buy for $599 minus MSN rebates that they're always hawking?
Red Hat 7.2 isn't quite a knife in the heart of Windows yet. However, we can't help but feel that it will certainly nick a major artery.
I nicked a major artery this morning shaving. Those things hurt pretty badly and bleed profusely.
I hope to see Bill Gates with many little pieces of toilet paper on his cheeks at the XP launch.
But I had been planning to switch to Comcast @Home if/when my office begins paying for my connection because supposedly we'll be getting the 2Mbit business connection. At this rate, Comcast will own everything cable-based with the exception of Time-Warner and Cablevision (and other West-coast based cable companies I may not know about).
Guess I might just ask to have my ADSL kicked up to business SDSL...
I'd worry about the benefits of paying attention in English class instead of the money you'll be saving. It's not going to have much of an effect on your spending habits, but just think of all the benefits you could get with a good college education!
I mean, it looks like you're working so hard at it!
Our campus was affected rather badly by Nimda, and as a result the students were cut off from the network to make sure that they weren't infecting or being infected by the worm. The outage only lasted as long as it took McAfee to distribute the cleaning agent for it.
If you have cancer, you cut it out, right?
It's not unwelcome nannying, it's a necessary precaution. You do what you have to do to ensure that you maintain your level of service.
Could you PLEASE explain to me what hurt and anguish could be caused by 99 Red Balloons?
Other than the voice of the singer, that is.