I view ads (and sometimes even click them) to support the websites I view and enjoy. Its called paying for what you use (in this case paying with your attention, however brief).
And that's what Adblock's whitelisting capability is for.
The Diablo series has always been about the stark contrast between good and evil, light and dark.
Is that a fancy way of saying "clicking the left mouse button incessantly until it wears out"? Because that's what they're really about. Good games, still.
EULAs, ostensibly, force users to sign away copy owner & fair use rights. such contracts go directly against the spirit of open source and free software.
Does it not bother you that you're making broad statements about EULAs that don't apply in the slightest to the "EULA" that we're actually talking about?
Or are facts merely an inconvenience that impeded ranting?
There is nothing there that requires agreement. It's a notice, not a contract.
Exactly. Which means what we have right here is a good ol' fashioned straw man slaughter.
If this was called a "trademark notice" instead of an "EULA", we wouldn't be having this discussion. But instead, we've got an army of people whippin' themselves into a frenzy at the sight of "EULA" that they're ranting and raving without knowing WTF they're actually ranting and raving about.
Well, if an intelligent being (the aforementioned biologist) succeeds in creating a life form, then it follows, logically, that the life form he creates is not the result of the work of an intelligent being. It's simple logic, and any idiot can see that.
Exactly! It's like, last week I made a burrito, and I'm white. Then it follows that all burritos made before me must have been created by white people too. The stupid "burritos came from Mexicans" theory will be dead in the water. Finally, no more Mexationists.
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It's already asking a lot for nerdlings to not snicker at any reference to a "hole".
Adding in nakedness just goes beyond any reasonable expectation of restraint.
Yeah, that time they got malloc to work. Because that's totally all you need for a working OS.
It's all Emacs needs, anyway.
Assets going lower now... going lower now... how loooow can they go?
First you do the steal and run
Embezzlement is so fun!
Lots of money in my house
Keep it quiet, don't tell the spouse!
Kevin Carmony, stupid hick!
Wants the cash back, what a dick!
All around the Lindows clock!
Hey let's do the Lindows rock!
Is there a reason
why your second line of text stretches out considerably farther than
the rest of your post?
I view ads (and sometimes even click them) to support the websites I view and enjoy. Its called paying for what you use (in this case paying with your attention, however brief).
And that's what Adblock's whitelisting capability is for.
You're right. And now we are both nerds together.
Apparently not a very good nerd, because you're wrong!
The guy doesn't say "cubbies" until McFly makes him repeat himself - and he doesn't say the "100 to 1" shot stuff the second time.
Sometimes the obvious joke really is the right one.
They will trun it back the day after the CUBS win it all.
Against Miami?
Yeah. Who would've thought? 100 to 1 shot! I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season, put some money on the Cubs.
How can anyone be bashing this?
We've gone from not ever telling little Billy that he's wrong (because it might hurt his self-esteem) to allowing him to fall all the way down to 50%
Soon, we might even bring back the wood paddles too... it's school like back in the day before our test scores plummeted...
Look, you little punk. I'm not a "tart", I just found a man who can meet my needs.
The Diablo series has always been about the stark contrast between good and evil, light and dark.
Is that a fancy way of saying "clicking the left mouse button incessantly until it wears out"? Because that's what they're really about. Good games, still.
It doesn't. It wasn't even really an EULA the way we normally think of them. But that fact didn't get in the way of the nerd rage, unfortunately.
Or, for that matter, getting drivers to pay attention to the road and stop running over the kids.
Not paying attention to road signs isn't the reason I run over children.
Did the editor even read the summary?
Hmm... good question! Let's consult The Great Computer!
(note: "truth" is a new data type to help with all of this newfangled truthiness programming)
He is. He even scrambled your sig!
A real asshole, that guy.
EULAs, ostensibly, force users to sign away copy owner & fair use rights. such contracts go directly against the spirit of open source and free software.
Does it not bother you that you're making broad statements about EULAs that don't apply in the slightest to the "EULA" that we're actually talking about?
Or are facts merely an inconvenience that impeded ranting?
There is nothing there that requires agreement. It's a notice, not a contract.
Exactly. Which means what we have right here is a good ol' fashioned straw man slaughter.
If this was called a "trademark notice" instead of an "EULA", we wouldn't be having this discussion. But instead, we've got an army of people whippin' themselves into a frenzy at the sight of "EULA" that they're ranting and raving without knowing WTF they're actually ranting and raving about.
It was on Digg.
Actually, the Perl part was a poison pill. Good managers know to skip the Perl part.
That tricky Cringely.
I've always been paranoid about my closed-source textbooks phoning home...
More to the point, can someone explain why anyone would need a Harry Potter reference book?
Isn't it sufficient to just read the books? Is it really necessary to nerd the sh*t out of everything?
Well, if an intelligent being (the aforementioned biologist) succeeds in creating a life form, then it follows, logically, that the life form he creates is not the result of the work of an intelligent being. It's simple logic, and any idiot can see that.
Exactly! It's like, last week I made a burrito, and I'm white. Then it follows that all burritos made before me must have been created by white people too. The stupid "burritos came from Mexicans" theory will be dead in the water. Finally, no more Mexationists.
... never to ask Slashdot "what time is it?" again.
.NET garbage collector: "Oops, that wasn't garbage!"
Attack!!