Don't get me wrong, I've been singing a verse or two of "Fuck Valve, Fuck Steam" since the WON auth servers went down and I think that this is a shitty tactic.
There is, however, a world of difference between the two. Has Valve ever been legally found to be a monopoly?
Hubert Humphrey did introduce the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but only after the Democrats opposed Eisenhower's Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Who issued the Dred Scott Decision? Repulicans.
The members of the SCOTUS are not members of any party. As much as I'd love to still be able to claim Scalia and Thomas, they're not members of my party.
There is still a significant portion of the American public that won't vote for Powell for POTUS simply because he is black.
I won't vote for him because of his politics. I think he's an honorable man, but one that I can't support for POTUS. The "Republicans are racist" mantra is from a previous generation. It wasn't true then either.
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation? A Republican. Who pushed the 13th amendment to end slavery? Republicans. Who pushed the Civil Rights act? Republicans. Who fought against it? Democrats. Who nominated the second black man appointed to the SCOTUS? A Republican. Who fought against that? Democrats. Who named the first black secretary of state? A Republican. Who named the first black woman secretary of state? A Republican. Who is considering naming the first black chief justice of the SCOTUS? A Republican. The former Klansman who now sits in the US Senate is a member of which party? Democrat.
We won't support Powell for higher office because he is pro choice and in favor of gun control. Those two things will turn off too much of the Republican base for him to ever get elected.
I do know what I'm doing and I still get nervous when working with high voltage equipment, like monitors.
A few years back I would take any broken 17" monitor I found and try to fix it. I had a few successes. I'm still using a Gateway CrystalScan 17 that I fixed 5 years ago. Point being that when you know how dangerous high voltage can be, you tend to be overly careful.
I hated working on the CRT based iMacs because I was usually so busy with avoiding the capacitors that I'd forget a screw or two during reassembly. So I'd have to take it all apart again just to put in two screws.
Even if you do know what you're doing, it still takes a lot of concentration to make sure you don't foul up.
light is not restricted to the visible light we can see.
Well, yes, it kind of is, depending on the definition you use.
Electromagnetic radiation that has a wavelength in the range from about 4,000 (violet) to about 7,700 (red) angstroms and may be perceived by the normal unaided human eye.
I'm at the upper end of "young voters", I'm 29. I've been registered for over 11 years. I have missed exactly 1 election since I registered. It was a primary and I didn't support any of the candidates and there were no ballot initiatives.
That old addage that "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink" is true about lazy ass potential voters. You can present him with the issues, but you can't make him think.
If it takes P. Diddy and Andre 3000 to make you vote, you shouldn't be voting.
So you wont buy a game that needs to be activated online, but you will pay a monthly fee in addition to around 60$ at the register for a game that can ONLY be played online?
I wouldn't, but I do understand why others would.
Especially if you can buy it, install it, and play it all in the same day.
Vivendi is insisting that the game has not yet been released, and has threatened that Valve would be in violation of its contract if we activate the Half-Life 2 Steam authentication servers at this time.
If the contract only requires that the game be released, all they need to do is take a digital camera to Best Buy for proof that it has.
Remember what happened to the technically challenged French in WWII? I believe they call that "steam rolled..."
Actually the word is "flanked". The guns on the Maginot line couldn't turn around. The French didn't see any need to be able to aim the guns back at their own country. Why would they ever need to aim their guns back at their own territory? Well, they weren't being creative enough in their planning.
The Germans flanked the Maginot line, they got behind those big ass guns and forced the soldiers inside to surrender.
That's the perfect example of what can happen to you if you don't "think outside the box".
It may seem like a waste of money to spend $10 billion. In the long run it may be, but I'd rather be able to shoot down a home rolled cruise missile in 10 years than to have one slam into a nursery school.
Who knows, maybe the advances we make in chemical lasers will have new applications in bringing laser surgery to third world countries.
So many military developments have transitioned into civilillian progress that we could scarcely count them.
I lost a lot of respect for Limbaugh over his drug addiction.
When you're in the public eye you know that people are going to pay closer attention to any of your fuck-ups.
Microsoft is always complaining about other people warezing their products. Remember when they claimed that "Linux PCs" were primarily used as platforms to run pirated Windows?
Now that they've fucked up, everyone should be talking about it.
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Don't get me wrong, I've been singing a verse or two of "Fuck Valve, Fuck Steam" since the WON auth servers went down and I think that this is a shitty tactic.
There is, however, a world of difference between the two. Has Valve ever been legally found to be a monopoly?
LK
During the California gold rush, a few skeletons of modern looking humans were unearthed from rock that was millions of years old.
LK
Excuse? Gee, your agenda's showing.
I too don't like this. I hope he loses a bundle on it and has to stop, but I won't support any law to ban the practice. No matter how stupid it is.
LK
Hello Akamai. We're slashdot. We're here to make love to your bandwidth.
LK
It's pseudocode, and anybody with a software engineering degree knows enough C, Pascal, and Basic to read it just fine.
Even college dropouts who make their living coding (like me) can read it.
LK
Who introduce the Civil Rights Act? A Democrat
Hubert Humphrey did introduce the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but only after the Democrats opposed Eisenhower's Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Who issued the Dred Scott Decision? Repulicans.
The members of the SCOTUS are not members of any party. As much as I'd love to still be able to claim Scalia and Thomas, they're not members of my party.
LK
There is still a significant portion of the American public that won't vote for Powell for POTUS simply because he is black.
I won't vote for him because of his politics. I think he's an honorable man, but one that I can't support for POTUS. The "Republicans are racist" mantra is from a previous generation. It wasn't true then either.
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation? A Republican.
Who pushed the 13th amendment to end slavery? Republicans.
Who pushed the Civil Rights act? Republicans.
Who fought against it? Democrats.
Who nominated the second black man appointed to the SCOTUS? A Republican.
Who fought against that? Democrats.
Who named the first black secretary of state? A Republican.
Who named the first black woman secretary of state? A Republican.
Who is considering naming the first black chief justice of the SCOTUS? A Republican.
The former Klansman who now sits in the US Senate is a member of which party? Democrat.
LK
You can't play the race card with me. I'm black.
We won't support Powell for higher office because he is pro choice and in favor of gun control. Those two things will turn off too much of the Republican base for him to ever get elected.
LK
I do know what I'm doing and I still get nervous when working with high voltage equipment, like monitors.
A few years back I would take any broken 17" monitor I found and try to fix it. I had a few successes. I'm still using a Gateway CrystalScan 17 that I fixed 5 years ago. Point being that when you know how dangerous high voltage can be, you tend to be overly careful.
I hated working on the CRT based iMacs because I was usually so busy with avoiding the capacitors that I'd forget a screw or two during reassembly. So I'd have to take it all apart again just to put in two screws.
Even if you do know what you're doing, it still takes a lot of concentration to make sure you don't foul up.
LK
You misspelled "CBS News".
LK
Well, yes, it kind of is, depending on the definition you use.
LK
Does this mean we will soon have telescopes outside of our homes soon to pick up high definition TV signals instead of our current 18 inch dishes?
Somebody let me know when science develops a way to eliminate stupid questions.
LK
No. He may be a Republican, but he's not a conservative.
He's unelectable for that reason.
He'd make a great VP candidate, but not a Presidential candidate.
LK
I'm at the upper end of "young voters", I'm 29. I've been registered for over 11 years. I have missed exactly 1 election since I registered. It was a primary and I didn't support any of the candidates and there were no ballot initiatives.
That old addage that "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink" is true about lazy ass potential voters. You can present him with the issues, but you can't make him think.
If it takes P. Diddy and Andre 3000 to make you vote, you shouldn't be voting.
LK
You really need a lesson in spin.
My geekiness has gotten me laid on multiple occasions.
Once you pass about 25 years old, women dig smart guys.
I think I'll stick with something that doesnt alienate the dripping hot sluts always coming on to me here in my swinging bachelor pad.
Dripping hot? Sluts?
That's called "gonorrhea."
LK
I want to play as much as anyone, but we've all known for some time that the release date is the 16th. They aren't doing anything wrong.
Lying is wrong. To release a product and then refuse support because "we haven't released that yet" is unethical and wrong.
LK
I wouldn't, but I do understand why others would.
Especially if you can buy it, install it, and play it all in the same day.
In that case it would have one up on HL2.
LK
I've never played even the first Halo. But people keep saying that some guy "Master Chief" or somesuch dies in the sequel.
I didn't think Halo was a naval combat game.
LK
Vivendi is insisting that the game has not yet been released, and has threatened that Valve would be in violation of its contract if we activate the Half-Life 2 Steam authentication servers at this time.
If the contract only requires that the game be released, all they need to do is take a digital camera to Best Buy for proof that it has.
LK
Remember what happened to the technically challenged French in WWII? I believe they call that "steam rolled..."
Actually the word is "flanked". The guns on the Maginot line couldn't turn around. The French didn't see any need to be able to aim the guns back at their own country. Why would they ever need to aim their guns back at their own territory? Well, they weren't being creative enough in their planning.
The Germans flanked the Maginot line, they got behind those big ass guns and forced the soldiers inside to surrender.
That's the perfect example of what can happen to you if you don't "think outside the box".
It may seem like a waste of money to spend $10 billion. In the long run it may be, but I'd rather be able to shoot down a home rolled cruise missile in 10 years than to have one slam into a nursery school.
Who knows, maybe the advances we make in chemical lasers will have new applications in bringing laser surgery to third world countries.
So many military developments have transitioned into civilillian progress that we could scarcely count them.
LK
Is that a projector in your pocket, or did I just wake up in a Star Wars movie?
LK
Apple would have had to do _more_ to BeOS than they did to NeXT.
Be had a functional OS that worked on existing Apple hardware. NeXT did not.
In the end Apple made a good choice because they did a hell of a job producing OS X.
LK
You had respect for Limbaugh before that?
Yes.
Scary.
Seek out a psychotherapist. Phobias can be conquered.
LK
No.
I lost a lot of respect for Limbaugh over his drug addiction.
When you're in the public eye you know that people are going to pay closer attention to any of your fuck-ups.
Microsoft is always complaining about other people warezing their products. Remember when they claimed that "Linux PCs" were primarily used as platforms to run pirated Windows?
Now that they've fucked up, everyone should be talking about it.
LK