Oh! But I don't eat fast food. I eat vegetables and fruits and healthy food, and I can count the number of times I went to Micky D's last year on one hand.
Sorry to have to break this to you all, but I've got the patent on using English words on slashdot.
You should have just patented English words that are spelled correctly and used in grammatically correct ways.
There's no prior art on slashdot for that.
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Apparently the silver edition of HL2 (which is like 10 bucks more than the basic one) comes with HL1 remade using the HL2 engine, so you might want to get that.
I had always planned on playing HL1 when they lowered the price to bargain bin status. They never seemed to do it; years and years after it was released it was still being sold for like 40 bucks, which was annoying.
And when Linux-zealot Slashbots attack SCO and Microsoft, is that because of a position of fear and weakness too, or is there some magical reason why your generalization only applies to people you don't like?
I AM AHEMD AHKBAR. IN AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT MY FATHER, THE TRADE MINISTER IN NIGERIA PASSED AWAY. CURRENTLY THERE IS A GRAND TOTAL OF $300000000 (300 MILLION) US DOLLARS LOCKED AWAY IN HIS SECRET GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT. UNFORTUNATELY, OBTAINING THIS MONEY REQUIRES MUCH LEGAL CONSULTATION AND WOULD COST TOO MUCH FOR MYSELF. THEREFORE, IF YOU PROVIDE ME WITH A SMALL AMOUNT OF ONE THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($1000), I WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH 10% OF THE MONEY (30 MILLION US DOLLARS) UPON ITS AVAILIBILITY.
That sounds like a scam to me.
THIS IS NOT A SCAM.
Sorry, my mistake. Guess it's not a scam after all.
All the VOIP companies have to do is not tell the phone companies that they're VOIP.
"Hello, this is the phone company, is the business with this phone service a VOIP company?"
"Uhhh, no."
"Because we get a whole lot of calls out of your building, and the people gettinng the calls have had a sharp decrease in their use of long-distance service."
"We ummm...are a cult, and we encourage our members to cut off contact with all their friends and relatives."
Everquest doesn't stop at 50% of your life. My roommate is able to play EQ2 sustained only by diet soda, disability pension, and cigarettes for days and days and days.
The sad thing is that doesn't sound like too bad a life to me. Except the diet soda part.
Honestly, the brouhaha over Steam and validation on day 1 is ridiculous. Yes, if you bought the game on Tuesday you likely had problems for a few hours trying to validate. Yeah, that's a pisser. However, once you did get it validated you were able to play without any sort of online interaction (unless you were playing online, of course).
Oh come on, a few HOURS? That's agoniziingly painful. Hell, the first thing I do when I buy a game is walk back to my car, rip it open, and look at the manual for a minute. Then I rush home.
I just want to say that when the US declared independence and the British attacked - they encountered something never before seen in the history of human kind - armed citizens
That wasn't unique. It wasn't even uncommon. Throughout most of human history for the vast majority of cultures "war" meant your citizens leaving their farms, picking up spears, and fighting the citizens from the next town over.
1) For example in mid 1800's after the civil war, many people wanted to continue a military occpation of the south, but decided it was unfeasable and impossible because of widespread private gun ownership.
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Oh! But I don't eat fast food. I eat vegetables and fruits and healthy food, and I can count the number of times I went to Micky D's last year on one hand.
Well there's your problem. Work on it.
As to where that $20 million went, well, that's another story. If half did go to Ed Black then it seems to me that he's got a lot of explaining to do.
He don't got to do nothing. "You want an explanation? Well, tough. Jeeves, show the gentleman out."
Or is anyone else coming to the conclusion that any organisation named *IA or *AA is, in fact, corrupt and evil?
AAA? MAA?
Two sentences that have never been spoken together before.
I would have loved to watch Whedon try and pitch this to the studios. "Yes, see, it's based on a TV show that failed because of lack of viewers."
I think I'll pass on your newsletter, however.
Sorry to have to break this to you all, but I've got the patent on using English words on slashdot.
You should have just patented English words that are spelled correctly and used in grammatically correct ways.
There's no prior art on slashdot for that.
Apparently the silver edition of HL2 (which is like 10 bucks more than the basic one) comes with HL1 remade using the HL2 engine, so you might want to get that.
I had always planned on playing HL1 when they lowered the price to bargain bin status. They never seemed to do it; years and years after it was released it was still being sold for like 40 bucks, which was annoying.
How about scantily-clad geek-girls on Times Square and other popular public places with the 'Open Firmware!' written on their panties?
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Check http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html for more information on what he has contributed to free software.
And all of the more interesting packages at that link he "maintains", whatever that means. Apparently it means he wrote some documentation for it.
And when Linux-zealot Slashbots attack SCO and Microsoft, is that because of a position of fear and weakness too, or is there some magical reason why your generalization only applies to people you don't like?
Or how about when Linus attacks FreeBSD and HURD?
All the WWII games, as others have pointed out? Are those just as distasteful?
I've always thought they were somewhat distasteful.
Just going out on a limb here, but maybe they're ignoring his car because its ugly?
Well unless they find the secret of immortality, the Future will still need Hearses...
EA provides them with games they like.
Uhh, they do? When was the last time EA made a must-own title?
And because this is slashdot you never blame the engineers or programmers, even if they do an incredibly lousy job.
I AM AHEMD AHKBAR. IN AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT MY FATHER, THE TRADE MINISTER IN NIGERIA PASSED AWAY. CURRENTLY THERE IS A GRAND TOTAL OF $300000000 (300 MILLION) US DOLLARS LOCKED AWAY IN HIS SECRET GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT. UNFORTUNATELY, OBTAINING THIS MONEY REQUIRES MUCH LEGAL CONSULTATION AND WOULD COST TOO MUCH FOR MYSELF. THEREFORE, IF YOU PROVIDE ME WITH A SMALL AMOUNT OF ONE THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($1000), I WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH 10% OF THE MONEY (30 MILLION US DOLLARS) UPON ITS AVAILIBILITY.
That sounds like a scam to me.
THIS IS NOT A SCAM.
Sorry, my mistake. Guess it's not a scam after all.
All the VOIP companies have to do is not tell the phone companies that they're VOIP.
"Hello, this is the phone company, is the business with this phone service a VOIP company?"
"Uhhh, no."
"Because we get a whole lot of calls out of your building, and the people gettinng the calls have had a sharp decrease in their use of long-distance service."
"We ummm...are a cult, and we encourage our members to cut off contact with all their friends and relatives."
The "best tool for the job" depends on the timeframe your looking at
I'd like to play PC games, and my timeframe I'd like to do is "before the next ice age".
Everquest doesn't stop at 50% of your life. My roommate is able to play EQ2 sustained only by diet soda, disability pension, and cigarettes for days and days and days.
The sad thing is that doesn't sound like too bad a life to me. Except the diet soda part.
And what exactly is a "tutorial"?
Honestly, the brouhaha over Steam and validation on day 1 is ridiculous. Yes, if you bought the game on Tuesday you likely had problems for a few hours trying to validate. Yeah, that's a pisser. However, once you did get it validated you were able to play without any sort of online interaction (unless you were playing online, of course).
Oh come on, a few HOURS? That's agoniziingly painful. Hell, the first thing I do when I buy a game is walk back to my car, rip it open, and look at the manual for a minute. Then I rush home.
I just want to say that when the US declared independence and the British attacked - they encountered something never before seen in the history of human kind - armed citizens
That wasn't unique. It wasn't even uncommon. Throughout most of human history for the vast majority of cultures "war" meant your citizens leaving their farms, picking up spears, and fighting the citizens from the next town over.
1) For example in mid 1800's after the civil war, many people wanted to continue a military occpation of the south, but decided it was unfeasable and impossible because of widespread private gun ownership.
See? Gun control is a good thing.
The people in charge of keeping the roads maintained probably don't care how efficient your car is, they're looking at the wear and tear on the road.
Unlike Alias. Or Star Trek. Or (insert name of favorite show).
Yep, I was surprised to see all the "junk science" accusations here, considering how Star Trek and SG are so much worse on that front.