If the nudity isn't available in the basic game but needs a third party hack, isn't it false advertising to claim "nudity" on the box? I'd expect a refund if I bought this and found no nudity included.
You just don't understand the new thinking, is all. See, we need to be "protected" not simply against what things are but also against what things can be made to do. And, frankly, it is the fault of godless monsters like Bethesda for putting tools into people's hands that are capable of creating nude images, and they should be labeled as the pornmongers they are.
Seriously, it won't be long until game makers lock down code so that modding is impossible. There will never be another Counter-Strike for fear that someone will make a whorehouse map.
The President will veto anything they put together and they'll refuse to pass anything the president tries to put through.
With luck, we won't have any more new laws until 2008.
I don't know if this was meant to be funny, even though it is and got modded that way, but it is also in fact quite perceptive. This is the way things are supposed to work in the USA. The government is supposed to be bogged down in all kinds of inefficienes so that they are too sluggish to impose any tyranny over the people. Any government naturally attracts the power-hungry. The neat trick here is that we make it hard for them to actually get anything accomplished.
This is the shape the additional spending for 2007 will take: paying people loads of cash to sign exclusive contracts to use Windows Live. That is how Microsoft "competes."
It could still technically be Illegal to force implants, but if you are "forced" to economically such as not being able to buy or sell (Bible's prediction) then you are still compelled to be implanted... "causeth" (jkv) is not forced.
Silly politicians, You cannot legislate the end away, you must watch for it and be ready.
So you think the Christian-fundamentalist-controlled Republican party is eagerly trying to implement the plans of The Beast?
Look at this picture of Esther. She is an 82-year-old grandmother on a fixed income. Every month she has to choose between getting the medicines she needs and going to see a Madonna concert. This is unconscionable in a Western society. We should not be forcing our poor and our elderly to make these kinds of comprimises in their lives.
I think people are still turned off because of Nemesis. It did have some quality stuff regarding Data and humanity in there, but they did some things that made it suck hard:
The "enemy" was totally new and hastily introduced.
The "enemy" was a frikkin clone of Picard.
The "enemy" has a superweapon aimed at Earth.
They killed Data.
The first three add up to a ridiculously bad story, and the last is more or less a betrayal. I mean, think about it: they cap off a rotten story not worthy of a mediocre television episode by killing Data. This is a problem in a lot of ways. For one, there is a lot of "future history" that says Data lives a long, long time -- longer than any of the other characters by far. Completely ignoring previous canon, to Star Trek fans, feels like...well, a betrayal. That's why they hated Enterprise and its freewheeling attitude toward canon. If you're going to do Star Trek, you really have to stick to the existing facts.
The other problem with killing Data is that, because he was supposed to be the longest-lived of all the main TNG characters, his death feels like all their stories are done. Put another way, as long as they aren't shown meeting their ends, they continue to be alive in the fans' minds. Having them die makes fans' interest in the entire thing drop off. It makes it hard to work up interest in any Star Trek.
I, for one, ditched G4 right after they killed TechTV. IMHO, Leo and Patrick and Kevin have much better and creative shows now. (Uh, minus Martin Sargent, who's a tool).
Yeah, isn't it great that G4 bought TechTV so that they could...um...not air tech shows anymore?
As an Ubuntu user and fan, I'd just like to say: for fuck's sake, stop it with the stupid names! Breezy Badger, Dapper Drake, Edgy Eft. Seriously, I feel like a jackass enough saying "Ubuntu". I don't understand, are they actively trying to discourage people from using it?
For fuck's sake, stop being 13 years old. If saying "Ubuntu" is enough to make you feel like a jackass, you've got some issues. And anyway, I cannot really understand how "Ubuntu" is any worse than "SuSE." Furthermore, names like Dapper Drake are code names for release targets, not brands.
I bought an emachine specifically for Ubuntu to play around with and get to know the OS. I couldn't get the Breezy 5.10 or the 6.X beta to recognize the onboard NIC, video or onboard audio. I want to get to know the OS. I don't want to have to know how to install or create a driver at this point. Maybe after I get my feet wet with the OS. I returned the emachine and put Ubuntu on the back burner. From what I was told, there just aren't any drivers written for alot of onboard components yet. =(
No, that's not quite right. Drivers exist for an astonishingly HUGE amount of hardware. It's a rare day that I find hardware that's not autodetected. You just happened to pick one of those rarities.
I want to build a list of unique, elegant, can't-do-without apps, so all us new Boot-Camp babies can finally experience some of the great innovation happening over on the Windows platform.
What in the nine hells are you talking about? People use Windows because they have to, not because they want to. There is scant innovation to be found, and no elegance at all.
Ugh. I can't tell whether the moderators don't know you are trolling or if they agree with the trollishness of the post. I have a relative who loves to do this too: cheekily bash scientific thinking because "it's not proven." Nevermind that 95% of what you interact with in a given day is a product of these "unproven" sciences.
Microsoft is trying to convince OEMs to sell more of their product? Those fiends!
I am totally behind Microsoft talking to its customers -- whether new or prospective -- and trying to convince them that their businesses will prosper when they preinstall Windows. But to pretend that is the whole of it is massive naivete, willfull ignorance, or astroturfing. It is well-verified that Microsoft strong-arm OEMs into buying Windows "or else."
The article most definitely is not "FUD" -- a term you clearly do not comprehend. FUD is not a synonym for "false" or "in error." It is a tactic whereby potential customers are scared away from a particular choice because they have been filled with fear, uncertainty, and/or doubt about that choice. In this instance, it is Microsoft who are employing this tactic by hinting that bad things will happen to OEMs and to consumers who buy OS-less machines. They don't specify what those things are because that would probably cross over into an actionable offense, the same way the local thugs don't specifically tell you they are going to break your shop windows if you don't pay for "insurance."
Didn't know it was illegal to share fire. Must be some new anti-smoking law.
Yes, haha, very funny. Did you know that when you "share" fire you are stealing? That's right! Every time you let someone kindle their fire from yours, you are taking food from the mouths of hard-working match manufacturers. Not to mention the butane industry -- why, it is quite probable that the higher prices we see at the gas pumps are due to offsetting drop in hydrocarbons demand that occurs from "sharing" fire. You see, we all suffer from this kind of theft.
I really have a discrepency with the fact that an author is attempting to profit off sales of an Ubuntu book. That is why there is an Ubuntu Forum, Ubuntu Wikipedia, and Ubuntu tutorials.
I see you got modded Flamebait, which is unfortunate. I am conflicted about this, but on balance I agree with you. The author of this book should've posted a PDF of it online for free. That is what Ubuntu is really about, and charging people money for your Ubuntu knowledge is hijacking what we've given freely. It's entirely possible -- likely, even -- that help I (and many others) provided on the Ubuntu Forums was transplanted into this book.
I definitely believe in the basic functionality of capitalistic incentives, and I'm gratified to see that there is any kind of incentive growing up around Ubuntu. But what bothers me about this arrangement is, sadly, this content is now locked down by a publisher (Apress) and will never be released into the public domain. It's someone's private property now, stolen from the commons, and we are now thieves who keep sharing it for free.
It really isn't. It only seems easier because it is what you are accustomed to. That is not a bad thing, but you should be honest about where your opinion comes from. I am a loooong time Linux user and I use Ubuntu exclusively on the desktop and Debian on the server -- no "dirty little secret" of a Windows partition anywhere in sight. I find it quite a bit easier to use than Windows, because I am accustomed to how things happen on Linux.
That is not to say things are always easier on Linux. That is not true. Windows has its advantages in certain areas. But flat statements that Windows is easier are false. I can go on an on listing one-click or zero-click configuration experiences on Ubuntu, where the analogous operation on Windows was laborious, involved an EULA, required two reboots, etc.
What I find with free software is I'm asked to make major, major compramises, and that the people pushing it seem to think I should be happy, and even thankful, to do so just because it's free.
I understand where you are coming from, and in your case you are making intelligent economic choices about what software you want to use (i.e., it is worth the money to pay for legitimate copies of audio software). The development of the "attitude" you are addressing is, however, based on somewhat different circumstances. Normally, people make a non-economic comparison between commercial and free software, and therefore the "free" part is quite unimpressive to them. They are either pirating the commercial software (I'd guess nearly 100% of home users fit into this category) or they paid for it but don't understand that fact ("Oh it came with my computer so I got it for free").
So when I suggest that Nvu is an alternative to Dreamweaver, people respond just like you did and rag on Nvu's feature set. And when I point out that there is a USD400 price tag difference between them, it's meaningless, because they know they can get Dreamweaver "for free."
And finally, when I point out that the Nvu developers are safeguarding your data and workflows because the product can never go away, they respond with quips like "Macromedia isn't going anywhere." (Ahem!) Either they can't or won't remember that the instant it becomes financially undesirable to support Dreamweaver it will disappear from the market. Mac users know this lesson better, because they have felt the sting of having their work disrupted when Company X suddenly desides it is no longer in their interest to support Mac.
One last bit: you should in fact be thankful that there are free (as in speech) alternatives out there for the software you use, even if you choose not to use them. It is a check against serfdom.
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it was the wrong kind of science fiction for this time. Science fiction back then was either in a galaxy far, far away or equally far away in the future. But most certainly not NOW. How can you make science fiction in the NOW? Now is the real world. The movie was simply not credible for the audience of then.
That is really quite insightful. This was precisely the same time frame (early 80s) when Gibson and Sterling were grousing about how "science fiction" had to have giant space ships and aliens and be set in the distant future, and how that setting was getting so very stale (Star Wars notwithstanding). TRON was a pretty big step away from that, and it suffered a bit because it didn't fit the audience's expectations of what SF is.
I sincerely hope this does not affect the course of the distro, and that it continues to remain as user-friendly and true to it's founding values, but I'm beginning to think Ubuntu has replaced Mandrake/riva as the No 1 user-friendly distro.
I've been a Mandriva Club silver-level member for 2.5 years now, and I'm going to let my membership lapse in a few weeks. I downloaded the Ubuntu appliance from VMWare a while ago, and it is far superior to Mandriva for ease-of-use, ease-of-administration. I'm just waiting for the next version of Ubuntu in April to dump Mandriva from my desktop.
I will echo that. I paid for my Mandrake Club and support contracts in my day. At the time (a few years ago) it was really the best out there for usability. There was always something they didn't get right, but less so than anyone else. But these days I run Ubuntu on the desktop and straight-dope Debian on the server. I was blown away by how well Ubuntu worked out of the box. Networking, including wireless, graphics, sound, everything just worked. (In all fairness, I did have to tweak xorg.conf one time to get the uberhigh screen resolutions I wanted, but that's it.)
Now, all that said, I did highly value Mandrake in its day. Obviously, since I paid for it for 2 years. They vanguarded things like doing a gamer edition, which is something someone should revisit, seeing how good Cedega is at Windows games these days (I've been playing Morrowind under Cedega without incident for a few weeks now). I'm sad to see them take a blow of any kind, in the same way I am sad to see Dreamcast go under and Infocom disappear.
Haha, very clever attempt to throw us off the trail. I see you are calling yourself "Wayne Knight" now, Mr. Beast, but you cannot fool us. We are onto your schemes.
Microsoft has a VERY large and very well-developed office suite that connects quite elegantly to a bunch of Microsoft's back office software.
What [these office suites] may do is fill some very small gap.
You are assuming an enterprise-level point of view. That is only roughly half of business sales for Microsoft. A big segment, sure, but what of the other half, the small businesses, who don't have any back office kit to connect with? They don't fret over Exchange connectivity, because they don't run Exchange, or any other major server software, Microsoft or otherwise. Web-based office suites are perfect for them.
I know, because I am a small business owner, and I am watching this stuff develop with a keen eye. Right now, it's all about matching MS Office functionality (or at least what 95% of users actually use, which isn't that much). But think of getting wiki in there for team collaboration, RSS feeds for project updates, Google-searching your past worklog, and making it all 100% portable and platform-independent so that it no longer matters where employees are or what equipment they are using -- everybody can always get their work done. To me that sounds highly appealing.
Jan 20?!?!? Does this mean the new Stargate and Battlestar Galactica episodes are already finished?
Hm, well I suppose this could run before Galactica. I am rapidly losing enthusiasm for SG-1 (they had a nearly golden cast until they offed Claudia Black, PLEASE bring her back she brought 2/3 of the energy to the show since RDA left), and Atlantis is only so-so, but don't frack with Galactica, man.
Evolution within a species occurs when a great crisis happens
No, it doesn't. Evolution happens randomly.
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....Its so fucking over simplestic.. For example, when I go to save a file, i cant enter a text path...Noooo that would be too hard for the nubs...So, I have to click around FOREVER tell i find where I want it to go. This theme of over simpleness is displayed everywere in Gnome.
Please don't mistake your own ignorance for a problem in the software. In any Gnome file browser dialog, you can simply type Ctrl-L and type a text path.
Hah. There are some funny posts already. But really, I play games with my family. My wife games, and my two kids game, who are both below 7 years old. We have a great time gaming together. Mario Party seems to be the all-time favorite, but just today we were doing Project Gotham Racing against each other. It was great!
I didn't intend to stroke Nintendo with this post, but, frankly, make games that involve multiple people and multiple people will play. The Big N has a lot of those that we fool around with: Mario Kart, Mario Party, Kirby racing, etc., including non-exclusive titles like Lego Star Wars. The hyper-serious games get my attention but no one else's -- not even my wife, who is a pretty big gamer, wants to play Splinter Cell, because it's just too damn serious. It's the lighthearted party games that rule the day around here.
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You just don't understand the new thinking, is all. See, we need to be "protected" not simply against what things are but also against what things can be made to do. And, frankly, it is the fault of godless monsters like Bethesda for putting tools into people's hands that are capable of creating nude images, and they should be labeled as the pornmongers they are.
Seriously, it won't be long until game makers lock down code so that modding is impossible. There will never be another Counter-Strike for fear that someone will make a whorehouse map.
The President will veto anything they put together and they'll refuse to pass anything the president tries to put through.
With luck, we won't have any more new laws until 2008.
I don't know if this was meant to be funny, even though it is and got modded that way, but it is also in fact quite perceptive. This is the way things are supposed to work in the USA. The government is supposed to be bogged down in all kinds of inefficienes so that they are too sluggish to impose any tyranny over the people. Any government naturally attracts the power-hungry. The neat trick here is that we make it hard for them to actually get anything accomplished.
Silly politicians, You cannot legislate the end away, you must watch for it and be ready.
So you think the Christian-fundamentalist-controlled Republican party is eagerly trying to implement the plans of The Beast?
The first three add up to a ridiculously bad story, and the last is more or less a betrayal. I mean, think about it: they cap off a rotten story not worthy of a mediocre television episode by killing Data. This is a problem in a lot of ways. For one, there is a lot of "future history" that says Data lives a long, long time -- longer than any of the other characters by far. Completely ignoring previous canon, to Star Trek fans, feels like...well, a betrayal. That's why they hated Enterprise and its freewheeling attitude toward canon. If you're going to do Star Trek, you really have to stick to the existing facts.
The other problem with killing Data is that, because he was supposed to be the longest-lived of all the main TNG characters, his death feels like all their stories are done. Put another way, as long as they aren't shown meeting their ends, they continue to be alive in the fans' minds. Having them die makes fans' interest in the entire thing drop off. It makes it hard to work up interest in any Star Trek.
Yeah, isn't it great that G4 bought TechTV so that they could...um...not air tech shows anymore?
For fuck's sake, stop being 13 years old. If saying "Ubuntu" is enough to make you feel like a jackass, you've got some issues. And anyway, I cannot really understand how "Ubuntu" is any worse than "SuSE." Furthermore, names like Dapper Drake are code names for release targets, not brands.
No, that's not quite right. Drivers exist for an astonishingly HUGE amount of hardware. It's a rare day that I find hardware that's not autodetected. You just happened to pick one of those rarities.
What in the nine hells are you talking about? People use Windows because they have to, not because they want to. There is scant innovation to be found, and no elegance at all.
I am totally behind Microsoft talking to its customers -- whether new or prospective -- and trying to convince them that their businesses will prosper when they preinstall Windows. But to pretend that is the whole of it is massive naivete, willfull ignorance, or astroturfing. It is well-verified that Microsoft strong-arm OEMs into buying Windows "or else."
The article most definitely is not "FUD" -- a term you clearly do not comprehend. FUD is not a synonym for "false" or "in error." It is a tactic whereby potential customers are scared away from a particular choice because they have been filled with fear, uncertainty, and/or doubt about that choice. In this instance, it is Microsoft who are employing this tactic by hinting that bad things will happen to OEMs and to consumers who buy OS-less machines. They don't specify what those things are because that would probably cross over into an actionable offense, the same way the local thugs don't specifically tell you they are going to break your shop windows if you don't pay for "insurance."
Yes, haha, very funny. Did you know that when you "share" fire you are stealing? That's right! Every time you let someone kindle their fire from yours, you are taking food from the mouths of hard-working match manufacturers. Not to mention the butane industry -- why, it is quite probable that the higher prices we see at the gas pumps are due to offsetting drop in hydrocarbons demand that occurs from "sharing" fire. You see, we all suffer from this kind of theft.
I see you got modded Flamebait, which is unfortunate. I am conflicted about this, but on balance I agree with you. The author of this book should've posted a PDF of it online for free. That is what Ubuntu is really about, and charging people money for your Ubuntu knowledge is hijacking what we've given freely. It's entirely possible -- likely, even -- that help I (and many others) provided on the Ubuntu Forums was transplanted into this book.
I definitely believe in the basic functionality of capitalistic incentives, and I'm gratified to see that there is any kind of incentive growing up around Ubuntu. But what bothers me about this arrangement is, sadly, this content is now locked down by a publisher (Apress) and will never be released into the public domain. It's someone's private property now, stolen from the commons, and we are now thieves who keep sharing it for free.
It really isn't. It only seems easier because it is what you are accustomed to. That is not a bad thing, but you should be honest about where your opinion comes from. I am a loooong time Linux user and I use Ubuntu exclusively on the desktop and Debian on the server -- no "dirty little secret" of a Windows partition anywhere in sight. I find it quite a bit easier to use than Windows, because I am accustomed to how things happen on Linux.
That is not to say things are always easier on Linux. That is not true. Windows has its advantages in certain areas. But flat statements that Windows is easier are false. I can go on an on listing one-click or zero-click configuration experiences on Ubuntu, where the analogous operation on Windows was laborious, involved an EULA, required two reboots, etc.
I understand where you are coming from, and in your case you are making intelligent economic choices about what software you want to use (i.e., it is worth the money to pay for legitimate copies of audio software). The development of the "attitude" you are addressing is, however, based on somewhat different circumstances. Normally, people make a non-economic comparison between commercial and free software, and therefore the "free" part is quite unimpressive to them. They are either pirating the commercial software (I'd guess nearly 100% of home users fit into this category) or they paid for it but don't understand that fact ("Oh it came with my computer so I got it for free").
So when I suggest that Nvu is an alternative to Dreamweaver, people respond just like you did and rag on Nvu's feature set. And when I point out that there is a USD400 price tag difference between them, it's meaningless, because they know they can get Dreamweaver "for free."
And finally, when I point out that the Nvu developers are safeguarding your data and workflows because the product can never go away, they respond with quips like "Macromedia isn't going anywhere." (Ahem!) Either they can't or won't remember that the instant it becomes financially undesirable to support Dreamweaver it will disappear from the market. Mac users know this lesson better, because they have felt the sting of having their work disrupted when Company X suddenly desides it is no longer in their interest to support Mac.
One last bit: you should in fact be thankful that there are free (as in speech) alternatives out there for the software you use, even if you choose not to use them. It is a check against serfdom.
That is really quite insightful. This was precisely the same time frame (early 80s) when Gibson and Sterling were grousing about how "science fiction" had to have giant space ships and aliens and be set in the distant future, and how that setting was getting so very stale (Star Wars notwithstanding). TRON was a pretty big step away from that, and it suffered a bit because it didn't fit the audience's expectations of what SF is.
Now, all that said, I did highly value Mandrake in its day. Obviously, since I paid for it for 2 years. They vanguarded things like doing a gamer edition, which is something someone should revisit, seeing how good Cedega is at Windows games these days (I've been playing Morrowind under Cedega without incident for a few weeks now). I'm sad to see them take a blow of any kind, in the same way I am sad to see Dreamcast go under and Infocom disappear.
Microsoft has a VERY large and very well-developed office suite that connects quite elegantly to a bunch of Microsoft's back office software.
What [these office suites] may do is fill some very small gap.
You are assuming an enterprise-level point of view. That is only roughly half of business sales for Microsoft. A big segment, sure, but what of the other half, the small businesses, who don't have any back office kit to connect with? They don't fret over Exchange connectivity, because they don't run Exchange, or any other major server software, Microsoft or otherwise. Web-based office suites are perfect for them.
I know, because I am a small business owner, and I am watching this stuff develop with a keen eye. Right now, it's all about matching MS Office functionality (or at least what 95% of users actually use, which isn't that much). But think of getting wiki in there for team collaboration, RSS feeds for project updates, Google-searching your past worklog, and making it all 100% portable and platform-independent so that it no longer matters where employees are or what equipment they are using -- everybody can always get their work done. To me that sounds highly appealing.
Hm, well I suppose this could run before Galactica. I am rapidly losing enthusiasm for SG-1 (they had a nearly golden cast until they offed Claudia Black, PLEASE bring her back she brought 2/3 of the energy to the show since RDA left), and Atlantis is only so-so, but don't frack with Galactica, man.
No, it doesn't. Evolution happens randomly.
Please don't mistake your own ignorance for a problem in the software. In any Gnome file browser dialog, you can simply type Ctrl-L and type a text path.
I didn't intend to stroke Nintendo with this post, but, frankly, make games that involve multiple people and multiple people will play. The Big N has a lot of those that we fool around with: Mario Kart, Mario Party, Kirby racing, etc., including non-exclusive titles like Lego Star Wars. The hyper-serious games get my attention but no one else's -- not even my wife, who is a pretty big gamer, wants to play Splinter Cell, because it's just too damn serious. It's the lighthearted party games that rule the day around here.