Don't know what you find so funny. I've found that a machine which will quite happily run Windows and Office quickly and smoothly without any problems at all, will really have one hell of a struggle running KDE and Star Office. Christ on a bike, life is really too short to wait for that thing to run! Well. Not so much run, more like waddle bloatedly. As for Open Office, I found it couldn't even keep up with my typing speed. Pile of crap!
But strangely enough, the really GOOD Tom & Jerry cartoons are easily categorisable by having "Produced by Fred Quimby" on them. If it doesn't say Fred Quimby, then it's a crap Tom and Jerry. QED.
In the case of computer magazines, they're trying to get the FIRST REVIEW!!! (a bit like First Post!) which will sell more copies of the magazine.
But sloppy work happens everywhere. David (Hutch) Soul recently successfully sued the one time showbusiness columnist of the "Daily Mirror" (crappy UK tabloid) over a review of a play Soul starred in.
The review said at the Monday performance, only 45 people turned up and the audience laughed derisively at Soul. They didn't do Monday performances...!
Good job it wasn't tea.
To make tea, you pour BOILING water on the tea. Not just hot, but boiling!
It has to be boiling, or you don't get the flavour from the tealeaves.
Look. It occurs to me that this is not about intellectual property or rights or any of that shit.
What this is about, in my opinion, is that the game makers want people to earn objects BY PLAYING THE GAME, and not to cheat by buying them off other people.
That's what it is. Cheating. I just don't see the point in spending money on a game and then cheating on it, the only person you're really cheating is yourself!
Basically, what the game makers are saying is that if you want a 10th level sword of arsekicking, you need to play the game and obtain it yourself - not just take a shortcut and buy it off someone else.
That's the whole point of having the game in the first place!
If you ever reach the point in your life where buying a developed character in a game makes more sense than actually playing the game because the time simply can't be afforded, perhaps it is time to step away from the computer.
How the hell did that get moderated as Flamebait? It's a perfectly valid observation.
The whole point of buying a game is to play the game. If you then go and buy a pre-generated character or extra doo-hinkeys from someone else, you are NOT playing the game. You're cheating.
There's no point in buying the game if you're going to cheat, you're just wasting your money.
Excuse me? How the FUCK are they 'stealing from the community'? There's no law saying they have to open their driver source code. They're not taking anything away from 'the community' by not opening their source.
They've spent loads on developing this stuff, and you expect them to give away secrets which would help their competition?
When you have to worry about idiotic management, getting laid off, projects getting cancelled in beta, etc, an open source project starts looking pretty good.
What about worrying about the rent/mortgage or where the next meal is coming from?
I remember reading something about China's intent on going to the moon. Pity their space programme isn't up to it yet. If China went and landed on the moon that might get Bush to put more money into manned space flight.
And today, Lord Astronomer N'quth ended speculation on the strange flares coming from our neighbour planet by confirming these were due to volcanic activity.
"The chances of anything coming from Terra", he said, "are a million to one."
Ah, but Weird Al can't release the parodies without permission from the song's owner.
There are some songs (Chicken Pot Pie, Snack All Night) which he'll do live but wasn't allowed to release on record, and are not included in the live video. This is because the song's owner wouldn't allow the release of those parodies.
Neil Innes wrote brilliant Beatles parodies for "The Rutles", and despite being a pal of the Beatles, (The Bonzoes hit single "Urban Spaceman", also penned by Innes, was produced by Paul McCartney!), he had the rights taken away from him in court when the owners of the Beatles songs successfully sued. These rights to songs such as "Ouch", "Doubleback Alley", "Cheese and Onions" etc eventually ended up with all the other old Beatles material as being owned by Michael Jackson!
The late George Harrison in later years attemped to buy back the rights for his mate Neil, but with no success.
Neil Innes later successfully sued Oasis for stealing the melody of his song "How sweet to be an idiot", which considering many Oasis songs could be labelled beatles parodies is nicely ironic!
So. Parodies can get you in legal hot water, and if the Bond people want to force the name of the new Austin Powers movie to be changed, there are precedents.
Besides which, the Austin Powers joke got old after the first movie...
Sailing around the world just isn't feasible, everyone knows you'll fall over the edge.
You need to have a Wright Flyer before you can have a Concorde. At the moment, space travel is very much in that Wright Flyer stage, having hardly advanced since the day of Yuri Gagarin, and it shouldn't be! We NEED to do MORE manned space flight to advance the technology!
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Somehow, the phrase "Get a life, you sad sad men" springs to mind...
Don't know what you find so funny.
I've found that a machine which will quite happily run Windows and Office quickly and smoothly without any problems at all, will really have one hell of a struggle running KDE and Star Office. Christ on a bike, life is really too short to wait for that thing to run!
Well. Not so much run, more like waddle bloatedly.
As for Open Office, I found it couldn't even keep up with my typing speed. Pile of crap!
But strangely enough, the really GOOD Tom & Jerry cartoons are easily categorisable by having "Produced by Fred Quimby" on them.
If it doesn't say Fred Quimby, then it's a crap Tom and Jerry. QED.
In the case of computer magazines, they're trying to get the FIRST REVIEW!!! (a bit like First Post!) which will sell more copies of the magazine.
But sloppy work happens everywhere. David (Hutch) Soul recently successfully sued the one time showbusiness columnist of the "Daily Mirror" (crappy UK tabloid) over a review of a play Soul starred in.
The review said at the Monday performance, only 45 people turned up and the audience laughed derisively at Soul. They didn't do Monday performances...!
Man created god(s) in his own image...
Good job it wasn't tea.
To make tea, you pour BOILING water on the tea. Not just hot, but boiling!
It has to be boiling, or you don't get the flavour from the tealeaves.
All your one ring am rule them all.
(ducks and runs...)
Look. It occurs to me that this is not about intellectual property or rights or any of that shit.
What this is about, in my opinion, is that the game makers want people to earn objects BY PLAYING THE GAME, and not to cheat by buying them off other people.
That's what it is. Cheating. I just don't see the point in spending money on a game and then cheating on it, the only person you're really cheating is yourself!
Basically, what the game makers are saying is that if you want a 10th level sword of arsekicking, you need to play the game and obtain it yourself - not just take a shortcut and buy it off someone else.
That's the whole point of having the game in the first place!
Yeah, but stamp collecting is sad as well..
You'll be defending trainspotters next!
The whole point of buying a game is to play the game. If you then go and buy a pre-generated character or extra doo-hinkeys from someone else, you are NOT playing the game. You're cheating. There's no point in buying the game if you're going to cheat, you're just wasting your money.
Excuse me? How the FUCK are they 'stealing from the community'? There's no law saying they have to open their driver source code. They're not taking anything away from 'the community' by not opening their source.
They've spent loads on developing this stuff, and you expect them to give away secrets which would help their competition?
You, sir, are an arse!
When you have to worry about idiotic management, getting laid off, projects getting cancelled in beta, etc, an open source project starts looking pretty good.
What about worrying about the rent/mortgage or where the next meal is coming from?
Someone should pull an Orson Welles on Bush, convincing him that Martian Terrorists are attacking Earth.
That'll get us to Mars!
I remember reading something about China's intent on going to the moon. Pity their space programme isn't up to it yet. If China went and landed on the moon that might get Bush to put more money into manned space flight.
Why bother? Just keep sending him bags of pretzels. They're bound to get him eventually...
XBox = Microsoft = Bad, OK?
And to think Bill Gates is drawn as a Borg...
Personally I'm reserving judgement until it's been out for a while, there are more games available and I've actually seen one in action.
You want to see South.
This is the film actually shot DURING Shackleton's expedition, and for a black and white silent film is absolutely stunning because it's real!
...like Linux was just another platform...
Linux is just another platform.
we can infer the presence of a bar-like structure in the central regions.
But would that be Slim's Throat Emporium or the Evildrome Boozerama?
And today, Lord Astronomer N'quth ended speculation on the strange flares coming from our neighbour planet by confirming these were due to volcanic activity.
"The chances of anything coming from Terra", he said, "are a million to one."
It's a "Why the hell not?" culture.
Well actually it's a "Let's do something completely pointless and then boast about it" culture.
Who is Linus?
That kid with the blanket out of Peanuts cartoons. Everyone knows that!
Will a peaty single malt gum up the works?
I don't know, but it sounds like a terrible waste!
Ah, but Weird Al can't release the parodies without permission from the song's owner.
There are some songs (Chicken Pot Pie, Snack All Night) which he'll do live but wasn't allowed to release on record, and are not included in the live video. This is because the song's owner wouldn't allow the release of those parodies.
Neil Innes wrote brilliant Beatles parodies for "The Rutles", and despite being a pal of the Beatles, (The Bonzoes hit single "Urban Spaceman", also penned by Innes, was produced by Paul McCartney!), he had the rights taken away from him in court when the owners of the Beatles songs successfully sued. These rights to songs such as "Ouch", "Doubleback Alley", "Cheese and Onions" etc eventually ended up with all the other old Beatles material as being owned by Michael Jackson!
The late George Harrison in later years attemped to buy back the rights for his mate Neil, but with no success.
Neil Innes later successfully sued Oasis for stealing the melody of his song "How sweet to be an idiot", which considering many Oasis songs could be labelled beatles parodies is nicely ironic!
So. Parodies can get you in legal hot water, and if the Bond people want to force the name of the new Austin Powers movie to be changed, there are precedents.
Besides which, the Austin Powers joke got old after the first movie...
Manned space travel just isn't feasible.
Sailing around the world just isn't feasible, everyone knows you'll fall over the edge.
You need to have a Wright Flyer before you can have a Concorde. At the moment, space travel is very much in that Wright Flyer stage, having hardly advanced since the day of Yuri Gagarin, and it shouldn't be! We NEED to do MORE manned space flight to advance the technology!