No. Only the immature ones do. I use Windows NT and Linux at work. I use Windows 98 at home. I would have bought a Mac only I didn't want the expense of throwing out all my software and starting over. I had an Atari ST, I had to show a mate how to use the CLI on his Amiga, I had an Oric, I had a Spectrum, I had 6809 Eurocard based system using the FLEX O/S and 20 years ago I was using a hex keypad to key hand-assembled 6502 machine code into a single-board computer.
AND IN ALL THAT TIME I have found the mindless "Mine's better than yours" arguments between different groups, whether they be Spectrum/Commodore 64, Atari ST/Amiga, Mac/PC and Windows/Linux to be no better than a bunch of kids having a slanging match in the playground. It's just stupid and immature.
So grow the fuck up and stop waving your knob around.
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People don't want to know how things work. They don't need to know how things work. They just want to know how to use these things to do the job they want to do.
Yeah. You or I may be interested in the hardware and OS side of things, but to Fred Buggins out there, he just wants to turn on, click the pretty icon and do his thing. He's not interested in what's underneath.
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The biggest problem facing the Space Shuttle is that on re-entry it is the worst glider ever built. It flies like a brick. You have only got one chance to land the thing. If you screw up and overshoot the runway, you're fucked. If you lose too much or too little altitude on your approach, you're fucked.
Shuttle pilots have to practice final approaches again and again and again using a specially modified jet, because they cannot afford to get it wrong.
Powered descent is what is required. Perhaps at some time someone will combine the two so that your space vehicle lands like an aircraft, but under power, not a one-shot glider. And on regular airfields. But that's not likely. I just hope the Japanese manage to avoid the leg problem which hit the DC-X - and perhapse use a lower centre of gravity.
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And Slashdot illustrate this story with a picture of a Palm...
Oh the pain, the pain!
The reason I bought my Psion Revo over a Palm was because it had a keyboard. OK. It's too small to touchtype, but you can knock up quite a speed typing with two thumbs while resting the machine in your hands.
It's a shame. it really is.
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I much preferred the arse-kicking Delenn to the soppy "Oh John!!" Delenn. The other great arse-kicking Delenn scene was the first time they meet the Drakh. Marvellous.
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That's bollocks. While the French may have caused the death of a Greenpeace member, Greenpeace have never caused anyone's death..
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Rumor has it that Lucas has seen this, and while not allowing it to be distributed publicly, acknowledges that it's a good edit, but not as good as his original vision
"Well, he would say that, wouldn't he."
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Terminator II has both original and special edition versions.
What I want to see when IV, V and VI come out is a similar thing. I want the original versions without the tacked on CGI and modifications to the plot as an option. Heck, they're the only versions I'd watch!
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Does anyone remember in one of the (IIRC) Peter Davidson episodes the ultra-sophisticated computer tracking device, using BBC Micro mode 2
Oh god yes. I HATED it when they installed a BBC Micro in the Tardis console. It was the time when EVERY FUCKING TV SERIES the BBC did just HAD to have a BBC Micro. Oi! BBC! No!
Even worse was "Bird of Prey" with Richard Griffiths hacking into a secret computer system from his Acorn Electron...!
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I remember the EU had an investigation into CD prices some years ago. They found that yes, we are being overcharged for CDs compared to prices in the states.
However, they had absolutely no powers to do anything about this...
I would imagine this is the same kind of thing. A load of people will be handsomely paid to sit on their arses for months, and finally say that, yes, we are being overcharged for DVDs, and yes, we are often getting an inferior product due to the regioning.
But they will have no powers to do anything, and like the US CD companies, the US DVD companies will go "So what?" and carry on regardless.
All this will do is keep a bunch of minor politicians in work for a while. It won't benefit anyone.
Incidentally, less than half of my DVDs are region 1. They're either stuff you can't actually get in region 2 at all, or couldn't get in region 2 for a long, long time after they came out in region 1, or in one case it was cheaper to buy the region 1 and have it shipped over than it was to go to the shop and buy it in region 2!
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It's only a few months ago that Jon Katz came out with a number of articles in which he said it was "the end of the Microsoft era".
I thought that was funny at the time, as it so obviously wasn't.
Now he's writing articles saying "Microsoft are back".
And that's funny, as they've never been away!
Jon Katz, what a funny guy! He doesn't half write a load of old bollocks!
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Actually, I think you'll find that 'spelt' is a perfectly good English word. It is the past tense of the verb "to spell".
In the original title of this thread, Slashdot had spelt Douglas Adams' name incorrectly. They must have fixed it later.
You are a complete arse who cannot see a perfectly legitimate English sentence when it is in front of your face. GET A DICTIONARY YOU IGNORANT BUFFOON!
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There is no consistency in the way you refer to Guide. It's been referred to as Hitch-Hiker, Hitch Hiker and Hitchhiker over the years, quite often by Adams himself. These are all perfectly good similes and it doesn't really matter which one you use.
CORRECT SPELLING however is another matter, and 'hicker' is not a word in anyone's book.
Belgium man, Belgium!
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Well. It would have been nice had Slashdot SPELT HIS NAME RIGHT in the heading... "Douglas Adam" indeed.
(Same to all the stupid people who write phrases like "Douglas Adam's" or even "Hitchicker". Christ on a bicycle, have none of you ever read anything!)
The Salmon of Doubt. It would actually be interesting if all the drafts are present. It originally began in the early 90's (93?) as the third 'Dirk Gently' novel. Then the character of 'Dirk Gently' was written out. Some time later, it reappeared as the seventh Hitch-Hiker novel. Then it vanished altogether. Amazon were accepting orders for it for some time and ZZ9 were constantly having to tell people that no such book had been published!
Now it would be very interesting to see if any of this change survives.
It may seem like grave-robbing, but I'd rather they did this than have some hack finish off Adams' ideas in a faux-HitchHiker style. I'm very glad to see Ed Victor saying there is no question of having someone finish ideas off.
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I saw a bit of that. The really scary thing for me was watching Tory Blur's face. His usual cheesy BIG GRIN kept falling into a hideous malevolent grimace.
I then knew even more how on the ball Warren Ellis had been on basing the character of "The Smiler" in Transmetropolitan on Tony Blair. You just know Blair is going to end up more barking than Maggie...
Sadly, Tone and chums are going to get in again, I mean, it's not like we have a good alternative. And they wonder why election turnouts are falling!
Think I may as well vote Loony...
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Everybody thinks this is either a great joke or a ripoff, but nobody seems to have considered the benefits this kind of research could have for the disabled.
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Whoever named the SuSE emblem "Geeko" should be caught and shot NOW. And I hate that fucking penguin too. It's far too smug-looking.
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No, they're just afraid of finding out that life on Mars is more intelligent than your president. Then again, that's not too difficult.
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Users of all operating systems behave like this
No. Only the immature ones do. I use Windows NT and Linux at work. I use Windows 98 at home. I would have bought a Mac only I didn't want the expense of throwing out all my software and starting over. I had an Atari ST, I had to show a mate how to use the CLI on his Amiga, I had an Oric, I had a Spectrum, I had 6809 Eurocard based system using the FLEX O/S and 20 years ago I was using a hex keypad to key hand-assembled 6502 machine code into a single-board computer.
AND IN ALL THAT TIME I have found the mindless "Mine's better than yours" arguments between different groups, whether they be Spectrum/Commodore 64, Atari ST/Amiga, Mac/PC and Windows/Linux to be no better than a bunch of kids having a slanging match in the playground. It's just stupid and immature.
So grow the fuck up and stop waving your knob around.
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So you came out of the womb compiling a kernel, did you?
Repeat after me:
EVERYONE is a newbie ONCE.
Now please take your head out of your own arse and smell the roses.
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People don't want to know how things work. They don't need to know how things work. They just want to know how to use these things to do the job they want to do.
Yeah. You or I may be interested in the hardware and OS side of things, but to Fred Buggins out there, he just wants to turn on, click the pretty icon and do his thing. He's not interested in what's underneath.
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The biggest problem facing the Space Shuttle is that on re-entry it is the worst glider ever built. It flies like a brick. You have only got one chance to land the thing. If you screw up and overshoot the runway, you're fucked. If you lose too much or too little altitude on your approach, you're fucked.
Shuttle pilots have to practice final approaches again and again and again using a specially modified jet, because they cannot afford to get it wrong.
Powered descent is what is required. Perhaps at some time someone will combine the two so that your space vehicle lands like an aircraft, but under power, not a one-shot glider. And on regular airfields. But that's not likely. I just hope the Japanese manage to avoid the leg problem which hit the DC-X - and perhapse use a lower centre of gravity.
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And Slashdot illustrate this story with a picture of a Palm...
Oh the pain, the pain!
The reason I bought my Psion Revo over a Palm was because it had a keyboard. OK. It's too small to touchtype, but you can knock up quite a speed typing with two thumbs while resting the machine in your hands.
It's a shame. it really is.
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I much preferred the arse-kicking Delenn to the soppy "Oh John!!" Delenn. The other great arse-kicking Delenn scene was the first time they meet the Drakh. Marvellous.
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That's bollocks. While the French may have caused the death of a Greenpeace member, Greenpeace have never caused anyone's death..
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No no no! The countdown starts at FIVE, as any fool knows!
Good luck to him I say. He's putting his own neck on the line, and if he survives, he'll be a hero.
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Graham Hancock is a nut. But not as much of a nut as the people who believe his loony theories.
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And what does your psychologist say about your violent paranoia problem?
Too many dumb movies and guns dude...
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Rumor has it that Lucas has seen this, and while not allowing it to be distributed publicly, acknowledges that it's a good edit, but not as good as his original vision
"Well, he would say that, wouldn't he."
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Terminator II has both original and special edition versions.
What I want to see when IV, V and VI come out is a similar thing. I want the original versions without the tacked on CGI and modifications to the plot as an option. Heck, they're the only versions I'd watch!
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Does anyone remember in one of the (IIRC) Peter Davidson episodes the ultra-sophisticated computer tracking device, using BBC Micro mode 2
Oh god yes. I HATED it when they installed a BBC Micro in the Tardis console. It was the time when EVERY FUCKING TV SERIES the BBC did just HAD to have a BBC Micro. Oi! BBC! No! Even worse was "Bird of Prey" with Richard Griffiths hacking into a secret computer system from his Acorn Electron...!
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I remember the EU had an investigation into CD prices some years ago. They found that yes, we are being overcharged for CDs compared to prices in the states.
However, they had absolutely no powers to do anything about this...
I would imagine this is the same kind of thing. A load of people will be handsomely paid to sit on their arses for months, and finally say that, yes, we are being overcharged for DVDs, and yes, we are often getting an inferior product due to the regioning.
But they will have no powers to do anything, and like the US CD companies, the US DVD companies will go "So what?" and carry on regardless.
All this will do is keep a bunch of minor politicians in work for a while. It won't benefit anyone.
Incidentally, less than half of my DVDs are region 1. They're either stuff you can't actually get in region 2 at all, or couldn't get in region 2 for a long, long time after they came out in region 1, or in one case it was cheaper to buy the region 1 and have it shipped over than it was to go to the shop and buy it in region 2!
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It's only a few months ago that Jon Katz came out with a number of articles in which he said it was "the end of the Microsoft era".
I thought that was funny at the time, as it so obviously wasn't.
Now he's writing articles saying "Microsoft are back".
And that's funny, as they've never been away!
Jon Katz, what a funny guy! He doesn't half write a load of old bollocks!
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Actually, I think you'll find that 'spelt' is a perfectly good English word. It is the past tense of the verb "to spell".
In the original title of this thread, Slashdot had spelt Douglas Adams' name incorrectly. They must have fixed it later.
You are a complete arse who cannot see a perfectly legitimate English sentence when it is in front of your face. GET A DICTIONARY YOU IGNORANT BUFFOON!
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There is no consistency in the way you refer to Guide. It's been referred to as Hitch-Hiker, Hitch Hiker and Hitchhiker over the years, quite often by Adams himself. These are all perfectly good similes and it doesn't really matter which one you use.
CORRECT SPELLING however is another matter, and 'hicker' is not a word in anyone's book.
Belgium man, Belgium!
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Well. It would have been nice had Slashdot SPELT HIS NAME RIGHT in the heading... "Douglas Adam" indeed.
(Same to all the stupid people who write phrases like "Douglas Adam's" or even "Hitchicker". Christ on a bicycle, have none of you ever read anything!)
The Salmon of Doubt. It would actually be interesting if all the drafts are present. It originally began in the early 90's (93?) as the third 'Dirk Gently' novel. Then the character of 'Dirk Gently' was written out. Some time later, it reappeared as the seventh Hitch-Hiker novel. Then it vanished altogether. Amazon were accepting orders for it for some time and ZZ9 were constantly having to tell people that no such book had been published!
Now it would be very interesting to see if any of this change survives.
It may seem like grave-robbing, but I'd rather they did this than have some hack finish off Adams' ideas in a faux-HitchHiker style. I'm very glad to see Ed Victor saying there is no question of having someone finish ideas off.
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$40 Logitech joystick? Not in a military project, surely.
$4 Million Logitech joystick is more like it!
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I saw a bit of that. The really scary thing for me was watching Tory Blur's face. His usual cheesy BIG GRIN kept falling into a hideous malevolent grimace.
I then knew even more how on the ball Warren Ellis had been on basing the character of "The Smiler" in Transmetropolitan on Tony Blair. You just know Blair is going to end up more barking than Maggie...
Sadly, Tone and chums are going to get in again, I mean, it's not like we have a good alternative. And they wonder why election turnouts are falling!
Think I may as well vote Loony...
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Pratchett is a better writer. He's had more than one idea.
Robert Rankin is better than both...
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Everybody thinks this is either a great joke or a ripoff, but nobody seems to have considered the benefits this kind of research could have for the disabled.
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