I was once told that the original show was popular enough that they wouldn't have cancelled it, except they simply couldn't buy enough trans ams for all the stunts.
What a fucked-up rule. I mean, it doesn't even make sense. Who cares?
And yes, I'm a guy who plays some female characters (and some male) in WoW. Not because I particularly look at them closely (I keep the camera way out), but just because it fits the character. Timi the tiny little warlock wouldn't be as FUNNY as a guy.
That said, googling around has convinced me that I may want to avoid WP anyway, possibly in favor of something like textpattern, or maybe even MT4... But it sure isn't what the summary said.
I was gonna upgrade to WordPress from MT, but this may be enough to make me not bother. I mean, the entire point was to get away from an intrusive and privacy-clueless vendor. If I can't do that, why bother?
That's a non-sequitur. People often fabricate evidence because they think they're the good guys! When CaDan computers submitted forged evidence in my junk fax case against them, I have no doubt that they considered themselves innocent victims of some crazy vigilante or whatever. Nonetheless, the evidence was forged. (Note that this never quite came to trial, so the court never really looked at the evidence; it was just in their stack of produced documents.)
No, that's not trolling. Trolling is stuff like "if they'd had the choice, the SS would have gone with the PS3 because lack of rumble is like gun control, which allowed the Nazis to take power, and making everyone use motion controls is like forced abortions for eugenics, which is the only reason anyone ever wanted abortion to be legal anyway, which is why the terrorists in Iraq attacked us on Septmber 11."
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I saw a video on youtube (no link, sorry) suggesting that it's the same thing that happened to me when I first tried to control a driving game with an analog stick: Massive oversteering by the player, and the game responding as though the rider were waving his hands around spastically. Which he is.
If you tilt gently to turn gently, all is (apparently) well. I might even get this one.
Because it was only the most egregious fanboys pushing that "I never wanted rumble anyway" thing.
In the cities, sometimes you'll see a bitter old man whistling at passing women. And, as they pass, he mutters something like "bitch, I ain't want you anyway".
There's commercial efforts based on or working with open source right now.
$DAYJOB for me these days is Wind River Linux. Yes, it's all GPLd. Yes, source is available. We are still offering something people are willing to pay for, and people continue to pay us money for stuff. It's clearly a commercial product; it's just a commercial product that happens to have a lot of GPL'd code in it.
Right now, there's some ambiguity, and some grey areas, and I believe they are allowed to get away with demonstrating only that they had a good-faith belief. I want them to have to prove that the belief was correct. Right now, it's up to the victim to establish that there was identity theft or whatever.
The whole problem with identity theft and abuse would be so very easy to fix.
1. By law, make it the creditor's problem to prove that charges or credit requests were legitimate. 2. Preemptively invalidate absolutely ALL contract terms, agreements, or otherwise, which shift this burden. Period.
If there were an economic incentive for security, banks would be secure.
Right now, citibank employees will tell you to enter information about your accounts on the web site in "that email" if it has their logo. They don't know what sites are theirs or not. Paypal sends stuff out that comes from "x.com" -- try explaining THAT one to someone who's not aware of their history. Why? Because it's mostly not their problem.
My house has two Windows users. I bet that in two years, they'll be on Macs. They've had crashes, "time to reload again", and all that stuff for so long, and Vista is full of delights like "throttle network when you listen to music".
We switched to OS X Server for my home network. Now, I'm not exactly unable to run servers conventionally; I ran a number of BSD servers of various sorts for years, I've done SysV, I've done Linux. I did tech support for BSDi back in the day; I do know how to do this.
OS X Server is, for my purposes, just enough less work to justify (for me) the cost. Their GUI works well and mostly handles the quick "hey, did I remember to set up both Samba AND NFS for this" stuff. It does all three types of file sharing I need out of the box, without me having to mess around with them. It has taken over DHCP, and having administered an ISC dhcpd for years, I like OS X a lot better. (Admittedly, less flexible, but frankly, I can live with that in exchange for the ability to push a button labeled "restart".) I have a Mac Mini with most of a terabyte of disk drives sitting on it. It's nearly silent (one of the enclosures makes noise, though) and it Just Works. I've never even SEEN a PC that small and quiet.
My laptop's a MacBook Pro now, too. I had a ThinkPad, dual-booting Windows and BSD. It worked fine; I still use NetBSD as one of my main desktops. However, Windows was a nightmare. It took, from running the restore CDs, roughly two hours to patch the system up to current, during which time it was at significant risk of getting owned. Every time I rebooted to Windows, I had to run software update and then reboot again. I need either Mac or Windows for printer drivers and art software, for now, and a Mac works better for me than dual-boot did.
I know very few people who are interested in Vista, and a lot who are seeing it as a compelling reason to switch. The big advantage of Windows has been that they're already using it. If they're going to learn something new, they would rather learn something more stable -- and given the history of the Mac (now on its third CPU architecture and third or fourth kernel architecture), it's scary that the Mac has to be it.
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I dunno. I mean, I already HAVE a PS3, and I don't see why I'd want this.
Well said. It's pretty much crazy. I mean, I know I'm not supposed to accept serious analysis from Slashdot, but WTF?
ThinkPads were always made in China, you know. :)
Anyway, I replaced mine with a Mac. I wanted the ability to drive most printers, scanners, etc., without booting Windows. I had about one choice.
What kind of name is "St. Cloud", anyway? I understand that it's only a few miles north of Pope Tifa, its largest suburb.
I was once told that the original show was popular enough that they wouldn't have cancelled it, except they simply couldn't buy enough trans ams for all the stunts.
What a fucked-up rule. I mean, it doesn't even make sense. Who cares?
And yes, I'm a guy who plays some female characters (and some male) in WoW. Not because I particularly look at them closely (I keep the camera way out), but just because it fits the character. Timi the tiny little warlock wouldn't be as FUNNY as a guy.
Yeah, me too.
That said, googling around has convinced me that I may want to avoid WP anyway, possibly in favor of something like textpattern, or maybe even MT4... But it sure isn't what the summary said.
MT3 has been so abysmal that I'd pretty much written them off. Maybe I'll rethink it now.
I was gonna upgrade to WordPress from MT, but this may be enough to make me not bother. I mean, the entire point was to get away from an intrusive and privacy-clueless vendor. If I can't do that, why bother?
> How many other apps do you know that replace half of the system libraries?
If that can cause a bluescreen, the kernel is broken. If the kernel lets an app do something that can cause a bluescreen... the kernel is broken.
That's a non-sequitur. People often fabricate evidence because they think they're the good guys! When CaDan computers submitted forged evidence in my junk fax case against them, I have no doubt that they considered themselves innocent victims of some crazy vigilante or whatever. Nonetheless, the evidence was forged. (Note that this never quite came to trial, so the court never really looked at the evidence; it was just in their stack of produced documents.)
Fair enough. I always hated it too, because it's too strong on most controllers. I like the Wiimote's very subtle rumble.
No, that's not trolling. Trolling is stuff like "if they'd had the choice, the SS would have gone with the PS3 because lack of rumble is like gun control, which allowed the Nazis to take power, and making everyone use motion controls is like forced abortions for eugenics, which is the only reason anyone ever wanted abortion to be legal anyway, which is why the terrorists in Iraq attacked us on Septmber 11."
I saw a video on youtube (no link, sorry) suggesting that it's the same thing that happened to me when I first tried to control a driving game with an analog stick: Massive oversteering by the player, and the game responding as though the rider were waving his hands around spastically. Which he is.
If you tilt gently to turn gently, all is (apparently) well. I might even get this one.
Because it was only the most egregious fanboys pushing that "I never wanted rumble anyway" thing.
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In the cities, sometimes you'll see a bitter old man whistling at passing women. And, as they pass, he mutters something like "bitch, I ain't want you anyway".
PS3 fanboys are much like that bitter old man.
Refusing to confirm a price drop, or in general refusing to talk about prices, I could understand, and that would make sense.
Lying, by contrast, means that they are not trustworthy, and you should not listen to anything they tell you.
There's commercial efforts based on or working with open source right now.
$DAYJOB for me these days is Wind River Linux. Yes, it's all GPLd. Yes, source is available. We are still offering something people are willing to pay for, and people continue to pay us money for stuff. It's clearly a commercial product; it's just a commercial product that happens to have a lot of GPL'd code in it.
They denied the last price cut, too. Then, when the circuit city ads got leaked, they pressured CC to fire the employee who leaked them.
Right now, there's some ambiguity, and some grey areas, and I believe they are allowed to get away with demonstrating only that they had a good-faith belief. I want them to have to prove that the belief was correct. Right now, it's up to the victim to establish that there was identity theft or whatever.
The whole problem with identity theft and abuse would be so very easy to fix.
1. By law, make it the creditor's problem to prove that charges or credit requests were legitimate.
2. Preemptively invalidate absolutely ALL contract terms, agreements, or otherwise, which shift this burden. Period.
If there were an economic incentive for security, banks would be secure.
Right now, citibank employees will tell you to enter information about your accounts on the web site in "that email" if it has their logo. They don't know what sites are theirs or not. Paypal sends stuff out that comes from "x.com" -- try explaining THAT one to someone who's not aware of their history. Why? Because it's mostly not their problem.
Has anyone done a detailed inventory of the superpowers these people have acquired now?
Ahh, "flamebait". Because we all know that concrete experiences and real-world use is "flamebait".
My house has two Windows users. I bet that in two years, they'll be on Macs. They've had crashes, "time to reload again", and all that stuff for so long, and Vista is full of delights like "throttle network when you listen to music".
We switched to OS X Server for my home network. Now, I'm not exactly unable to run servers conventionally; I ran a number of BSD servers of various sorts for years, I've done SysV, I've done Linux. I did tech support for BSDi back in the day; I do know how to do this.
OS X Server is, for my purposes, just enough less work to justify (for me) the cost. Their GUI works well and mostly handles the quick "hey, did I remember to set up both Samba AND NFS for this" stuff. It does all three types of file sharing I need out of the box, without me having to mess around with them. It has taken over DHCP, and having administered an ISC dhcpd for years, I like OS X a lot better. (Admittedly, less flexible, but frankly, I can live with that in exchange for the ability to push a button labeled "restart".) I have a Mac Mini with most of a terabyte of disk drives sitting on it. It's nearly silent (one of the enclosures makes noise, though) and it Just Works. I've never even SEEN a PC that small and quiet.
My laptop's a MacBook Pro now, too. I had a ThinkPad, dual-booting Windows and BSD. It worked fine; I still use NetBSD as one of my main desktops. However, Windows was a nightmare. It took, from running the restore CDs, roughly two hours to patch the system up to current, during which time it was at significant risk of getting owned. Every time I rebooted to Windows, I had to run software update and then reboot again. I need either Mac or Windows for printer drivers and art software, for now, and a Mac works better for me than dual-boot did.
I know very few people who are interested in Vista, and a lot who are seeing it as a compelling reason to switch. The big advantage of Windows has been that they're already using it. If they're going to learn something new, they would rather learn something more stable -- and given the history of the Mac (now on its third CPU architecture and third or fourth kernel architecture), it's scary that the Mac has to be it.
RRS vs. Hovind?
It's like Sophie's Choice, only backwards.
Yup.
Because, whaddya know: A generic racer and a generic beat-em-up.
Wow, that's real innovation there. I bet no one could ever have made a racing game, or a beat-em-up, on older hardware.