I recently picked Galaxies back up. ( I beta tested it and played the first month. ) I did so at the behest of one of my customers, who told me "It's much better... It's finally where it should have been when it was released." After being back for about a week, I must agree. It's actually fun to play now, bugs are rarer and non-threatening... everything just seems more polished.
Now, I can't comment on the Jedi saga, but there was one factual error in the article I'd like to correct: The economy is quite broken, and everyone from the players to the devs knows it. Fonrtunatly, steps are being made to fix it, and several other positive changes in the works tells me that the devs are actually listening now and seem to care.
I think I'm going to stick around this time. I hate the Powergamer model ( ala EQ ) and I've been adrift for some time trying to find a new MMORPG I can call home. ( AO, DAOC, Shadowbane, FFXI, Horizons, even the Sims Online for God's sake! ) Hopefully, I can continue to call Galaxies home.
While it's true that Nintendo did not ship any Gamecubes for over a month... ( I got a shipment in early January, and then again two weeks ago ), that does not dimish the fact that people want to buy Gamecubes. I had tons of customers looking for them in the last month, and keeping Preplayed systems in stock has been impossible. I literally took a Gamecube in on trade and sent it back out the door within 15 minutes.
I don't know where you work, but there is generally a pecking order when a company looks to sell a batch of product. That might explain how my EB had a one month wait, while you waited three. And even if you are working at an EB, they distribute those based on your store's projected sales performance for the platform in question.
Agreed, but the responsibility of the modern school system has been restricted to instructing young people in knowledge. It's been over 50 years since ethics and civics were taught at the grade and high school levels.
Perhaps a return to such teachings is in order then. I can respect a parent's desire to shape the course of thier child's future, but there are basic rules of civility that everyone should adhere to, which are required for such simple tasks as getting along with everyone at your job. Any parent who objects to this being taught in schools is, IMHO, plain old wrong.
Parents have demanded control over that particular role and have taken away from teachers and schools nearly all forms of discipline necessary to teach students the consequences of their actions. When students can bully and intimidate with near impunity, the lesson they learn is that there are almost no penalties for being disruptive. So the only recourse left is to take away the causes of the disruptiveness. In a way, that too is just another lesson about the law of unintended consequences. This lesson applies to the parents as much as to their sons and daughters.
I agree with the first half of this, but I feel there is another recourse. Educate parents about the dire nessesity for schools to enact real penalties. I'm all for students being left behind if they can not behave themselves, as well as more extreme forms of punishment. ( I'm of the old school of thought that believes smacking your child teaches them right from wrong much better than "Time Out" )
If the parents don't teach that, and the student peers share the same prejudices, then the teachers don't have a chance even if they try to redress the problem. And certainly not with a 35 student per teacher ratio. If you're going to give teachers the responsibility for being parents, then give them that authority. Otherwise, lay the blame with those who really do have both and don't blame the school system for doing as best it can with the tools available.
I'll admit that the primary fault lies with the parents, absolutly. I'll even agree that teachers have it rough because they're trying to educate young people who's parents don't really seem to care about them and who's recieving most of thier education from MTV and the Mass Media Conglomerate(TM). But I can not agree with the idea that religion in schools should be dealt with by not dealing with it. A schools' job is to prepare a child to enter the workforce, and that includes preparing them for interactions with peoples of different religions and cultures.
but the purpose of a school is to educate. If religious symbols provide a focus for disruption (for instance, in the same way that gang colours would), is it not reasonable to remove that disruption from the educational environment?
It is not reasonable. If a child can not behave in a respectable manner around other children who happen to be wearing a religious symbol or article of clothing, then the problem is the disruptive child, not the religious reference. That child needs to be disiplined and shown the correct behavior that is expected of him.
Same thing with gang clothes. The clothes themselves are harmless. It's the child's reaction to the clothes that is wrong. Educate the child. You'll find that he or she grows into a much better adult.
And for those slashdotters reading this who are thinking: "Don't shove your religion in my face!", you're exactly the kind of ignorant asshole that should have been taught better as a child. You have no right to dictate what other people may express. If you find such expressions offensive or disruptive, then YOU are the problem due to your intolerance. I believe in God. There, I got IN YOUR FACE with my RELIGION. Can you handle that? No? Tough shit.
After all, we're all going to have to live on this planet with people of different religions. Where better to learn about them than at school?
AP: In what can only be described as man's greatest folley, Darl McBride(SCO) was responsible for creating a singularity, otherwise known as a black hole, in Utah, USA, Earth yesterday after filing yet another lawsuit against a free software competitor.
"I always knew that one would be trouble," God was quoted as saying, "but I never expected him to fuck up my whole plan."
The singularity was the result of stacking several tons of legal documents in a basement, as well as several bags of what Darl called "Juju magic pixie dust", otherwise known as crack.
When asked for comment, Linus Torvalds' angel said "See, I told you he was smoking crack!"
The singularity consumed Earth in a matter of seconds, killing everyone aboard. Rescue angels were sent to evacuate Europa's blooming alge population, which was in the path of the singularity. Europa's alge is considered one of the more important of God's creations.
"Well as soon as we heard, the rescue team was dispatched," said God. "There was no way we could save Earth, but the alge had just enough time."
God was reported to have been in meetings all afternoon to assess the damage, and to decide if this universe was fit enough to continue.
Hmm... you might be right. Guess I've still got that knee-jerk reaction to possible Family Guy negatives, much like Peter's nervous twitch when he asked Feebee Diamond out to the prom.
Uhh, err, sorry about that. I'll take you off my foe list critter_hunter.:-)
Woop Dee Fuck Yourself. Family Guy had tons of references to earlier pop culture, but that's not all there is... duh. Just watch it... or don't. I don't care.
In an email to Knowles, Peter Jackson specified that this was his call. He didn't want to start the third film by cleaning up after the second. He also reasoned that most filmgoers already assumed he died after the ent invasion.
I understand and respect his choice, and I no doubt will still love watching Return of the King in the theater. However, I can't help think that perhaps he should have seen this comming and resolved Saruman's involvment at the end of the Two Towers. Oh well.
Heh, this reminds me of a Cyrix 166 I once bought ( Hey! Quit laughing at me! ) over the phone from Treasure Chest computers. Besides the fact that it was delayed because of the UPS strike, it wouldn't run at all! I was furious, and was about to send it back, until I tried re-clocking it. Turns out that it only worked if it was over-clocked at 200.
I am totally with 100% of what you said. Their tech support sucks ( don't even bother telling then you run Linux ), but they're kindly giving away Premium bandwidth to Basic customers until March 04, apparently for downtime growing pains that I didn't notice. Now that they're falling on my side of the RIAA issue, they've definately earned my loyalty.
Perhaps it's time to move to a small pacific island, antartica, etc, and establish a corporate-free techno-utopia. Then we'll show 'em what a truly free peoples can acomplish when we're able to innovate without massive gobs of greed getting in the way.
If we were successful, however, then the greedy whores would probably just sick thier puppet governments on us to eliminate the threat. ( Ohh, they've got butter knives! WMD! WMD! )
I know this all sounds extreme, but moving out is becoming a simpler choice than changing the government we have.:-/
What's the use of broadband when it has just 64k of RAM?
Any Commodore freak worth his weight in SID chips knows that Commodore released RAM expansion carts. I don't know what they're up to these days, but back in '92 a 512k expansion pack was readily available, as well as 4mhz CPU upgrade carts and hard drives up to 40meg in size! Though the CPU cart included a passthrough so you can daisy chain carts, I can't tell if the Retro Replay does or not.
Now if I can just track down my copy of ST/R BBS...
and I find that the older I get, the angrier I get. Might be part and parcel of knowing more about the world:)
Might be, though I always feel like I'm wasting my energy when I become angry.:-) I try to focus my energy into positive, constructive activity if possible. ( Note: Not always possible;-)
Now, back in the early 80s, during college, when I *was* young, idealistic, and really wanted to go live on an asteroid; well. Nowadays I'm halfway burnt out from working too many overtime hours and wondering when the layoff notice comes; and watching the planet go to hell (with more knowledge vs. idealism than I used to have). Ah, well. Life happens.
It's true that life's mundain details serve to distract us from that which is truly important. A simpler lifestyle ( like that enjoyed by the Amish or some third-world cultures ) would permit a man to focus on building something he deems worthy, rather than building for someone else. ( I suppose owning your own business would count, but only for love of the work, not love of the green. )
"Take it all in stride": What are you, a quitter? Guess that's your problem, but son, let me tell you, quitting is easy, but you sleep better if you follow what you believe in, "no matter how crazy it seems".:-)
My original reply was not an accurate portrait of my feelings on life, but was instead crafted as a "you ain't seen nothing yet" to the troubled teen I wrongly assumed you were. This was because of the depressed behavoir I often observe in teens who think that high school is so rough. What they don't realize is that those will probably be some of the best days of thier lives.
As for sleeping better, well, not to get too religious, but once I accepted a higher "creator" as fact, I've slept soundly ever sense. That went hand in hand with an overall attitude and outlook change, though I believe that I had to hit rock bottom before I started to climb back up...
[me]Braces for the massive "Off-topic" moderator bitch-slap.[/me]
Then one could watch the craziness enveloping this planet from afar...
Bah, you're just young and hopeful about your future. Give it a few years, and your spirits with be crushed by the weight of the world. Then you'll learn to just take it all in stride.
If I had mod points right now I'd mod you into the stratosphere. So many people don't understand that they don't have to suck the corporate teat of consumerism. Humans have housed, clothed, and fed thier families for thousands of years without name brand shit, without cars, shit you don't even need a Linux-lovin' computer! People are living this way right now, and they're just fine, thanks. ( And not just 3rd world countries; The Amish live a good life. )
[RANT] The fact of the matter is that most Americans have completely lost touch with life. I mean real, honest to goodness life. Put down the Big Mac; Turn off your Playstation; Take a fucking walk; Leave your cellphone at home; Plant a garden; Sow your own future. Fuck the RIAA: They haven't put out anything worth listening to in years. Try Beethoven instead, for within the strains of a classical score, one can find peace and wisdom. Fuck television: Most shows are little more that filler meant to keep you around for the commercials. Read a book. To quote Tyler Durden: "This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time." Or even better, I'll quote an AC. [/RANT]
This is the exact same trailer that was shown after Reloaded. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to have a copy I can view whenever I want, but there is zero new footage here folks.
The DMCA passed the Senate Unanimously. Both wings of the Corporate Party can be blamed.
Please mod parent +1 Successful Bitch-Slap of the American Political System.
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Having installed openbsd, freebsd, netbsd on a couple architectures, gentoo 1.3 and 1.4, various flavors of redhate, sco unix, sco xenix, solaris on x86, solaris on sparc, and the list goes on
SCO?!?! You evil bastard! Moderators, get him!
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Just a FYI:
You could have stuck your 1.2 CD back in the drive, gotten to a prompt, and then run fdisk to make the partition bootable without deleting everything. 5 minutes tops.
I just manualy added the Linus patch to my kernel sources ( linux-2.4.19-gentoo-r10 ) and I did notice a nice difference. My test was to compile my app ( knights ) in a Konsole with XMMS running and me moving a Konqueror window all around the screen.
The interactivity still wasn't perfect, but it was noticably better. Now if I can just track down and apply Ingo's patch as well....
That's right, it should 'just work'. If it doesn't just work for you, then it's your distro's fault. They should have done those things for you. It's not your fault, and it's not KDE's fault.
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I recently picked Galaxies back up. ( I beta tested it and played the first month. ) I did so at the behest of one of my customers, who told me "It's much better... It's finally where it should have been when it was released." After being back for about a week, I must agree. It's actually fun to play now, bugs are rarer and non-threatening... everything just seems more polished.
Now, I can't comment on the Jedi saga, but there was one factual error in the article I'd like to correct: The economy is quite broken, and everyone from the players to the devs knows it. Fonrtunatly, steps are being made to fix it, and several other positive changes in the works tells me that the devs are actually listening now and seem to care.
I think I'm going to stick around this time. I hate the Powergamer model ( ala EQ ) and I've been adrift for some time trying to find a new MMORPG I can call home. ( AO, DAOC, Shadowbane, FFXI, Horizons, even the Sims Online for God's sake! ) Hopefully, I can continue to call Galaxies home.
While it's true that Nintendo did not ship any Gamecubes for over a month... ( I got a shipment in early January, and then again two weeks ago ), that does not dimish the fact that people want to buy Gamecubes. I had tons of customers looking for them in the last month, and keeping Preplayed systems in stock has been impossible. I literally took a Gamecube in on trade and sent it back out the door within 15 minutes.
I don't know where you work, but there is generally a pecking order when a company looks to sell a batch of product. That might explain how my EB had a one month wait, while you waited three. And even if you are working at an EB, they distribute those based on your store's projected sales performance for the platform in question.
"think about it, by downloading that you think its okay for people to search through it to hunt down ways to fuck people over."
Though if I spend years developing a game to feed my family, they don't seem to mind fucking me over by pirating it. Morals indeed.
Because religion isn't reality and it keeps reality from people's decisions and thoughts.
This statement is so flawed on such a fundamental level that I'm not even going to bother responding further, since your entire post is based upon it.
Agreed, but the responsibility of the modern school system has been restricted to instructing young people in knowledge. It's been over 50 years since ethics and civics were taught at the grade and high school levels.
Perhaps a return to such teachings is in order then. I can respect a parent's desire to shape the course of thier child's future, but there are basic rules of civility that everyone should adhere to, which are required for such simple tasks as getting along with everyone at your job. Any parent who objects to this being taught in schools is, IMHO, plain old wrong.
Parents have demanded control over that particular role and have taken away from teachers and schools nearly all forms of discipline necessary to teach students the consequences of their actions. When students can bully and intimidate with near impunity, the lesson they learn is that there are almost no penalties for being disruptive. So the only recourse left is to take away the causes of the disruptiveness. In a way, that too is just another lesson about the law of unintended consequences. This lesson applies to the parents as much as to their sons and daughters.
I agree with the first half of this, but I feel there is another recourse. Educate parents about the dire nessesity for schools to enact real penalties. I'm all for students being left behind if they can not behave themselves, as well as more extreme forms of punishment. ( I'm of the old school of thought that believes smacking your child teaches them right from wrong much better than "Time Out" )
If the parents don't teach that, and the student peers share the same prejudices, then the teachers don't have a chance even if they try to redress the problem. And certainly not with a 35 student per teacher ratio. If you're going to give teachers the responsibility for being parents, then give them that authority. Otherwise, lay the blame with those who really do have both and don't blame the school system for doing as best it can with the tools available.
I'll admit that the primary fault lies with the parents, absolutly. I'll even agree that teachers have it rough because they're trying to educate young people who's parents don't really seem to care about them and who's recieving most of thier education from MTV and the Mass Media Conglomerate(TM). But I can not agree with the idea that religion in schools should be dealt with by not dealing with it. A schools' job is to prepare a child to enter the workforce, and that includes preparing them for interactions with peoples of different religions and cultures.
but the purpose of a school is to educate. If religious symbols provide a focus for disruption (for instance, in the same way that gang colours would), is it not reasonable to remove that disruption from the educational environment?
It is not reasonable. If a child can not behave in a respectable manner around other children who happen to be wearing a religious symbol or article of clothing, then the problem is the disruptive child, not the religious reference. That child needs to be disiplined and shown the correct behavior that is expected of him.
Same thing with gang clothes. The clothes themselves are harmless. It's the child's reaction to the clothes that is wrong. Educate the child. You'll find that he or she grows into a much better adult.
And for those slashdotters reading this who are thinking: "Don't shove your religion in my face!", you're exactly the kind of ignorant asshole that should have been taught better as a child. You have no right to dictate what other people may express. If you find such expressions offensive or disruptive, then YOU are the problem due to your intolerance. I believe in God. There, I got IN YOUR FACE with my RELIGION. Can you handle that? No? Tough shit.
After all, we're all going to have to live on this planet with people of different religions. Where better to learn about them than at school?
AP: In what can only be described as man's greatest folley, Darl McBride(SCO) was responsible for creating a singularity, otherwise known as a black hole, in Utah, USA, Earth yesterday after filing yet another lawsuit against a free software competitor.
"I always knew that one would be trouble," God was quoted as saying, "but I never expected him to fuck up my whole plan."
The singularity was the result of stacking several tons of legal documents in a basement, as well as several bags of what Darl called "Juju magic pixie dust", otherwise known as crack.
When asked for comment, Linus Torvalds' angel said "See, I told you he was smoking crack!"
The singularity consumed Earth in a matter of seconds, killing everyone aboard. Rescue angels were sent to evacuate Europa's blooming alge population, which was in the path of the singularity. Europa's alge is considered one of the more important of God's creations.
"Well as soon as we heard, the rescue team was dispatched," said God. "There was no way we could save Earth, but the alge had just enough time."
God was reported to have been in meetings all afternoon to assess the damage, and to decide if this universe was fit enough to continue.
Hmm... you might be right. Guess I've still got that knee-jerk reaction to possible Family Guy negatives, much like Peter's nervous twitch when he asked Feebee Diamond out to the prom.
:-)
Uhh, err, sorry about that. I'll take you off my foe list critter_hunter.
Seth MacFarlane was responsible for over a dozen voices, including Stewie. He also, like, created it and stuff.
Can I have my free cookie now?
woop dee fucking doo!
Woop Dee Fuck Yourself. Family Guy had tons of references to earlier pop culture, but that's not all there is... duh. Just watch it... or don't. I don't care.
In an email to Knowles, Peter Jackson specified that this was his call. He didn't want to start the third film by cleaning up after the second. He also reasoned that most filmgoers already assumed he died after the ent invasion.
I understand and respect his choice, and I no doubt will still love watching Return of the King in the theater. However, I can't help think that perhaps he should have seen this comming and resolved Saruman's involvment at the end of the Two Towers. Oh well.
Link to the Knowles Email
Heh, this reminds me of a Cyrix 166 I once bought ( Hey! Quit laughing at me! ) over the phone from Treasure Chest computers. Besides the fact that it was delayed because of the UPS strike, it wouldn't run at all! I was furious, and was about to send it back, until I tried re-clocking it. Turns out that it only worked if it was over-clocked at 200.
I am totally with 100% of what you said. Their tech support sucks ( don't even bother telling then you run Linux ), but they're kindly giving away Premium bandwidth to Basic customers until March 04, apparently for downtime growing pains that I didn't notice. Now that they're falling on my side of the RIAA issue, they've definately earned my loyalty.
Well, I have a nomination for the actor to play the Hyperintelligent Shade of the Color Blue... this guy.
Perhaps it's time to move to a small pacific island, antartica, etc, and establish a corporate-free techno-utopia. Then we'll show 'em what a truly free peoples can acomplish when we're able to innovate without massive gobs of greed getting in the way.
:-/
If we were successful, however, then the greedy whores would probably just sick thier puppet governments on us to eliminate the threat. ( Ohh, they've got butter knives! WMD! WMD! )
I know this all sounds extreme, but moving out is becoming a simpler choice than changing the government we have.
What's the use of broadband when it has just 64k of RAM?
Any Commodore freak worth his weight in SID chips knows that Commodore released RAM expansion carts. I don't know what they're up to these days, but back in '92 a 512k expansion pack was readily available, as well as 4mhz CPU upgrade carts and hard drives up to 40meg in size! Though the CPU cart included a passthrough so you can daisy chain carts, I can't tell if the Retro Replay does or not.
Now if I can just track down my copy of ST/R BBS...
and I find that the older I get, the angrier I get. Might be part and parcel of knowing more about the world :)
:-) I try to focus my energy into positive, constructive activity if possible. ( Note: Not always possible ;-)
:-)
Might be, though I always feel like I'm wasting my energy when I become angry.
Now, back in the early 80s, during college, when I *was* young, idealistic, and really wanted to go live on an asteroid; well. Nowadays I'm halfway burnt out from working too many overtime hours and wondering when the layoff notice comes; and watching the planet go to hell (with more knowledge vs. idealism than I used to have). Ah, well. Life happens.
It's true that life's mundain details serve to distract us from that which is truly important. A simpler lifestyle ( like that enjoyed by the Amish or some third-world cultures ) would permit a man to focus on building something he deems worthy, rather than building for someone else. ( I suppose owning your own business would count, but only for love of the work, not love of the green. )
"Take it all in stride": What are you, a quitter? Guess that's your problem, but son, let me tell you, quitting is easy, but you sleep better if you follow what you believe in, "no matter how crazy it seems".
My original reply was not an accurate portrait of my feelings on life, but was instead crafted as a "you ain't seen nothing yet" to the troubled teen I wrongly assumed you were. This was because of the depressed behavoir I often observe in teens who think that high school is so rough. What they don't realize is that those will probably be some of the best days of thier lives.
As for sleeping better, well, not to get too religious, but once I accepted a higher "creator" as fact, I've slept soundly ever sense. That went hand in hand with an overall attitude and outlook change, though I believe that I had to hit rock bottom before I started to climb back up...
[me]Braces for the massive "Off-topic" moderator bitch-slap.[/me]
Then one could watch the craziness enveloping this planet from afar...
Bah, you're just young and hopeful about your future. Give it a few years, and your spirits with be crushed by the weight of the world. Then you'll learn to just take it all in stride.
If I had mod points right now I'd mod you into the stratosphere. So many people don't understand that they don't have to suck the corporate teat of consumerism. Humans have housed, clothed, and fed thier families for thousands of years without name brand shit, without cars, shit you don't even need a Linux-lovin' computer! People are living this way right now, and they're just fine, thanks. ( And not just 3rd world countries; The Amish live a good life. )
[RANT] The fact of the matter is that most Americans have completely lost touch with life. I mean real, honest to goodness life. Put down the Big Mac; Turn off your Playstation; Take a fucking walk; Leave your cellphone at home; Plant a garden; Sow your own future. Fuck the RIAA: They haven't put out anything worth listening to in years. Try Beethoven instead, for within the strains of a classical score, one can find peace and wisdom. Fuck television: Most shows are little more that filler meant to keep you around for the commercials. Read a book. To quote Tyler Durden: "This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time." Or even better, I'll quote an AC. [/RANT]
Oh, and my sucessful download was thanks to:
The DMCA passed the Senate Unanimously. Both wings of the Corporate Party can be blamed.
Please mod parent +1 Successful Bitch-Slap of the American Political System.
Having installed openbsd, freebsd, netbsd on a couple architectures, gentoo 1.3 and 1.4, various flavors of redhate, sco unix, sco xenix, solaris on x86, solaris on sparc, and the list goes on
SCO?!?! You evil bastard! Moderators, get him!
Just a FYI:
You could have stuck your 1.2 CD back in the drive, gotten to a prompt, and then run fdisk to make the partition bootable without deleting everything. 5 minutes tops.
The interactivity still wasn't perfect, but it was noticably better. Now if I can just track down and apply Ingo's patch as well....
That's right, it should 'just work'. If it doesn't just work for you, then it's your distro's fault. They should have done those things for you. It's not your fault, and it's not KDE's fault.