Are these people really so stupid as to think we have no idea how to communicate with other people? Women aren't this mysterious alien race (though I realize on slashdot, it may seem that way.) They're just other people, be nice to them and the rest will come. It's not rocket science (which I realize some of you here have mastered, so this shouldn't be hard at all!:P)
Some of us use multiple browsers. I use Safari on my Mac (for testing purposes) as well as Chimera. On my PC, I use IE and Phoenix. On my Linux box, Konq and Galeon. So that's by no means a foolproof solution.:)
What I'd like to see is an NES controller mod for the dreamcast. NesterDC is extremely mature, and can play most games with no problems whatsoever. That way, you can shove the entire NES library on a CD and you don't have to worry about dead batteries (the VMU will still save games without batteries.) The only real problem is that the DC's controller blows.
And likewise, the US should not be surprised when other governments (who exist to protect THEIR people) get pissed off at us for infringing upon their people and corporations. Of course, we do, but that's a whole other matter..
Different audiences. Disney is aiming for the under-10 crowd and Miziyaki is aiming for the over-14 crowd. You can't have characters with too much depth in a childrens' movie because it gets boring. You have to tell a simple story with simple, easily identified characters. Miziyaki can get away with more because his audiences will recognize some characters as being neither good nor evil, and even the fragile definition of "good" and "evil." Unfortunately, we Americans tend to think cartoons are just for kids, so a lot of the more complicated stuff is misunderstood. That's life, I guess.
Dude, we've had that for years. Quake (as in what developers did when they saw a real, breathing female,) Unreal (the prospect of sex in their lives) and Final Fantasy (the realization that, 50 years from now, the developer would die in his semen-soaked underwear, dreaming of a real woman..)
Actually, ironically, according to Hironobu Sakaguchi (producer of Final Fantasy,) the game was named such because if it didn't succeed, it really WAS Square's final fantasy.:) But the game was popular, Square recovered, and all is well with the cosmos.
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They're having trouble with the moon. Seems that a little-known government agency known as "NASA" went there before Microsoft even existed, thus claiming the moon before Microsoft ever did. Microsoft engineers are currently working on a magic time machine to overcome this obstacle.
Anyone who would be in the market for a product like this wouldn't care about price. Apple's really not taking on MS with the XServe, rather they're taking on Sun, IBM, etc. Those companies really do kill you with the per-seat licenses; all Apple needs now is an OS X native version of Oracle and Sun is in deep shit. Besides, anyone needing dense servers is probably not running Windows.
The difficulty in the GPL comes in PROVING that it was violated. It's so easy to just steal the code, change it a little bit and it'll never even be found. The GPL is a lot like the honor system.. Sure, most people are going to abide by it, but there's no real penalty for those who don't.
If you're referring to that Rolling Stone article, you do realize that pretty much everyone quoted in the story either recanted or denied they said anything at all. I'm sure "bug chasing" does exist, but it's probably among people who have bigger psychological problems and the "bug chasing" is just a symptom. As for your conspiracy theory, I'll just ask one question; Which is bigger and more powerful, the gay lobby or the Christian lobby? Answer that and your argument falls apart.
There's not much the RIAA can do about this. Not like they care, they're in bed with Clear Channel anyway. For the few of you out there who don't know, Clear Channel basically owns half the radio stations in every city in the US over 200,000 people. They also own pretty much all the large concert promoters (after having bought SFX entertainment a few years ago.) They're actually worse than the RIAA; as the RIAA wouldn't really be as effective without a buyable mouthpiece like Clear Channel. Ever wonder why every radio station in the US sounds the same? Because they are; Clear Channel ships out regional playlists and formulaicly hires DJs with similar on-air personalities.
Yet another reason why privatized phone service does not make sense. Well, scratch that. Privatized phone service DOES make sense, but privatized ownership of the infrastructure does not.
No, he's confusing stupid with stupid.:) I'm from Texas, I live in Austin and know a good many smart Texans. Bush is not one of them. But I don't care if we have a moron in office so long as he doesn't make the same economic mistakes his daddy's boss made twenty years ago. Reaganomics is a textbook example (literally- economics textbooks use it as an example) of how NOT to steer national economic policy. Personally, I don't think it was ever supposed to work, just be a passable explanation for giving rich people more money.
The other problem I have with Bush is that he does not act in the best interests of the country. Look at Ashcroft for example; 90% of Americans would think he's a total religious nutcase if they knew more about him (indeed, his father was a minister in a semi-cult, the Assembly of God) and most of us do NOT agree with anything this man has to say. Yet he's our Attorney General. I have a feeling Ashcroft will eventually piss the wrong people off and become a political liability, so the decision might come back to bit him in the ass, but whatever.
This post is retarded. We don't make half the shit you listed above in the US anyway. Mexican hard drives? Last I knew, all our hard drives were made in Taiwan anyway. So not only is it racist, it comes off as stupid too.
Oh, and I can name the last innovation in Mexico.. The ability to grow marijuana in such a way that it doesn't really get you stoned. Anyone who's smoked some Mexi schwag knows what I mean.
They're also really slow and their replacements are readily available (read: you can buy them anywhere you can buy the older stuff.) Granted, this really isn't an issue on desktops, but having all those ports and a floppy on a laptop take up space. And really, I personally never use my floppy, or the paralell port, or the PS2 port, or the game port.. you get the point. I don't use them, and I haven't used them in probably 2 years. I've got an iBook as well, and all I ever use is USB. USB really is nice, run your mouse, keyboard and printer over the same connection.
Hrm, apparently not actually.. Seems they got busted. But I'm sure there are more enterprising companies out there that do. Satellite is a "push" signal, so all you need is an emulator to emulate the card and decrypt the signal.
Yeah, except 3-4 years down the road, we'll be seeing the next round of consoles, and Xbox sales will grind to a halt. It's called market saturation, and it's exactly the reason for the planned obsolescence of consoles. I wouldn't be surprised to see Sony drop the PS2 price again soon either, just to make sure MS never makes a dime off the XBox.
Problem with indy bands is that the mom and pop record stores who used to stock their stuff are disappearing. I know that's true in Austin, TX as several independent music stores have shut down recently. The indy punk scene has suffered greatly because of it. Older music was awesome; it came from a time when you could write about smoking lots of weed and having sex with meaningless partners and still get your album published. People still like the same things, and bands like Creed or Three Doors Down are just a bit too wholesome for me.
There are some good recent popular bands though, they tend to err on the side of conceptual however. Stuff like Tool, Radiohead, DJ Shadow, etc. are all really nice and stuff our kids will probably pull out of our CD collections and "discover." Too bad we won't be able to tell them the stories we associate with the music.. "Man, the first time I heard that song I was SO fucking high..."
Ditto that. Pink Floyd is HUGE with the college stoner crowd right now. The same group that ten years ago was hardcore into bands like Nirvana, Sponge, Alice in Chains, etc. are now really into Floyd and the Doors. Nevermind that the same crowd 30 years ago was also really into the same bands and 10 years before that, the Beatles...
I was speaking purely from a political point of view.:) I love space as much as the next geek, but the gains we reap from space are not immediately evident. Sure, there are the classical examples (velcro, for example) but for the most part, politicians find it hard to give money to NASA when cash is tight and there are other, more immediate programs in trouble, such as social security and medicare (and of course, the oh-so-important tax cuts.)
And in politics, "because we've spent too much money on it already" is a perfectly valid reason to keep throwing money at something. To abandon ISS now would be to throw away any potential (and as yet unknown) scientific gains, not to mention the $30 billion or however much we've spent on it.
Now, of course, that will never happen. Public awareness and sympathy for the space program has been brought to light today; and as morbid and wrong as this may sound, a shuttle accident was probably the best thing that could have happened for NASA. It makes the space program an issue in the next election; and after such a horrible accident with such intense media coverage, no politician in his right mind is going to turn NASA down when they go to congress and ask for (badly needed) cash. NASA will come through this, if for no other reason than public sympathy.
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There WAS that little incident called "Pearl Harbor." America doesn't get mad, it gets even. Or it tries to finish what it's daddy couldn't.
Are these people really so stupid as to think we have no idea how to communicate with other people? Women aren't this mysterious alien race (though I realize on slashdot, it may seem that way.) They're just other people, be nice to them and the rest will come. It's not rocket science (which I realize some of you here have mastered, so this shouldn't be hard at all! :P)
Some of us use multiple browsers. I use Safari on my Mac (for testing purposes) as well as Chimera. On my PC, I use IE and Phoenix. On my Linux box, Konq and Galeon. So that's by no means a foolproof solution. :)
'Taint your ass and 'taint your cock.. It just 'taint.
What I'd like to see is an NES controller mod for the dreamcast. NesterDC is extremely mature, and can play most games with no problems whatsoever. That way, you can shove the entire NES library on a CD and you don't have to worry about dead batteries (the VMU will still save games without batteries.) The only real problem is that the DC's controller blows.
And likewise, the US should not be surprised when other governments (who exist to protect THEIR people) get pissed off at us for infringing upon their people and corporations. Of course, we do, but that's a whole other matter..
Different audiences. Disney is aiming for the under-10 crowd and Miziyaki is aiming for the over-14 crowd. You can't have characters with too much depth in a childrens' movie because it gets boring. You have to tell a simple story with simple, easily identified characters. Miziyaki can get away with more because his audiences will recognize some characters as being neither good nor evil, and even the fragile definition of "good" and "evil." Unfortunately, we Americans tend to think cartoons are just for kids, so a lot of the more complicated stuff is misunderstood. That's life, I guess.
Dude, we've had that for years. Quake (as in what developers did when they saw a real, breathing female,) Unreal (the prospect of sex in their lives) and Final Fantasy (the realization that, 50 years from now, the developer would die in his semen-soaked underwear, dreaming of a real woman..)
:) But the game was popular, Square recovered, and all is well with the cosmos.
Actually, ironically, according to Hironobu Sakaguchi (producer of Final Fantasy,) the game was named such because if it didn't succeed, it really WAS Square's final fantasy.
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They're having trouble with the moon. Seems that a little-known government agency known as "NASA" went there before Microsoft even existed, thus claiming the moon before Microsoft ever did. Microsoft engineers are currently working on a magic time machine to overcome this obstacle.
All your moonbase are belong to us.
Anyone who would be in the market for a product like this wouldn't care about price. Apple's really not taking on MS with the XServe, rather they're taking on Sun, IBM, etc. Those companies really do kill you with the per-seat licenses; all Apple needs now is an OS X native version of Oracle and Sun is in deep shit. Besides, anyone needing dense servers is probably not running Windows.
The difficulty in the GPL comes in PROVING that it was violated. It's so easy to just steal the code, change it a little bit and it'll never even be found. The GPL is a lot like the honor system.. Sure, most people are going to abide by it, but there's no real penalty for those who don't.
If you're referring to that Rolling Stone article, you do realize that pretty much everyone quoted in the story either recanted or denied they said anything at all. I'm sure "bug chasing" does exist, but it's probably among people who have bigger psychological problems and the "bug chasing" is just a symptom. As for your conspiracy theory, I'll just ask one question; Which is bigger and more powerful, the gay lobby or the Christian lobby? Answer that and your argument falls apart.
There's not much the RIAA can do about this. Not like they care, they're in bed with Clear Channel anyway. For the few of you out there who don't know, Clear Channel basically owns half the radio stations in every city in the US over 200,000 people. They also own pretty much all the large concert promoters (after having bought SFX entertainment a few years ago.) They're actually worse than the RIAA; as the RIAA wouldn't really be as effective without a buyable mouthpiece like Clear Channel. Ever wonder why every radio station in the US sounds the same? Because they are; Clear Channel ships out regional playlists and formulaicly hires DJs with similar on-air personalities.
Heh, actually the Windows and Office divisions are the only parts of Microsoft that make money. You'd be doing them a favor. :)
Yet another reason why privatized phone service does not make sense. Well, scratch that. Privatized phone service DOES make sense, but privatized ownership of the infrastructure does not.
No, he's confusing stupid with stupid. :) I'm from Texas, I live in Austin and know a good many smart Texans. Bush is not one of them. But I don't care if we have a moron in office so long as he doesn't make the same economic mistakes his daddy's boss made twenty years ago. Reaganomics is a textbook example (literally- economics textbooks use it as an example) of how NOT to steer national economic policy. Personally, I don't think it was ever supposed to work, just be a passable explanation for giving rich people more money.
The other problem I have with Bush is that he does not act in the best interests of the country. Look at Ashcroft for example; 90% of Americans would think he's a total religious nutcase if they knew more about him (indeed, his father was a minister in a semi-cult, the Assembly of God) and most of us do NOT agree with anything this man has to say. Yet he's our Attorney General. I have a feeling Ashcroft will eventually piss the wrong people off and become a political liability, so the decision might come back to bit him in the ass, but whatever.
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This post is retarded. We don't make half the shit you listed above in the US anyway. Mexican hard drives? Last I knew, all our hard drives were made in Taiwan anyway. So not only is it racist, it comes off as stupid too.
Oh, and I can name the last innovation in Mexico.. The ability to grow marijuana in such a way that it doesn't really get you stoned. Anyone who's smoked some Mexi schwag knows what I mean.
They're also really slow and their replacements are readily available (read: you can buy them anywhere you can buy the older stuff.) Granted, this really isn't an issue on desktops, but having all those ports and a floppy on a laptop take up space. And really, I personally never use my floppy, or the paralell port, or the PS2 port, or the game port.. you get the point. I don't use them, and I haven't used them in probably 2 years. I've got an iBook as well, and all I ever use is USB. USB really is nice, run your mouse, keyboard and printer over the same connection.
Hrm, apparently not actually.. Seems they got busted. But I'm sure there are more enterprising companies out there that do. Satellite is a "push" signal, so all you need is an emulator to emulate the card and decrypt the signal.
Not that I'm advocating this.. but EasyBuy2000 has some very interesting satellite products...
Yeah, except 3-4 years down the road, we'll be seeing the next round of consoles, and Xbox sales will grind to a halt. It's called market saturation, and it's exactly the reason for the planned obsolescence of consoles. I wouldn't be surprised to see Sony drop the PS2 price again soon either, just to make sure MS never makes a dime off the XBox.
Problem with indy bands is that the mom and pop record stores who used to stock their stuff are disappearing. I know that's true in Austin, TX as several independent music stores have shut down recently. The indy punk scene has suffered greatly because of it. Older music was awesome; it came from a time when you could write about smoking lots of weed and having sex with meaningless partners and still get your album published. People still like the same things, and bands like Creed or Three Doors Down are just a bit too wholesome for me.
There are some good recent popular bands though, they tend to err on the side of conceptual however. Stuff like Tool, Radiohead, DJ Shadow, etc. are all really nice and stuff our kids will probably pull out of our CD collections and "discover." Too bad we won't be able to tell them the stories we associate with the music.. "Man, the first time I heard that song I was SO fucking high..."
Ditto that. Pink Floyd is HUGE with the college stoner crowd right now. The same group that ten years ago was hardcore into bands like Nirvana, Sponge, Alice in Chains, etc. are now really into Floyd and the Doors. Nevermind that the same crowd 30 years ago was also really into the same bands and 10 years before that, the Beatles...
I was speaking purely from a political point of view. :) I love space as much as the next geek, but the gains we reap from space are not immediately evident. Sure, there are the classical examples (velcro, for example) but for the most part, politicians find it hard to give money to NASA when cash is tight and there are other, more immediate programs in trouble, such as social security and medicare (and of course, the oh-so-important tax cuts.)
And in politics, "because we've spent too much money on it already" is a perfectly valid reason to keep throwing money at something. To abandon ISS now would be to throw away any potential (and as yet unknown) scientific gains, not to mention the $30 billion or however much we've spent on it.
Now, of course, that will never happen. Public awareness and sympathy for the space program has been brought to light today; and as morbid and wrong as this may sound, a shuttle accident was probably the best thing that could have happened for NASA. It makes the space program an issue in the next election; and after such a horrible accident with such intense media coverage, no politician in his right mind is going to turn NASA down when they go to congress and ask for (badly needed) cash. NASA will come through this, if for no other reason than public sympathy.