They know that none of their kind has ever made such a contribution
Wrong, wrong and WRONG!
...or I suppose you have never heard of Bejamin Franklin. A very pre-eminent politician who did happen to have a hand in inventing more than a few things!
Ok... maybe you have to go back a few (hundred) years, but don't make sweeping generalities like the one above. Not all politicians are good for nothing... -- - Sean
But really, under GPL, the act of charging money for it would be perfectly legal, as long as you always distributed the love (source), not just the sex itself (binaries).
If anyone else has an alternative take, my eyes and... umm... ears... are open! -- - Sean
Point well taken. Although I want to make one eentsy little comment.
Jonkatz' articles are clearly headlined "by Jon Katz" on the main Slashdot page.
Anti-Katz flames, while often are marked as such, sometimes are not. This one in particular wasn't. The subject was just "Time?", and it wasn't obvious before I opened it what it contained, anyway. -- - Sean
My gods, does no-one get the irony? I refer to all the other posts at the same level as this one, but above it. Read the original post again. Look for the sarcasm in it. Read the subject (which I have left intact). Whether the poster is pro-Katz, anti-Katz, or simply doesn't care, he/she obviously doesn't believe most of the stuff he wrote in his post. Nor does he want to read all the millions of Katz-flaming posts that spout such stuff as "Jon Katz can't spell - and he's a writer?", "Katz is such a wannabe - go away, Jon, until you've written your own kernel.", and so on.
He obviously knows that Jon never has and never will write a kernel, along with just about everyone else here.
He/she is simply creating a repository for all the anti-Katz flames, so that he doesn't have to read them scattered throughout the rest of this comment page. -- - Sean
Seriously, though, Bob Dole actually seems to be one of the few US politicians around that has half a brain in his head. (hey... half a brain is better than none!)
I'd rather see him in office than his wife, but she's ok, too. -- - Sean
1: If Luke and Leia are twins, then how could they be born different signs?
2: Oh. Right. So all the ewoks were born under the same sign!
3: And here's the kicker: I assume that different planets (non Earth) have different year-lengths. Also different lunar periods... hell, Tatooine even has 2 moons! How would the astrological signs even apply in this case???
Aside from that, it was a nice morning diversion! -- - Sean
The optimistic engineer says: The glass is 100% too large.
The pessimistic engineer says: The water is 50% too small.
:-) -- - Sean
It's a Star Trek preview, not a Star Wars preview
on
Star Wars Trailer #2
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· Score: 1
Don't bother downloading that file. As pointed out, it's a preview for Star Trek: Insurrection. Not the much-coveted Phantom Menace preview 2. -- - Sean
I can't speak for anyone else here, obviously, but I can speak for myself. And personally, I do not like this. It's not the advertising that I mind. I agree with you (and Krynos) completely on this matter.
However, I do have a problem with the part that states that you are not allowed to use the CDDB in conjunction with any other database. Sounds like they're trying to put a stranglehold on the market to me. Advertising is fine. Unfair restrictions to gain market share at the expense of everyone else are not.
Slashdot Mirror
You didn't Initialize loop_choice either.
No shit... I didn't, did I?
Not only that, but in the "case 1:" block, the html swallowed the < in the
time_waster <= 1000;
bit.
Boy, is my face ever red!
(...on the other hand... stuff like that would explain how/why congress (doesn't) work...)
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- Sean
Rob? Is that you?
:-)
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- Sean
Finally! Other people who think Civ kicked the tar out of CivII!
Oh yeah, I loved beating the crap out of mech. inf's using militias by the SDL method!!
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- Sean
They know that none of their kind has ever made such a contribution
Wrong, wrong and WRONG!
...or I suppose you have never heard of Bejamin Franklin. A very pre-eminent politician who did happen to have a hand in inventing more than a few things!
Ok... maybe you have to go back a few (hundred) years, but don't make sweeping generalities like the one above. Not all politicians are good for nothing...
--
- Sean
hehe... sorry... just had to say it :-)
But really, under GPL, the act of charging money for it would be perfectly legal, as long as you always distributed the love (source), not just the sex itself (binaries).
If anyone else has an alternative take, my eyes and... umm... ears... are open!
--
- Sean
Hmmm... now that would be sweet!
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- Sean
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- Sean
God, no!
Why would you want to completely destroy the best computer game in existence by making it like that piece of %$^@???????
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- Sean
Thanks for the laugh... I needed that!
:-)
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- Sean
Dammit! I screwed up... shows what happens when you don't proofread your code...
That 3rd to last line should read:
loop_choice = (loop_choice < 5) ? loop_choice++ : 1;
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- Sean
Point well taken. Although I want to make one eentsy little comment.
Jonkatz' articles are clearly headlined "by Jon Katz" on the main Slashdot page.
Anti-Katz flames, while often are marked as such, sometimes are not. This one in particular wasn't. The subject was just "Time?", and it wasn't obvious before I opened it what it contained, anyway.
--
- Sean
My gods, does no-one get the irony? I refer to all the other posts at the same level as this one, but above it. Read the original post again. Look for the sarcasm in it. Read the subject (which I have left intact). Whether the poster is pro-Katz, anti-Katz, or simply doesn't care, he/she obviously doesn't believe most of the stuff he wrote in his post. Nor does he want to read all the millions of Katz-flaming posts that spout such stuff as "Jon Katz can't spell - and he's a writer?", "Katz is such a wannabe - go away, Jon, until you've written your own kernel.", and so on.
He obviously knows that Jon never has and never will write a kernel, along with just about everyone else here.
He/she is simply creating a repository for all the anti-Katz flames, so that he doesn't have to read them scattered throughout the rest of this comment page.
--
- Sean
Thank you!
I know I've always found it strange when someone pronounced it "rowte"... just never quite knew why...
Now I know!
(NB: I'm not trying to dis anyone who pronounces it that way... just saying it sounds funny.)
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- Sean
I wish we could hack congress and make *them* more efficient.
// do nothing
// NB this will never get executed
Hehe...
congress.c:
...
int loop_choice;
int time_waster;
do {
switch (loop_choice) {
case 1:
for (time_waster = 0; time_waster = 10000; time_waster++) {
}
break;
case 2:
waste_taxpayers_money();
break;
case 3:
approve_stupid_patents();
break;
case 4:
pass_moronic_laws();
break;
case 5:
inhibit_freedom_of_speech();
break;
default:
do_something_smart();
}
loop_choice = (loop_choice < 5) ? loop_choice : 1;
} until FALSE;
...
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- Sean
>Counting the seconds until he is out of office....
Jeez... you are an optimist, aren't you?
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- Sean
D'oh!
My bad
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- Sean
Well... I would if I were American, anyway.
Seriously, though, Bob Dole actually seems to be one of the few US politicians around that has half a brain in his head. (hey... half a brain is better than none!)
I'd rather see him in office than his wife, but she's ok, too.
--
- Sean
Ummm... clueless stupid question...
What's so special about 1994 (The year that September never ended)?
I've seen a couple of references to it, but don't quite know what they're referring to.
Anyone care to enlighten me? Thanks.
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- Sean
The Information Superhighway, according to Ned Flanders:
The Information Super-diddly-ooper-highway!
Ok, I'm sick.
:-)
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- Sean
...at least in this part of Canada it is, anyway.
About the only place I've ever heard it pronounced "ruhwt" is on American TV.
Not that I'm dissing you or anything.
Hell, I don't even care. And that's my point. Some people pronounce it one way, some people pronounce it the other.
You say tomato, I say tomato, Quayle says tomatoe.
Get over it.
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- Sean
People in grass houses shouldn't get stoned.
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- Sean
1: If Luke and Leia are twins, then how could they be born different signs?
2: Oh. Right. So all the ewoks were born under the same sign!
3: And here's the kicker: I assume that different planets (non Earth) have different year-lengths. Also different lunar periods... hell, Tatooine even has 2 moons! How would the astrological signs even apply in this case???
Aside from that, it was a nice morning diversion!
--
- Sean
The optimistic engineer says: The glass is 100% too large.
The pessimistic engineer says: The water is 50% too small.
:-)
--
- Sean
Don't bother downloading that file. As pointed out, it's a preview for Star Trek: Insurrection. Not the much-coveted Phantom Menace preview 2.
--
- Sean
I can't speak for anyone else here, obviously, but I can speak for myself. And personally, I do not like this. It's not the advertising that I mind. I agree with you (and Krynos) completely on this matter.
However, I do have a problem with the part that states that you are not allowed to use the CDDB in conjunction with any other database. Sounds like they're trying to put a stranglehold on the market to me. Advertising is fine. Unfair restrictions to gain market share at the expense of everyone else are not.
Anyway... that's $1/50.
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- Sean