You also failed to mention what kind of car you drive. A 1.9L 4 cylinder, or a 5.0L Mustang, or a Audi TT, or what? That would certainly make a difference, not only wrt to cost of paying out, but also gives the statistics another axis to play with.
For fuck's sake. If you're not going to vote for what you belive in, fine. But then don't be bitching and whine when Al (and Tipper 'protect the children') Gore, not to mention 'Media Violence is Evil' Lieberman turn out to be more opressive than Bush would have been.
By voting for Nader, you stand a chance getting his parties viewpoints discussed. He wasn't allowed in the presidential debate because the Green party didn't yet have a poll rating of 15%. What if they did? Even breaking that, and actually getting him in a debate would do wonders for the political landscape.
To quote Homer, 'Don't blame me, I voted for Kang'.
Editors: "It's not our fault. Blame that other editor over there for posting that. Wait - you're a troll because you complain. It's *your* fault/. sucks."
Since we've now become a Corporate Republic, I've pretty much come to the conclustion that the guideline for treating people is roughly something like : "The majority of people are apathetic and don't care about anything but getting what they want. If you complain, and show you want things to be better, you aren't apathetic. Therefore, if you complain and try and improve the world, you are in the minority, and your patronage doesn't matter when compared to the revenue generated by the majority. Therefore you are ignored."
Belive me, I know that. I'm dreading the "Company Wide Rollout of Office 2000" this month. The previous poster would like you to think that the Easter Eggs are to blame (or even partially to blame) for the bloat in MS software.
Easter Eggs are a time hounoured tradition of putting your name on something which otherwise wouldn't have your name anywhere near it. To blame them for the crappiness of MS software is just mindless, herd-like MS bashing.
The point is that you didn't - and what Amazon is saying is that no one had done exactly what they had done in any meaningful way before they had done it (I'm not saying they're nessecarily correct, but the point is that it's not the garbage claim that the/. crowd likes to think it is).
Anyway, all inventions are obvious after the fact.
Goddammit people - the flight sim in Excel was put there as an easter egg by the programmers, so thier names would show up *somewhere* in the goddamn product. This was not a Microsoft thing, this was not in the design document. It was a nifty little extra put in by the programmers so they could actually leave thier names in the prodcut. For fuck's sake, if you're going to attack MS, at least attack them for something they did.
Starfleet Command was a truly inspired Trek game - taking the complexity of SFB, and trying to shove it all into a video game couldn't be easy. SFC managed to come out of it, not only playable, but really, really enjoyable *if* you knew what you were doing (being an SFB player, I was enjoying it =)
If only it hadn't been ruined by a buttfuck of a setup interface, it could have kicked ass - as it was, playing mulitplayer was excruciatingly painful.
I'm truly, truly looking forward to the next iteration of SFC - I'm really thankful that it sold well enough to justify a sequel, as there was alot that needed fixing. Fortunately, the actual gameplay wasn't one of those things.
What the hell does this statement mean? Glide was the only way to get Unreal Tournament running on Linux at *all*. Glide has been on Linux since forever.
If anything, Glide has also been easier to set up and configure than Mesa/OpenGL is currently (I've spent the last week attempting to get XFree86 4.0.1 to talk to my GeForce2 GTS, and it's been a bit of a hassle, to say the least).
I think you're after the words "Open" or "Free", but only in a philosophical sense is OpenGL more "Linux Friendly" than Glide.
(Something that also factors into this equation, is that Glide is no longer supported under Linux on the Voodoo 4/5/6 - and it looks like it never will be. I bought the Voodoo5 5500 and returned it the next day in favour of the GeForce2 - the V5500 was a pain.)
The Microsoft? WTF? Xi has, like, negligable market share. The default install on all those millions instances of Linux is XFree86.
This is about a loser company that, instead of trying to make thier product better than XF86, they badmouth thier opposition, and start ranting and raving about how they aren't standard.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to report you to the analogy police...
Running an open standard in these days of hyperactive lawyers is a pain. One concern is that people adding new functionality to OpenGL (or even reviewing specifications for it) might sneak in some proprietary intellectual property. If this made it into the standard unchallenged, the owner could then reap a substantial windfall by suing anyone unlucky enough to implement it.
The way this problem is solved is to require anyone active in the ARB to sign an agreement stating that they'll simply disclose any proprietary interest they might have in features that are being considered for use in the API.
Wasn't this exactly how we wound up with RamBus? A quick summary from one of the comments on that story :
1. Rambus joined JEDEC, a consortium of companies devoted to sharing R&D work and forming industry standards to keep costs down for everyone
2. Rambus files for patents after joining the JEDEC, without disclosing the fact. These patents go directly against the industry standards the JEDEC is trying to establish.
3. Rambus is now using this information learned at meetings to "extend and prosecute pending applications to target the latest industry standards proposed in these meetings."
Consumers don't have an obligation to the corporations to act ethically with respect to them.
If anything, they should be expected by default to get as much out of what the corporation is offering as possible, regardless of what the corporation wants.
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You also failed to mention what kind of car you drive. A 1.9L 4 cylinder, or a 5.0L Mustang, or a Audi TT, or what? That would certainly make a difference, not only wrt to cost of paying out, but also gives the statistics another axis to play with.
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OT, but how do I get the uptime of an NT/2K box?
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...a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush...
For fuck's sake. If you're not going to vote for what you belive in, fine. But then don't be bitching and whine when Al (and Tipper 'protect the children') Gore, not to mention 'Media Violence is Evil' Lieberman turn out to be more opressive than Bush would have been.
By voting for Nader, you stand a chance getting his parties viewpoints discussed. He wasn't allowed in the presidential debate because the Green party didn't yet have a poll rating of 15%. What if they did? Even breaking that, and actually getting him in a debate would do wonders for the political landscape.
To quote Homer, 'Don't blame me, I voted for Kang'.
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Umm, it's right there in the post that started this thread. Telling people how the system works, and when the functioning of the system changes.
There is nothing in the FAQ about the karma cap, and it's been months since it was implemented.
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I think it's more along the lines of :
Readers: "/. sucks."
Editors: "It's not our fault. Blame that other editor over there for posting that. Wait - you're a troll because you complain. It's *your* fault
Since we've now become a Corporate Republic, I've pretty much come to the conclustion that the guideline for treating people is roughly something like : "The majority of people are apathetic and don't care about anything but getting what they want. If you complain, and show you want things to be better, you aren't apathetic. Therefore, if you complain and try and improve the world, you are in the minority, and your patronage doesn't matter when compared to the revenue generated by the majority. Therefore you are ignored."
Seems to be what's happening to
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Christ, don't you people have a sense of fucking humour?
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Nope. MICROSOFT CP (NasdaqNM:MSFT).
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The ny.us etc domains are regulated by state and regional buearcracies.
There you go.
I know I can't fucking spell, so don't bother.
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Belive me, I know that. I'm dreading the "Company Wide Rollout of Office 2000" this month. The previous poster would like you to think that the Easter Eggs are to blame (or even partially to blame) for the bloat in MS software.
Easter Eggs are a time hounoured tradition of putting your name on something which otherwise wouldn't have your name anywhere near it. To blame them for the crappiness of MS software is just mindless, herd-like MS bashing.
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The point is that you didn't - and what Amazon is saying is that no one had done exactly what they had done in any meaningful way before they had done it (I'm not saying they're nessecarily correct, but the point is that it's not the garbage claim that the
Anyway, all inventions are obvious after the fact.
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Goddammit people - the flight sim in Excel was put there as an easter egg by the programmers, so thier names would show up *somewhere* in the goddamn product. This was not a Microsoft thing, this was not in the design document. It was a nifty little extra put in by the programmers so they could actually leave thier names in the prodcut. For fuck's sake, if you're going to attack MS, at least attack them for something they did.
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That should be from the we-want-to-post-something-bashing-SDMI-but-nothin
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Starfleet Command was a truly inspired Trek game - taking the complexity of SFB, and trying to shove it all into a video game couldn't be easy. SFC managed to come out of it, not only playable, but really, really enjoyable *if* you knew what you were doing (being an SFB player, I was enjoying it =)
If only it hadn't been ruined by a buttfuck of a setup interface, it could have kicked ass - as it was, playing mulitplayer was excruciatingly painful.
I'm truly, truly looking forward to the next iteration of SFC - I'm really thankful that it sold well enough to justify a sequel, as there was alot that needed fixing. Fortunately, the actual gameplay wasn't one of those things.
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You want an Asus V7700 - nVidia GeForce2 GTS 64M. Either that, or by the time Xmas rolls around, the nVidia GeForce2 Ultra should be out and about.
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Damn right man. Can't do shit unless you be #ifdef'ing, #undef'ing and #define'ing stuff.
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"... (and Linux friendly) OpenGL."
What the hell does this statement mean? Glide was the only way to get Unreal Tournament running on Linux at *all*. Glide has been on Linux since forever.
If anything, Glide has also been easier to set up and configure than Mesa/OpenGL is currently (I've spent the last week attempting to get XFree86 4.0.1 to talk to my GeForce2 GTS, and it's been a bit of a hassle, to say the least).
I think you're after the words "Open" or "Free", but only in a philosophical sense is OpenGL more "Linux Friendly" than Glide.
(Something that also factors into this equation, is that Glide is no longer supported under Linux on the Voodoo 4/5/6 - and it looks like it never will be. I bought the Voodoo5 5500 and returned it the next day in favour of the GeForce2 - the V5500 was a pain.)
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You do realize that getting a Dreamcast would cost me roughly half of what I paid for my video card?
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He was talking about the games available when the Super NES first existed, which were mostly boring. F-Zero, Sim City, SMW, etc...
I do disagree with the assesment, as I owned Final Fantasy II before I had actually gotten the thing that Christmas
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The Microsoft? WTF? Xi has, like, negligable market share. The default install on all those millions instances of Linux is XFree86.
This is about a loser company that, instead of trying to make thier product better than XF86, they badmouth thier opposition, and start ranting and raving about how they aren't standard.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to report you to the analogy police...
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Not to nickpick, but shouldn't that be:
Not to nitpick, but it's spelled nitpick.
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TV is it's own light source. The only thing additional light can do is reduce the contrast of the image on the screen, I think.
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If you watch TV in the dark, then your pupils will dialate to accomidate the darkness, and as such will allow more of the TV Radiation in.
Whether this is Good or Bad is left as an exersize.
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He reprimanded Zoid for changing the physics in a way which would affect the single player game.
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I don't have an opinion on the situation.
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Running an open standard in these days of hyperactive lawyers is a pain. One concern is that people adding new functionality to OpenGL (or even reviewing specifications for it) might sneak in some proprietary intellectual property. If this made it into the standard unchallenged, the owner could then reap a substantial windfall by suing anyone unlucky enough to implement it.
The way this problem is solved is to require anyone active in the ARB to sign an agreement stating that they'll simply disclose any proprietary interest they might have in features that are being considered for use in the API.
Wasn't this exactly how we wound up with RamBus? A quick summary from one of the comments on that story :
1. Rambus joined JEDEC, a consortium of companies devoted to sharing R&D work and forming industry standards to keep costs down for everyone
2. Rambus files for patents after joining the JEDEC, without disclosing the fact. These patents go directly against the industry standards the JEDEC is trying to establish.
3. Rambus is now using this information learned at meetings to "extend and prosecute pending applications to target the latest industry standards proposed in these meetings."
The link is here.
Honestly, this kind of stuff scares me...
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Consumers don't have an obligation to the corporations to act ethically with respect to them.
If anything, they should be expected by default to get as much out of what the corporation is offering as possible, regardless of what the corporation wants.
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It probably has something to do with needing to speak https.
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