I think most of the community is hoping that this will show the majority of people that open source is the better alternative. I haven't recieved one piece of adware since I switched to Firebird (and later to Firefox)
S'wunnerful, but pop-up and ads drive many sites, so don't expect too ringing an endorsement from sites which get zip-nada revenue from Firefox surfers. Expect many sites to continue to endorse IE, since it helps their bottom line.
What's the harm in a game that has Taiwan listed as a country? Nobody's going to say "hey, Taiwan's independent! Kill China!" because it's listed in one lousy game.
You twit. This is about national pride. Learn some contemporary chinese history.
Taiwan was occupied by fleeing KMT (Kuomintang in 1949, when the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) drove them from their last coastal refuges in the mainland. Lacking any kind of navy the CCP couldn't hope to pursue and fight any kind of battle to complete the toppling of the former republican goverment, which had been largely run by the Green Gang (to whom Chiang Kai-shek was merely a puppet and a poor military commander.) Even after generations the CCP still view the revolution as incomplete, willing to overlook most of the people running the island republic and living there are descendents and have less to do with the original KMT.
In a nutshell, it's a matter of pride, stupid certainly, but memories are often long in the east and far east.
Kept getting that Nothing to see here, move along message.
It's utterly silly that PRC continues with this stand, which by my reckoning pushes Taiwan further away. While China's economy was ~ 40th in the world this year, it's still growing, while much of the world stagnates and it seems there will be economic extortion when an economy can dictate recognition of a state or entity by the strength of the yuan.
Meanwhile, off the coast of Brazil is a sunken ship with amphorae from the the eastern mediterranean, which conflicts with the beliefs of the Brazilian government, so they've buried until dredgings to bury the truth.
I wonder if I wrote a video game, Archeological Diving of South America, which featured this ship, would it be banned in Brazil?
Discovered this one over the summer and played with some friends online. Would love an actual board game version. Great strategy game, especially since you're forced to barter with other players to succeed, there's lots of strategy involved.
This is one of those games that really draws people in. A simple set of rules and the capacity to screw others while trying not to get screwed yourself have made this a favorite among my friends and I. There's some travel versions, too, which make it handy to take camping or have a two player game on flights.
We've recently played the new Mayfair Russian Rails, which is another on the Empire Builder theme. The fall of communism makes for a rude wake-up if you're hauling demands for 'chance' cards, which change character from communism to capitalism. Good stuff and worth the many hours devoted to playing them.
Besides, open source keeps you honest. If developers see shitty coding practices it will out and/or be cleaned up, rather than swept under the rug.
Also good for software enhancement as it's more democratic this way. Pretty much anything I've ever come up with, on my time, I've released with the code. Though I doubt much of it has made it's way to sourceforge. I'd only care if someone slapped their name on it and claimed it as their's, particularly if they were selling the product commercially.
Profiting from Open Source Software 101:
Make a good idea real by coding it
Release it as open source and solicit volunteer coders and code managers
Contract your services for installation, training, technical and general support
Profit!
People actually care less about what the goverment is doing. Might as well be communism or fascism, for all the attention people pay it, they'd rather deny gay people the right to marriage than stay out of an unnecessary war. Sending somebody else's son or daughter to fight for what you believe it is about as socialist as it gets.
In very small quantities, usually distributed for spare parts or industrial applications, would be my guess. I was surprised to see they are still in production. There's still a lot of P II machines out there, doing all that people ask of them. Dropping $1,000 for a new P IV system with all the bells and whistles may appeal to the single geek, but requires more forethought for someone living on a budget. Heck, my laptop is still only a P I machine.
You mean all I have to do is write 240,000 complaints to the FCC and I can control what goes on television and radio? I can write a script to do that in about an hour.
And you'd be right up there with the likes of Mr. ABC, who wants to bar mountain bikes from every park and open space in the world. A prolific writer of pseudo-intellectual skewed information and outright fiction, he's actually effective, because he cares enough to show up for every meeting, contact every policy maker and flood USENET newsgroups with disinformation in his crusade, while mountain bikers are generally oblivious until the find a big NO BIKES sign in their favorite park.
Squeaky wheels get the grease, which is why it's important to be ever vigilant against those crusaders out to change your way of life to make themselves feel better.
I haven't even ripped the shrinkwrap of my new sound card (top o' the line as of 5 AM, today) and it's time to look for replacements.
But... what music is in surround? Probably that long hair stuff conducted by some symphony orchestra. Certainly not The Beatles... unless yetanother version of remastered classics come out.
Screw it. I'll just go downtown and listen to some live music.
But the Grinch was pretty good I think I heard (didn't go see it).
I saw it with friends in Denver and felt quite let down. It seemed to go on for too long as well. Some months ago I picked up the original Chuck Jones animated Grinch, with Boris Karloff narrating, and found it was quite a bit better. To make the cinematic release fill up 90 minutes (or whatever it was) they had to add a lot of material to the story -- material which wasn't very Suess-like in character.
Trivia: Thurl
Ravenscroft sung "You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch", not Boris.
If you can't visit one of these, Digital Sundials International can sell you one for US$12,000+, or you can buy a pocket version for under US$100 for that special nerd in your life."
Evidently the sun does shine there for some people...
TV has largely succeded, in the footsteps of Radio, by networks and stations being good about time boundaries. Once anarchy happens, where networks ge into the habit of 5 minutes this or that way, they can pretty much cut their own throats. This was extremely irritating when Turner did it.
Am I the only one who saw TRON, the game, as an amalgam of many other successful games? The light cycle thing dates at least to the PET computers (Snakes). Another part was clearly a ripoff of space invaders (where you're shooting upward at blocks as you go up a tube or tower or whatever it is.)
Do they really want to risk lose tainting their reputation in movie making?
YTF not? Over the past decades cash rich japanese investors have been their own worst enemies in US properties from film studios to golf courses. Pebble Beach was owned by japanese investors before they had to quickly liquidate, thanks to plummeting land values in the home islands, and sold the whole lot for about 1/3 what they paid. Seems some music and film companies have done poorly, too, though Sony seems to be weathering the storem better than others. Probably helps they didn't hire crooks in the US to mismanage their assets and get the company to sell it to them or their friends for a fraction after crippling the concern.
I swear they could have done a good film, but the feel of it is that they filmed it in one day and threw it together. There were probably merchandising tie-ins, which probably failed miserably. It's poor execution like this on Hot Property which does the whole genre serious damage.
It'll probably take years for people to trust Hollywood enough to see another Dr. Suess movie, though it seems a lot of people ignored the early warnings and saw it anyway.
Coming soon reports that video game giant Nintendo is going to Hollywood by creating an in-house unit to develop animated features based on the numerous properties owned by the company.
You'd make fast friends with our Aussie buddy here who pines for the real sports (Rugby, but not Aussie Rules rugby I guess)
I sympathise. I watched the Rugby World Cup at the local pub (in Santa Cruz, CA) always a day or two after the actual matches. Had to fend of retard baseball fans and stuff, too!
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I hope it's better than C3-PO sitting in the ewok treehouse. It was way short, but he did get the sound effects right on.
a one and a one and a zero
S'wunnerful, but pop-up and ads drive many sites, so don't expect too ringing an endorsement from sites which get zip-nada revenue from Firefox surfers. Expect many sites to continue to endorse IE, since it helps their bottom line.
Yes, the communist party has a firm grip on all things in China and is totally able to control all people and know what they are up to all the time.
You twit. This is about national pride. Learn some contemporary chinese history.
Taiwan was occupied by fleeing KMT (Kuomintang in 1949, when the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) drove them from their last coastal refuges in the mainland. Lacking any kind of navy the CCP couldn't hope to pursue and fight any kind of battle to complete the toppling of the former republican goverment, which had been largely run by the Green Gang (to whom Chiang Kai-shek was merely a puppet and a poor military commander.) Even after generations the CCP still view the revolution as incomplete, willing to overlook most of the people running the island republic and living there are descendents and have less to do with the original KMT.
In a nutshell, it's a matter of pride, stupid certainly, but memories are often long in the east and far east.
It's utterly silly that PRC continues with this stand, which by my reckoning pushes Taiwan further away. While China's economy was ~ 40th in the world this year, it's still growing, while much of the world stagnates and it seems there will be economic extortion when an economy can dictate recognition of a state or entity by the strength of the yuan.
Meanwhile, off the coast of Brazil is a sunken ship with amphorae from the the eastern mediterranean, which conflicts with the beliefs of the Brazilian government, so they've buried until dredgings to bury the truth.
I wonder if I wrote a video game, Archeological Diving of South America, which featured this ship, would it be banned in Brazil?
This is one of those games that really draws people in. A simple set of rules and the capacity to screw others while trying not to get screwed yourself have made this a favorite among my friends and I. There's some travel versions, too, which make it handy to take camping or have a two player game on flights.
We've recently played the new Mayfair Russian Rails, which is another on the Empire Builder theme. The fall of communism makes for a rude wake-up if you're hauling demands for 'chance' cards, which change character from communism to capitalism. Good stuff and worth the many hours devoted to playing them.
Besides, open source keeps you honest. If developers see shitty coding practices it will out and/or be cleaned up, rather than swept under the rug.
Also good for software enhancement as it's more democratic this way. Pretty much anything I've ever come up with, on my time, I've released with the code. Though I doubt much of it has made it's way to sourceforge. I'd only care if someone slapped their name on it and claimed it as their's, particularly if they were selling the product commercially.
Profiting from Open Source Software 101:
People actually care less about what the goverment is doing. Might as well be communism or fascism, for all the attention people pay it, they'd rather deny gay people the right to marriage than stay out of an unnecessary war. Sending somebody else's son or daughter to fight for what you believe it is about as socialist as it gets.
The more I look the more I'm convinced that the USA is slipping into a 2nd world mindset. I believe the decline of Rome began like this.
"Dude, your cookies look pretty cool, but they taste like shit."
"What cookies?"
In very small quantities, usually distributed for spare parts or industrial applications, would be my guess. I was surprised to see they are still in production. There's still a lot of P II machines out there, doing all that people ask of them. Dropping $1,000 for a new P IV system with all the bells and whistles may appeal to the single geek, but requires more forethought for someone living on a budget. Heck, my laptop is still only a P I machine.
I'm pretty offended every time I hear George W. Bush speak on the radio or TV. There's free speach and free speach, you know?
"there ought to be limits to freedom" -- W.
And you'd be right up there with the likes of Mr. ABC, who wants to bar mountain bikes from every park and open space in the world. A prolific writer of pseudo-intellectual skewed information and outright fiction, he's actually effective, because he cares enough to show up for every meeting, contact every policy maker and flood USENET newsgroups with disinformation in his crusade, while mountain bikers are generally oblivious until the find a big NO BIKES sign in their favorite park.
Squeaky wheels get the grease, which is why it's important to be ever vigilant against those crusaders out to change your way of life to make themselves feel better.
But... what music is in surround? Probably that long hair stuff conducted by some symphony orchestra. Certainly not The Beatles ... unless yetanother version of remastered classics come out.
Screw it. I'll just go downtown and listen to some live music.
I saw it with friends in Denver and felt quite let down. It seemed to go on for too long as well. Some months ago I picked up the original Chuck Jones animated Grinch, with Boris Karloff narrating, and found it was quite a bit better. To make the cinematic release fill up 90 minutes (or whatever it was) they had to add a lot of material to the story -- material which wasn't very Suess-like in character.
Trivia: Thurl Ravenscroft sung "You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch", not Boris.
The obvious line: Is it 12 O'clock or are you just glad to see me?
Evidently the sun does shine there for some people...
TV has largely succeded, in the footsteps of Radio, by networks and stations being good about time boundaries. Once anarchy happens, where networks ge into the habit of 5 minutes this or that way, they can pretty much cut their own throats. This was extremely irritating when Turner did it.
Am I the only one who saw TRON, the game, as an amalgam of many other successful games? The light cycle thing dates at least to the PET computers (Snakes). Another part was clearly a ripoff of space invaders (where you're shooting upward at blocks as you go up a tube or tower or whatever it is.)
YTF not? Over the past decades cash rich japanese investors have been their own worst enemies in US properties from film studios to golf courses. Pebble Beach was owned by japanese investors before they had to quickly liquidate, thanks to plummeting land values in the home islands, and sold the whole lot for about 1/3 what they paid. Seems some music and film companies have done poorly, too, though Sony seems to be weathering the storem better than others. Probably helps they didn't hire crooks in the US to mismanage their assets and get the company to sell it to them or their friends for a fraction after crippling the concern.
Super Mario Brothers isn't in the Bottom 100, but IT SHOULD BE!
I swear they could have done a good film, but the feel of it is that they filmed it in one day and threw it together. There were probably merchandising tie-ins, which probably failed miserably. It's poor execution like this on Hot Property which does the whole genre serious damage.
It'll probably take years for people to trust Hollywood enough to see another Dr. Suess movie, though it seems a lot of people ignored the early warnings and saw it anyway.
*cough* Super Mario Brothers *cough*
What?!?! I bet you don't even have an ear stud or ear ring, damn non-conformist!
First iPODs Worm?
Posted by michael in the mysterious futurer!
from the infectious-beat dept.
I sympathise. I watched the Rugby World Cup at the local pub (in Santa Cruz, CA) always a day or two after the actual matches. Had to fend of retard baseball fans and stuff, too!