Basic probability states that something not happening for a while doesn't make it any more likely to happen in the future. Close only counts in horseshoes*.
Do you really want a bunch of l33t script kiddies and grannies using Linux? Sure, you'd get to explain the uses of rm (ready mode) a lot more often, but the number of tech support calls could easily rip a hole in space-time.
We're talking about the portable gaming world, not the PC world. No company has ever usurped Nintendo's hold on the portable gaming world. Look at Atari and Sega, and dare I say it? Neo Geo Pocket! All of these failed because Nintendo has a huge array of games, and every new Game Boy is backwards compatible. I doubt even Billy G can stand against firepower like this.
> From what I read here on Slashdot, lots of the broadband companies seem to go out of their way to make life difficult for non-MS users.
Not so for me... I have Roadrunner (Yes, it's a part of the evil AOL-Time Warner, so sue me) and all I had to do was set my NIC to use ISA instead of PnP. Well, that and a bit of playing with YaST to get Linux to play nice with the card. Maybe that's just an exception and not the rule, though...
Thank you. And one thing to add to this: people may assume that Bush is out for blood and wants to bomb the crap out of Afghanistan. That doesn't mean he will. At least part of his speeches are just to give the American people hope for revenge of some kind (that's why his 5-minute speech was 45 minutes long, including the uproarious applause).
Actually, as a creationist, you have to admit that evolution exists to an extent. How else would two humans (Adam and Eve) spawn such a diverse range of humanity (i.e. ethnic races)? ----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
> MPAA and RIAA suing to have all MP3s and DivX movies filtered out at the router level.
But wouldn't people just change the extension?
And hey, can't you send files via email? Are they going to sue Al Gore for creating the internet too? ----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
We should call it the 'Sub-Etha Net' in reference to the HHGTTG and immortalize Douglas Adams. ----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
Presently over 30,000 people die on roads every year because some people can't drive. And you're afraid of computers in cars?
Actually, I'm just expressing my relief that Microsoft is a computer company, not a car company. This actually has nothing to do with computers in cars, and quite a lot to do with the reliability of many of Microsoft's products. ----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
Get the watch, then put it next to a radio and set it to a static channel. Then proceed to go about your business. ----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
So, the theory then is that one of these days, I'll be playing my favorite videogame (on the XBox 3, since all the other companines went under due to 'accidents' happening to their CEOs), and I'll be nearing the high score, when all of a sudden, I'll get a GPF?
I know it's been said, but it's a good thing Microsoft doesn't make cars. I'd be afraid to go on the road what with all the crashes. ----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
This might be the way to control a giant robot... but the problem of a nervous twitch, etc. is still an issue.
But then, how would it respond if you ran into something? The position of your arms and the robots arms would be out of sync, and that would be rather annoying. ----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
But then, theoretically, wouldn't your computer know where your hands were at any given time? I'm not sure everyone here wants that, especially during the times when their perusing their pr0n collection.
Or, alternately...
"Warning: Nose picker detected. Computer will self-destruct in 5 seconds." ----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
The next advancement in this trend will be TVs that you can't turn off. And then TVs that pick up signals from your end. And after that (which I predict will occur in 2009), we'll go back 25 years to 1984. ----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
Well, at least we'll be able to see a nation with these practices in use. Then those of us in the States (or other countries) can see if it's actually any good.
> I sad about the fact that it used some fucked up installer system that forces you to reinstall the game every time you play it...
Uh, just extract the files with Winzip (if you're downloading the Windows version). The nice this is that you can change the controls then. (I changed the directional controls to uparrow/downarrow/leftarrow/rightarrow. It's nice.
As a programmer who also does design work, I realize the plight many web designers are in. However, cross-coding is not impossible. The people who complain about it are either lazy or stupid. (Lazy if they don't want to and stupid if they make it harder than necessary).
However, browsers should be compatible with the HTML they supposedly support. So instead, I propose this: get competent programmers to write browsers. Netscape 6 (I won't touch IE) is the buggiest piece of crap I've ever used in my life, and it's the worst example of code bloat I've seen in my life. That's why I stick to Netscape 4.76.
Get me a good browser and I'll upgrade.
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Basic probability states that something not happening for a while doesn't make it any more likely to happen in the future. Close only counts in horseshoes*.
* (Well, it counts in a few other things, too)
Do you really want a bunch of l33t script kiddies and grannies using Linux? Sure, you'd get to explain the uses of rm (ready mode) a lot more often, but the number of tech support calls could easily rip a hole in space-time.
Maybe he's implying that Slashdot is owned by AOL.
We're talking about the portable gaming world, not the PC world. No company has ever usurped Nintendo's hold on the portable gaming world. Look at Atari and Sega, and dare I say it? Neo Geo Pocket! All of these failed because Nintendo has a huge array of games, and every new Game Boy is backwards compatible. I doubt even Billy G can stand against firepower like this.
Then are sharks terrorists because they make people afraid to swim in the oceans around Florida?
The mice use base 13. 3 fingers on each limb (for 12 total) and a tail, which makes 13.
> From what I read here on Slashdot, lots of the broadband companies seem to go out of their way to make life difficult for non-MS users.
Not so for me... I have Roadrunner (Yes, it's a part of the evil AOL-Time Warner, so sue me) and all I had to do was set my NIC to use ISA instead of PnP. Well, that and a bit of playing with YaST to get Linux to play nice with the card. Maybe that's just an exception and not the rule, though...
Thank you. And one thing to add to this: people may assume that Bush is out for blood and wants to bomb the crap out of Afghanistan. That doesn't mean he will. At least part of his speeches are just to give the American people hope for revenge of some kind (that's why his 5-minute speech was 45 minutes long, including the uproarious applause).
Well, of course they're advertising it. You don't think this information leaks itself, do you?
Actually, as a creationist, you have to admit that evolution exists to an extent. How else would two humans (Adam and Eve) spawn such a diverse range of humanity (i.e. ethnic races)?
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"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
> MPAA and RIAA suing to have all MP3s and DivX movies filtered out at the router level.
But wouldn't people just change the extension?
And hey, can't you send files via email? Are they going to sue Al Gore for creating the internet too?
----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
We should call it the 'Sub-Etha Net' in reference to the HHGTTG and immortalize Douglas Adams.
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"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
buy them out in an unfriendly merger and murder their families.
At least, that's what my uncle told me.
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"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
Presently over 30,000 people die on roads every year because some people can't drive. And you're afraid of computers in cars?
Actually, I'm just expressing my relief that Microsoft is a computer company, not a car company. This actually has nothing to do with computers in cars, and quite a lot to do with the reliability of many of Microsoft's products.
----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
Get the watch, then put it next to a radio and set it to a static channel. Then proceed to go about your business.
----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
So, the theory then is that one of these days, I'll be playing my favorite videogame (on the XBox 3, since all the other companines went under due to 'accidents' happening to their CEOs), and I'll be nearing the high score, when all of a sudden, I'll get a GPF? I know it's been said, but it's a good thing Microsoft doesn't make cars. I'd be afraid to go on the road what with all the crashes.
----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
This might be the way to control a giant robot... but the problem of a nervous twitch, etc. is still an issue. But then, how would it respond if you ran into something? The position of your arms and the robots arms would be out of sync, and that would be rather annoying.
----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
But then, theoretically, wouldn't your computer know where your hands were at any given time? I'm not sure everyone here wants that, especially during the times when their perusing their pr0n collection.
Or, alternately...
"Warning: Nose picker detected. Computer will self-destruct in 5 seconds."
----------
"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
The next advancement in this trend will be TVs that you can't turn off. And then TVs that pick up signals from your end. And after that (which I predict will occur in 2009), we'll go back 25 years to 1984.
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"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
Help, help!! This is the big one! The script kiddies are at it again.
(switch to ER scene)
Clear! (ping!) Don't time out on me!!!
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"Remember, your friends will stab you in the back for the price of an Extra Value Meal."
No, they get sex.orgy.
Oh, I kill me...
Well, at least we'll be able to see a nation with these practices in use. Then those of us in the States (or other countries) can see if it's actually any good.
What if we slander a majority group? For example, "Man, that dude is so *white middle-class*!"
> I sad about the fact that it used some fucked up installer system that forces you to reinstall the game every time you play it...
Uh, just extract the files with Winzip (if you're downloading the Windows version). The nice this is that you can change the controls then. (I changed the directional controls to uparrow/downarrow/leftarrow/rightarrow. It's nice.
As a programmer who also does design work, I realize the plight many web designers are in. However, cross-coding is not impossible. The people who complain about it are either lazy or stupid. (Lazy if they don't want to and stupid if they make it harder than necessary). However, browsers should be compatible with the HTML they supposedly support. So instead, I propose this: get competent programmers to write browsers. Netscape 6 (I won't touch IE) is the buggiest piece of crap I've ever used in my life, and it's the worst example of code bloat I've seen in my life. That's why I stick to Netscape 4.76. Get me a good browser and I'll upgrade.