I've drooled over the Counterstrike site more times than I can count. Were Valve to release Half-life for Linux, I'd buy it solely for its ability to play CS.
But they haven't.
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That's like saying "Stay away from penicillin, man; I shot up a liter of that shit and it HURT."
Maybe you just shouldn't take 7 of them.
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haven't touched the stuff in years. had a few headaches at first, mouth was a little dry. but that only lasted a few weeks.
IMHO, making Deckard a (definite) replicant wrecks PKD's work. The book is about the shifting definition of humanity, and the moral and ethical considerations thereof. If Deckard is a replicant, that kinda goes down the toilet and you just have a typical (and not very clever) plot twist.
I hate to break it to you, but PKD was paranoid as all hell. The VALIS books are largely autobiographical, an attempt to convey his experience of meeting what he believed to be an extraterrestrial being and the effects that experience had on his life, one of which was increasing paranoia.
I think you hit the nail on the head, here. Sony doesn't want settlement in a court, as that limits their options in the future. This is simply a means of intimidation, and Sony's hardly the first to employ it.
But the Bay Area's not bad. I'm up in Concord, where prices are reasonable (even on housing). I'm an hour or less away from anything I could want, including San Francisco. I guess I'm lucky though; most people living up here and working in techie jobs would have to commute.
On the other hand, you're right about most of the environment... it's got little or no history/culture and is one continuous, massive suburbia. Fortunately, SF and Berkeley are close...
It's a brand they've built, this processor is the next in a continual line... why would they change the name or the logo? Do you actually care that they didn't, or are you just looking for snide comments to make because it's hip to not like Intel?
Episode I has a decent storyline and handles its foreshadowing excellently (though without great subtlety, due to the younger target audience); it's a setup for the next two episodes. You don't have to have a single clear hero to have a good story; whichever lit teacher put that in your head should be fired.
The fact of the matter is that none of the Star Wars movies to date have been brilliantly written, but they're not bad. I've yet to determine why people think there's this absolute dichotomy between genius and shit. There's a range there... Star Wars isn't the greatest story in the world, but it is well told and therefore belongs near the top of that range.
You're getting ahead of yourself. Even if "KPH" did stand for "kilometers per hour", the analogous noun would be "kilometer per". No, there's no such thing as a "kilometer per", just as there's no such thing as a "floating point operation per".
Take it back. Snow Crash used a lot of stuff from Gibson, and from Sterling for that matter, but it definitely stood on its own. The plot and background were excellent and far from what Gibson and Sterling had written. Give credit where it's due.
Those old "hurricane" cases blew. They were heavy as all hell, a pain in the ass to work in, and didn't give you any real benefit. Yeah, you could drop one and feel a little better about it than you could about dropping yesterday's Dell clamshell. But how often do you drop your freaking tower case?
A couple years ago I dropped a hard drive down a flight of concrete stairs. It was fine. I've kicked the shit out of my Sony VAIO slim laptop, and it's fine (minus a plastic non-functional hinge cover).
If you buy cheap shit, it will break. This is not news. This guy had a POS CD burner and he's making it out to be the death of all quality. He needs to get a grip.
Not true. Because it's on the edge of the screen, I can hit the Mac menubar with a single flick of my wrist, no matter where the cursor is now. In fact, it generally takes *longer* to hit menu items in Windows than in Mac OS, even if the cursor is much closer to the Windows menu. Hitting a Mac OS menu is near-instantaneous once you get used to not having to slow down as you get near the menu.
First, let's keep in mind that I'm not talking about Windows. Second, it's not an issue of efficiency in the motion of getting to the menus; you're (1) using a GUI and (2) going to have to read through and select things from menus once you get there anyway, so your efficiency is already in the toilet. It annoys me that I can't have two apps' toolbars on screen at once (I use sloppy focus, so this is actually useful), and it annoys me that I have to go outside my window to get to my menubar; if I'm working in a window, said work should be localized to that window. It's probably just personal preference, but that really bugs the hell out of me.
Plus you save screen space by not having multiple menus.
No I don't. I have a strip at the top of the screen that's in my way. I can't put icons or windows up there, I can't access root menus up there, etc. The space-saving thing might hold true if I never allowed my windows to overlap and instead tiled them until they completely filled the screen; but since nobody ever does that, this argument just doesn't hold water.
Mac menus also have subtle details that make it work better: Go to a menu that has a submenu, and go down to the title of one of the submenus. Notice that if you move your pointer down and diagonally toward the submenu, that submenu stays open. (Assuming you don't go too fast) If you move your mouse in any other direction, that submenu pops closed. There are a lot of things like that: subtle details that Mac users take for granted to that the rest of the computing world hasn't bothered to implement right.
Dude, I'm sitting here with a Mac on one side and a KDE 1.90 interface on the other, and the Mac menus behave exactly like the menus in every other interface in the world: if you highlight a submenu title by moving the mouse over it, the submenu pops up. It doesn't go away unless you highlight another menu item or close the menu. This is not special.
This is a personal preference, but there are a couple of advantages to this. One, the application-centric (rather than window-centric) model prevents multiple copies of the same app from running.
WHAT? I think you just won the Non Sequitur of the Year award. If I close the last window, I'm done with all the copies; you can safely kill them, thank you. What it does is encourage me to forget that a program is running and allow it to sit around wasting RAM (which is a very bad thing when your OS can barely manage memory).
Second, command-Q kills off the whole app, whicl alt-F4 only kills one window. Thirdly, there are times when you want to close the current window and relaunch it. This is much easier if the menu bar stays in place. Fourth, it cuts down on the clutter in the application menu (task bar) I have five items in my application menu at the moment. I'd have 10-15 if every window were listed.
More non-sequiturs. The ability to kill off the entire app or just a given window has nothing to do with, well, anything we're discussing. Killing and relaunching a window is not necessarily easier if the menubar stays in place; that only holds true if you're running the program from a buried folder somewhere, and not from (A) a commandline or (B) an applications menu (like the Apple menu, Start Menu, or K Menu). And third, if your taskbar doesn't let you hop between windows, what the hell good is it? It becomes less a useful tool and more a status display so you don't accidentally leave an app you're not using running (which, incidentally, brings us full circle).
With that said, there are downsides-- it's an issue of personal taste. But it's hardly a basis on which to choose an OS.
Okay, but nobody said it was. Except maybe Apple. Obviously I chose my OS on the basis of its stability, its ability to manage resources well, the multi-user aspects, and the power and flexibility of both its commandline interfaces and its windowing system and GUIs.
You can "tear-off" the application menu to get a floating taskbar window
So I can... that's pretty cool. I stand corrected.
That's probably just one of those religious issues; I've gotten used to moving for the specific menu I want when I use windows/u*ix, but I like being able to "slam" the mouse up against the top of the screen to hit the menubar
Perhaps, but it bugs me for two reasons: My mouse is usually gonna be in the window of the app I'm currently talking to, so having the menus in that window is good. Also, closing the last window of an app doesn't kill the app. That really gets me, and I blame the shared menu for it.
That was clever, except that it was completely untrue. KDE 1.1 already bests current interfaces (including MacOS and Windows), and running the KDE devel tree out of CVS is giving me the distinct impression that KDE 2.0 will kick the living shit out of available GUIs.
What I really enjoyed was your implication that the commandline is an arcane and obsolete interface, despite the fact that the command line is where many tasks can be completed most efficiently, and where remote system interaction is most feasible.
I'm running MacOS 9 on my iMac, and its interface is frankly none too impressive. The lack of a task display of some sort (like a taskbar or icon row), the use of that single fucking shared menu, the use of a separate control panel for every little aspect of the interface... these things leave me unimpressed.
That's like denying access to schools, libraries, and bookstores to anyone under 18. You don't keep kids locked in the house because there's a strip joint somewhere in town.
If you think it's a "liberal" principle that people of all ages should have access to knowledge and information, you need to re-examine your wacko little worldview.
The 'net is not becoming a cesspool. The net is becoming commercialized, like the rest of the world. Fortunately, like the rest of the world, the 'net has quite a bit to offer in the enlightenment and education department.
Besides, who gets to decide what's "undesirable" in a web user? I'm fairly certain I don't want you around, based on your poorly thought-out reactionary rant. Do I get to lock you out? I hope not.
And where do you get the idea that the web was purely educational and enlightening before it became popular? Methinks you are confused. Perhaps you were swayed a bit by "rhetoric and promises" when you were a kid. Perhaps you are now. Let's blame the medium.
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? All he said was OpenBSD is not completely secure. Get over your persecution syndrome.
The fun part is, Slackware releases more often than any distribution he covered.
I've drooled over the Counterstrike site more times than I can count. Were Valve to release Half-life for Linux, I'd buy it solely for its ability to play CS.
But they haven't.
That's like saying "Stay away from penicillin, man; I shot up a liter of that shit and it HURT."
Maybe you just shouldn't take 7 of them.
haven't touched the stuff in years. had a few headaches at first, mouth was a little dry. but that only lasted a few weeks.
IMHO, making Deckard a (definite) replicant wrecks PKD's work. The book is about the shifting definition of humanity, and the moral and ethical considerations thereof. If Deckard is a replicant, that kinda goes down the toilet and you just have a typical (and not very clever) plot twist.
I hate to break it to you, but PKD was paranoid as all hell. The VALIS books are largely autobiographical, an attempt to convey his experience of meeting what he believed to be an extraterrestrial being and the effects that experience had on his life, one of which was increasing paranoia.
Why? Nobody wrote Enlightenment on their PDP-11. If your software doesn't recognize the limitations of your hardware, your software is useless.
...and man, would those shoes launch a 10-year-old!
I think you hit the nail on the head, here. Sony doesn't want settlement in a court, as that limits their options in the future. This is simply a means of intimidation, and Sony's hardly the first to employ it.
But the Bay Area's not bad. I'm up in Concord, where prices are reasonable (even on housing). I'm an hour or less away from anything I could want, including San Francisco. I guess I'm lucky though; most people living up here and working in techie jobs would have to commute.
On the other hand, you're right about most of the environment... it's got little or no history/culture and is one continuous, massive suburbia. Fortunately, SF and Berkeley are close...
It's a brand they've built, this processor is the next in a continual line... why would they change the name or the logo? Do you actually care that they didn't, or are you just looking for snide comments to make because it's hip to not like Intel?
Episode I has a decent storyline and handles its foreshadowing excellently (though without great subtlety, due to the younger target audience); it's a setup for the next two episodes. You don't have to have a single clear hero to have a good story; whichever lit teacher put that in your head should be fired.
The fact of the matter is that none of the Star Wars movies to date have been brilliantly written, but they're not bad. I've yet to determine why people think there's this absolute dichotomy between genius and shit. There's a range there... Star Wars isn't the greatest story in the world, but it is well told and therefore belongs near the top of that range.
You're getting ahead of yourself. Even if "KPH" did stand for "kilometers per hour", the analogous noun would be "kilometer per". No, there's no such thing as a "kilometer per", just as there's no such thing as a "floating point operation per".
Wow, I've read both of those books...I'm amazed that anyone else has. ;-P
Pfft. Rendezvous with Rama is a freakin classic. Didn't he get a Nebula or a Hugo for that? Either way, one of my favorite books.
FYI, David Fincher is apparently making a movie out of it. Now that should be good and epic.
Now that's not true. If the crash is sufficiently damaging, you probably get to sell another car.
What's the point? If you're comparing what they tell you against what they tell you, you're not gonna find many errors.
WMS stopped making pinball machines last year. WMS owns Bally, Williams, and Midway. No WMS means, effectively, no pinball industry.
I found that link at bOING bOING, if you're interested.
Take it back. Snow Crash used a lot of stuff from Gibson, and from Sterling for that matter, but it definitely stood on its own. The plot and background were excellent and far from what Gibson and Sterling had written. Give credit where it's due.
Those old "hurricane" cases blew. They were heavy as all hell, a pain in the ass to work in, and didn't give you any real benefit. Yeah, you could drop one and feel a little better about it than you could about dropping yesterday's Dell clamshell. But how often do you drop your freaking tower case?
A couple years ago I dropped a hard drive down a flight of concrete stairs. It was fine. I've kicked the shit out of my Sony VAIO slim laptop, and it's fine (minus a plastic non-functional hinge cover).
If you buy cheap shit, it will break. This is not news. This guy had a POS CD burner and he's making it out to be the death of all quality. He needs to get a grip.
Not true. Because it's on the edge of the screen, I can hit the Mac menubar with a single flick of my wrist, no matter where the cursor is now. In fact, it generally takes *longer* to hit menu items in Windows than in Mac OS, even if the cursor is much closer to the Windows menu. Hitting a Mac OS menu is near-instantaneous once you get used to not having to slow down as you get near the menu.
First, let's keep in mind that I'm not talking about Windows. Second, it's not an issue of efficiency in the motion of getting to the menus; you're (1) using a GUI and (2) going to have to read through and select things from menus once you get there anyway, so your efficiency is already in the toilet. It annoys me that I can't have two apps' toolbars on screen at once (I use sloppy focus, so this is actually useful), and it annoys me that I have to go outside my window to get to my menubar; if I'm working in a window, said work should be localized to that window. It's probably just personal preference, but that really bugs the hell out of me.
Plus you save screen space by not having multiple menus.
No I don't. I have a strip at the top of the screen that's in my way. I can't put icons or windows up there, I can't access root menus up there, etc. The space-saving thing might hold true if I never allowed my windows to overlap and instead tiled them until they completely filled the screen; but since nobody ever does that, this argument just doesn't hold water.
Mac menus also have subtle details that make it work better: Go to a menu that has a submenu, and go down to the title of one of the submenus. Notice that if you move your pointer down and diagonally toward the submenu, that submenu stays open. (Assuming you don't go too fast) If you move your mouse in any other direction, that submenu pops closed. There are a lot of things like that: subtle details that Mac users take for granted to that the rest of the computing world hasn't bothered to implement right.
Dude, I'm sitting here with a Mac on one side and a KDE 1.90 interface on the other, and the Mac menus behave exactly like the menus in every other interface in the world: if you highlight a submenu title by moving the mouse over it, the submenu pops up. It doesn't go away unless you highlight another menu item or close the menu. This is not special.
This is a personal preference, but there are a couple of advantages to this. One, the application-centric (rather than window-centric) model prevents multiple copies of the same app from running.
WHAT? I think you just won the Non Sequitur of the Year award. If I close the last window, I'm done with all the copies; you can safely kill them, thank you. What it does is encourage me to forget that a program is running and allow it to sit around wasting RAM (which is a very bad thing when your OS can barely manage memory).
Second, command-Q kills off the whole app, whicl alt-F4 only kills one window. Thirdly, there are times when you want to close the current window and relaunch it. This is much easier if the menu bar stays in place. Fourth, it cuts down on the clutter in the application menu (task bar) I have five items in my application menu at the moment. I'd have 10-15 if every window were listed.
More non-sequiturs. The ability to kill off the entire app or just a given window has nothing to do with, well, anything we're discussing. Killing and relaunching a window is not necessarily easier if the menubar stays in place; that only holds true if you're running the program from a buried folder somewhere, and not from (A) a commandline or (B) an applications menu (like the Apple menu, Start Menu, or K Menu). And third, if your taskbar doesn't let you hop between windows, what the hell good is it? It becomes less a useful tool and more a status display so you don't accidentally leave an app you're not using running (which, incidentally, brings us full circle).
With that said, there are downsides-- it's an issue of personal taste. But it's hardly a basis on which to choose an OS.
Okay, but nobody said it was. Except maybe Apple. Obviously I chose my OS on the basis of its stability, its ability to manage resources well, the multi-user aspects, and the power and flexibility of both its commandline interfaces and its windowing system and GUIs.
You can "tear-off" the application menu to get a floating taskbar window
So I can... that's pretty cool. I stand corrected.
That's probably just one of those religious issues; I've gotten used to moving for the specific menu I want when I use windows/u*ix, but I like being able to "slam" the mouse up against the top of the screen to hit the menubar
Perhaps, but it bugs me for two reasons: My mouse is usually gonna be in the window of the app I'm currently talking to, so having the menus in that window is good. Also, closing the last window of an app doesn't kill the app. That really gets me, and I blame the shared menu for it.
That was clever, except that it was completely untrue. KDE 1.1 already bests current interfaces (including MacOS and Windows), and running the KDE devel tree out of CVS is giving me the distinct impression that KDE 2.0 will kick the living shit out of available GUIs.
What I really enjoyed was your implication that the commandline is an arcane and obsolete interface, despite the fact that the command line is where many tasks can be completed most efficiently, and where remote system interaction is most feasible.
I'm running MacOS 9 on my iMac, and its interface is frankly none too impressive. The lack of a task display of some sort (like a taskbar or icon row), the use of that single fucking shared menu, the use of a separate control panel for every little aspect of the interface... these things leave me unimpressed.
Kinda dumb, aintcha?
That's like denying access to schools, libraries, and bookstores to anyone under 18. You don't keep kids locked in the house because there's a strip joint somewhere in town.
If you think it's a "liberal" principle that people of all ages should have access to knowledge and information, you need to re-examine your wacko little worldview.
The 'net is not becoming a cesspool. The net is becoming commercialized, like the rest of the world. Fortunately, like the rest of the world, the 'net has quite a bit to offer in the enlightenment and education department.
Besides, who gets to decide what's "undesirable" in a web user? I'm fairly certain I don't want you around, based on your poorly thought-out reactionary rant. Do I get to lock you out? I hope not.
And where do you get the idea that the web was purely educational and enlightening before it became popular? Methinks you are confused. Perhaps you were swayed a bit by "rhetoric and promises" when you were a kid. Perhaps you are now. Let's blame the medium.
Yeah, but he's pulling out numbers about specific chips like the 500MHz G4. Stats I found; the stats he's citing, not so much.