While I agree with your reasoning, I am sure that the decision to not include wine wasn't so much a decision by Mark Shuttleworth, but rather through pressure from Microsoft on Dell that came up in negotiations with Ubuntu. It's not like Mark said "hey were not doing wine"; the interviewer asked him about installing wine, and he responded with "we (ubuntu) are not going to preinstall wine."
BTW what kind of crap podcast is this? I felt like I was eavesdropping on their lunch. talking about their salad? They couldn't pick a quieter place to record a conversation? No transcript?
My first thought is to say shut up old man; I bet your grandfather felt people shouldn't get their news from the newspaper and telegraph. I am sure that the youngwer generations, having lived in a world where ANYTHING can be recorded for future indemnification, will be more concious as to what they do in public. Then I remembered my teenage years. While it doesn't change my thoughts about this old coot complaining about short skirts and "touch dancing", it changes my reasoning thusly: If EVERYONE has embarrassing/incriminating dirt in their past (which they do), and anyone can bring that up for anyone else to see, it will lose it's power. I realize this is the "if everyone owned a gun" argument, but it applies here better after all, if everyone used their guns we would all die, but if everyone uses their dirt, we just all end up dirty.
Ugh. There are so many things wrong with that video. First off the device is to well packaged to be a prototype, and it seems pretty obvious from the response of the mouse (and the car and the helicopter) that the girl is either a: being told what to do with her hands, or b: has been practising a prescribed set of movements. This means that it doesn't even qualify as a proof of concept video; it barely qualifies as geeky fantasy. Secondly, whoever made this video thinks that their (non-existant and unproven) technology must be the best idea ever to have chosen "take my breath away" as their soundtrack. It's not like no one thought of this concept before, hell even Johnny Mnemonic had this sort of techenology and that was 12 years ago! In short never post a link to that video again. I currently have mod points, but there doesn't seem to be a selection for "-1 link supplied makes youo feel like someone wiped a bogie on your neck."
Jeez, what the hell was that all about? Good gameplay, hard as hell, man eating balls; it took me a full day to figure out the cotton candy machine, and that was the very first screen!
Uhh, I always considered BC to be in my top 5 favorite games, and while I thought it was challenging, I never thought it too hard by any stretch of the imagination. Then again I never beat Master Blaster, so take that with a grain of salt.(Dammit! I'm still mad about that Master Blaster! I can't believe anyone ever beat that game!)
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I believe that was the geek equivalent of "it's not the size of the waves it's the motion of the ocean."
While I agree with your reasoning, I am sure that the decision to not include wine wasn't so much a decision by Mark Shuttleworth, but rather through pressure from Microsoft on Dell that came up in negotiations with Ubuntu. It's not like Mark said "hey were not doing wine"; the interviewer asked him about installing wine, and he responded with " we (ubuntu) are not going to preinstall wine."
BTW what kind of crap podcast is this? I felt like I was eavesdropping on their lunch. talking about their salad? They couldn't pick a quieter place to record a conversation? No transcript?
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there, now it's funny
My first thought is to say shut up old man; I bet your grandfather felt people shouldn't get their news from the newspaper and telegraph. I am sure that the youngwer generations, having lived in a world where ANYTHING can be recorded for future indemnification, will be more concious as to what they do in public. Then I remembered my teenage years. While it doesn't change my thoughts about this old coot complaining about short skirts and "touch dancing", it changes my reasoning thusly: If EVERYONE has embarrassing/incriminating dirt in their past (which they do), and anyone can bring that up for anyone else to see, it will lose it's power. I realize this is the "if everyone owned a gun" argument, but it applies here better after all, if everyone used their guns we would all die, but if everyone uses their dirt, we just all end up dirty.
20.000 people? that is one high precision head counter script.
score: -1 wet blanket
Ugh. There are so many things wrong with that video. First off the device is to well packaged to be a prototype, and it seems pretty obvious from the response of the mouse (and the car and the helicopter) that the girl is either a: being told what to do with her hands, or b: has been practising a prescribed set of movements. This means that it doesn't even qualify as a proof of concept video; it barely qualifies as geeky fantasy. Secondly, whoever made this video thinks that their (non-existant and unproven) technology must be the best idea ever to have chosen "take my breath away" as their soundtrack. It's not like no one thought of this concept before, hell even Johnny Mnemonic had this sort of techenology and that was 12 years ago! In short never post a link to that video again. I currently have mod points, but there doesn't seem to be a selection for "-1 link supplied makes youo feel like someone wiped a bogie on your neck."
You just made my fan list, sir!
Don't make me sow everyone your diary, steve pun.
4) there is no number 4
stop wasting my internets! You think tube trucks grow on trees?!?
I can't wait to get home and sudo apt-get install you. Best soviet joke ever.
I think a more coherent sig might be:
In soviet russia, Overlord welcomes you, and PROFIT!
This needs to be submitted to the fortune database.
Jeez, what the hell was that all about? Good gameplay, hard as hell, man eating balls; it took me a full day to figure out the cotton candy machine, and that was the very first screen!
I am the person you are describing, and you have just won me over.
This CEU/"certificate of professional development" and a ham sandwich at an interview would get me something to eat.
That's really not true!! If I was interviewing you, I would take your ham sandwich just for wasting my time.
I wish I was an NPC...
Uhh, I always considered BC to be in my top 5 favorite games, and while I thought it was challenging, I never thought it too hard by any stretch of the imagination. Then again I never beat Master Blaster, so take that with a grain of salt.(Dammit! I'm still mad about that Master Blaster! I can't believe anyone ever beat that game!)
Duh! That's why it's funny!
If anyone would know it would be you two: Is it possible to get a +5 Offtopic?
We have a [...] population that consumes news without question from biased sources that spew [...]propaganda
Thank you for telling me that, I will remember the information you have spew^H^H^H^Hprovided here.
Try it like this:
I like the "Teaching remedial math to call-centre employees" service that Verizon recently offered. I think it's got a great future.[/snark]
You use a three hundred dollar PDA for phone calls only? Want to trade? My cell phone can dial nuimbers like a champ!
*Cough* Vultures Eye *Cough*
You deserve to be modded up for that one...