I was just poking fun at what was probably an imprecise statement due to the informal discussion nature of slashdot. To be fair, though, SSN's are hard to get, while addresses are trivial. Hence the humour.
A few days ago we had a story here about an interview on Gamespy with one of the Half-Life PR folks. In it, he stated:
[...] For folks who want the ultimate experience, they'll want the latest ATI card, and the fastest processor available from AMD or Intel.
Now the linked post states (w/r/t the anti-aliasing bug/feature):
As for NVIDIA GeForce and GeForce FX-series, there are practically no chances to find a workaround, according to Valve."
That's one hell of a coincidence. It seems like ATI is the only way to go for the best HL experience. I wonder how much all this advertising is costing ATI? Regardless, I'd like to give out a big fuck you to everyone behind this. (And while I'm at it, fuck Nvidia for that stupid "The way it's meant to be played campaign", as if every game nowadays is designed especially for Nvidia boards.)
As a musician myself, I can tell you that one of the most important aspects of a stereo to me is its ability to be manipulated with my toes. Makes transcribing music much easier.
What Freenet needs in order to be a viable platform for not only publishing content anonymously, but also for finding it, is a search mechanism built into freenet. Before that happens, there is no way that it will become any popular with the file sharing masses -- it's just too find to hard something to download.
Freenet isn't a napster clone. It's a technology that allows people to bypass draconian laws against sharing information. Freenet allows repressed people a means to communicate without a gov't monitoring their speech. Freenet makes it impossible to place distrubution restrictions on information that a gov't or private interest doesn't want public. Freenet allows anonymous mirroring and caching of content beyond what any internation body could ever hope to control. Freenet is not a product-awareness funded positively-branded real-time-sharework P2P+.v2 media library creator for the latest MTV garbage.
Indeed, Tech TV actually showed on TV that once you apply all current security patches for Windows 98/98SE, Me, 2000 and XP, plus installing a decent software firewall program or put your broadband connection behind a hardware firewall, breaking in will be nearly impossible.
Great! After a few recent reports like the continued security flaws and idiotic security measures I was getting a bit worried. But this in-depth analysis conducted by the notable security firm "Tech TV" has put my fears at rest!
In the mean time, I have seen many of my friends repeatedly re-install their linux system from scratch, because upgrading simply didn't work out quite as expected. And I felt reminded of those good old windows times, where you just re-installed your system every half a year or so.
Don't use your friends' lack of technical knowledge to compare every non-Debian distribution to Windows; you've mentioned nothing that can't be done on any reasonably complete Linux distribution. The hassle-free upgrading you praise is becoming a standard part of most distributions, though Debian was clearly the forerunner in this area. I'm glad you've found happiness with Debian, but I would caution you against evangelizing it too hard. Your admitted lack of up-to-date knowledge with other flavors Linux may very well surprise you someday. The rest of the world hasn't stood still.
[...] which will attract the more technical users when they abandon linux as too mainstream [...]
And exactly what is wrong with "mainstream" software? If you're picking your OS based on l33t obscurity, stay the hell out of the discussion. Technical merit and licensing are far more important than bragging rights on irc.
So after a large story about Blizzard canning the Freecraft project, the editors follow-up with an advertisement for Blizzard's fucking board game? What next, stories about how evil the MPAA is followed up with "news" about the LoTR and Matrix releases?
I very much doubt that Atari is the problem here, since Atari and Epic have managed to release ut2k3 for Linux with basically no issues [...]
There's still one lingering issue: the fact that ut2003 runs faster in Windows than it does in Linux. On some machines it's been reported to be around 10%-15%. They obviously didn't put as much effort into the OpenGL renderer as they did in the D3D one (just like Unreal Tournament...). Given that most native games I've bechmarked run 10%-20% faster in Linux (using nvagp and low-latency scheduling), the performance of ut2003 in Linux is considerably worse than in Windows. I'm still glad they ported the client, mind you, but this borders on behind a cheap last-minute hack.
Not right away; the sudden editing of the html could cause instabilities in the web page. The unstable page will float around for a couple of years without the text, and if all goes well, it will get merged into the stable main page.
"Don't get angry because somebody stated a strong opinion that doesn't mesh with the rest of the country's watered-down political speech. "
This comment just doesn't make sense in the context of what you were trying to say...at least, I don't understand it...
What I meant was that Americans have come to expect very bland, boring speech from their politicians. When a politician says something like: "I'm all for good stuff, and I'm against bad stuff" we cheer like monkeys. Sen. Hatch broke this mold for a second and actually stated a strong personal opinion, and he gets nailed for it. I'll bet if you were to have an honest talk with any national representative in private you would find that they hold a very strong opinion on something--but because of the way our political system works, they have to water their opinions down for the masses.
Now, I'll agree that he should not necessarily be considered for the 10WorstAnything just because of that comment. HOWEVER - Where does the truth lie? Eh? Do you know him, personally? Voting records mean NOTHING.
You're right; his voting record is probably equal parts personal philosophy and campaign donations. I don't know exactly where the truth lies here, but I do know that it's not found in any single quote. All I'm saying is that if you want to hate Sen. Hatch, that's fine, but find a real reason to do it. This is getting as bad as people who hated Dan Quayle because he couldn't spell potato (potatoe!) or because Bill Clinton smoked weed once. Nobody is defined in any single instant.
This is exactly what I was advocating. Rather than take an off-the-cuff remark about destroying PCs, people should find real reasons to dislike politicians--which is exactly what you've illustrated. If you want to use this to wave as a flag against Sen. Hatch, I won't stop you. This is much better than using a single quote to "prove" a politician's stupidity. Your passage actually lends credibility to an argument against the Senator.
It's only considered flamebait because there's no "-1; Idiot" moderation available. Denouncing any politician as one of the ten worst anything because of a single remark is beyond stupid. Yeah, it was an idiotic comment by Hatch. The problem here is that people can't handle politicians speaking unless their statements have been filtered by their PR staff. It's people like you (including much of/.) that turn our political system into the bland wasteland of nonsensical terms it is today. If you want to rally against Sen. Hatch, more power to you. But go look at his voting record and platform before making your decision. Don't get angry because somebody stated a strong opinion that doesn't mesh with the rest of the country's watered-down political speech.
Afterwards, perhaps you should focus your abilities towards inventing something in the transportation industry. I was thinking of something suitible for assisting heavy transport, perhaps a device that could allow the user to experience less of a burden when carrying things over a distance. Maybe it could offset the normal difficulties found in dragging our carts on the ground. It would have to be a balancing mechanism that would generate no extra force due to shape as its moved across the ground. Just an idea.
The math you linked to is certainly interesting, though it raises another point. We can't possibly use that many addresses (though I'm sure somebody said this for ipv4 also...). Unless I'm being entirely ignorant, aren't we just going to end up sending a bunch of redundant zeroes around the net? I suppose we could use the first nybble for other purposes (evil bits!). But I can't help but wonder if they're all entirely necessary.
I think that he did mention that not only military, but also peace/ameri-corps could vote also. Personally I would extend it so that anyone with a Bachelors degree from an accredited institution could vote.
So we've established two points: the parent poster wants the country run by "veterans" of the military or peace/ameri-corps , and you now want to add anyone with an accredited degree. To go out on a limb here, I'd venture that the parent has served in either the peace or ameri-corps, and you have a degree. Luckily, you two just happen to be in the proposed ruling class.
Anyone who proposes the ruling class should be made out of people just like them isn't fit to rule. In fact, your narrow vision of how a country should be run makes me suspect your own abilities to decide any political matter. When you grow up, you just might realize the system is built as it is largely to protect the general populace from narrow-minded egoists like yourselves.
Wait a minute--you say that the pro-microsoft opinions might be the deliberate work of Microsoft? How do I know you're on the level, then? Perhaps you're here on behalf of some deep-pocketed open source company! Who is paying you, ac?? TELL ME! SUSE?? VA??
Agreed. The media has run wild with the term and PR departments are putting the final nail in the coffin. "Hacker" is also now a term of endearment for computer users. "Power users" are those who use windows explorer and know what a boot disk is. "Hackers"--the true experts of computing--are now people that use such non-standard programs as regedit and emacs. I'm thinking of writing a book called eXtreme Hacking. I don't know what I'll put in it yet, maybe windows keyboard shortcuts and a guide for configuring IE. I'm sure it will sell to the l33t wannabe crowd.
Clive Barker was involved in a game called "Clive Barker's Undying." It was a fantastic horror game that received excellent reviews. Interestingly enough though, it sold very poorly. Do gamers want excellent storylines and thoughtful gameplay? Some of us do, but to the masses, pretty flashing lights are usually enough. Woo's strength in the action genre may be a bit more accessible to the public than Barker's horror themes though. It'll be interesting to watch just how far involved Woo gets involved with the game, as opposed to just getting paid to put his name on the box. I have no doubt Woo could contribute to an excellent action game, but will it sell? Sega's stuff doesn't exactly fly off the shelves...
Why Monolith? Did Warner Brothers simply draw up a contract for the game design and award it to the lowest bidder? I hate to sound like a troll, but honestly, Monolith isn't exactly the paradigm of innovation in the industry. Almost everything they've done since the original Blood (nolf, avp 2, shogo) has been largely derivative of popular trends, and there isn't a whole lot of precedent for a game like this. Maybe I'm just being paranoid and the game will kick ass, but when I think of an ambitious project like this, one of the last development teams I would want is Monolith. The Blood series was first-rate, though the rest of their catalogue is a little weak. They're a pretty good team as far as the industry goes, but I wouldn't be surprised if this game ends up as "Everquest with Uzi's."
[...] the CRT - TVs,the CD, the electric motor etc. happened WELL BEFORE the rank business opportunists have rushed in.
How about the personal computer? It's a related field, and it became popular after the "business opportunists" rushed in, as you say. A modern PC costs roughly half what a comparable PC did ten years ago. The free market (usually) insulates us against the long-term price fixing you're worried about. Even if LCD's stay at their high prices, it'll be a somewhat isolated incident in the tech field.
And they both model real-world weapons. They both feature combat in "realistic" areas. They both pit two teams against each other in a round-by-round format. A few years ago, back when CS was new, this was far from common in mods. While CS may have started this recent trend, it didn't do so on innovation--it did it by being fun.
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I was just poking fun at what was probably an imprecise statement due to the informal discussion nature of slashdot. To be fair, though, SSN's are hard to get, while addresses are trivial. Hence the humour.
I've found all sorts of stuff including insurance letters complete with SSNs, addresses, etc.
If those addresses are valuable to you, I could probably sell you a book or two full of them. I'll even throw in the phone numbers for free!
A few days ago we had a story here about an interview on Gamespy with one of the Half-Life PR folks. In it, he stated:
[...] For folks who want the ultimate experience, they'll want the latest ATI card, and the fastest processor available from AMD or Intel.
Now the linked post states (w/r/t the anti-aliasing bug/feature):
As for NVIDIA GeForce and GeForce FX-series, there are practically no chances to find a workaround, according to Valve."
That's one hell of a coincidence. It seems like ATI is the only way to go for the best HL experience. I wonder how much all this advertising is costing ATI? Regardless, I'd like to give out a big fuck you to everyone behind this. (And while I'm at it, fuck Nvidia for that stupid "The way it's meant to be played campaign", as if every game nowadays is designed especially for Nvidia boards.)
As a musician myself, I can tell you that one of the most important aspects of a stereo to me is its ability to be manipulated with my toes. Makes transcribing music much easier.
What Freenet needs in order to be a viable platform for not only publishing content anonymously, but also for finding it, is a search mechanism built into freenet. Before that happens, there is no way that it will become any popular with the file sharing masses -- it's just too find to hard something to download.
Freenet isn't a napster clone. It's a technology that allows people to bypass draconian laws against sharing information. Freenet allows repressed people a means to communicate without a gov't monitoring their speech. Freenet makes it impossible to place distrubution restrictions on information that a gov't or private interest doesn't want public. Freenet allows anonymous mirroring and caching of content beyond what any internation body could ever hope to control. Freenet is not a product-awareness funded positively-branded real-time-sharework P2P+.v2 media library creator for the latest MTV garbage.
Indeed, Tech TV actually showed on TV that once you apply all current security patches for Windows 98/98SE, Me, 2000 and XP, plus installing a decent software firewall program or put your broadband connection behind a hardware firewall, breaking in will be nearly impossible.
Great! After a few recent reports like the continued security flaws
and idiotic security measures I was getting a bit worried. But this in-depth analysis conducted by the notable security firm "Tech TV" has put my fears at rest!
In the mean time, I have seen many of my friends repeatedly re-install their linux system from scratch, because upgrading simply didn't work out quite as expected. And I felt reminded of those good old windows times, where you just re-installed your system every half a year or so.
Don't use your friends' lack of technical knowledge to compare every non-Debian distribution to Windows; you've mentioned nothing that can't be done on any reasonably complete Linux distribution. The hassle-free upgrading you praise is becoming a standard part of most distributions, though Debian was clearly the forerunner in this area. I'm glad you've found happiness with Debian, but I would caution you against evangelizing it too hard. Your admitted lack of up-to-date knowledge with other flavors Linux may very well surprise you someday. The rest of the world hasn't stood still.
[...] which will attract the more technical users when they abandon linux
as too mainstream [...]
And exactly what is wrong with "mainstream" software? If you're picking your OS based on l33t obscurity, stay the hell out of the discussion. Technical merit and licensing are far more important than bragging rights on irc.
Quick, does anyone know how many months it takes for my entry in the do-not-call list to go in effect? Two months? Four?
So after a large story about Blizzard canning the Freecraft project, the editors follow-up with an advertisement for Blizzard's fucking board game? What next, stories about how evil the MPAA is followed up with "news" about the LoTR and Matrix releases?
I very much doubt that Atari is the problem here, since Atari and Epic have managed to release ut2k3 for Linux with basically no issues [...]
There's still one lingering issue: the fact that ut2003 runs faster in Windows than it does in Linux. On some machines it's been reported to be around 10%-15%. They obviously didn't put as much effort into the OpenGL renderer as they did in the D3D one (just like Unreal Tournament...). Given that most native games I've bechmarked run 10%-20% faster in Linux (using nvagp and low-latency scheduling), the performance of ut2003 in Linux is considerably worse than in Windows. I'm still glad they ported the client, mind you, but this borders on behind a cheap last-minute hack.
Not right away; the sudden editing of the html could cause instabilities in the web page. The unstable page will float around for a couple of years without the text, and if all goes well, it will get merged into the stable main page.
"Don't get angry because somebody stated a strong opinion that doesn't mesh with the rest of the country's watered-down political speech. "
This comment just doesn't make sense in the context of what you were trying to say...at least, I don't understand it...
What I meant was that Americans have come to expect very bland, boring speech from their politicians. When a politician says something like: "I'm all for good stuff, and I'm against bad stuff" we cheer like monkeys. Sen. Hatch broke this mold for a second and actually stated a strong personal opinion, and he gets nailed for it. I'll bet if you were to have an honest talk with any national representative in private you would find that they hold a very strong opinion on something--but because of the way our political system works, they have to water their opinions down for the masses.
Now, I'll agree that he should not necessarily be considered for the 10WorstAnything just because of that comment. HOWEVER - Where does the truth lie? Eh? Do you know him, personally? Voting records mean NOTHING.
You're right; his voting record is probably equal parts personal philosophy and campaign donations. I don't know exactly where the truth lies here, but I do know that it's not found in any single quote. All I'm saying is that if you want to hate Sen. Hatch, that's fine, but find a real reason to do it. This is getting as bad as people who hated Dan Quayle because he couldn't spell potato (potatoe!) or because Bill Clinton smoked weed once. Nobody is defined in any single instant.
This is exactly what I was advocating. Rather than take an off-the-cuff remark about destroying PCs, people should find real reasons to dislike politicians--which is exactly what you've illustrated. If you want to use this to wave as a flag against Sen. Hatch, I won't stop you. This is much better than using a single quote to "prove" a politician's stupidity. Your passage actually lends credibility to an argument against the Senator.
It's only considered flamebait because there's no "-1; Idiot" moderation available. Denouncing any politician as one of the ten worst anything because of a single remark is beyond stupid. Yeah, it was an idiotic comment by Hatch. The problem here is that people can't handle politicians speaking unless their statements have been filtered by their PR staff. It's people like you (including much of /.) that turn our political system into the bland wasteland of nonsensical terms it is today. If you want to rally against Sen. Hatch, more power to you. But go look at his voting record and platform before making your decision. Don't get angry because somebody stated a strong opinion that doesn't mesh with the rest of the country's watered-down political speech.
Afterwards, perhaps you should focus your abilities towards inventing something in the transportation industry. I was thinking of something suitible for assisting heavy transport, perhaps a device that could allow the user to experience less of a burden when carrying things over a distance. Maybe it could offset the normal difficulties found in dragging our carts on the ground. It would have to be a balancing mechanism that would generate no extra force due to shape as its moved across the ground. Just an idea.
The math you linked to is certainly interesting, though it raises another point. We can't possibly use that many addresses (though I'm sure somebody said this for ipv4 also...). Unless I'm being entirely ignorant, aren't we just going to end up sending a bunch of redundant zeroes around the net? I suppose we could use the first nybble for other purposes (evil bits!). But I can't help but wonder if they're all entirely necessary.
I think that he did mention that not only military, but also peace/ameri-corps could vote also. Personally I would extend it so that anyone with a Bachelors degree from an accredited institution could vote.
So we've established two points: the parent poster wants the country run by "veterans" of the military or peace/ameri-corps , and you now want to add anyone with an accredited degree. To go out on a limb here, I'd venture that the parent has served in either the peace or ameri-corps, and you have a degree. Luckily, you two just happen to be in the proposed ruling class.
Anyone who proposes the ruling class should be made out of people just like them isn't fit to rule. In fact, your narrow vision of how a country should be run makes me suspect your own abilities to decide any political matter. When you grow up, you just might realize the system is built as it is largely to protect the general populace from narrow-minded egoists like yourselves.
Wait a minute--you say that the pro-microsoft opinions might be the deliberate work of Microsoft? How do I know you're on the level, then? Perhaps you're here on behalf of some deep-pocketed open source company! Who is paying you, ac?? TELL ME! SUSE?? VA??
Agreed. The media has run wild with the term and PR departments are putting the final nail in the coffin. "Hacker" is also now a term of endearment for computer users. "Power users" are those who use windows explorer and know what a boot disk is. "Hackers"--the true experts of computing--are now people that use such non-standard programs as regedit and emacs. I'm thinking of writing a book called eXtreme Hacking. I don't know what I'll put in it yet, maybe windows keyboard shortcuts and a guide for configuring IE. I'm sure it will sell to the l33t wannabe crowd.
Clive Barker was involved in a game called "Clive Barker's Undying." It was a fantastic horror game that received excellent reviews. Interestingly enough though, it sold very poorly. Do gamers want excellent storylines and thoughtful gameplay? Some of us do, but to the masses, pretty flashing lights are usually enough. Woo's strength in the action genre may be a bit more accessible to the public than Barker's horror themes though. It'll be interesting to watch just how far involved Woo gets involved with the game, as opposed to just getting paid to put his name on the box. I have no doubt Woo could contribute to an excellent action game, but will it sell? Sega's stuff doesn't exactly fly off the shelves...
Why Monolith? Did Warner Brothers simply draw up a contract for the game design and award it to the lowest bidder? I hate to sound like a troll, but honestly, Monolith isn't exactly the paradigm of innovation in the industry. Almost everything they've done since the original Blood (nolf, avp 2, shogo) has been largely derivative of popular trends, and there isn't a whole lot of precedent for a game like this. Maybe I'm just being paranoid and the game will kick ass, but when I think of an ambitious project like this, one of the last development teams I would want is Monolith. The Blood series was first-rate, though the rest of their catalogue is a little weak. They're a pretty good team as far as the industry goes, but I wouldn't be surprised if this game ends up as "Everquest with Uzi's."
[...] the CRT - TVs,the CD, the electric motor etc. happened WELL BEFORE the rank business opportunists have rushed in.
How about the personal computer? It's a related field, and it became popular after the "business opportunists" rushed in, as you say. A modern PC costs roughly half what a comparable PC did ten years ago. The free market (usually) insulates us against the long-term price fixing you're worried about. Even if LCD's stay at their high prices, it'll be a somewhat isolated incident in the tech field.
Your best bet to arguing is to wear a Blue Jays/Maple Leafs jersey and cough violently.
And they both model real-world weapons. They both feature combat in "realistic" areas. They both pit two teams against each other in a round-by-round format. A few years ago, back when CS was new, this was far from common in mods. While CS may have started this recent trend, it didn't do so on innovation--it did it by being fun.