As long as we're talking about brilliant Mac-only games, don't forget Escape Velocity. The best part of the game was the addons:
The entire series features an open-ended plug-in architecture, allowing new scenarios to be written by users. This technology is based on the Macintosh resource fork format, making it possible to develop plug-ins without using any purpose-designed editors (though several editors exist and are popular since they make the task much easier).
When I was 12 and the game was still new, I went Computer Camp at Standford University (yes, I'm a nerd). Escape Velocity was the thing that made Windows campers jealous of those of us who used Macs.
The Democrats are still damned by the Republicans for their "compromise", which is so pathetic, so serving of the industry it's supposed to be reforming, that I doubt a Republican administration could have got away with passing it. Only a Democratic administration could have convinced Democrats to hallucinate victory in the face of such defeat.
The Democrats are "corporate whoring freedom haters", as you put it, so I hardly care if they can't catch a break.
Um, people *are* going to be forced to buy health insurance, per the Democrats' gift-to-the-private-health-care-industry-in-the-guise-of-health-care-reform plan.
Actually, you misunderstand my point. 1) The phrase has an idiomatic meaning, but it's still perfectly valid English apart from it. 2) The idiomatic meaning doesn't contradict what his friend was trying to say, it was just rendered meaningless. My point is just that what his friend said still made perfect sense.
It's quite unlike, for instance, when people say "I could care less" or many other abuses or twistings of idioms.
Hmm. I dunno, I don't think that's all that bad. First of all, when your friend used the phrase, the statement wasn't rendered incorrect or incoherent; the phrase simply didn't add any direct meaning. Second, saying things that don't add any literal meaning, for the sake of emphasis is a very common linguistic device.
So I dare say there might not even be anything wrong with what your friend said. If your friend really doesn't know the somewhat idiomatic meaning of the phrase, that might be a sort of problem, but I'd wager they'd understand perfectly well what someone was trying to say if they said "This is a pretty good paint job, if I do say so myself".
Anyway, what I was hoping for was more information, further than what the last paragraph described. It mentioned an absence of "foulmouthed little brats", which is pretty self-explanitory. It also mentioned a "functioning ladder system" -- and like I asked, did Bnet break since last I met it?
I was hoping for, you know, a link or something. Google didn't find me anything more than a technical description. I apologize for not being clear, and thus deserving of your wrath and Troll mods.
I don't think there's really a way to turn it around and make excuses for the hosting company.
Really? Let me give it a shot.
Before the expansion packs came out, the original game cost somewhere around $40-$50 (if memory serves me). Each expansion, if you bought them when they were new, cost something like $40. I already paid Blizzard $110-$120 for the software (theoretically -- I've only paid about $80 for WoW software, personally). Blizzard is the one that decided that the software and the servers you subscribe to are two separate products, so they can kiss my ass if they want to stop me from getting that service from someone else.
the vast majority of people still playing BroodWar (legitimately as well as otherwise) much prefer iCCup to battlenet, to the extent that if you don't know your iCCup ranking, you really can't call yourself a Starcraft player.
Uh... why? Did Battle.net break since I stopped playing Starcraft or something?
This goes for games, too. I've used BitTorrent to download another copy of lots of games I payed for long ago.
Another factor to consider is that a pirate isn't necessarily concerned with backing up what they've downloaded. I know I've downloaded some games numerous times because I don't really worry about backups anymore if I don't have the original copy. Therefor, the number of times a torrent has been downloaded may give an inflated estimate of the number of pirates.
Perhaps in the 20th Century the US has been involved in more wars that others (often as a defensive position, ie, WWI, WW2, Korea)
What? In World War I, we opted to join in a war for spoils between the Euopean powers, so that we might gain some ourselves. In the Korean War, we intervened in a civil war on behalf of the less popular (as even historians in South Korea will sometimes admit), anti-communist side. The only arguably defensive war was the one with Japan in World War II (it would be a big stretch to call our involvement in the war in Europe defensive).
It's because to Microsoft, and undiscovered bug is a nonexistant bug. Their "security" model has always been "security through obscurity". Their philosophy is "why fix a bug if you don't have to?"
I think it's simpler than that. They're thinking "why pay for a bug report when you don't have to?" They said it themselves, "we don't think paying a per-vuln bounty is the best way. Especially when across the researcher community the motivations aren't always financial." Is there any lack of people willing to expose Windows bugs already?
WTF does this have to do with science, computers, technology, or even nerdy-politics.
Slashdot is big on discussions around government curtailment of liberty. Nerds also fancy themselves to be very "logical" thinkers, and logical marijuana prohibition ain't.
The difference is that you can have it for whatever reason you want. In the US, as an individual, you have to get a prescription for it from your doctor.
Sure, but it's not hard to speculate that this new Oakland law has something to do with anticipation that the marijuana legalization bill might pass in November. I read somewhere that Oakland is also one of the cities already planning bills to set local tax levels for recreational marijuana sale.
All jokes aside, commercial hemp has more applications then just narcotics/psychoactive.
Yes it does. But this is *specifically* about legalizing industrially growing hemp for use as marijuana. That's completely novel, and why the story is notable.
With Marijuana smoke carrying considerably less carcinogens then tobacco smoke
I'm not sure about what are and aren't carcinogens, but pot smoke has more tar that tobacco smoke. It's actually said to be worse for you, if you compare an equal amount of marijuana and tobacco smoke. The difference is, a pot smoker inhales a hell of a lot less smoke than a tobacco smoker does, making it overall healthier (but still bad for you). And that's even before you factor in all the additives in most cigarettes.
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self-serving, and do not act in a deliberate fashion
Aren't those two kind of contradictory?
As long as we're talking about brilliant Mac-only games, don't forget Escape Velocity. The best part of the game was the addons:
The entire series features an open-ended plug-in architecture, allowing new scenarios to be written by users. This technology is based on the Macintosh resource fork format, making it possible to develop plug-ins without using any purpose-designed editors (though several editors exist and are popular since they make the task much easier).
When I was 12 and the game was still new, I went Computer Camp at Standford University (yes, I'm a nerd). Escape Velocity was the thing that made Windows campers jealous of those of us who used Macs.
The Democrats are still damned by the Republicans for their "compromise", which is so pathetic, so serving of the industry it's supposed to be reforming, that I doubt a Republican administration could have got away with passing it. Only a Democratic administration could have convinced Democrats to hallucinate victory in the face of such defeat.
The Democrats are "corporate whoring freedom haters", as you put it, so I hardly care if they can't catch a break.
Um, people *are* going to be forced to buy health insurance, per the Democrats' gift-to-the-private-health-care-industry-in-the-guise-of-health-care-reform plan.
Actually, you misunderstand my point. 1) The phrase has an idiomatic meaning, but it's still perfectly valid English apart from it. 2) The idiomatic meaning doesn't contradict what his friend was trying to say, it was just rendered meaningless. My point is just that what his friend said still made perfect sense.
It's quite unlike, for instance, when people say "I could care less" or many other abuses or twistings of idioms.
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Hmm. I dunno, I don't think that's all that bad. First of all, when your friend used the phrase, the statement wasn't rendered incorrect or incoherent; the phrase simply didn't add any direct meaning. Second, saying things that don't add any literal meaning, for the sake of emphasis is a very common linguistic device.
So I dare say there might not even be anything wrong with what your friend said. If your friend really doesn't know the somewhat idiomatic meaning of the phrase, that might be a sort of problem, but I'd wager they'd understand perfectly well what someone was trying to say if they said "This is a pretty good paint job, if I do say so myself".
The other day I had a huge argument over the use of the phrase: "if I do say so myself".
It seems people have become so stupid that all actual meaning is lost, and any phrase can be used in any way.
I may regret asking this, but... what was it that you found objectionable?
There's a world outside the US?
Thanks for the hostility; I love you too.
Anyway, what I was hoping for was more information, further than what the last paragraph described. It mentioned an absence of "foulmouthed little brats", which is pretty self-explanitory. It also mentioned a "functioning ladder system" -- and like I asked, did Bnet break since last I met it?
I was hoping for, you know, a link or something. Google didn't find me anything more than a technical description. I apologize for not being clear, and thus deserving of your wrath and Troll mods.
They're good movies, but will never be viewed in the same category as something like Casablanca.
That depends on what the categories are. Roger Ebert puts both films in his list of "Great Movies", which I think qualifies as a category.
I don't think there's really a way to turn it around and make excuses for the hosting company.
Really? Let me give it a shot.
Before the expansion packs came out, the original game cost somewhere around $40-$50 (if memory serves me). Each expansion, if you bought them when they were new, cost something like $40. I already paid Blizzard $110-$120 for the software (theoretically -- I've only paid about $80 for WoW software, personally). Blizzard is the one that decided that the software and the servers you subscribe to are two separate products, so they can kiss my ass if they want to stop me from getting that service from someone else.
How'd I do?
the vast majority of people still playing BroodWar (legitimately as well as otherwise) much prefer iCCup to battlenet, to the extent that if you don't know your iCCup ranking, you really can't call yourself a Starcraft player.
Uh... why? Did Battle.net break since I stopped playing Starcraft or something?
Reading your post and your signature, I have to ask: Why do you read Slashdot if you hate it so much?
Because it's much more fun watching SCO go bankrupt.
This goes for games, too. I've used BitTorrent to download another copy of lots of games I payed for long ago.
Another factor to consider is that a pirate isn't necessarily concerned with backing up what they've downloaded. I know I've downloaded some games numerous times because I don't really worry about backups anymore if I don't have the original copy. Therefor, the number of times a torrent has been downloaded may give an inflated estimate of the number of pirates.
Perhaps in the 20th Century the US has been involved in more wars that others (often as a defensive position, ie, WWI, WW2, Korea)
What? In World War I, we opted to join in a war for spoils between the Euopean powers, so that we might gain some ourselves. In the Korean War, we intervened in a civil war on behalf of the less popular (as even historians in South Korea will sometimes admit), anti-communist side. The only arguably defensive war was the one with Japan in World War II (it would be a big stretch to call our involvement in the war in Europe defensive).
It's because to Microsoft, and undiscovered bug is a nonexistant bug. Their "security" model has always been "security through obscurity". Their philosophy is "why fix a bug if you don't have to?"
I think it's simpler than that. They're thinking "why pay for a bug report when you don't have to?" They said it themselves, "we don't think paying a per-vuln bounty is the best way. Especially when across the researcher community the motivations aren't always financial." Is there any lack of people willing to expose Windows bugs already?
in case you didn't get the memo, emulation options are not good enough for most users. As an example, most users would try Wine once
Wine Is Not an Emulator.
and then never want to use it again because it isn't exactly the same as what they are used to.
Yes, nobody who would go through the trouble of giving Wine a try would be willing to spend any time whatsoever seeing if they could learn to use it.
That's a good point. As a non-Apple user, I'd be quite happy to let Apple corner the ad-supported OS market.
Are nerds secret pot smokers or something.
Not personally, no. I don't keep it a secret.
WTF does this have to do with science, computers, technology, or even nerdy-politics.
Slashdot is big on discussions around government curtailment of liberty. Nerds also fancy themselves to be very "logical" thinkers, and logical marijuana prohibition ain't.
The difference is that you can have it for whatever reason you want. In the US, as an individual, you have to get a prescription for it from your doctor.
Sure, but it's not hard to speculate that this new Oakland law has something to do with anticipation that the marijuana legalization bill might pass in November. I read somewhere that Oakland is also one of the cities already planning bills to set local tax levels for recreational marijuana sale.
Please take notice of the loud WHOOSHing you just heard overhead.
All jokes aside, commercial hemp has more applications then just narcotics/psychoactive.
Yes it does. But this is *specifically* about legalizing industrially growing hemp for use as marijuana. That's completely novel, and why the story is notable.
With Marijuana smoke carrying considerably less carcinogens then tobacco smoke
I'm not sure about what are and aren't carcinogens, but pot smoke has more tar that tobacco smoke. It's actually said to be worse for you, if you compare an equal amount of marijuana and tobacco smoke. The difference is, a pot smoker inhales a hell of a lot less smoke than a tobacco smoker does, making it overall healthier (but still bad for you). And that's even before you factor in all the additives in most cigarettes.
Damnit, I knew that was coming.