The article (being a draft) forbids quoting without permission
That's illegal and a violation of your fair-use rights to quoting for the purpose of criticism. Don't accept it when people give you bad legal advice like that.
Immersiveness keeps the same players coming back again and again. Like I said, it's a psychological dependency they develop, and they can't break free unless somehow they find a different opiate to get hooked on. And anyone who wants to communicate with the immersed players must do so through their medium: the game environment.
Why is it that every time a woman participates in a male-dominated forum, she's assumed to be a man? Really, now. It's bad enough that you're in the vast majority here; you don't have to persecute the few of us in the minority, and it pisses me off.
Are games better today than they were yesterday? Hardly. But are they more immersive? Absolutely. The more immersive games get, the greater the symptoms of withdrawl they produce in the people who stop playing them, and the more gametime they enforce. Computer games are a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, after all, which is not a bad thing in healthy players -- you can equally say that football is a form of OCD. But as we all know, obsessives are the ones who consume with the greatest appetite, and this translates into hard $ for companies. Gameplay is important too, make no mistake about it. But immersiveness goes a long ways towards compensating for poor gameplay any day of the week.
If you protest the negative enough, it'll imply the inverse. Saying "Redhat is not Microsoft" over and over again will associate their two names. People who've just arrived in the audience will start to wonder what this Redhat thing is about, since they've heard about Microsoft (at least from their commercials on network television) and wonder whether it's something they should look into.
It's good to see Bob taking this stance in response to the debacle.
Why? You haven't proposed an argument to support your view.
The important part is when he admits that they made a mistake. Mistakes do happen in life, but it's the way you respond to and resolve your mistakes that makes the big difference.
Again, you fail to demonstrate why. Why is admiting a mistake important? Why isn't avoiding mistakes even more important?
If RedHat learned a lesson from 7.0, then it is all well and good.
Yes, I suppose that's true too, but why haven't they learned their lesson before? Redhat 6.0 was a big fiasco too, and they didn't learn by Redhat 7.0.
Let's just keep our eye peeled to see if they screw up again.
Ok, now I get it. You're just putting together a semi-coherent obsequious post as fast as you can in the hopes that it'll get in with a single-digit cid#, and you're posting it at +2 just to make sure everyone else can share in your brilliant insight. Can I be a yes-man too? Are there any special qualifications, or do I just have to use my +1 bonus?
In particular, I'm disturbed by your use of "us" in that last sentence. Who is this "us" or "we" that you speak of? If it is just the unspoken slashdot masses, then I suppose you can get away with it. But it appears self-aggrandizing from my end.
This isn't meant to be taken as flamebait. Just some constructive criticism.
It says, "We are better" without saying "we are ourselves great". That's all you need when you're asking someone to choose between two logical possibilities.
Seriously. Every sentence should say something about how Redhat relates to Microsoft. As all marketers will tell you, there is nothing such as bad press -- if you get enough people to associate Redhat with Microsoft, then maybe some of Microsoft's mindshare will rub off.
The only question left is: if this is an open letter, then is it also an opensource one? I'd love to implement my above modifications.
And I've never dealt in matters of the occult as a general principle, but when I recently got the opportunity to cast "Psionic Storm", I found my many hours of playing Protoss on Starcraft really helped.
Katz, your big and intelligent percentages and numbers are just fuzzy math. And we don't have to take it. I don't know where this guy gets his fuzzy math, but you're just spouting fuzzy math. FUZZY MATH!!!
If Microsoft controls the back-end, does it matter what the front end is?
If Linux is the pervasive front end, then it's a simple matter of substituting a different backend. That's what encapsulation and a billion other buzzwords are all about. They can try to make themselves relevent for a few more years, but that's about it.
Frankly, I'm a bit put off by your focus on sexual intercourse, since I'll be the first to say sexuality can occur between men and between women without requiring one of each. But with that said, what I am talking about is the necessity of a feminine influence on Nasa's mission in this regard. So many of Nasa's problems with crashing probes and blowing up space shuttles would never have happened if it hadn't been for the influence of testosterone. Women would've handled it differently -- you can be sure of that.
It is Silicon Valley after all. Hardly the Yukon Territory when it comes to climate. Or is it just the prevalence of air conditioning that encourages designers to look past their own immediate environments and look to the future and the greater good of personkind?
Not enough women. Seriously. How are you supposed to attract mobs of astronauts and colonists to a land barren both of air/water and of the fairer sex? Nasa has been making great strides in piloting women in space of late, but we all agree they haven't gone far enough. Women make up a full 52% of the population on earth and yet only comprise 38% of astronauts? And why is this? We all know that women make for better cooperators and nurturers, and what could terraforming be but nurturing? Any Mars exploration/development and I mean any will have to address these issues if it will ever succeed.
When oh when will someone make a webpad with LED backlighting instead of flourescent, though?
When oh when will someone make a webpad with LED blacklighting instead of fluorescent, though? I'm not having a true laptop experience unless my shirt is glowing purple and some dorks are passed out in the corner clutching a bong and themselves.
Is the live eval only good for a very limited set of hardware? There are lots of detection issues with installing regular distros, much less one where you can't tweak the settings because it's all in ROM. They'd better have done a good job, or else lots of newbies will come away with a bad taste in their mouths.
First you tell us it's for Linux-only, and I understand from previous slashdot articles that it's my job as a rabid Linux zealot to support all software released for Linux only. But then at the end, you say I should think before downloading it. Make up your mind! Am I supposed to be a zealot, or am I supposed to think?
Here's an analogy for you: most people do not engage in much heated political discussion, but there are some of us who do with a great vengeance. Now, some would argue that political discussions should be capped, because that would raise the quality of life for all the people who hate politics. But that would fly in the face of universal rights to free speech (as well as their local ensconcements in the American constitution).
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The article (being a draft) forbids quoting without permission
That's illegal and a violation of your fair-use rights to quoting for the purpose of criticism. Don't accept it when people give you bad legal advice like that.
Immersiveness keeps the same players coming back again and again. Like I said, it's a psychological dependency they develop, and they can't break free unless somehow they find a different opiate to get hooked on. And anyone who wants to communicate with the immersed players must do so through their medium: the game environment.
Why is it that every time a woman participates in a male-dominated forum, she's assumed to be a man? Really, now. It's bad enough that you're in the vast majority here; you don't have to persecute the few of us in the minority, and it pisses me off.
Are games better today than they were yesterday? Hardly. But are they more immersive? Absolutely. The more immersive games get, the greater the symptoms of withdrawl they produce in the people who stop playing them, and the more gametime they enforce. Computer games are a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, after all, which is not a bad thing in healthy players -- you can equally say that football is a form of OCD. But as we all know, obsessives are the ones who consume with the greatest appetite, and this translates into hard $ for companies. Gameplay is important too, make no mistake about it. But immersiveness goes a long ways towards compensating for poor gameplay any day of the week.
Damn straight; kids these days! Do it the way we used to in the old days:
10 PRINT "freedom & personal responsibility good, serfdom & tyrannical control bad";
20 GOTO 10;
If you protest the negative enough, it'll imply the inverse. Saying "Redhat is not Microsoft" over and over again will associate their two names. People who've just arrived in the audience will start to wonder what this Redhat thing is about, since they've heard about Microsoft (at least from their commercials on network television) and wonder whether it's something they should look into.
It's good to see Bob taking this stance in response to the debacle.
Why? You haven't proposed an argument to support your view.
The important part is when he admits that they made a mistake. Mistakes do happen in life, but it's the way you respond to and resolve your mistakes that makes the big difference.
Again, you fail to demonstrate why. Why is admiting a mistake important? Why isn't avoiding mistakes even more important?
If RedHat learned a lesson from 7.0, then it is all well and good.
Yes, I suppose that's true too, but why haven't they learned their lesson before? Redhat 6.0 was a big fiasco too, and they didn't learn by Redhat 7.0.
Let's just keep our eye peeled to see if they screw up again.
Ok, now I get it. You're just putting together a semi-coherent obsequious post as fast as you can in the hopes that it'll get in with a single-digit cid#, and you're posting it at +2 just to make sure everyone else can share in your brilliant insight. Can I be a yes-man too? Are there any special qualifications, or do I just have to use my +1 bonus?
In particular, I'm disturbed by your use of "us" in that last sentence. Who is this "us" or "we" that you speak of? If it is just the unspoken slashdot masses, then I suppose you can get away with it. But it appears self-aggrandizing from my end.
This isn't meant to be taken as flamebait. Just some constructive criticism.
It says, "We are better" without saying "we are ourselves great". That's all you need when you're asking someone to choose between two logical possibilities.
Seriously. Every sentence should say something about how Redhat relates to Microsoft. As all marketers will tell you, there is nothing such as bad press -- if you get enough people to associate Redhat with Microsoft, then maybe some of Microsoft's mindshare will rub off.
The only question left is: if this is an open letter, then is it also an opensource one? I'd love to implement my above modifications.
And I've never dealt in matters of the occult as a general principle, but when I recently got the opportunity to cast "Psionic Storm", I found my many hours of playing Protoss on Starcraft really helped.
Katz, your big and intelligent percentages and numbers are just fuzzy math. And we don't have to take it. I don't know where this guy gets his fuzzy math, but you're just spouting fuzzy math. FUZZY MATH!!!
If Microsoft controls the back-end, does it matter what the front end is?
If Linux is the pervasive front end, then it's a simple matter of substituting a different backend. That's what encapsulation and a billion other buzzwords are all about. They can try to make themselves relevent for a few more years, but that's about it.
You've got a 50-50 chance, and I just told you which one wasn't correct.
The last thing I need is an office of male coworkers asking me whether I need help dragging my files around.
I don't have the link handy, but as they say (or ought to say), use Google, Luke.
Frankly, I'm a bit put off by your focus on sexual intercourse, since I'll be the first to say sexuality can occur between men and between women without requiring one of each. But with that said, what I am talking about is the necessity of a feminine influence on Nasa's mission in this regard. So many of Nasa's problems with crashing probes and blowing up space shuttles would never have happened if it hadn't been for the influence of testosterone. Women would've handled it differently -- you can be sure of that.
It is Silicon Valley after all. Hardly the Yukon Territory when it comes to climate. Or is it just the prevalence of air conditioning that encourages designers to look past their own immediate environments and look to the future and the greater good of personkind?
Not enough women. Seriously. How are you supposed to attract mobs of astronauts and colonists to a land barren both of air/water and of the fairer sex? Nasa has been making great strides in piloting women in space of late, but we all agree they haven't gone far enough. Women make up a full 52% of the population on earth and yet only comprise 38% of astronauts? And why is this? We all know that women make for better cooperators and nurturers, and what could terraforming be but nurturing? Any Mars exploration/development and I mean any will have to address these issues if it will ever succeed.
On the other hand, at least there isn't a single NT installation on Mars. Yet.
or the bugeyed kid on the cover of Time's journoporn issue....
When oh when will someone make a webpad with LED backlighting instead of flourescent, though?
When oh when will someone make a webpad with LED blacklighting instead of fluorescent, though? I'm not having a true laptop experience unless my shirt is glowing purple and some dorks are passed out in the corner clutching a bong and themselves.
How long until Hemos gets an honorary degree for his unrelenting exellence nanotech reporting?
Is the live eval only good for a very limited set of hardware? There are lots of detection issues with installing regular distros, much less one where you can't tweak the settings because it's all in ROM. They'd better have done a good job, or else lots of newbies will come away with a bad taste in their mouths.
First you tell us it's for Linux-only, and I understand from previous slashdot articles that it's my job as a rabid Linux zealot to support all software released for Linux only. But then at the end, you say I should think before downloading it. Make up your mind! Am I supposed to be a zealot, or am I supposed to think?
Here's an analogy for you: most people do not engage in much heated political discussion, but there are some of us who do with a great vengeance. Now, some would argue that political discussions should be capped, because that would raise the quality of life for all the people who hate politics. But that would fly in the face of universal rights to free speech (as well as their local ensconcements in the American constitution).
It's the same with network use. Think about it.