I can't argue with that. So I'll let Bill Hicks do it instead:
Like, I was over in England. You ever been to England, anyone, been to England? No one has handguns in England, not even the cops. True or false? True. Now-in England last year, they had fourteen deaths from handguns. FFFFFourteen. Now, the United States, and I think you know how we feel about handguns - woooo, I'm getting a warm tingly feeling just saying the fucking word, to be honest with you. I swear to you, I am hard. Twenty-three thousand deaths from handguns. Now let's go through those numbers again, because they're a little baffling at first glance. England, where no one has guns, fffffffourteen deaths. United States, and I think you know how we feel about guns - woooo, I'm getting a stiffy - twenty-three thousand deaths from handguns. But there's no connection, and you'd be a fool and a Communist to make one. There's no connection between having a gun and shooting someone with it, and not having a gun and not shooting someone. There have been studies made and there is no connection at all there. Yes. That's absolute proof. You know, fourteen deaths from handguns. Probably American tourists, too.
(Angry tourist voice) You call this a sandwich? BANG! BANG! You don't boil pizza! BANG! BANG!
(Scared English voice) That's the way we eat here, that's the way we eat here! BANG!
(Tourist voice) This food sucks! BANG!
Ballmer: [Reading] In the most high and palmy United States, A little ere the mightiest Apple fell, No PC stood OSless, and the servers all Did crash and gibber in the server rooms. And even the like precurse of fierce events, As harbingers preceding still the fates 2000 and XP together demonstrate Unto our climature and countrymen. [Handing script to Marcellus] Slashdot is desperate with imagination.
Gates: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Ballmer: Heaven will direct it.
Gates: Nay, let's buy it out.
Ballmer: My lord, my lord!
Gates: Illo, ho, ho, my lord!
LINUS ENTERS
Linus: Hillo, ho, ho, boy! Come, bird, come.
Gates: How is't, my noble lord?
Ballmer: What news, my lord?
Linus: O, wonderful!
Ballmer: Good my lord, tell it.
Linus: No, you will embrace and extend it.
Ballmer: Not I, my lord, by heaven!
Gates: Nor I, my lord.
Linus: How say you then? Would Linux give men source code? But you'll be secret?
Both: Ay, by heaven, my lord.
Linus: There's neer a student dwelling in all Denmark But he runs StarOffice.
Ballmer: There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this.
Linus: Why, right! You are in the right! And so, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit that we shake hands and part; You, as your business and desires shall point you; As every man has business and desire. And for my own poor part, look you, I'll go code.
The story did exist at the time the article was posted. I know, since I've had to prune out countless topics about it on a well-known gaming forum (incidentally, if Slashdot is covering ludicrous gaming rumours these days, I'm sure we can supply them with a few more interesting ones...) Consoletalk have since taken it down, presumably partly in response to the widespread coverage Slashdot is getting it.:)
More likely that the site took the article down in a desperate attempt to conceal the fact that they'd been posting blatantly false 'news' stories. I find it hard to believe that anyone who knows *anything* about the console market would believe this for a minute.
Excellent - I gave up all hope of getting ARM/Linux working ages ago, glad to see someone's still working on it. Any idea whether it'll ever be possible to install on an A5000 without a CD drive?:)
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. -- Nathaniel Borenstein
Ah, well that's a different matter entirely.;) I agree with you 100% that they don't stand a chance, but if they're willing to give it a try, that's their problem...
How 20k votes outweigh 1.5M is one of the small details they don't explain.
Um. Actually, it isn't - they explain it in their FAQ, which you might have wanted to read before posting that. Not that I necessarily agree with them, but here's their explanation:
Q. How possible is it for 20,000 people to take over a state?
A. Highly possible, if you pick the right state. Remember that these 20,000 people are going to be activists, not just voters. For every activist you get several voters. How many? One way to quantify it is to look at campaign expenditures. In 2000 the Libertarian Party had 40,000 members and spent $5 million. So we can expect to spend $5 million over any two-year election cycle (probably more - because once we have a chance of winning contributions from PACs will increase, which third parties don't currently get). There are several states in which $5 million would be enough to outspend the Democrats and Republicans put together. See below for further discussion about the states we're considering and this essay for an in-depth examination of how 20,000 activists could elect majorities in certain U.S. states.
Or just install the browser functionality of Mozilla. There's no requirement to install (or even download) the IRC client or the mail client if you don't want them, you know...
Um. Perhaps I'm gibbering, but I read that as meaning that McFarlane would treat Gaiman better than the big guys would treat him - ie he would get a better deal from McFarlane than he would from Marvel or DC.
True - I'm also told that there may be other issues affecting reprints of the earlier (Alan Moore) works. Still, any result that gives Gaiman the right to continue the Miracleman story is good for me, whether it's an enforcement of the '97 contract or something more punitive.
Some of the best news I've heard in a long time. This legal wrangling has kept Miracleman out of print for far too long, and it's about time we saw reprints of the earlier trade paperbacks and the continuation of the story.
Perfect timing, of course - just after I spent £28.50 on the second TPB of the series on eBay.:)
The fact that this post was modded up shows how zealous and unthinking so many people on this site are.:b
I can't remember the last console that needed to be modded in order to apply cheats. Action Replay and similar titles have been available for consoles for many generations now. There's already one out for the PS2, and one ready for release on GC. It's this sort of program MS needs to target to avoid online cheating, not the modchip manufacturers.
Well, that and encourage development practices that make it harder to cheat in this way...
...and all you have to do is wait for some good games.:b (Just kidding, XBox fans, please don't regale me with tedious lists of games past, present and future...)
I'm quite happy with my current gaming setup, though, which runs the XBox, PS2, GC, Dreamcast, PSX, N64, Saturn, SNES, Megadrive, Jaguar, 3DO, and Atari 2600 (also the DVD player and satellite TV) through a *big* switcher box into a projector, which gives a nice bright 68" viewable screen. Only one thing missing from the setup - a fridge full of beer within arm's reach...
Here's a link to the site. Strange they didn't provide one in the article. Perhaps they're afraid it'll get Slashdotted?
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By listing four things here, you've gone right ahead and said that the software install system is _not_ standard.
Then what OS would you recommend that *does* have a standard software installation mechanism? Windows certainly doesn't count - I've used three entirely different installer applications just today...
Just to clarify, I was thinking about his fiction writing, rather than his religious writing (although as an atheist you might not make the distinction;) - haven't read any of the latter, though there's a copy of Mere Christianity lying around the house somewhere that I keep meaning to read. Once I've finished all the evil satanic fantasy books I keep buying, that is...
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - according to Arthur C Clarke, anyway. The line dividing science fiction and fantasy is a *lot* narrower than some purists would like us to believe - while there are plenty of sci-fi books/shows in which the science is an integral part of the story, there are just as many where it really is indistinguishable from magic, and where you could substitute the rayguns and spacecraft with wands of lightning and flying ships without really affecting the story.
You've mentioned one example yourself, which you're trying to excuse just because it falls under the 'sci-fi' banner - Jedi have mystical powers. So why on earth is it fine when Luke summons his lightsaber to his hand, but evil when Harry Potter summons his broomstick to his? Jedi even experience a life-beyond-death that is firmly set outside the Christian world view - but that's okay because it's science fiction?
And frankly it's sheer arrogance to say that you haven't read a book and then try to make value judgements on it. You refuse to read Harry Potter books because they're fantasy? Fine, your loss. But don't go telling me whether they deserve a Hugo award, because you don't know.
Oh, and don't check out American Gods. It's full of terribly un-Christian things - gods from a variety of pantheons, magic, that sort of thing. I'm sure you'll be able to tell us how good it was without reading a single page anyway.
And while you're at it, you'd better steer clear of C S Lewis and his Narnia books, because fantasy is bad, right? Don't let the fact that he's probably one of the most convincing Christian authors of modern times get in your way.
Just for novelty value, perhaps you could try reading the article before commenting. Then you wouldn't look quite so foolish when you respond to someone quoting the entire article.
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I can't argue with that. So I'll let Bill Hicks do it instead:
Ballmer: [Reading] In the most high and palmy United States,
A little ere the mightiest Apple fell,
No PC stood OSless, and the servers all
Did crash and gibber in the server rooms.
And even the like precurse of fierce events,
As harbingers preceding still the fates
2000 and XP together demonstrate
Unto our climature and countrymen.
[Handing script to Marcellus] Slashdot is desperate with imagination.
Gates: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Ballmer: Heaven will direct it.
Gates: Nay, let's buy it out.
Ballmer: My lord, my lord!
Gates: Illo, ho, ho, my lord!
LINUS ENTERS
Linus: Hillo, ho, ho, boy! Come, bird, come.
Gates: How is't, my noble lord?
Ballmer: What news, my lord?
Linus: O, wonderful!
Ballmer: Good my lord, tell it.
Linus: No, you will embrace and extend it.
Ballmer: Not I, my lord, by heaven!
Gates: Nor I, my lord.
Linus: How say you then? Would Linux give men source code?
But you'll be secret?
Both: Ay, by heaven, my lord.
Linus: There's neer a student dwelling in all Denmark
But he runs StarOffice.
Ballmer: There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
To tell us this.
Linus: Why, right! You are in the right!
And so, without more circumstance at all,
I hold it fit that we shake hands and part;
You, as your business and desires shall point you;
As every man has business and desire.
And for my own poor part, look you, I'll go code.
It's Lara Croft, not Laura...
The story did exist at the time the article was posted. I know, since I've had to prune out countless topics about it on a well-known gaming forum (incidentally, if Slashdot is covering ludicrous gaming rumours these days, I'm sure we can supply them with a few more interesting ones...) Consoletalk have since taken it down, presumably partly in response to the widespread coverage Slashdot is getting it. :)
That used to be the definition, but recently they pulled the word from the dictionary entirely. Perhaps Slashdot ought to do a story on that...
More likely that the site took the article down in a desperate attempt to conceal the fact that they'd been posting blatantly false 'news' stories. I find it hard to believe that anyone who knows *anything* about the console market would believe this for a minute.
Excellent - I gave up all hope of getting ARM/Linux working ages ago, glad to see someone's still working on it. Any idea whether it'll ever be possible to install on an A5000 without a CD drive? :)
So I suppose what we should really be asking is who would win in a fight between Inspector Gadget and Stiltman...
What scares me just a little bit is that you didn't think to try http://www.broadjump.com/. ;)
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein
Ah, well that's a different matter entirely. ;) I agree with you 100% that they don't stand a chance, but if they're willing to give it a try, that's their problem...
Um. Actually, it isn't - they explain it in their FAQ, which you might have wanted to read before posting that. Not that I necessarily agree with them, but here's their explanation:
Or just install the browser functionality of Mozilla. There's no requirement to install (or even download) the IRC client or the mail client if you don't want them, you know...
Yes, damnit. If this carries on we might actually have to value content over style! Won't somebody please think of the web designers?
Um. Perhaps I'm gibbering, but I read that as meaning that McFarlane would treat Gaiman better than the big guys would treat him - ie he would get a better deal from McFarlane than he would from Marvel or DC.
True - I'm also told that there may be other issues affecting reprints of the earlier (Alan Moore) works. Still, any result that gives Gaiman the right to continue the Miracleman story is good for me, whether it's an enforcement of the '97 contract or something more punitive.
Some of the best news I've heard in a long time. This legal wrangling has kept Miracleman out of print for far too long, and it's about time we saw reprints of the earlier trade paperbacks and the continuation of the story.
:)
Perfect timing, of course - just after I spent £28.50 on the second TPB of the series on eBay.
The fact that this post was modded up shows how zealous and unthinking so many people on this site are. :b
I can't remember the last console that needed to be modded in order to apply cheats. Action Replay and similar titles have been available for consoles for many generations now. There's already one out for the PS2, and one ready for release on GC. It's this sort of program MS needs to target to avoid online cheating, not the modchip manufacturers.
Well, that and encourage development practices that make it harder to cheat in this way...
...and all you have to do is wait for some good games. :b (Just kidding, XBox fans, please don't regale me with tedious lists of games past, present and future...)
I'm quite happy with my current gaming setup, though, which runs the XBox, PS2, GC, Dreamcast, PSX, N64, Saturn, SNES, Megadrive, Jaguar, 3DO, and Atari 2600 (also the DVD player and satellite TV) through a *big* switcher box into a projector, which gives a nice bright 68" viewable screen. Only one thing missing from the setup - a fridge full of beer within arm's reach...
Here's a link to the site. Strange they didn't provide one in the article. Perhaps they're afraid it'll get Slashdotted?
Then what OS would you recommend that *does* have a standard software installation mechanism? Windows certainly doesn't count - I've used three entirely different installer applications just today...
Just to clarify, I was thinking about his fiction writing, rather than his religious writing (although as an atheist you might not make the distinction ;) - haven't read any of the latter, though there's a copy of Mere Christianity lying around the house somewhere that I keep meaning to read. Once I've finished all the evil satanic fantasy books I keep buying, that is...
Apt thread title. :)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - according to Arthur C Clarke, anyway. The line dividing science fiction and fantasy is a *lot* narrower than some purists would like us to believe - while there are plenty of sci-fi books/shows in which the science is an integral part of the story, there are just as many where it really is indistinguishable from magic, and where you could substitute the rayguns and spacecraft with wands of lightning and flying ships without really affecting the story.
You've mentioned one example yourself, which you're trying to excuse just because it falls under the 'sci-fi' banner - Jedi have mystical powers. So why on earth is it fine when Luke summons his lightsaber to his hand, but evil when Harry Potter summons his broomstick to his? Jedi even experience a life-beyond-death that is firmly set outside the Christian world view - but that's okay because it's science fiction?
And frankly it's sheer arrogance to say that you haven't read a book and then try to make value judgements on it. You refuse to read Harry Potter books because they're fantasy? Fine, your loss. But don't go telling me whether they deserve a Hugo award, because you don't know.
Oh, and don't check out American Gods. It's full of terribly un-Christian things - gods from a variety of pantheons, magic, that sort of thing. I'm sure you'll be able to tell us how good it was without reading a single page anyway.
And while you're at it, you'd better steer clear of C S Lewis and his Narnia books, because fantasy is bad, right? Don't let the fact that he's probably one of the most convincing Christian authors of modern times get in your way.
Just for novelty value, perhaps you could try reading the article before commenting. Then you wouldn't look quite so foolish when you respond to someone quoting the entire article.