Of Course Eating McDonalds increases your stats!
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To prove this, I began eating nothing but McDonald's food for the past month. And had an increase in many statistics!
* Weight -- I went from weighing a pittly 175 to weighing a healthy 350! That's a stat increase of 200% go McDonalds!
* Running time -- Before I began the all McDonalds diet, I could run a mile in 6 minutes. The McDonalds diet increased my running time by well over 20 minutes!
* Cholesterol -- Eating McDonalds food dramatically increases your cholesterol intake!
So, for any of those nay-sayers, I think I have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that McDonalds food does INDEED increase your stats!
I for one, think this is a pointless violation of our rights. Any "real" terrorist worth their mustard is probably using PGP, so the cops won't be able to read it anyway. Sounds like a lot of wasted money to me.
I've been using linux for over 2 years and I still think mandrake is one of the best distros out there.
Redhat has almost certainly stated that it believes linux is not destined for the desktop market. Loki went out of bussiness. Mandrake still claims to be very much interested in the desktop market, and IMHO, is the best for the job, and the only one I know of still interested in it.
As much as linux users (especially/. readers) bitch about windows, mandrake is the only one with an installer you'd even think about letting your mother use.
If Mandrake goes under, it will be because people do not support it. And if it does, I don't want to hear anyone complain about windows desktop dominance, because we let it happen.
Large corperations have an unfair advantage in a small environment. I live in a small town. WalMart came in, and the prices were low at first. They drove the competitors out of town and then were able to raise prices higher than any of the competitors used to charge, since they were the only game in town.
Wake up and smell the coffee. If a monopoly gets competition, it can usually cut prices and sell at a loss in order to gain marketshare (and drive competitors out of bussiness). Once it has marketshare, it can charge whatever it wants. Certain companies that are doing this in console gaming right now whom I won't name....
Mod me down for saying this or whatever (it probably will, everyone who comes here seems to have some story about their 386 running a http server since the civil war), but it will probably take them a good year and a half to get this project to completion. According to Moore's law, processor speed will double.
A recent article posted here (forgive me if I don't remember the date) talked about this exact issue. A company delayed release of their wordprocessor to fit on a 5 1/4 inch floppy, standard at the time. But no one uses it anymore, and it turned out to be a waste of time and money.
Maybe it's just me, but isn't part of the idea of open source, open standards?
A large proprietary software maker uses a Free OS and we trumpet this as a win...
"I think it's going to be really hard for an open standards company like that to get deep into the software business."
This I think implies that Oracle is much into closed standards. Mod me down as being a troll or whatever, but could someone please explain to me why we should like Oracle?
Mod me down for this or whatever (since the story was rejected), but yesterday Sunspire reported they finally found a publisher for Tux Racer. Seeing that Loki died, this seems to be the silver lining if you will. Ordering info can be found at the tuxracer website.
Now timothy, i know you're challenged, but could you please read this before making any comments about mods for civ 3?
From the website:
"One of the enduring strengths of the Civilization franchise has been its ability to be customized by the fans...The editors in Civilization III are only the beginning. Based on feedback from the mod and scenario community we will make additional improvements and incorporate new features. The editors are just tools, ones that the fan community needs to make meaningful by creating new scenarios with.. As those in the 'trenches' of creating new content run into limitations, we'll work on eradicating those barriers. Firaxis is very interested in Civilization III having an active mod community, but need to know where our efforts are best spent. Together we can make Civilization III a potent platform for not only exploring factual history, but also your creativity and interests."
I've used the map editor in civ3 and it's quite good. IMHO your view of them wanting us just to play the game as is and not be creative is too simplistic.
I found the NYT article also woefully innaccurate.
The War of 1812 was not about the British or shipping for the most part. The Madison administration blamed the war on British shipping practices most certainly--though this was not the actual reason. Before the war, it is clear that the northern states--who were the county's major traders at the time--did not support the war. Support was very strong in the southern states, who sought to make great territorial gains. Most modern historians share the interpretation of new englanders at the time; it was outright attempt to expand our borders by taking away land from the indians. The British were allied with many of the indian nations at the time and it "looks better" to go to war against shipping violations rather than for outright territorial expansion.
While we're busy thinking the US is a humanitarian nation, let us remember kuwait would not have gotten our help if it didn't have huge oil reserves.
Let us remember that this incident is only so shocking because it happened here.
Let us not forget that we are not always the victims.
About 6 months ago, at my local LUG, a company called merant (www.merant.com) talked about releasing their database program sometime soon (october) under the GPL. They said they'd really like support from users like us to do it and they'd survive as a company by doing support. Does anyone know if they've actually done that or not? If so, why not switch to it for mission critical apps?
If I understand the GPL correctly, one could avoid this hassle completely by released all of one's inventions via the GPL before signing. Thus, any further developements in the "inventions" you've already written, would have to be GPLed as well or else the company would risk copyright infringement. Would that work?
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To prove this, I began eating nothing but McDonald's food for the past month. And had an increase in many statistics!
* Weight -- I went from weighing a pittly 175 to weighing a healthy 350! That's a stat increase of 200% go McDonalds!
* Running time -- Before I began the all McDonalds diet, I could run a mile in 6 minutes. The McDonalds diet increased my running time by well over 20 minutes!
* Cholesterol -- Eating McDonalds food dramatically increases your cholesterol intake!
So, for any of those nay-sayers, I think I have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that McDonalds food does INDEED increase your stats!
I for one, think this is a pointless violation of our rights. Any "real" terrorist worth their mustard is probably using PGP, so the cops won't be able to read it anyway. Sounds like a lot of wasted money to me.
I've been using linux for over 2 years and I still think mandrake is one of the best distros out there.
/. readers) bitch about windows, mandrake is the only one with an installer you'd even think about letting your mother use.
Redhat has almost certainly stated that it believes linux is not destined for the desktop market. Loki went out of bussiness. Mandrake still claims to be very much interested in the desktop market, and IMHO, is the best for the job, and the only one I know of still interested in it.
As much as linux users (especially
If Mandrake goes under, it will be because people do not support it. And if it does, I don't want to hear anyone complain about windows desktop dominance, because we let it happen.
Large corperations have an unfair advantage in a small environment. I live in a small town. WalMart came in, and the prices were low at first. They drove the competitors out of town and then were able to raise prices higher than any of the competitors used to charge, since they were the only game in town.
Wake up and smell the coffee. If a monopoly gets competition, it can usually cut prices and sell at a loss in order to gain marketshare (and drive competitors out of bussiness). Once it has marketshare, it can charge whatever it wants. Certain companies that are doing this in console gaming right now whom I won't name....
Mod me down for saying this or whatever (it probably will, everyone who comes here seems to have some story about their 386 running a http server since the civil war), but it will probably take them a good year and a half to get this project to completion. According to Moore's law, processor speed will double.
A recent article posted here (forgive me if I don't remember the date) talked about this exact issue. A company delayed release of their wordprocessor to fit on a 5 1/4 inch floppy, standard at the time. But no one uses it anymore, and it turned out to be a waste of time and money.
Best of luck, but don't say I didn't warn you.
Maybe it's just me, but isn't part of the idea of open source, open standards?
A large proprietary software maker uses a Free OS and we trumpet this as a win...
"I think it's going to be really hard for an open standards company like that to get deep into the software business."
This I think implies that Oracle is much into closed standards. Mod me down as being a troll or whatever, but could someone please explain to me why we should like Oracle?
Mod me down for this or whatever (since the story was rejected), but yesterday Sunspire reported they finally found a publisher for Tux Racer. Seeing that Loki died, this seems to be the silver lining if you will. Ordering info can be found at the tuxracer website.
Maybe he'll consider having a cameo by N'Sync...=)
nah....
Now timothy, i know you're challenged, but could you please read this before making any comments about mods for civ 3?
From the website:
"One of the enduring strengths of the Civilization franchise has been its ability to be customized by the fans...The editors in Civilization III are only the beginning. Based on feedback from the mod and scenario community we will make additional improvements and incorporate new features. The editors are just tools, ones that the fan community needs to make meaningful by creating new scenarios with.. As those in the 'trenches' of creating new content run into limitations, we'll work on eradicating those barriers. Firaxis is very interested in Civilization III having an active mod community, but need to know where our efforts are best spent. Together we can make Civilization III a potent platform for not only exploring factual history, but also your creativity and interests."
I've used the map editor in civ3 and it's quite good. IMHO your view of them wanting us just to play the game as is and not be creative is too simplistic.
I found the NYT article also woefully innaccurate.
The War of 1812 was not about the British or shipping for the most part. The Madison administration blamed the war on British shipping practices most certainly--though this was not the actual reason. Before the war, it is clear that the northern states--who were the county's major traders at the time--did not support the war. Support was very strong in the southern states, who sought to make great territorial gains. Most modern historians share the interpretation of new englanders at the time; it was outright attempt to expand our borders by taking away land from the indians. The British were allied with many of the indian nations at the time and it "looks better" to go to war against shipping violations rather than for outright territorial expansion.
While we're busy thinking the US is a humanitarian nation, let us remember kuwait would not have gotten our help if it didn't have huge oil reserves.
Let us remember that this incident is only so shocking because it happened here.
Let us not forget that we are not always the victims.
I love this. So they can use Linux for the server but they can't bother to put up linux friendly media? How I love corperate America....
About 6 months ago, at my local LUG, a company called merant (www.merant.com) talked about releasing their database program sometime soon (october) under the GPL. They said they'd really like support from users like us to do it and they'd survive as a company by doing support. Does anyone know if they've actually done that or not? If so, why not switch to it for mission critical apps?
If I understand the GPL correctly, one could avoid this hassle completely by released all of one's inventions via the GPL before signing. Thus, any further developements in the "inventions" you've already written, would have to be GPLed as well or else the company would risk copyright infringement. Would that work?
Might as well be nice and guess my sister's birthday=)
The time posted on the story isn't for another 40 minutes.... Why is that?