Women LIKE sexy portrayals of women. Women LIKE to feel sexy. They LIKE to feel attractive, they fucking ENJOY the power to reduce a man to a quivering puddle of goo with their bodies. Come on men, don't you too?
Not to get into the other things you're saying (where I agree with some, disagree with others), but that's a massive generalisation to make about people. Limit it culturally and by area and I might be more inclined to agree with you, but even then I think that you're talking about a certain subset of the women and men you know, not all of them. Just because you have a certain attitude to sex doesn't mean that every other human being is automatically wired the same way.
I downloaded binaries and source from the site that day, I'm pretty sure. (On the 'you never know if the site will go down again' principle.)
Anyway, as an open source project, whoever picks up the torch, works on the source and provides a download could be considered a host, especially with code that is illegal in one country or another -- you can understand why any one group of people might not want to be too closely associated with the codebase.
Sun will soon be sending out squads of mercenaries to kill Linux users on sight
I'm just thinking, that would make a great out-of-context quote.:) Hey, it's one way to get more Solaris users, by percentage anyway.
Don't forget Sun's a fully paid-up SCO supporter -- i.e. oxygen for Darl's windmill-tilting crusade against Linux. If we managed to Googlebomb them as litigous bastards, maybe we'll be able to do it to them as squads of mercenaries...
(By the way, that page links to a lovely story containing the quote "I have a hard time seeing the Linux Zealots as any different from terrorists because of the nature of their threats." Charming.)
Yes! I'm glad to see someone else advancing this opinion. Coppola's Apocalypse Now was another glorious failure in that same tradition; it doesn't really work, but you can see what he's trying for, and there are still moments of greatness...
There was a final sequence if you got to (not quite sure) $10,000 before the ghost meter reached maximum...
as the linked pages says:
END OF GAME: THE TEMPLE OF ZUUL
The game ends one of three ways:
1. The Gatekeeper and Keymaster join forces at the Temple of Zuul and you have not earned more money than you originally started with.
2. Once the Gatekeeper and Keymaster have joined forces at Zuul, and you do have sufficient credit, but you are not able to sneak two of your threeGhostbusters into the entrance of Zuul.
3. You successfully reach the top of the Temple of Zuul by sneaking two Ghostbusters into its entrance.
Repetitive... yes.:) You had to stay very focused not to mess it up.
Yeah, I can imagine you could have lots of different houses/buildings and ghosts as a 3D game, sounds like fun.
Isn't there a part in the first one where you can walk off a clifftop, then a Sierra-style 'Restore/Restart/Quit' dialog comes up? After a while the game tells you "Heh heh, only kidding", and Guybrush bounces back up to the clifftop... it's somewhere near the end, on Monkey Island itself, IIRC.
I think the sins of the news media today are mostly ones of omission, rather than active misinformation.
Well, you're a glass half-full kind of guy, then.:)
The majority of the news media don't have the time (deadlines to meet), money (shareholders to appease) or inclination (troublemakers don't get hired) to actually investigate any real issues, all they tend to do is reinforce marketing messages for whoever has decided to spend big that month, no matter which governments or business interests those are.
When will Half-Life 2 be out, though? If they were originally targetting September last year, and had a feature set to match, it may look a little dated by the time this September rolls around, depending on what else is out there. Unless they take more time to add more features/better visuals... which can end up causing its own delays.
It's a little harder to gauge that with Doom 3, as IIRC id don't like to announce release dates far in advance.
MS bashing aside, how can the same action be wrong for one company and OK for another company?
Past bad behaviour. Apple aren't being held to another standard -- if they gain a monopoly and then abuse it like Microsoft have they'll be punished the same way (i.e. a slap on the wrist and punishments that in no way mitigate the damage done or prevent further abuses.)
All of the cases you've listed with your car are standard design flaws that are clearly noticeable under normal conditions (not conditions like people driving planes into you or launching rockets at you).
Not noticeable under normal conditions like, say, clicking on email (Nimda etc.), browsing a web page (various malware) or running a web server (Code Red)? Or even *turning on a machine connected to the Internet* (Blaster)?
Until SCO start issuing more press releases, of course. At the moment it's impossible to find any software, open or closed, that isn't potentially infringing... because the decision on what's infringing is being made by a group of litigation-happy last-chancers, with no proof being shown.
The thing to note is that they haven't actually sued anyone (yet) that they hadn't already had a contract with -- so if that isn't a signal to run a mile from them, I don't know what is.
Didn't Dawes change the XFree86 licence to something pretty similar to what he used for his own company's work on the codebase, though, and isn't this what caused the fork in the first place? Something about a pot and a kettle?
Diderot wasn't being denominationally specific there.
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They weren't. The reasons are and were completely valid.
Where are the WMDs, then? Where are the links to Al Qaeda?
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while never publically admitting it, it's common knowledge that israel is a nuclear state
That reminds me, Vanunu is due out soon. I wonder if they'll let him go... or hold him indefinitely for 'security purposes'. (Something the US is in no position to give Israel a firm slap over, as it seems like lengthy detentions without charge followed by show trials are in fashion there too.)
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The Spanish people elected a much more fascist and greedy government than they had before. The terrorists won, evil-minded totalitarians in Spain won, and the Spanish people lost.
The Spanish people lived under Franco for decades. I think they know a lot more about totalitarian fascism than you could ever claim to.
The previous Spanish Government went to war with opinion polls 90% against it, and the reasons for the war were later found to be completely spurious. They were then seen to be covering up the causes of the terrorist bombing. Is this the sort of behaviour you want to reward?
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Women LIKE sexy portrayals of women. Women LIKE to feel sexy. They LIKE to feel attractive, they fucking ENJOY the power to reduce a man to a quivering puddle of goo with their bodies. Come on men, don't you too?
Not to get into the other things you're saying (where I agree with some, disagree with others), but that's a massive generalisation to make about people. Limit it culturally and by area and I might be more inclined to agree with you, but even then I think that you're talking about a certain subset of the women and men you know, not all of them. Just because you have a certain attitude to sex doesn't mean that every other human being is automatically wired the same way.
I downloaded binaries and source from the site that day, I'm pretty sure. (On the 'you never know if the site will go down again' principle.)
Anyway, as an open source project, whoever picks up the torch, works on the source and provides a download could be considered a host, especially with code that is illegal in one country or another -- you can understand why any one group of people might not want to be too closely associated with the codebase.
to the previous Playfair story, but it took the editors 3 days to post a front page story about it?
Guess it's true they can't be bothered reading the site -- maybe they should outsource their duties.
Sun will soon be sending out squads of mercenaries to kill Linux users on sight
:) Hey, it's one way to get more Solaris users, by percentage anyway.
I'm just thinking, that would make a great out-of-context quote.
Don't forget Sun's a fully paid-up SCO supporter -- i.e. oxygen for Darl's windmill-tilting crusade against Linux. If we managed to Googlebomb them as litigous bastards, maybe we'll be able to do it to them as squads of mercenaries...
(By the way, that page links to a lovely story containing the quote "I have a hard time seeing the Linux Zealots as any different from terrorists because of the nature of their threats." Charming.)
Even at the time, he was considered a prominent practical exponent of Sturgeon's Law.
Yes! I'm glad to see someone else advancing this opinion. Coppola's Apocalypse Now was another glorious failure in that same tradition; it doesn't really work, but you can see what he's trying for, and there are still moments of greatness...
as the linked pages says:
Repetitive... yes.
Yeah, I can imagine you could have lots of different houses/buildings and ghosts as a 3D game, sounds like fun.
Already done on the Commodore 64. Activision, I think. A great game -- had the theme tune and everything. :)
Except these games are presented in a 2D medium :)
OK, so they're in 3D... will you settle for the 3-and-halfth wall?
Isn't there a part in the first one where you can walk off a clifftop, then a Sierra-style 'Restore/Restart/Quit' dialog comes up? After a while the game tells you "Heh heh, only kidding", and Guybrush bounces back up to the clifftop... it's somewhere near the end, on Monkey Island itself, IIRC.
I think the sins of the news media today are mostly ones of omission, rather than active misinformation.
:)
Well, you're a glass half-full kind of guy, then.
The majority of the news media don't have the time (deadlines to meet), money (shareholders to appease) or inclination (troublemakers don't get hired) to actually investigate any real issues, all they tend to do is reinforce marketing messages for whoever has decided to spend big that month, no matter which governments or business interests those are.
When will Half-Life 2 be out, though? If they were originally targetting September last year, and had a feature set to match, it may look a little dated by the time this September rolls around, depending on what else is out there. Unless they take more time to add more features/better visuals... which can end up causing its own delays.
It's a little harder to gauge that with Doom 3, as IIRC id don't like to announce release dates far in advance.
MS bashing aside, how can the same action be wrong for one company and OK for another company?
Past bad behaviour. Apple aren't being held to another standard -- if they gain a monopoly and then abuse it like Microsoft have they'll be punished the same way (i.e. a slap on the wrist and punishments that in no way mitigate the damage done or prevent further abuses.)
complete with resized vector graphics and a video of moving clouds looping on the background of the window
I didn't list any eye candy
Huh?
All of the cases you've listed with your car are standard design flaws that are clearly noticeable under normal conditions (not conditions like people driving planes into you or launching rockets at you).
Not noticeable under normal conditions like, say, clicking on email (Nimda etc.), browsing a web page (various malware) or running a web server (Code Red)? Or even *turning on a machine connected to the Internet* (Blaster)?
Having to buy whole albums with only a single good tune
Yeah, those damn record companies, holding the gun to your head and *forcing* you to buy their crappy products.
Don't like it, don't buy it.
Sure it's not Zhang, or something?
Until SCO start issuing more press releases, of course. At the moment it's impossible to find any software, open or closed, that isn't potentially infringing... because the decision on what's infringing is being made by a group of litigation-happy last-chancers, with no proof being shown.
The thing to note is that they haven't actually sued anyone (yet) that they hadn't already had a contract with -- so if that isn't a signal to run a mile from them, I don't know what is.
Didn't Dawes change the XFree86 licence to something pretty similar to what he used for his own company's work on the codebase, though, and isn't this what caused the fork in the first place? Something about a pot and a kettle?
Australia is not a state of the US
I think the application was posted a while back; we'll get that 51st star yet!
Probably not one that doesn't infringe on SCO's IP. According to SCO, anyway, and they'll get around to showing the proof any year now.
Diderot wasn't being denominationally specific there.
They weren't. The reasons are and were completely valid.
Where are the WMDs, then? Where are the links to Al Qaeda?
while never publically admitting it, it's common knowledge that israel is a nuclear state
That reminds me, Vanunu is due out soon. I wonder if they'll let him go... or hold him indefinitely for 'security purposes'. (Something the US is in no position to give Israel a firm slap over, as it seems like lengthy detentions without charge followed by show trials are in fashion there too.)
The Spanish people elected a much more fascist and greedy government than they had before. The terrorists won, evil-minded totalitarians in Spain won, and the Spanish people lost.
The Spanish people lived under Franco for decades. I think they know a lot more about totalitarian fascism than you could ever claim to.
The previous Spanish Government went to war with opinion polls 90% against it, and the reasons for the war were later found to be completely spurious. They were then seen to be covering up the causes of the terrorist bombing. Is this the sort of behaviour you want to reward?