When the beast arrives he will come in the form of a corporation...
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great corporation, having seven CEOs and ten Lawyers, and seven Patents upon his CEOs. (Revelation 012:003)
Well, if your friend is the one called Welles then just disregard this comment, but the author of the doubleplusfamous novel "1984" was actually George Orwell.
would you mind summarizing the rest of the movie????
well... his brother dies, too. and his other brother. and his sister. and that other sister. and another brother. oh yeah, did i mention that third sister? and another sister, too. yeah, add another brother to the body count. and another sister.
490 siblings later, the prologue is over and the first act of the movie starts. (things tend to get a bit less bloody from there on)
So the GPL is more anti-business than BSD and similar licenses, and less anti-business than pretty much every commercial license in existance.
Somehow i tend to conclude that calling the GPL anti-business is somewhat akin to calling a temperature of 1 Kelvin REALLY FRIGGIN DAMN HOT OUCH I BURNT MY FINGER because theres still something even colder.
Maybe magnetic induction impairs your hearing? If our sample group consists solely of already-near-deaf people we won't know until no one hears anything anymore. I smell a RIAA plot.
Thus i avoided using "he" by carefully wording my sentences so that I avoided singuglar pronouns entirely. Using words like the player, ther reader, and one.
You anglophones have no idea how easy your lives are in that area.
In german, all words have a grammatical gender, being either masculinum, femininum or neutrum. Obviously, those are usually correlated with their respective "biological" genders where applicable, but not neccessarily so: the table, neutral by nature, is "der Tisch", grammatically male. The girl is "das Madchen", usually female by nature, but with the neutrum article.
Based upon this distinction we have female forms for most of the nouns describing people ("der Spieler" - player, "die Spielerin" - female player), too.
Plus we can't use "one" there either, because that's "man" in german, being WAY too close to our word for a male member of the human species, "Mann".
Both of these issues can be (and are, especially in more left-wing, feminist, whatever contexts) resolved by simply resorting to brutally raping the language by inventing constructs like "SpielerIn" for gender-neutral player, and "man/frau" for a gender-neutral "one" - note how the "Mann" got chopped off his last letter there, while "Frau" (woman) is written in full.
Even worse, i recently read an article (in a rather leftist newspaper, but still) about a feminist group who found out that the first programmers were actually women. Now in german a computer is just that, a "Computer", taken literally from english, but with a male article, hence "der Computer" (that article probably stems from the more native word for calculator, "der Rechner"). So those fine ladies wanted to chop off the end of the word and change the article (endings in -er usually indicate male article in german, while -e usually means female; and yes i'm scared about that chopping fetish, too) and change the word to "die Compute".
Jules: What country you from! Bret: What? Jules: "What" ain't no country I know! Do they speak English in "What?" Brett: What? Jules: English-motherfucker-can-you-speak-it?
While i regard OpenBSD as a very secure system, i highly doubt that the OpenBSD software somehow enforces security and bug-freedom in programs written to run on it. (Thats what the sarcastic remark was all about, demanding that a software environment enforces something that it has no way of evaluating.)
they should architect their KDE/GNOME application frameworks so they enforce a consistent UI experience.
Yeah, and they should enforce bug-free, secure coding, too. </rant>
Seriously, i doubt you can programmatically ENFORCE consistent UI experience except for the most trivial problems.
Gtk+ even failed to provide a decent file selector dialog until recently, so there's still room for improvement, but usability is influenced by a great many factors that cannot be controlled by the framework (menu layout, wording, metaphors,...).
Of course, where it is POSSIBLE to do so, the "good" way of doing things should be the easiest, too, but sometimes you have to violate consistency with the rest of the system to achieve better usability for your application, so being able to use the "not-so-good" way (consistency-wise) is an absolute necessity.
allows companies to feel safe enough about their control over their assets to allow you to listen to a song
A: ooohh i'm so scared... i can't allow you to listen to that great new album because i'm soooo scared... B: GET THE FUCK OUT OF THAT BUSINESS THEN!
I don't need to use Linux to play my music, and neither do you.
I want to play music on my PC with linux. I want to play it on my notebook with windows. I want to play it on my Archos Jukebox running Rockbox.
If the media conglomerate can't provide music in a format that satisfies this demands, well, they won't get any money from me. But don't think i will feel guilty COPYING it, the same way i don't feel guilty copying music that is only available on vinyl (hence, not playable by the equipment i have). The same way i don't feel guilty copying "CDs" that may or may not play on my PC, Laptop or CD-Player (so-called "copy-protected" CDs").
<rant>Music is much more than a product. It's a part of our culture, and copyright law should reflect that fact. It used to do so, but the way it's heading looks like it won't do so for much longer.</rant>
well... how many digital media (mediums?) HAVE been adopted in the US? How many of those were CONSUMER media?
basically, what you said is that DVD was adopted more quickly than CD-Audio. Big deal, esp. regarding the different price difference (whoa) to their respective predecessor.
well... the only incentive for me to play that game is the movie tie-in, i.e. to get to know more about some aspects that were touched in Reloaded and Revolutions. But the game tries very hard to prevent this, by offering gameplay that is boring at times, frustrating at other times, but very seldom satisfying in itself.
One of the most horrible aspects of the game is the driving scenes. Playing as ghost, you have to hang out of the window of the driving car and shoot at the enemies (police, the twins,...) while niobe drives. But the AI for driving the car is done so badly that half of the time it gets stuck somewhere. Not to mention that the opponent's AI isn't Michael Schumacher either, so when Niobe manages to stay on the road, you don't see much of your opponents.
Another frustrating thing is the timing of the save points - theres a map where you have to do a few minutes of stupid running along a path before you meet the bad guys. When you meet them you have to protect another rebel by snipering at the policemen who want to shoot him. Easy to do if you know WHERE they are but you don't know that if you play that sequence for the first time. Your ally dies, you die too (WHY?), back to mindlessly running along the path for a few minutes. And then there's the Merovingian's chateau, where you exit one map, get to save, cross the hall (literally ONE STEP) without anyone in it and get to save again.
Apart from that, the whole environment is looking somewhat boring and nothing like the movies.
The kung-fu is looking relatively good, but later in the game it tends to get boring, beating up yet another vampire for two minutes only to finish him off with a wooden stake (why didn't my character plunge him with that stake RIGHT AT THE START of the fight?)
The hanguns have an auto aiming mode in third person view, and you have a first person view, in which you get a crosshair and can aim for yourself (but you can't run around in first person mode). The auto-aiming is so screwed (even when standing) that you have to switch to manual aiming for everything farther away than 15-20 meters.
Often it isn't made very clear what you are supposed to do in a level - you kill a few SWAT guys who are setting up an ambush for another rebel, then you take a look at the arrow that points you to your new destination, follow it, only to get an interlude of the rebel getting killed by another SWAT guy and you have to start over from the last save point.
Still, i guess it helps in unterstanding WTFs going on in the movies.
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And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great corporation, having seven CEOs and ten Lawyers, and seven Patents upon his CEOs. (Revelation 012:003)
Well, if your friend is the one called Welles then just disregard this comment, but the author of the doubleplusfamous novel "1984" was actually George Orwell.
funnily enough, IMDB says that (emphasis mine)
well... his brother dies, too. and his other brother. and his sister. and that other sister. and another brother. oh yeah, did i mention that third sister? and another sister, too. yeah, add another brother to the body count. and another sister.
490 siblings later, the prologue is over and the first act of the movie starts. (things tend to get a bit less bloody from there on)
So the GPL is more anti-business than BSD and similar licenses, and less anti-business than pretty much every commercial license in existance.
Somehow i tend to conclude that calling the GPL anti-business is somewhat akin to calling a temperature of 1 Kelvin REALLY FRIGGIN DAMN HOT OUCH I BURNT MY FINGER because theres still something even colder.
i'm a mute you insensitive clod. you better not be caught using THAT foul language again, or else....
just when we thought we had enough beaver references...
Maybe magnetic induction impairs your hearing? If our sample group consists solely of already-near-deaf people we won't know until no one hears anything anymore. I smell a RIAA plot.
*looking at funny words*
I dind't konw slahsdot wsa aronud bcka tehn!
So we all want to live in an environment where you can't call a slave drive a slave drive?
You anglophones have no idea how easy your lives are in that area.
In german, all words have a grammatical gender, being either masculinum, femininum or neutrum. Obviously, those are usually correlated with their respective "biological" genders where applicable, but not neccessarily so: the table, neutral by nature, is "der Tisch", grammatically male. The girl is "das Madchen", usually female by nature, but with the neutrum article.
Based upon this distinction we have female forms for most of the nouns describing people ("der Spieler" - player, "die Spielerin" - female player), too.
Plus we can't use "one" there either, because that's "man" in german, being WAY too close to our word for a male member of the human species, "Mann".
Both of these issues can be (and are, especially in more left-wing, feminist, whatever contexts) resolved by simply resorting to brutally raping the language by inventing constructs like "SpielerIn" for gender-neutral player, and "man/frau" for a gender-neutral "one" - note how the "Mann" got chopped off his last letter there, while "Frau" (woman) is written in full.
Even worse, i recently read an article (in a rather leftist newspaper, but still) about a feminist group who found out that the first programmers were actually women. Now in german a computer is just that, a "Computer", taken literally from english, but with a male article, hence "der Computer" (that article probably stems from the more native word for calculator, "der Rechner"). So those fine ladies wanted to chop off the end of the word and change the article (endings in -er usually indicate male article in german, while -e usually means female; and yes i'm scared about that chopping fetish, too) and change the word to "die Compute".
wait... we are NOT??!?
The "patriotic" version (turning your personal computer into a FREEDOM computer):
General/Soldier
The "Slashdot Tinfoil" version:
RIAAMPAACIAMicroSCOft/we
The "Hegemony" version:
USA/Rest of the world
The "Southern Pride" version:
Klansman/Nigger
The "Equal rights" version:
IDE client #1/IDE client #1
The "I can't hear THAT anymore" version:
How are you/Gentlemen?
The "YetAnotherSlashdotCliche" version:
???/Profit!
The "LOTR" version:
One Ring/Them All
The "disgusting" version:
goatse/cx
Jules: What country you from!
Bret: What?
Jules: "What" ain't no country I know! Do they speak English in "What?"
Brett: What?
Jules: English-motherfucker-can-you-speak-it?
quick, we better make CDs illegal!
I'm a lazy bum you insensitive clod!
While i regard OpenBSD as a very secure system, i highly doubt that the OpenBSD software somehow enforces security and bug-freedom in programs written to run on it. (Thats what the sarcastic remark was all about, demanding that a software environment enforces something that it has no way of evaluating.)
Yeah, and they should enforce bug-free, secure coding, too. </rant>
Seriously, i doubt you can programmatically ENFORCE consistent UI experience except for the most trivial problems.
Gtk+ even failed to provide a decent file selector dialog until recently, so there's still room for improvement, but usability is influenced by a great many factors that cannot be controlled by the framework (menu layout, wording, metaphors,
Of course, where it is POSSIBLE to do so, the "good" way of doing things should be the easiest, too, but sometimes you have to violate consistency with the rest of the system to achieve better usability for your application, so being able to use the "not-so-good" way (consistency-wise) is an absolute necessity.
not pr0n, strictly speaking, but it's more modern alternative pr1n
i don't count issuing driving licenses as mass murder either, so why should i count drug dealing?
The American Barber's Association together with Gilette and Head&Shoulders.
A: ooohh i'm so scared... i can't allow you to listen to that great new album because i'm soooo scared...
B: GET THE FUCK OUT OF THAT BUSINESS THEN!
I want to play music on my PC with linux.
I want to play it on my notebook with windows.
I want to play it on my Archos Jukebox running Rockbox.
If the media conglomerate can't provide music in a format that satisfies this demands, well, they won't get any money from me. But don't think i will feel guilty COPYING it, the same way i don't feel guilty copying music that is only available on vinyl (hence, not playable by the equipment i have). The same way i don't feel guilty copying "CDs" that may or may not play on my PC, Laptop or CD-Player (so-called "copy-protected" CDs").
<rant>Music is much more than a product. It's a part of our culture, and copyright law should reflect that fact. It used to do so, but the way it's heading looks like it won't do so for much longer.</rant>
well... how many digital media (mediums?) HAVE been adopted in the US? How many of those were CONSUMER media?
basically, what you said is that DVD was adopted more quickly than CD-Audio. Big deal, esp. regarding the different price difference (whoa) to their respective predecessor.
well... the only incentive for me to play that game is the movie tie-in, i.e. to get to know more about some aspects that were touched in Reloaded and Revolutions. But the game tries very hard to prevent this, by offering gameplay that is boring at times, frustrating at other times, but very seldom satisfying in itself.
...) while niobe drives. But the AI for driving the car is done so badly that half of the time it gets stuck somewhere. Not to mention that the opponent's AI isn't Michael Schumacher either, so when Niobe manages to stay on the road, you don't see much of your opponents.
One of the most horrible aspects of the game is the driving scenes. Playing as ghost, you have to hang out of the window of the driving car and shoot at the enemies (police, the twins,
Another frustrating thing is the timing of the save points - theres a map where you have to do a few minutes of stupid running along a path before you meet the bad guys. When you meet them you have to protect another rebel by snipering at the policemen who want to shoot him. Easy to do if you know WHERE they are but you don't know that if you play that sequence for the first time. Your ally dies, you die too (WHY?), back to mindlessly running along the path for a few minutes. And then there's the Merovingian's chateau, where you exit one map, get to save, cross the hall (literally ONE STEP) without anyone in it and get to save again.
Apart from that, the whole environment is looking somewhat boring and nothing like the movies.
The kung-fu is looking relatively good, but later in the game it tends to get boring, beating up yet another vampire for two minutes only to finish him off with a wooden stake (why didn't my character plunge him with that stake RIGHT AT THE START of the fight?)
The hanguns have an auto aiming mode in third person view, and you have a first person view, in which you get a crosshair and can aim for yourself (but you can't run around in first person mode). The auto-aiming is so screwed (even when standing) that you have to switch to manual aiming for everything farther away than 15-20 meters.
Often it isn't made very clear what you are supposed to do in a level - you kill a few SWAT guys who are setting up an ambush for another rebel, then you take a look at the arrow that points you to your new destination, follow it, only to get an interlude of the rebel getting killed by another SWAT guy and you have to start over from the last save point.
Still, i guess it helps in unterstanding WTFs going on in the movies.