When I go to SourceFire, I see plenty of ways for me to investimentise in my partneritude, but I can't for the life of me seem to find the source of your "open source" product.
When I go to Suricata, the source link is right there on the front page.
Good call. The "role playing" element of D&D (basic!) was virtually non-existent. We're talking about a game with so little choice that it had "elf" and "dwarf" as character classes.
Do you really believe that Fondlebum flogged his kiss-and-tell to The Times for a discount? That's premium content: they'll have been the highest bidder. Hey, thanks, I think you just proved my point.
Because if you're a publicist, why would you offer The Times content in return for publicity that nobody will see? If you're a columnist, how does it help your career to write articles that nobody reads, or can link to?
By reducing the number of readers, they're not just cutting off advertising revenue, they're also making it more expensive to obtain content.
A small game that neatly showcases what is wrong about achievements...
And yet here you are, recommending that we play it. I have played it previously, and while it's easy to mock the simpler achievements (did you enjoy achieving that?) there is a clear progression to the more difficult ones - you might almost say that the game trains you, much like Portal - and some genuine play value in achieving them.
If that's "wrong", then I'd love to play a right version of it.
Pfft, do you really believe that 1% figure? Say, how much has fossil fuel use dropped in Denmark then? Speak up, I can't hear you... [crickets]
The potential generation figures for wind (and solar) are almost entirely fictional. We have to keep fossil and nuke plants hot anyway to deal with power dips and to provide steady phase.
It's not a huge problem, granted, since the grid monkeys actually balancing the load and phase know very well that the headlines and the big visible turbines are just a sop to keep you gullible Ecomentals happy while they get on with building the gas and coal plants that actually keep you alive.
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I'm sure your nuanced distinction is a great comfort to the relatives of the unarmed 'combatants', including the grandparents of PFC Velez's unborn child.
Apparently you can be both a casualty of war and a regular murder victim at very the same time, so long as you're wasted by an individual Jihadist rather than one with an Al Qaeda Decoder Ring. It's like they were so patriotic that died for their country twice!
Oh, and fuck Michael Cahill, right?. What does one civilian life matter compared to proving that someone is wrong on the Internet?
And 'by the way', I just adore the 'drug use and copyright infringement' disjoint; that's the strawman that Hitler would have used. You were posted to the Usenet with the 101st Fighting Keyboardists back in the Great 90's Troll War, right?
And... ouch. Harsh, but no surprises. After the Zune and Kin debacles, not to mention... well, ever other version of WinME/Mobile... you'd have to be pretty risk-tolerant to bet on Microsoft doing anything other than their usual half-arsed emulate-abandon-dump strategy with Mobile 7.
We like to talk up the Big Bad MPAA, but on a global scale they're strictly penny-ante. Sure, they can bankrupt you, but all joking aside, they can't (yet) have you executed and harvest your organs for sale.
I guess when you live day to day with the real threat of being shot in the head for saying the wrong thing in the wrong place, you don't feel particularly scared of receiving a Strongly Worded Cease and Desist.
For erecting this honking great virile "Fuck you!" to corporate lawyers, China, I salute you. Every repressive totalitarian regime has a silver lining.
That's just peachy keen, slugger. Now, can you find any case law examples of a GPL-violation copyright case being decidedinception or progress of cases are not case law. If they were, then SCO would have won its point many times over.
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Sure, but occasionally it's good to pull back the curtain and remember that - Holy fuckbeans! - grunts are Americans too, all the time, not just on Veteran's Day. Dead in Afghanistan is just as final as dead in Arkansas.
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WHOOOSH!
Puns are the only thing that separates us from The Terrorists.
You know, Blizzard's next quarterly profits are going to show that one of us is a delusional fruitbat. I'd put a bet on with you, but I don't accept bits of bark and dead squirrels as currency.
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Oh, and let's also ignore the Fort Hood shootings, and accept the "on US soil" qualification. Then you might as well be saying "Fuck the troops. Fuck them in their stupid foreign-posted asses. Better them than me."
If this is "success", then what would failure look like?
Jesus Jobs Christ, get over it, will you? It's not 1992, we're not hucking floppies with Doom Shareware on them around the room. There's not enough market for LAN gaming to make it worthwhile for Blizzard to support it. Prove them wrong: don't buy it, and watch them take a huge loss. But until then, can you please, please, crank the whining down. You're at about a 7, we need you at about a 4.
Tell that to the GPL folks (whom have successfully sued in court that the terms of the license be upheld).
Wait, what? The GPL doesn't work that way. All it does it provide you with a shield against copyright infringement. You can't sue to force compliance, you can only sue for copyright damages.
Straight up now, I can't find any evidence of a GPL-violation copyright case being decided in court, let alone that licensing compliance has been enforced. Your claim, your [citation needed].
Bingo. I'd possibly pay for Radio 4, in order to keep it ad free, but the rest of the bunch of Stalinist luvvies can swing on my knob.
The thing that's really boiling my piss at the moment is that much of the (non disposable) programming is now timed to fit on commercial channels. Since there's no commercial breaks in the middle of each program (as opposed to the 15 seconds of DVR skipping that I have to do on other channels), that means there can be upwards of 10 minute of filler in between one program ending and the next starting. It's still advertising, it's just ads for the BBC, and the bit that hacks me off are that they're expensive, self indulgent arty-wankery ads paid for by my Goddamn license money. I'd rather watch a test card than a bunch of CGI fairies, thanks all the same.
Not de jure, but come on, do you really think they can't rent one more voting share whenever they need an abstention? If I were Pearson PLC, I'd treat the Economist as bought and paid for. Wouldn't you?
Oh, and the classic response to why the service sucks: it's too popular! Damn, who'd have thought anyone would be dumb enough to actually give us money in return for a bunch of empty promises, and a complete lack of anything approaching a SLA.
I'm actually kind of surprised that he didn't blame ISPs for their inability to support the Magic behind OnLive. I guess that'll come next month.
I guess whether warming up old franchises and churning out sequels ad infinitum is PlusBad or PlusGood largely depends on whether you're a fanboi of that particular franchise. Let's remember that the next time we mock the latest incarnation of MetalWarfareHalo 23: Encashening Extreme Edition.
I can think of a 3rd possibility. That he's just talking about a multiplayer game, but he's the sort of egotistical prick who orders a "cold hot sandwich" just to make it clear that he's the guy calling the shots.
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Here's the difference, Marty.
When I go to SourceFire, I see plenty of ways for me to investimentise in my partneritude, but I can't for the life of me seem to find the source of your "open source" product.
When I go to Suricata, the source link is right there on the front page.
So, it's not rape if you pull out once you've had your fun?
Good call. The "role playing" element of D&D (basic!) was virtually non-existent. We're talking about a game with so little choice that it had "elf" and "dwarf" as character classes.
Do you really believe that Fondlebum flogged his kiss-and-tell to The Times for a discount? That's premium content: they'll have been the highest bidder. Hey, thanks, I think you just proved my point.
Oh, facts? You can use them to prove anything that's even remotely true.
Because if you're a publicist, why would you offer The Times content in return for publicity that nobody will see? If you're a columnist, how does it help your career to write articles that nobody reads, or can link to?
By reducing the number of readers, they're not just cutting off advertising revenue, they're also making it more expensive to obtain content.
And yet here you are, recommending that we play it. I have played it previously, and while it's easy to mock the simpler achievements (did you enjoy achieving that?) there is a clear progression to the more difficult ones - you might almost say that the game trains you, much like Portal - and some genuine play value in achieving them.
If that's "wrong", then I'd love to play a right version of it.
Pfft, do you really believe that 1% figure? Say, how much has fossil fuel use dropped in Denmark then? Speak up, I can't hear you... [crickets]
The potential generation figures for wind (and solar) are almost entirely fictional. We have to keep fossil and nuke plants hot anyway to deal with power dips and to provide steady phase.
It's not a huge problem, granted, since the grid monkeys actually balancing the load and phase know very well that the headlines and the big visible turbines are just a sop to keep you gullible Ecomentals happy while they get on with building the gas and coal plants that actually keep you alive.
I'm sure your nuanced distinction is a great comfort to the relatives of the unarmed 'combatants', including the grandparents of PFC Velez's unborn child.
Apparently you can be both a casualty of war and a regular murder victim at very the same time, so long as you're wasted by an individual Jihadist rather than one with an Al Qaeda Decoder Ring. It's like they were so patriotic that died for their country twice!
Oh, and fuck Michael Cahill, right?. What does one civilian life matter compared to proving that someone is wrong on the Internet?
And 'by the way', I just adore the 'drug use and copyright infringement' disjoint; that's the strawman that Hitler would have used. You were posted to the Usenet with the 101st Fighting Keyboardists back in the Great 90's Troll War, right?
Thanks for the link. Virtual +1 powerup from me.
And... ouch. Harsh, but no surprises. After the Zune and Kin debacles, not to mention... well, ever other version of WinME/Mobile... you'd have to be pretty risk-tolerant to bet on Microsoft doing anything other than their usual half-arsed emulate-abandon-dump strategy with Mobile 7.
We like to talk up the Big Bad MPAA, but on a global scale they're strictly penny-ante. Sure, they can bankrupt you, but all joking aside, they can't (yet) have you executed and harvest your organs for sale.
I guess when you live day to day with the real threat of being shot in the head for saying the wrong thing in the wrong place, you don't feel particularly scared of receiving a Strongly Worded Cease and Desist.
For erecting this honking great virile "Fuck you!" to corporate lawyers, China, I salute you. Every repressive totalitarian regime has a silver lining.
That's just peachy keen, slugger. Now, can you find any case law examples of a GPL-violation copyright case being decidedinception or progress of cases are not case law. If they were, then SCO would have won its point many times over.
Sure, but occasionally it's good to pull back the curtain and remember that - Holy fuckbeans! - grunts are Americans too, all the time, not just on Veteran's Day. Dead in Afghanistan is just as final as dead in Arkansas.
WHOOOSH!
Puns are the only thing that separates us from The Terrorists.
You know, Blizzard's next quarterly profits are going to show that one of us is a delusional fruitbat. I'd put a bet on with you, but I don't accept bits of bark and dead squirrels as currency.
Oh, and let's also ignore the Fort Hood shootings, and accept the "on US soil" qualification. Then you might as well be saying "Fuck the troops. Fuck them in their stupid foreign-posted asses. Better them than me."
If this is "success", then what would failure look like?
Jesus Jobs Christ, get over it, will you? It's not 1992, we're not hucking floppies with Doom Shareware on them around the room. There's not enough market for LAN gaming to make it worthwhile for Blizzard to support it. Prove them wrong: don't buy it, and watch them take a huge loss. But until then, can you please, please, crank the whining down. You're at about a 7, we need you at about a 4.
Wait, what? The GPL doesn't work that way. All it does it provide you with a shield against copyright infringement. You can't sue to force compliance, you can only sue for copyright damages.
Straight up now, I can't find any evidence of a GPL-violation copyright case being decided in court, let alone that licensing compliance has been enforced. Your claim, your [citation needed].
Thanks for illustrating my point.
Bingo. I'd possibly pay for Radio 4, in order to keep it ad free, but the rest of the bunch of Stalinist luvvies can swing on my knob.
The thing that's really boiling my piss at the moment is that much of the (non disposable) programming is now timed to fit on commercial channels. Since there's no commercial breaks in the middle of each program (as opposed to the 15 seconds of DVR skipping that I have to do on other channels), that means there can be upwards of 10 minute of filler in between one program ending and the next starting. It's still advertising, it's just ads for the BBC, and the bit that hacks me off are that they're expensive, self indulgent arty-wankery ads paid for by my Goddamn license money. I'd rather watch a test card than a bunch of CGI fairies, thanks all the same.
Pfft, all that he's saying is that he's better than you because he gets paid to say what you've just parroted for free.
Not de jure, but come on, do you really think they can't rent one more voting share whenever they need an abstention? If I were Pearson PLC, I'd treat the Economist as bought and paid for. Wouldn't you?
Oh, and the classic response to why the service sucks: it's too popular! Damn, who'd have thought anyone would be dumb enough to actually give us money in return for a bunch of empty promises, and a complete lack of anything approaching a SLA.
I'm actually kind of surprised that he didn't blame ISPs for their inability to support the Magic behind OnLive. I guess that'll come next month.
I guess whether warming up old franchises and churning out sequels ad infinitum is PlusBad or PlusGood largely depends on whether you're a fanboi of that particular franchise. Let's remember that the next time we mock the latest incarnation of MetalWarfareHalo 23: Encashening Extreme Edition.
I can think of a 3rd possibility. That he's just talking about a multiplayer game, but he's the sort of egotistical prick who orders a "cold hot sandwich" just to make it clear that he's the guy calling the shots.