Wow. I never tried running it on anything less than a 386 with a VGA. It's surprising how much games back then were able to scale down to run on older systems.
That's like saying that if I serve 20 years for murder, then get out and murder someone else, that I can't go to jail again because I committed the "same crime."
In reality, it means that I couldn't be taken back to court for the original murder. Any further murders are fair game.
Prego Thick and Chunky spaghetti sauce is thicker and chunkier than Ragu Old World Style.
Of course, god forbid they compare Prego Thick and Chunky with Ragu Thick and Chunky.
"Hey, look, our thick spaghetti sauce is way thicker than our competiter's sauce that's specifically designed *not* to be thick!" It's the same kind of crap.
I'm not entirely clear about the point of buying stock that doesn't pay dividends. Seems like an expensive trading card to me. Where a dividend-paying stock has a value equal to the present worth of all the dividends it will eventually pay out, a non-paying stock has no real worth whatsoever. The only thing that gives it value is the hope that some day someone else will buy it from you for more than you spent on it.
This is an unpopular opinion around here, but getting Linux workin on my desktop was a royal pain. I had a weird sound card that took weeks to configure correctly, and I'm not too fond of compiling nvidia drivers either. Oh, and I had to recompile my kernel because god forbid redhat put NTFS read support in there by default.
*whew*
Now that I've gotten that off of my chest, the reason I use Linux on my desktop is that, once it's set up, it runs like a dream. For one thing, I like the multiple desktops feature. I've noticed that something like this is in XP, but it's not nearly as full-featured.
Also, if I'm going to be staring at a computer screen for hours on end (like I do at work), it damn well better look good. Linux supports antialiasing of small fonts, whereas Windows does not (or has this changed now?). Another thing is that Linux gracefully lets me crank up the resolution and make my fonts bigger. GTK and Qt are both designed from the ground up to have scalable window and font sizes. The majority of Linux gui apps support this very well. Windows apps, on the other hand, tend to look really funny when you increase the size of the window fonts.
Also, Linux is unbeatable when it comes to multimedia stuff, such as viewing videos. MPlayer or RealPlayer? MPlayer or Media Player? MPlayer or QuickTime? The prosecution rests.:)
Then there's the spyware. Free/Open Source Software is basically immune to that, whereas on Windows you have to check the thing for spyware every time you install an application. Oh, and don't even get me started on viruses.
Yeah, I think that's about it. I still have a win2k partition that I run games on. For the most part, though, I avoid it.
Interestingly enough, reductions in product quality result in a brief spike in profits, then a steady decline down to a lower equilbrium point as customers get angry that they're purchasing inferior goods. The sad thing is that usually the company that sells the higher quality product goes out of business before people catch on.
How are you going about making that assumption? To achieve that sort of acceleration, how much of the ship's weight has to be fuel? Do you have a link or anything?
You're assuming that just because they chose to give John Walker a fair trial means that all citizens are given fair trials automatically. If the government feels that giving you due process would be a big enough threat to national security, they'll quite happily stick you in an internment camp, just like they did to Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi, both American citizens.
But if all they did was ask and he volentarily answered then not a big deal as far as I'm concerned.
The problem there is that we no longer have any real rights. Now, before you dismiss me for taking some kind of extremist view, think of it this way:
The governemt currently can, at its option, declare you an "enemy combatant", with no due process or judicial review. Then they can detain these "enemy combatants" indefinitely. Hence, if he told them to bugger off when they questioned him, they may see that as being suspicious, and decide he'd make a good Enemy Combatant.
Rights that can be arbitrarily taken away at any time aren't rights at all. They're an illusion. What it boils down to is that you have a right to due process, except when the government says you don't.
The poor poster is going to be sheep-modded into oblivion now that there's a Flamebait on there, as opposed to a Funny. I'm guessing the post was meant as a joke, rather than to piss people off.
It's probably one of those AC97 things. Those are usually what come on motherboards. RedHat detects them just fine, then goes right ahead and happily installs the wrong driver. I had to search for weeks to figure out how to get the thrice-damned thing to work.
When I upgraded to RedHat 9 (which of course left my files intact but erased all of my settings, once again rendering my stupid little onboard sound card silent) I just said screw it, and spent ten dollars for a sound card that said on the box that it supported Linux. After that, I spent about twenty minutes compiling drivers and tweaking settings, and it worked. Still not something my mom could do, though.
...adding a good/evil axis to computer alignment. Because otherwise, if you get a chaotic computer, how do you know whether it's chaotic good, chaotic neutral, or chaotic evil?
Better to have a computer with a good heart and a general distrust of authority than one which wants to enslave everyone and reduce the world to a desolate wasteland.
I just returned home to Georgia and discovered that my head had been replaced on a favorite photograph that was now being used to promote sandwiches.
The terms of your contract specifically state that we can use your likeness in any way we want, including photoshopping some other dude's head onto your body.
That's a very good point. There's also a mIRC plugin that acts as a group whiteboard, if I remember correctly. The reason that my group doesn't use any special client-specific features is that I run Linux, and my players run Windows. There aren't any cross-platform clients that have a whiteboard... or at least, none to my knowledge.
One thing I've noticed about the IRC games I run (been doing this for about five years now), they tend to be a bit roleplaying-heavy. Turns out, it's easier for everyone to get into character because you're just seeing words on the screen, as opposed to looking at your friends. It makes the experience flow a lot more like a book.
Of course, one thing you give up using this method is the ability to conveniently draw maps for people. As some people mentioned further down, there are programs like OpenRPG which allow you to use a miniatures map and the like, but I've never had much luck getting those programs to work (people's connections kept dropping, for one thing).
The big downside, of course, is speed. Waiting for everyone to type can get a little slow. On the whole, though, it works fairly well.
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Wow. I never tried running it on anything less than a 386 with a VGA. It's surprising how much games back then were able to scale down to run on older systems.
Did anyone else think that someone tried to implement Civilization on an Atari 2600 cartridge as a joke?
That's like saying that if I serve 20 years for murder, then get out and murder someone else, that I can't go to jail again because I committed the "same crime."
In reality, it means that I couldn't be taken back to court for the original murder. Any further murders are fair game.
Is this available as an RPM package for Fedora?
For everyone saying "the first amendment"...
Copyright is in the constitution.
So is the first amendment.
Prego Thick and Chunky spaghetti sauce is thicker and chunkier than Ragu Old World Style.
Of course, god forbid they compare Prego Thick and Chunky with Ragu Thick and Chunky.
"Hey, look, our thick spaghetti sauce is way thicker than our competiter's sauce that's specifically designed *not* to be thick!" It's the same kind of crap.
A little bird told me...
Care to cite a source? Anonymous animals generally aren't experts on software release schedules.
...they should be so big, they're visible from space!
I'm not entirely clear about the point of buying stock that doesn't pay dividends. Seems like an expensive trading card to me. Where a dividend-paying stock has a value equal to the present worth of all the dividends it will eventually pay out, a non-paying stock has no real worth whatsoever. The only thing that gives it value is the hope that some day someone else will buy it from you for more than you spent on it.
This is an unpopular opinion around here, but getting Linux workin on my desktop was a royal pain. I had a weird sound card that took weeks to configure correctly, and I'm not too fond of compiling nvidia drivers either. Oh, and I had to recompile my kernel because god forbid redhat put NTFS read support in there by default.
:)
*whew*
Now that I've gotten that off of my chest, the reason I use Linux on my desktop is that, once it's set up, it runs like a dream. For one thing, I like the multiple desktops feature. I've noticed that something like this is in XP, but it's not nearly as full-featured.
Also, if I'm going to be staring at a computer screen for hours on end (like I do at work), it damn well better look good. Linux supports antialiasing of small fonts, whereas Windows does not (or has this changed now?). Another thing is that Linux gracefully lets me crank up the resolution and make my fonts bigger. GTK and Qt are both designed from the ground up to have scalable window and font sizes. The majority of Linux gui apps support this very well. Windows apps, on the other hand, tend to look really funny when you increase the size of the window fonts.
Also, Linux is unbeatable when it comes to multimedia stuff, such as viewing videos. MPlayer or RealPlayer? MPlayer or Media Player? MPlayer or QuickTime? The prosecution rests.
Then there's the spyware. Free/Open Source Software is basically immune to that, whereas on Windows you have to check the thing for spyware every time you install an application. Oh, and don't even get me started on viruses.
Yeah, I think that's about it. I still have a win2k partition that I run games on. For the most part, though, I avoid it.
Interestingly enough, reductions in product quality result in a brief spike in profits, then a steady decline down to a lower equilbrium point as customers get angry that they're purchasing inferior goods. The sad thing is that usually the company that sells the higher quality product goes out of business before people catch on.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
In Soviet Russia
Poems write you
(from bash.org)
How are you going about making that assumption? To achieve that sort of acceleration, how much of the ship's weight has to be fuel? Do you have a link or anything?
It's a trap!
They most likely want to lure Mozilla into infringing on their patents so they can shut it down.
You're assuming that just because they chose to give John Walker a fair trial means that all citizens are given fair trials automatically. If the government feels that giving you due process would be a big enough threat to national security, they'll quite happily stick you in an internment camp, just like they did to Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi, both American citizens.
But if all they did was ask and he volentarily answered then not a big deal as far as I'm concerned.
The problem there is that we no longer have any real rights. Now, before you dismiss me for taking some kind of extremist view, think of it this way:
The governemt currently can, at its option, declare you an "enemy combatant", with no due process or judicial review. Then they can detain these "enemy combatants" indefinitely. Hence, if he told them to bugger off when they questioned him, they may see that as being suspicious, and decide he'd make a good Enemy Combatant.
Rights that can be arbitrarily taken away at any time aren't rights at all. They're an illusion. What it boils down to is that you have a right to due process, except when the government says you don't.
The poor poster is going to be sheep-modded into oblivion now that there's a Flamebait on there, as opposed to a Funny. I'm guessing the post was meant as a joke, rather than to piss people off.
...as in intelligent road stud.
Or something.
It's probably one of those AC97 things. Those are usually what come on motherboards. RedHat detects them just fine, then goes right ahead and happily installs the wrong driver. I had to search for weeks to figure out how to get the thrice-damned thing to work.
When I upgraded to RedHat 9 (which of course left my files intact but erased all of my settings, once again rendering my stupid little onboard sound card silent) I just said screw it, and spent ten dollars for a sound card that said on the box that it supported Linux. After that, I spent about twenty minutes compiling drivers and tweaking settings, and it worked. Still not something my mom could do, though.
Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.
The catch, though, is that it took 12,000 batteries.
Probably.
That's what those 119,000 people get for not unchecking the "eat my dog" box when they installed RealOne.
...adding a good/evil axis to computer alignment. Because otherwise, if you get a chaotic computer, how do you know whether it's chaotic good, chaotic neutral, or chaotic evil?
Better to have a computer with a good heart and a general distrust of authority than one which wants to enslave everyone and reduce the world to a desolate wasteland.
I just returned home to Georgia and discovered that my head had been replaced on a favorite photograph that was now being used to promote sandwiches.
The terms of your contract specifically state that we can use your likeness in any way we want, including photoshopping some other dude's head onto your body.
Thank you,
The Subway Legal Department
That's a very good point. There's also a mIRC plugin that acts as a group whiteboard, if I remember correctly. The reason that my group doesn't use any special client-specific features is that I run Linux, and my players run Windows. There aren't any cross-platform clients that have a whiteboard... or at least, none to my knowledge.
One thing I've noticed about the IRC games I run (been doing this for about five years now), they tend to be a bit roleplaying-heavy. Turns out, it's easier for everyone to get into character because you're just seeing words on the screen, as opposed to looking at your friends. It makes the experience flow a lot more like a book.
Of course, one thing you give up using this method is the ability to conveniently draw maps for people. As some people mentioned further down, there are programs like OpenRPG which allow you to use a miniatures map and the like, but I've never had much luck getting those programs to work (people's connections kept dropping, for one thing).
The big downside, of course, is speed. Waiting for everyone to type can get a little slow. On the whole, though, it works fairly well.