Since nowadays everyone and their dog are releasing desktop search engines, here's the thing that can give a commercial/technological advantage - implement plugin mechanism for searching other file types.
Next version of OS X, probably coming Q1 2005. Metadata will be integrated into the file system, and authors will be able to describe their own metadata to the OS.
I'll second this. When the original Wolfenstein came out, there were people up until then who swore that such things were impossible on the hardware of the day (80286s). But here comes Carmack and does something amazing, setting of a revolution in gaming in the process.
Game developers certainly do not seem to considered "serious" by people like Bray, but I think this is false and ultimately arrogant. Carmack is a great programmer, and certainly one of the greatest Excluding him from this list almost nullifies it in its entirety.
When dealing with conservative it helps to shoot low. And *I* don't think you're clever. I think you're an immoral idiot who is intentionally deceptive. I think *you* think you are clever, that for you debate is little more than twisting words to suit your purpose. You already *know* the Truth, so debate for you is nothing more than an exercise in rhetoric.
Do you think you're clever, pulling crap like that? Do you think you're original, or witty, or intelligent, or anything like that? Cuz you're just another conservative fucking liar, and about as rare and valuable as human excrement.
I mean what do you do? Twist people's words to suit your purpose and then sit back with an internal smile on your face, taking pride in your cleverness through what amounts to nothing more than outright lies and deceptive rhetorical tricks? You think it's just a game?
Fuck you, choad. People are fed up with your shit.
No! Really? You're kidding me! Why, I was just certain you were going to abandon the propagandists and their consistent stream of lies and rhetorical tricks and actually SEE THE LIGHT. Man, and we were *this close*!
You attack people who are skeptical, and yet you admit that it might not be true.
I make no such claim. Global warming is true, ditto quantum mechanics. People can be similarly skeptical about gravity for all I care, but those people are idiots and/or dupes.
Because the mafia doesn't build roads, provide infrastructure, provide for a justice system, set up fair trade laws, negotiate with foreign governments, and all the other things that are necessary for societies to function.
Oh yeah, and we're supposed to have a voice in that process, but with the Republicans in charge that's pretty much an anachronism. But if you don't like it, you can vote to change things. Just because you're a spoiled brat doesn't mean everyone is.
I pay my taxes willingly, thanks. I'll take your "you're an idiot" comment as already spoken. But I believe supporting your country means putting your money where your mouth is.
What I want to know is why it is OK to be a skeptic, unless you are a skeptical of modern scientific theory, in which case you're a nutjob?
Because the people who promote such skepticism are, in fact, right wing propagandists, shills for corporatists, or the duped masses who have naively bought their self-serving propaganda. Global warming is such an established fact that being skeptical about it is similar to being skeptical about quantum mechanics: sure, it might not be true. But the evidence is overwhelming no matter how loudly non-experts claim otherwise.
The first tax passed by the first Congress was a freakin estate tax, you moron. Here's Thomas Jefferson talking about same:
...At the first session of our legislature after the Declaration of Independence, we passed a law abolishing entails [limitations on the inheritance of property to a specified succession of heirs]. And this was followed by one abolishing the privilege of primogeniture [the eldest child's exclusive right of inheritance], and dividing the lands of intestates equally among all their children, or other representatives.
These laws, drawn by myself, laid the ax to the foot of pseudoaristocracy.
I know you cockmunching libertarians love to scream "taxation is theft" until you're blue in the face with rage, but you have not a single leg to stand on, and are destroying the country in the process. Die a swift and violent death, fucktwat.
What does it say about your dependence upon straw man arguments?
This may or may not be true, but what sites reference it or do not reference says nothing about the same. Given the history of the Republicans to engage in and condone rampant criminality it certainly passes the smell test.
Story here. Talks about this case as well as other vote fraud cases in Florida in 2000 and 2004, how the governor shut down investigations, and the entire criminal web of Republican political bosses.
Screw the bastards. Line em up and shoot em dead. America deserves better than these facsists. Anyone who partakes in this is an enemy of the people and the country and should be taken out. They're usurping our very democracy, and the apologists and propagandists can similarly line up against a wall.
Assholes. Yes, I am pissed, and no, I won't calm down. And screw "appearances", while we're at it.
Noooo! They're the party of law and justice, morality, and ethics! Why, it is completely CRAZY to think that a Republican congressmen would do such a thing! And even if it IS true (which, of course, it isn't) it's just an isolated incident and says nothing about the character of the party itself. Why, I myself would NEVER support such a thing, and I'm a conservative! (More of a libertarian, really, which increases my credibility.)
Besides, you know that both sides do the same thing, so whatcha gonna do LOL! That's the way the world works, doncha know! No need to get upset!
Remember: It's a republic, NOT a "democracy." Calling America a "democracy" is just liberal propaganda.
Look, over there! Two guys who want to get married, and they're both abortionists! We're winning the war! Propaganda is king!
Yeah, because you know death doesn't serve any beneficial effects.
Look, I'd like to be immortal as much as the next guy, but come ON. The ramifications on this would be freakin' HUGE. Population growth, global warming, fascist dictators, stagnation of society, etc. Death is bad, but it's not ALL bad.
[Reuters, 12/3/04] Today I am very, very happy to announce that today, for the first time Dow is accepting full responsibility for the Bhopal catastrophe; this is a momentous occasion. We have a $12 billion plan to finally at long last fully compensate the victims including the 120,000 who may need medical care for their entire lives and to fully and swiftly remediate the Bhopal plant site. We have resolved to liquidate Union Carbide, this nightmare for the world and this headache for Dow and use the $12 billion to provide more than $500 per victim, which is all that they've seen."
You must be a conservative. I can't imagine any other reason why you would lie that way other than to promote corporatism over democracy.
You're way off the mark. We don't blame the users. Or even windows for that matter. This is just the way of life for us in the computer age.
Correction: "Way of life for us in the Windows world." Other operating system's don't have these problems and associated costs and loss of productivity.
Wardriving isn't illegal. I had one of these when I went to San Francisco and used it to tell which restaurants/cafes/coffee shops had free wifi access. Sometimes they advertised it on the window, sometimes they didn't. If I got a ping I at least knew I was on the right track.
Accessing a network you don't have permission to access is illegal (and, frankly, immoral). I never once did that, even though I very well could have.
I'd recommend that setup, especially if you game. We have a setup similar to yours (PC for gaming, G5 for my home work box, and a slightly older 15" iBook for my wife). We just got back from a trip and took the iBook for the first time. The battery lasts long enough to watch a movie, but not much longer. (If we'd had a car lighter adapter we would have been able to charge it on the plane.)
But it really shined as an easy dump-off point for my digital camera. Plug in the CF, import, drag CF card to trash, put back in camera. Done. (Not wild about the photo iPod thing...)
The switch to Apple seems an obvious choice if you can afford an expensive computer and you are neither a big techie or a hard-core gamer.
Gamer I'll give you, but hard core techie? No, don't think so. If you are are a techie the Mac opens up world's of *nix possibilities to you, and if and when you get tired of dinking with X Windows, etc, you have a great GUI for use.
But I personally use my Mac as a fileserver from which I serve video to our other systems (one iBook and an older PC), have a webdav server which we use to consolidate and share calendars, and the UW imapd server setup just for the hell of it.
And now that I think about it, even if you do mean "hardware techie", you can still get your jollies that way, too. When I switched to the Mac I hooked up and successfully mounted the NTFS drive from my old system and was able to get all my old crap off of that. (Can't write to NTFS, but you can read from it.)
No, the Mac satisfies my tinkering desires quite nicely, thanks.
That's right people. Forget the game, it's merely a showcase of the true abilities of the engine.
While that is true to a certain extent, I disagree that it is of prime importance. Without the outstanding writing and storyline to back up the engine, HL2 would have been just another FPS, albeit one with a gravity gun. Imagine, if you will, if this game had had the level of gameplay that Daikatana had. We would all be righetously pissed, no matter how good the underlying engine was.
I don't normally reply to ACs, but I'm breaking my rule in this case to say that I think you're exactly right, and my message to which you replied was wrong.
I think further refinement is in order: most of the Christians who wield significant influence in the GOP are zealots. Fair?
2) I wish all of these athiest/secular humanists/agnostics (whoever) would quit labeling all Christians as prudes and mental cave men. Those are extreme gross generalizations.
Of course they are, when applied to Christians as a whole. But the fact remains, unfortunatly, that most of the Christians of significance in this country - Ashcroft, Brownback, etc. - are exactly as you describe, and live up to those generalizations quite accurately.
Not all Christians are zealots, but the ones in power certainly tend to be. I would even go so far as to say that many modern Christians have been duped into wholeheartedly supporting evil, all the while thinking themselves good.
You know, I keep hearing these scare tactics used as a justification for polluting the environment, but somehow they just never come true. Meanwhile, our skies get dirtier, the water gets contaminated, and the planet gets hotter, all stuff that is measurable. And what is offered up in defense? Possibilities and scare tactics.
So go ahead. Live your life on fear. I'm pretty sure it's all you know to do anyway.
The US seriously needs to jump on this band wagon if we want to compete with the Taiwanese Borg Swarm Armies with nanobots in their lungs in the near future
Won't happen. Americanas are too wedded to libertarian economic philosophies, and will oppose *any* government attempt to do this. Plus the telcos will lobby against it, like they did in Philadelphia, effectively preventing anything like this from happening.
And given that Apple have been piggy-backing on Free and Open Source software they should give back to the community by Freeing/OpenSourcing iTunes.
This makes no sense to me. First off, Apple has given *greatly* to the OSS community, from open sourcing Darwin, Rendevous, to helping improve GCC for the PPC, to others, Apple is "ESR Approved", and I have never heard anything but good words about Apple from the OSS community.
Second, iTunes isn't built on open source technologies. It's all Apple.
Third, as an Apple stockholder I would oppose any move to OS iTunes. iTunes gives Apple a competive edge, and while some developers might smack their lips at the prospect of getting ahold of that source code, that does not thereby mean that is in Apple's best interest to do so, either from a purely profit perspective or from a "buildling a community" perspective. OSing Darwin, Rendevous: yes. iTunes: no. At least not at this time.
You make it sound like Apple has a moral obligation to OS iTunes, and I just don't think that is the case, no matter how generous I am.
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Since nowadays everyone and their dog are releasing desktop search engines, here's the thing that can give a commercial/technological advantage - implement plugin mechanism for searching other file types.
Next version of OS X, probably coming Q1 2005. Metadata will be integrated into the file system, and authors will be able to describe their own metadata to the OS.
Yay.
Game developers certainly do not seem to considered "serious" by people like Bray, but I think this is false and ultimately arrogant. Carmack is a great programmer, and certainly one of the greatest Excluding him from this list almost nullifies it in its entirety.
You have low standards.
When dealing with conservative it helps to shoot low. And *I* don't think you're clever. I think you're an immoral idiot who is intentionally deceptive. I think *you* think you are clever, that for you debate is little more than twisting words to suit your purpose. You already *know* the Truth, so debate for you is nothing more than an exercise in rhetoric.
IOW: A typical conservative.
Do you think you're clever, pulling crap like that? Do you think you're original, or witty, or intelligent, or anything like that? Cuz you're just another conservative fucking liar, and about as rare and valuable as human excrement.
I mean what do you do? Twist people's words to suit your purpose and then sit back with an internal smile on your face, taking pride in your cleverness through what amounts to nothing more than outright lies and deceptive rhetorical tricks? You think it's just a game?
Fuck you, choad. People are fed up with your shit.
My criticism stands.
No! Really? You're kidding me! Why, I was just certain you were going to abandon the propagandists and their consistent stream of lies and rhetorical tricks and actually SEE THE LIGHT. Man, and we were *this close*!
You attack people who are skeptical, and yet you admit that it might not be true.
I make no such claim. Global warming is true, ditto quantum mechanics. People can be similarly skeptical about gravity for all I care, but those people are idiots and/or dupes.
Oh yeah, and we're supposed to have a voice in that process, but with the Republicans in charge that's pretty much an anachronism. But if you don't like it, you can vote to change things. Just because you're a spoiled brat doesn't mean everyone is.
I pay my taxes willingly, thanks. I'll take your "you're an idiot" comment as already spoken. But I believe supporting your country means putting your money where your mouth is.
Fuck you, pudge. I respond to the message and all you have in you bag of tricks is insults. FOAD, choad. Go suck Hannity's knob some more.
What I want to know is why it is OK to be a skeptic, unless you are a skeptical of modern scientific theory, in which case you're a nutjob?
Because the people who promote such skepticism are, in fact, right wing propagandists, shills for corporatists, or the duped masses who have naively bought their self-serving propaganda. Global warming is such an established fact that being skeptical about it is similar to being skeptical about quantum mechanics: sure, it might not be true. But the evidence is overwhelming no matter how loudly non-experts claim otherwise.
I know you cockmunching libertarians love to scream "taxation is theft" until you're blue in the face with rage, but you have not a single leg to stand on, and are destroying the country in the process. Die a swift and violent death, fucktwat.
They changed the /. article. When it was originally posted last night it was a link to the affidavit, not this story.
What does that say about Slashdot?
What does it say about your dependence upon straw man arguments? This may or may not be true, but what sites reference it or do not reference says nothing about the same. Given the history of the Republicans to engage in and condone rampant criminality it certainly passes the smell test.
Screw the bastards. Line em up and shoot em dead. America deserves better than these facsists. Anyone who partakes in this is an enemy of the people and the country and should be taken out. They're usurping our very democracy, and the apologists and propagandists can similarly line up against a wall.
Assholes. Yes, I am pissed, and no, I won't calm down. And screw "appearances", while we're at it.
Besides, you know that both sides do the same thing, so whatcha gonna do LOL! That's the way the world works, doncha know! No need to get upset!
Remember: It's a republic, NOT a "democracy." Calling America a "democracy" is just liberal propaganda.
Look, over there! Two guys who want to get married, and they're both abortionists! We're winning the war! Propaganda is king!
Yeah, because you know death doesn't serve any beneficial effects.
Look, I'd like to be immortal as much as the next guy, but come ON. The ramifications on this would be freakin' HUGE. Population growth, global warming, fascist dictators, stagnation of society, etc. Death is bad, but it's not ALL bad.
There's downsides, that's all I'm saying.
Correction: "Way of life for us in the Windows world." Other operating system's don't have these problems and associated costs and loss of productivity.
Accessing a network you don't have permission to access is illegal (and, frankly, immoral). I never once did that, even though I very well could have.
I'd recommend that setup, especially if you game. We have a setup similar to yours (PC for gaming, G5 for my home work box, and a slightly older 15" iBook for my wife). We just got back from a trip and took the iBook for the first time. The battery lasts long enough to watch a movie, but not much longer. (If we'd had a car lighter adapter we would have been able to charge it on the plane.)
But it really shined as an easy dump-off point for my digital camera. Plug in the CF, import, drag CF card to trash, put back in camera. Done. (Not wild about the photo iPod thing...)
The switch to Apple seems an obvious choice if you can afford an expensive computer and you are neither a big techie or a hard-core gamer.
Gamer I'll give you, but hard core techie? No, don't think so. If you are are a techie the Mac opens up world's of *nix possibilities to you, and if and when you get tired of dinking with X Windows, etc, you have a great GUI for use.
But I personally use my Mac as a fileserver from which I serve video to our other systems (one iBook and an older PC), have a webdav server which we use to consolidate and share calendars, and the UW imapd server setup just for the hell of it.
And now that I think about it, even if you do mean "hardware techie", you can still get your jollies that way, too. When I switched to the Mac I hooked up and successfully mounted the NTFS drive from my old system and was able to get all my old crap off of that. (Can't write to NTFS, but you can read from it.)
No, the Mac satisfies my tinkering desires quite nicely, thanks.
That's right people. Forget the game, it's merely a showcase of the true abilities of the engine.
While that is true to a certain extent, I disagree that it is of prime importance. Without the outstanding writing and storyline to back up the engine, HL2 would have been just another FPS, albeit one with a gravity gun. Imagine, if you will, if this game had had the level of gameplay that Daikatana had. We would all be righetously pissed, no matter how good the underlying engine was.
I don't normally reply to ACs, but I'm breaking my rule in this case to say that I think you're exactly right, and my message to which you replied was wrong. I think further refinement is in order: most of the Christians who wield significant influence in the GOP are zealots. Fair?
2) I wish all of these athiest/secular humanists/agnostics (whoever) would quit labeling all Christians as prudes and mental cave men. Those are extreme gross generalizations.
Of course they are, when applied to Christians as a whole. But the fact remains, unfortunatly, that most of the Christians of significance in this country - Ashcroft, Brownback, etc. - are exactly as you describe, and live up to those generalizations quite accurately.
Not all Christians are zealots, but the ones in power certainly tend to be. I would even go so far as to say that many modern Christians have been duped into wholeheartedly supporting evil, all the while thinking themselves good.
You know, I keep hearing these scare tactics used as a justification for polluting the environment, but somehow they just never come true. Meanwhile, our skies get dirtier, the water gets contaminated, and the planet gets hotter, all stuff that is measurable. And what is offered up in defense? Possibilities and scare tactics.
So go ahead. Live your life on fear. I'm pretty sure it's all you know to do anyway.
The US seriously needs to jump on this band wagon if we want to compete with the Taiwanese Borg Swarm Armies with nanobots in their lungs in the near future
Won't happen. Americanas are too wedded to libertarian economic philosophies, and will oppose *any* government attempt to do this. Plus the telcos will lobby against it, like they did in Philadelphia, effectively preventing anything like this from happening.
Don't get your hopes up is all I'm saying.
And given that Apple have been piggy-backing on Free and Open Source software they should give back to the community by Freeing/OpenSourcing iTunes.
This makes no sense to me. First off, Apple has given *greatly* to the OSS community, from open sourcing Darwin, Rendevous, to helping improve GCC for the PPC, to others, Apple is "ESR Approved", and I have never heard anything but good words about Apple from the OSS community.
Second, iTunes isn't built on open source technologies. It's all Apple.
Third, as an Apple stockholder I would oppose any move to OS iTunes. iTunes gives Apple a competive edge, and while some developers might smack their lips at the prospect of getting ahold of that source code, that does not thereby mean that is in Apple's best interest to do so, either from a purely profit perspective or from a "buildling a community" perspective. OSing Darwin, Rendevous: yes. iTunes: no. At least not at this time.
You make it sound like Apple has a moral obligation to OS iTunes, and I just don't think that is the case, no matter how generous I am.