Hey, I feel bad for you that you have to wait to see films that we've already seen here, but come on, if you don't want any plot spoilers then don't read this stuff! People aren't going to wait until YOU have seen it before they start talking about it...
I used to celebrate every day NT didn't crash. Now life is incredibly boring because we switched to Linux and it hasn't crashed... except once because of the experimental smp support in the old kernel, that was almost a year ago now...
The power went out for an extended period of time once and we had a few servers go down because of it, that was exciting!
Seriously, Linux is far more stable than NT. I'm not saying NT is worthless, I'm sure it's good for some things.
And not only that, if he did recognize 3po, why would he even react to that? Would he really give a shit. Remember, he was trying to forget who he used to be, that's very apparent in ROJ.
Darth Vader did not kill the population of an entire planet. Grand Moff Tarkin did. Vader is not comparable to Hitler, the emperor is. Vader may be comparable to one of Hitler's generals or something...
Don't be so close minded, at the end Vader turns back to the good side and kills the emperor. He is completely purged of evil! Just because you or I, as the pathetic creatures we are, may not be capable of such forgiveness does not mean that he isn't deserving of it.
Brin is an idiot to make such comparisons. He says on his homepage that he writes science fiction now instead of real science because he makes more money that way. What a great guy!
Well, judging from his criticism of TPM, it really appears he is jealous about something... It's not just my imagination, others think his criticism of TPM wreaks of jealousy too. Money maybe...?
I don't like the fact that 3dfx is doing this, but I have to say I don't feel bad for Creative Labs because Creative Labs is going to key the wrapper so it will only work with their cards. That makes them no better than 3dfx. At least 3dfx put in the work to make glide in the first place.
I do hope Creative Labs wins in court though, then maybe other will be able to make wrappers without being threatened by 3dfx.
nVidia kicks ass for releasing open source drivers! I wish other companies would be that cool!
My co-worker/friend and I went to the ApacheCon conference, RedHat was there... We walked to their booth, they were just about the only people there who didn't try to get us to buy anything...
On top of that, they said "hey, take this"... Free RedHat 5.1 CDs. They had a whole bunch, so we asked if we could have a few more. They said, "sure!"
They never in any way said that RedHat was the best distro or anything... but the SUSE guys did.
"It's tough to bet against an operating system that has won the hearts of geeks across the world (damn few of whom actually have the software on their computer)."
Yeah, what the hell did he mean by that? He couldn't have meant that the way he said it... Maybe he was smoking crack or something... I don't know any geeks who have embraced linux without actually having it installed on their machine...
How about a First Person Shooter/Adventure game? It could be action packed, but also be a REAL adventure game... Not like some of the FPS games today that try to be adventurelike...
Well that was pretty damn rude! Maybe you should stop to think about what you're saying before you say it?! He was suggesting an idea, I agree, not a well thought out good idea, but that doesn't mean you should flame him the way you did.
Here's a clue: Linux doesn't need anonymous asshole flamers.
I guess that's not very nice either... but you were the first to be hostile
You must smoke crack heavily if you think that... I don't believe I have ever met a person who won't take something they dislike and come up with a clever insulting name for it.
It's really not childish... Childish is a matter of opinion.
Micro$oft Winblows 00
Also, if you think about it, it's an efficient way of showing your view of something... Take the above for example... "Micro$oft" shows that I think Microsoft is a money hungry Corp., "Winblows" shows that I think Windows is a lame product, "00" is just and insult toward Micro$oft about how technically awful so many of their products are...
I really don't think so, I've heard it used by plenty of people... but not too often from kids in gradeschool... Are you smoking something? Or am I breathing in some fumes making my brain all wacky?
You know, that is really funny... Ironic that you say that. You don't trust OPEN SOURCE that you can fucking look at(it doesn't much matter who wrote it then does it?), but you trust code from a company who's been shown to write programs that send personal information/id number etc. back to them...???? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU???
Sorry about the language, I just can't help being so hostile towards people as stupid as you...
That's funny, the screen never turns blue when I run linux... so I always figured that when it did that with NT, it WAS NT...
It's a hardware problem!
Bullsh1t! Gee, I guess I've never seen a machine without serious hardware problems, but that doens't make sense, they never crash after installing linux on them. That's all that comes out of that place in Redmond! Pure bullshit!
Nullsoft licensed AMP from Playmedia at first. Then Nullsoft wrote their own engine(Nitrate), now Playmedia is claiming Nullsoft stole code from the AMP engine.
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Oh, disregard my comment then. I'm just sick of the people who read deep into Star Wars discussions and then complain because of plot spoilers.
Hey, I feel bad for you that you have to wait to see films that we've already seen here, but come on, if you don't want any plot spoilers then don't read this stuff! People aren't going to wait until YOU have seen it before they start talking about it...
You're missing the point. I doubt many people here really care about IP, but someone else saying they OWN their IP is just completely wrong.
You're exactly the kind of friend I want! I wish I could work with people like you...
"Fsck the average shmoe"??? Just who the fuck do you think you are asshole?? Fsck you!! WTF is your definition of "average schmoe"?
You idiot... When they started saying they own other people's IP!
I used to celebrate every day NT didn't crash. Now life is incredibly boring because we switched to Linux and it hasn't crashed... except once because of the experimental smp support in the old kernel, that was almost a year ago now...
The power went out for an extended period of time once and we had a few servers go down because of it, that was exciting!
Seriously, Linux is far more stable than NT. I'm not saying NT is worthless, I'm sure it's good for some things.
You can read DVD disks in linux, you just can't play DVD movies because we have no drivers/software for the decoder cards.
And not only that, if he did recognize 3po, why would he even react to that? Would he really give a shit. Remember, he was trying to forget who he used to be, that's very apparent in ROJ.
Darth Vader did not kill the population of an entire planet. Grand Moff Tarkin did. Vader is not comparable to Hitler, the emperor is. Vader may be comparable to one of Hitler's generals or something...
Don't be so close minded, at the end Vader turns back to the good side and kills the emperor. He is completely purged of evil! Just because you or I, as the pathetic creatures we are, may not be capable of such forgiveness does not mean that he isn't deserving of it.
Brin is an idiot to make such comparisons. He says on his homepage that he writes science fiction now instead of real science because he makes more money that way. What a great guy!
Well, judging from his criticism of TPM, it really appears he is jealous about something... It's not just my imagination, others think his criticism of TPM wreaks of jealousy too. Money maybe...?
I haven't a clue, but it's something!
"You have absolutely no argument; no rebuttle of his point whatsoever. So think before you speak, you ridiculous little kid."
Well, aren't we just the mature adult. Shut up you rediculous old fart!
Geez!
I don't like the fact that 3dfx is doing this, but I have to say I don't feel bad for Creative Labs because Creative Labs is going to key the wrapper so it will only work with their cards. That makes them no better than 3dfx. At least 3dfx put in the work to make glide in the first place.
I do hope Creative Labs wins in court though, then maybe other will be able to make wrappers without being threatened by 3dfx.
nVidia kicks ass for releasing open source drivers! I wish other companies would be that cool!
Are you trying to say that the rest of us have turned to the dark side?
My co-worker/friend and I went to the ApacheCon conference, RedHat was there... We walked to their booth, they were just about the only people there who didn't try to get us to buy anything...
On top of that, they said "hey, take this"... Free RedHat 5.1 CDs. They had a whole bunch, so we asked if we could have a few more. They said, "sure!"
They never in any way said that RedHat was the best distro or anything... but the SUSE guys did.
"It's tough to bet against an operating system that has won the hearts of geeks across the world (damn few of whom actually have the software on their computer)."
Yeah, what the hell did he mean by that? He couldn't have meant that the way he said it... Maybe he was smoking crack or something... I don't know any geeks who have embraced linux without actually having it installed on their machine...
What a wacko crack head!
Or they could do both...
How about a First Person Shooter/Adventure game? It could be action packed, but also be a REAL adventure game... Not like some of the FPS games today that try to be adventurelike...
Well that was pretty damn rude! Maybe you should stop to think about what you're saying before you say it?! He was suggesting an idea, I agree, not a well thought out good idea, but that doesn't mean you should flame him the way you did.
Here's a clue: Linux doesn't need anonymous asshole flamers.
I guess that's not very nice either... but you were the first to be hostile
You must smoke crack heavily if you think that... I don't believe I have ever met a person who won't take something they dislike and come up with a clever insulting name for it.
It's really not childish... Childish is a matter of opinion.
Micro$oft Winblows 00
Also, if you think about it, it's an efficient way of showing your view of something... Take the above for example... "Micro$oft" shows that I think Microsoft is a money hungry Corp., "Winblows" shows that I think Windows is a lame product, "00" is just and insult toward Micro$oft about how technically awful so many of their products are...
> You're still a geek/loser
Geek, definately... Loser, I don't think so, but that's a matter of opinion.
> and I could still kick your ass.
I really doubt it... Bring it on non geek/loser anonymous retard!
Are you braindead? I cannot believe you believe that! Maybe you don't, maybe your just trolling you anonymous coward you.
Of course bugs will be found! They ARE found in Solaris... but they don't get fixed as quickly.
I really don't think so, I've heard it used by plenty of people... but not too often from kids in gradeschool... Are you smoking something? Or am I breathing in some fumes making my brain all wacky?
You know, that is really funny... Ironic that you say that. You don't trust OPEN SOURCE that you can fucking look at(it doesn't much matter who wrote it then does it?), but you trust code from a company who's been shown to write programs that send personal information/id number etc. back to them...???? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU???
Sorry about the language, I just can't help being so hostile towards people as stupid as you...
That's funny, the screen never turns blue when I run linux... so I always figured that when it did that with NT, it WAS NT...
It's a hardware problem!
Bullsh1t! Gee, I guess I've never seen a machine without serious hardware problems, but that doens't make sense, they never crash after installing linux on them. That's all that comes out of that place in Redmond! Pure bullshit!
Nullsoft licensed AMP from Playmedia at first. Then Nullsoft wrote their own engine(Nitrate), now Playmedia is claiming Nullsoft stole code from the AMP engine.