If Transgaming wanted to make some friends, they'd bundle their WineX/Cedega product with Half Life 2. Although I am no supporter of them, it would make their fiscal year in a month.
Really, this article is the techno-geek equivalent of some guy laying on the roof his car at night, stoned, and wondering if the trees have people in them.
Interesting question, yes. A little 'speculative' though.
A Gartner report has been released stating that users who choose to install Linux [hiss!] will soon hear a strange beeping sound from their computer/laptop. This beeping sound is none other than BABY BLACK WIDOW SPIDERS HATCHING...THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU!!!
Nice point about Doom3 and the hype. For a while, I felt like the only person who read the synopses of Doom3 and asked: "Didn't anyone hear of System Shock? How about System Shock 2? Why are people treating this like the advent of ice cream?"
You may want to check out some of the Canadian media. All media is biased, of course, but there's certainly less of a vested interest in skewing things in a partisan way as it pertains to US politics up here (read: no need, it's fairly f*cked as it is without skewing, IMHO).
Denigrating the things that I value just shows your stupidity, not your superiority.
I'm not denigrating tango dancing or your appreciation of it. I'm denigrating your haughty provincialism. I'm sure NYC is a great town - but you used tango dancing, theatre, and pedestrian travel as an argument for what came clearly across as cultural snobbery.
Post 17th century architecture? You'd be on to something there.
"3)Living in NYC has it's own advantages. Here, I can go Tango Dancing every day of the week, see the best museums, never have to drive the death machine we call an automobile, can go out drinking without worrying about how I am getting home, can see world class plays, theater, etc. etc. etc. Living in Canada would be a marked decrease in my Life Style. It might be OK for people that don;t care about this kind of stuff, but not for me."
Wow, what's Tango Dancing? Museums? What the hell are plays?
This NYC place seems pretty darned fancy-looking! I should save up my 40% weaker Canadian dollars, sell my moose lodge, canoe down there, and experience what can only conceivably be a DREAM CITY IN THE **KING CLOUDS, YOU SELF-INFATUATED NY MORON.
You think freaking Tango lessons set NYC apart from the world? If *that's* your basis for judgement, you'd do us all a favour and stay put, friend.
Screw jail time, let's trot that little paranoid pony to Madison Square Gardens and sit him down with Gary Kasparov (that is, if the the venue could possibly hold their egos). Quick, somebody start a petition! I'll stand here and criticize from afar!
I think much of what Kay is lamenting is similar to the great - and strangely unpublicised - disappointment many pioneers of television experience.
Remember this?: television will eliminate ignorance, education will be widespread, the people will have a voice with which to communicate.
It's the 21st century, and it's "Hey, do you remember that 'leggo my Eggo' commercial?".
This is what happens when we allow commercialisation to go unchecked; in any environment - unchecked - it will consume infinitely until the environment is destroyed.
2. Hey, "Erudite"? I thought this book was for geeks, not Greeks [holds his ribs as they swell with the expansion of his lungs as he laughs out loud at his clever retort]
Well, not to be cruel to something you prefer, I found it to feel hastily-written and poorly conceived. Inexplicable swearing: when the author poses the question, in relation to Arthur Dent's budding romance, "Does he f***?". It's not the use of the word that I object to (for if I did, I'd certainly be the world's greatest hypocrite), it's just that - to have written 3 books prior to this, and having them be as strongly and skillfully written as they were - it seemed to be the point where I realised that something was amiss in book 4. It wasn't funny, it wasn't particularly necessary...it just ended up sounding, well, rude; rude in a way that just left a sour note. I felt it was disrespectful, I suppose; the symptom of a rushed author toiling over a book he probably didn't want to write as quickly as he had to..
True, I did like the more relaxed, Arthur-centric feel of it - perhaps that's why I was so disappointed with how it was written...and the 3rd book sort of closed that chapter, when he settled down to learn how birds talk (more or less - we're not talking about The Ilyad here).
With Dirk - again, loved parts of it. Loved. But - and I forget which of the two it was - but the book with all of the Norse gods ended with so many unanswered questions/threads (and I don't mean superfluous reader-centric questions, but What Happened to Major Characters questions).
Any-hoo, that's my 2 cents. Lord knows, I prefer to have read poor Douglas Adams than good Danielle Steele.:)
...is that 'So Long, And Thanks For All the Fish" not only sucked (when a writer of humour inexplicably starts swearing somewhere in the middle of a series, it's a bad sign), it showed the limitations Adams' would show later-on as writer (unfinished story threads, complete breakdown of narrative, etc..) of the Dirk Gently books. I can't imagine ever wishing to hear SLaTFAtF put to another format, although conceivably it could only make the experience better.
This is not flamebait - I treasure the experience of reading the first three books, but honestly, even "Life, The Universe, and Everything" became plodding after a while, despite the ingenious ideas he hatched up (ie the hair dressers).
I will always remember Adams' books, but let's not needlessly enshrine everthing the chap wrote, eh?
Quote: Things are faster than ever thanks to the CPU optimized builds!...and a babbling brook of clear spring water greets me everytime I turn on my system. It talks to me in a beautiful dulcet tone. It even works as a bank machine...with free money no less! Wow!
Look, if you want to experience the 'old days' of linux, uninstall X. Or, if you need X, use Fluxbox or some other low-overhead window-manager.
Bloat is the price of not only trying to match the leader (MS) feature for feature, but also staying ahead of competing distros. When KDE x.x comes out, all of the users of a distro cry out for it to be implemented - the people who package the distro have their hands tied as a result: do they hold-off from a leading-edge system for sake of performance, or do they give the users what they're crying for? Usually, the latter wins (note: some distros, like Debian and Mandrake, get around this with experimental package depositories for those looking for a nose-bleed).
Strangely, Mandrake 10 runs waaaay faster than any of the v8 or v9 releases.
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If Transgaming wanted to make some friends, they'd bundle their WineX/Cedega product with Half Life 2. Although I am no supporter of them, it would make their fiscal year in a month.
Really, this article is the techno-geek equivalent of some guy laying on the roof his car at night, stoned, and wondering if the trees have people in them.
Interesting question, yes. A little 'speculative' though.
...he died a virgin and studied alchemy.
...is that the people doing CGI for the movie probably couldn't run the game on their systems.
A Gartner report has been released stating that users who choose to install Linux [hiss!] will soon hear a strange beeping sound from their computer/laptop. This beeping sound is none other than BABY BLACK WIDOW SPIDERS HATCHING...THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU!!!
...everything in the world that once held true dignity is now being openly whored.
Nice point about Doom3 and the hype. For a while, I felt like the only person who read the synopses of Doom3 and asked: "Didn't anyone hear of System Shock? How about System Shock 2? Why are people treating this like the advent of ice cream?"
I am less bitter now.
I'll wait for Libranet 3.0, thanks.
Wait, don't tell me you want the freedom to choose in an election.
I'm being cynical here, but wasn't Yoper supposed to the the Next Great Distro last year? What happened?
Thought I'd purchased too soon when I got our E320, but now I have no regrets :)
You may want to check out some of the Canadian media. All media is biased, of course, but there's certainly less of a vested interest in skewing things in a partisan way as it pertains to US politics up here (read: no need, it's fairly f*cked as it is without skewing, IMHO).
Some sites:
TV/web - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Newspaper - The Globe and Mail
The Army's future soldier will resemble something out of a science fiction movie
[poster thinks about films like Starship Troopers]
Trees, meet forest. Forest, meet trees.
Denigrating the things that I value just shows your stupidity, not your superiority.
I'm not denigrating tango dancing or your appreciation of it. I'm denigrating your haughty provincialism. I'm sure NYC is a great town - but you used tango dancing, theatre, and pedestrian travel as an argument for what came clearly across as cultural snobbery.
Post 17th century architecture? You'd be on to something there.
"3)Living in NYC has it's own advantages. Here, I can go Tango Dancing every day of the week, see the best museums, never have to drive the death machine we call an automobile, can go out drinking without worrying about how I am getting home, can see world class plays, theater, etc. etc. etc. Living in Canada would be a marked decrease in my Life Style. It might be OK for people that don;t care about this kind of stuff, but not for me."
Wow, what's Tango Dancing? Museums? What the hell are plays?
This NYC place seems pretty darned fancy-looking! I should save up my 40% weaker Canadian dollars, sell my moose lodge, canoe down there, and experience what can only conceivably be a DREAM CITY IN THE **KING CLOUDS, YOU SELF-INFATUATED NY MORON.
You think freaking Tango lessons set NYC apart from the world? If *that's* your basis for judgement, you'd do us all a favour and stay put, friend.
Screw jail time, let's trot that little paranoid pony to Madison Square Gardens and sit him down with Gary Kasparov (that is, if the the venue could possibly hold their egos).
Quick, somebody start a petition! I'll stand here and criticize from afar!
I think much of what Kay is lamenting is similar to the great - and strangely unpublicised - disappointment many pioneers of television experience.
Remember this?: television will eliminate ignorance, education will be widespread, the people will have a voice with which to communicate.
It's the 21st century, and it's "Hey, do you remember that 'leggo my Eggo' commercial?".
This is what happens when we allow commercialisation to go unchecked; in any environment - unchecked - it will consume infinitely until the environment is destroyed.
If this game works under Cadega (WX4), they have a new subscriber!
Quote: Erudite crowd, Linux folk, yes?
1. Hey, it's Yoda! [chuckling to himself]
2. Hey, "Erudite"? I thought this book was for geeks, not Greeks [holds his ribs as they swell with the expansion of his lungs as he laughs out loud at his clever retort]
Well, not to be cruel to something you prefer, I found it to feel hastily-written and poorly conceived. Inexplicable swearing: when the author poses the question, in relation to Arthur Dent's budding romance, "Does he f***?". It's not the use of the word that I object to (for if I did, I'd certainly be the world's greatest hypocrite), it's just that - to have written 3 books prior to this, and having them be as strongly and skillfully written as they were - it seemed to be the point where I realised that something was amiss in book 4. It wasn't funny, it wasn't particularly necessary...it just ended up sounding, well, rude; rude in a way that just left a sour note. I felt it was disrespectful, I suppose; the symptom of a rushed author toiling over a book he probably didn't want to write as quickly as he had to. .
:)
True, I did like the more relaxed, Arthur-centric feel of it - perhaps that's why I was so disappointed with how it was written...and the 3rd book sort of closed that chapter, when he settled down to learn how birds talk (more or less - we're not talking about The Ilyad here).
With Dirk - again, loved parts of it. Loved. But - and I forget which of the two it was - but the book with all of the Norse gods ended with so many unanswered questions/threads (and I don't mean superfluous reader-centric questions, but What Happened to Major Characters questions).
Any-hoo, that's my 2 cents. Lord knows, I prefer to have read poor Douglas Adams than good Danielle Steele.
...is that 'So Long, And Thanks For All the Fish" not only sucked (when a writer of humour inexplicably starts swearing somewhere in the middle of a series, it's a bad sign), it showed the limitations Adams' would show later-on as writer (unfinished story threads, complete breakdown of narrative, etc..) of the Dirk Gently books. I can't imagine ever wishing to hear SLaTFAtF put to another format, although conceivably it could only make the experience better.
This is not flamebait - I treasure the experience of reading the first three books, but honestly, even "Life, The Universe, and Everything" became plodding after a while, despite the ingenious ideas he hatched up (ie the hair dressers).
I will always remember Adams' books, but let's not needlessly enshrine everthing the chap wrote, eh?
Stop calling people newbies you arrogant bastard.
Quote: Things are faster than ever thanks to the CPU optimized builds! ...and a babbling brook of clear spring water greets me everytime I turn on my system. It talks to me in a beautiful dulcet tone. It even works as a bank machine...with free money no less! Wow!
Move to Vancouver, hippie.
Look, if you want to experience the 'old days' of linux, uninstall X. Or, if you need X, use Fluxbox or some other low-overhead window-manager.
Bloat is the price of not only trying to match the leader (MS) feature for feature, but also staying ahead of competing distros. When KDE x.x comes out, all of the users of a distro cry out for it to be implemented - the people who package the distro have their hands tied as a result: do they hold-off from a leading-edge system for sake of performance, or do they give the users what they're crying for? Usually, the latter wins (note: some distros, like Debian and Mandrake, get around this with experimental package depositories for those looking for a nose-bleed).
Strangely, Mandrake 10 runs waaaay faster than any of the v8 or v9 releases.
Unconsciously, you anticipated my response:
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