It is a precursor to attack by hostile aliens, lead by an interstellar tyrant named Mongul. He means to create Warworld! Where's Green Lantern when you need him?
I think we should stop using P2P networks and start sharing files by sending specially trained bees which could live in our noses. When stimulated properly, the bee will reveal the byte sequences by doing its hive dance...therefore a swarm of bees descending over your house will actually be the encoding for "...!XXX GOODBLOWJOB.AVI"
Thanks to Intel's "let's go for Mhz over performance" attitude, you can barely tell the difference between a PIII-800 Mhz and a P4-3 Ghz.
But pseudol33t "gamerz" have to have a reason waste big money buying the newest CPU and graphics card. It's group therapy for spendthrifts..."See! The red line goes past the blue line on this website! This justifies my spending $500!"
Flipping a few switches in your BIOS isn't gonna make your computer that much faster (unless you have one of those 486's with the "TURBO" button).
I thought it was bad when my parents forced me to go to the symphony...but I served them right by learning to hate classical music.
This 24 hour symphony will arouse a whole new generation filled with hatred towards classical music. And that's good. No son of mine will listen to a bunch of melodies written by men who wore powdered wigs and frilly lace panties.
Besides disco, classical music was the worst and most embarassing music in history. Thank God for black people or we'd still be listening to that Nazi shit.
I was playing MGS after I had a major surgery last year and I really hated the plot...and I found the game itself very easy and boring. I played it about 10 hours before I gave up. I feel the same way about Star Fox Adventures, which everyone else seems to love...
Really? Then will you tell me how to get my Blue and White G3 Mac to boot off the firewire? I don't think it's possible. (This is an honest question, I've tried it before and never gotten it to work).
If there was no right to create proprietary software, meaning no government control or regulation of ideas
Haha...now that's a leap in logic. I hope you're wearing your Anti-Rational Boots, or you won't make it past the Gorge of Overwrought Conclusions! Sucker.
When my child was run over by a popping-ball "lawnmower", and killed... I became suddenly aware of the danger of toys. I have locally formed a group to raise awarness of the liability of the toy industry for allowing such lax standards to pass. In addition to our monthly toy burning, we all agree to read on book together on the evils of the toy industry. This book is so popular, it's been selected over a dozen times for book of the month. Very compelling!
Linux prepares to take the reigns of government in an (admittedly) impoverished state. The minister of state conveys his commitment to free and public software. A symbolic victory on this hand.
But what about the growing perspective that Linux is free, and thus, is somehow "cheap"? If this and other third-world countries like South Africa continue to embrace Linux, will it lose points in the corporate boardroom?
Already we have the KDE project, which continues to make a "Windows clone" desktop. New users may be confused by this desktop, and come to think of Linux as a cheap, third-rate alternative to Windows.
Although Linux can't respectfully decline the Indian government's offer, perhaps some its senior officials (Torvalds, Cox etc) should distance themselves from this decision. Otherwise, it we may be hearing "cheap Linux crap!" as often as our racist forefathers used to say "cheap Japanese crap!"
Hoping you have played MGS and/or FF7 when they were first released, would you consider your initial reaction to Metriod Prime to be similar?
I would have to say that Metroid Prime is much, much, better than those other two. The most compelling advantage is that it's actually a game rather than a click-through CGI movie with a shitty pseudoscience plot.
Way up to Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 though...did you know that the Playstation 2 is just now getting it? Suckers...
Argument by slogan is not a social problem, but rather a rhetorical one.
Slogan-based arguments of complex issues will never succeed. Create intelligent discourse? Someone will respond with "information wants to be free." Unless the poster gains rhetorical skill, the issue at hand will never be discussed fairly.
Although Fossil brought Palm to the table for this one, does anyone else get the distinct impression that they might be making an end-run into the PDA market?
Fossil is a hugely popular brand (they even have Fossil stores in airports!) and with the low margins on watches, they might be looking for a new market. I mean, right now, any Taiwanese sweatshop can put together a POS digital watch, hell, some kid in his garage could do that.
Remember when watches only had an hour and a minute hand? And then all of a sudden, they had a second hand, and now the date, several time zones, "chrono" mode and other stuff.
The PDA is the next step in complexity and "needed" features for a wristwatch. If Fossil were to come out with its own Palmtop OS, or maybe even take Opie or something, they could ink a deal with a few fortune 500 companies just with the force of their name.
And what happens at "What's up Wednesday" when your technology-fetishizing boss passes out a gaggle of huge PDA-watches to all the gals in accounting? I think you may have to start firing up the copy machine to print out resumes!
If you already own Windows XP and 98, and your kids are having problems with running games designed for 98, just wipe out XP and put 98 back. Installing Linux isn't gonna solve that problem.
I've noticed a lot of people saying "Well, I put Linux on my mom's computer," and now someone wants to make their kids use Linux?
Your kids might grow up to be great sysadmins if you do that. But if they're aren't computer lovers, your kids will just end up having an adversarial relationship with computers, and another generation of technophobes will be born.
While it's true that kids are flexible, and won't have much trouble figuring out the differences between the Windows or Mac they use at school and the Linux box at home, cutting your kids off from games, homework assignments, etc just because you like Linux so much is a bit of a rash decision. Don't you want the best for them?
While productivity may be higher, so is depression, divorce, suicide, and crime. Most shooting rampages happen right after someone gets laid off.
Perhaps if corporations used the "employed for life" strategy that the federal government practices, they would alleviate potential stressors to their employees and avoid the possibility of someone busting into the office and shooting everything but the water cooler.
The ultimate problem is, when corporations treat people as if they're disposable, they feel disposable. No one ever gets laid off in Japan. And there haven't been ANY fatal shootings in offices there since right after World War II.
Well, like many ROMs, the ownership of WordPerfect has bounced all over the place. From WordPerfect Inc, to Novell, to Corel, etc. I wouldn't blame their current owners for previous bad acts. I know for a fact that Corel has the old version of WordPerfect 3.5 (Mac platform) available to download on their site.
Does it have anything in it about making backups? I'm learning UNIX (AIX, actually) in a "trial-by-fire" sort of way, and it's different enough from Linux for me to have problems finding good info on backups. Luckily I'm not the main guy running this machine (yet) but I like to learn all I can. Does anyone know of a crazy straw?
Why doesn't he just write it in English? Neanderthal is a dead language anyway. While many may speak its guttural combination of grunts and moans, few can decipher the crude glyphs that score the sides of ancient convenience stores.
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It is a precursor to attack by hostile aliens, lead by an interstellar tyrant named Mongul. He means to create Warworld! Where's Green Lantern when you need him?
I think we should stop using P2P networks and start sharing files by sending specially trained bees which could live in our noses. When stimulated properly, the bee will reveal the byte sequences by doing its hive dance...therefore a swarm of bees descending over your house will actually be the encoding for "...!XXX GOODBLOWJOB.AVI"
But pseudol33t "gamerz" have to have a reason waste big money buying the newest CPU and graphics card. It's group therapy for spendthrifts..."See! The red line goes past the blue line on this website! This justifies my spending $500!"
Flipping a few switches in your BIOS isn't gonna make your computer that much faster (unless you have one of those 486's with the "TURBO" button).
I thought it was bad when my parents forced me to go to the symphony...but I served them right by learning to hate classical music.
This 24 hour symphony will arouse a whole new generation filled with hatred towards classical music. And that's good. No son of mine will listen to a bunch of melodies written by men who wore powdered wigs and frilly lace panties.
Besides disco, classical music was the worst and most embarassing music in history. Thank God for black people or we'd still be listening to that Nazi shit.
I was playing MGS after I had a major surgery last year and I really hated the plot...and I found the game itself very easy and boring. I played it about 10 hours before I gave up. I feel the same way about Star Fox Adventures, which everyone else seems to love...
Really? Then will you tell me how to get my Blue and White G3 Mac to boot off the firewire? I don't think it's possible. (This is an honest question, I've tried it before and never gotten it to work).
2)Is it a sin when I blow my load while I'm thinking about you?
Please let me know...I need to tell my priest. Thanks.
Haha...now that's a leap in logic. I hope you're wearing your Anti-Rational Boots, or you won't make it past the Gorge of Overwrought Conclusions! Sucker.
When my child was run over by a popping-ball "lawnmower", and killed... I became suddenly aware of the danger of toys. I have locally formed a group to raise awarness of the liability of the toy industry for allowing such lax standards to pass. In addition to our monthly toy burning, we all agree to read on book together on the evils of the toy industry. This book is so popular, it's been selected over a dozen times for book of the month. Very compelling!
That's just what this article reminds me of.
But what about the growing perspective that Linux is free, and thus, is somehow "cheap"? If this and other third-world countries like South Africa continue to embrace Linux, will it lose points in the corporate boardroom?
Already we have the KDE project, which continues to make a "Windows clone" desktop. New users may be confused by this desktop, and come to think of Linux as a cheap, third-rate alternative to Windows.
Although Linux can't respectfully decline the Indian government's offer, perhaps some its senior officials (Torvalds, Cox etc) should distance themselves from this decision. Otherwise, it we may be hearing "cheap Linux crap!" as often as our racist forefathers used to say "cheap Japanese crap!"
I would have to say that Metroid Prime is much, much, better than those other two. The most compelling advantage is that it's actually a game rather than a click-through CGI movie with a shitty pseudoscience plot.
Way up to Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 though...did you know that the Playstation 2 is just now getting it? Suckers...
Slogan-based arguments of complex issues will never succeed. Create intelligent discourse? Someone will respond with "information wants to be free." Unless the poster gains rhetorical skill, the issue at hand will never be discussed fairly.
You hate Van Halen? Okay, that's just unacceptable...
Fossil is a hugely popular brand (they even have Fossil stores in airports!) and with the low margins on watches, they might be looking for a new market. I mean, right now, any Taiwanese sweatshop can put together a POS digital watch, hell, some kid in his garage could do that.
Remember when watches only had an hour and a minute hand? And then all of a sudden, they had a second hand, and now the date, several time zones, "chrono" mode and other stuff.
The PDA is the next step in complexity and "needed" features for a wristwatch. If Fossil were to come out with its own Palmtop OS, or maybe even take Opie or something, they could ink a deal with a few fortune 500 companies just with the force of their name.
And what happens at "What's up Wednesday" when your technology-fetishizing boss passes out a gaggle of huge PDA-watches to all the gals in accounting? I think you may have to start firing up the copy machine to print out resumes!
I've noticed a lot of people saying "Well, I put Linux on my mom's computer," and now someone wants to make their kids use Linux?
Your kids might grow up to be great sysadmins if you do that. But if they're aren't computer lovers, your kids will just end up having an adversarial relationship with computers, and another generation of technophobes will be born.
While it's true that kids are flexible, and won't have much trouble figuring out the differences between the Windows or Mac they use at school and the Linux box at home, cutting your kids off from games, homework assignments, etc just because you like Linux so much is a bit of a rash decision. Don't you want the best for them?
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Perhaps if corporations used the "employed for life" strategy that the federal government practices, they would alleviate potential stressors to their employees and avoid the possibility of someone busting into the office and shooting everything but the water cooler.
The ultimate problem is, when corporations treat people as if they're disposable, they feel disposable. No one ever gets laid off in Japan. And there haven't been ANY fatal shootings in offices there since right after World War II.
Here. Yeah, it's basically the same thing.
You don't use drugs, do you?
Well, like many ROMs, the ownership of WordPerfect has bounced all over the place. From WordPerfect Inc, to Novell, to Corel, etc. I wouldn't blame their current owners for previous bad acts. I know for a fact that Corel has the old version of WordPerfect 3.5 (Mac platform) available to download on their site.
Missle command on a nuclear powered laptop? That would turn my mind into a buttery crazy straw!
They think you are incredibly paranoid about mind control because you watch some shitty British import show? Please explain.
Does it have anything in it about making backups? I'm learning UNIX (AIX, actually) in a "trial-by-fire" sort of way, and it's different enough from Linux for me to have problems finding good info on backups. Luckily I'm not the main guy running this machine (yet) but I like to learn all I can. Does anyone know of a crazy straw?