Was working out of a guy's home mid '90s. We went to get a new computer, a Pentium Pro . He says, "You should probably get something to stress test it." So we got Duke Nukem and Quake.
Quake ruled. The doof who invented it didn't know what he had, with his incomprehensible hatred of the two best features: rocket jumping, which fell out naturally from the well-defined physics, and the grappling hook, the single-most popular mod, included in many other popular mods like capture the flag.
All soul was lost with Quake II, where they got rid of hateful rocket jumping, then added a hack to put it back in by popular demand. And we won't even get into the silly mechanical grappling hook.
Then came Quake 3 with jump pads. Sigh.
No soul. Even the grenade launcher went from a cool, red-light thing bouncing all over the place to a semi-sticky glowing 2-bounce sweet potato "so people could place it more easily".
No soul. Go watch Quake Done Quicker on YouTube for some groovy soul apparently forever past in history:(
Gas stations started doing separate costs per gallon when we left dollar-a-gallon long behind. Their profit (as opposed to oil companies') remained more or less constant at 9 cents or so per gallon, whether the gallon was $1 or $4. 3% of a dollar is 3 cents. Of $4 it's 12 cents. There goes your profit, so split it.
Whethe they hide it in everybody's price or not, and whether the CC companies colluded or not are separate issues.
The vast majority of people don't see government's massive power as a problem as long as "their guy" is wielding it. Then power inevitably changes (Democrats are on a furious masturbatory kick right now that History Is Now Over) and only then does that side suddenly become concerned with constitutional issues.
Both sides do it over and over as the decades go by, never learning the lessons the founding fathers did which was why they limited government originally.
One would think such a high-visibility show by a deep pockets company would have entire folders of legal provenance for everything long before they even get around to recordings.
IIRC, some bands sued the Guitar Hero and similar games because they made almost identical cover versions.
I don't know, but I'll bet it costs a lot less to do a professionally-released (so to speak) cover than to republish actual recordings. So what to do when people really get their rocks off to the big hit original and dislike even slight variations? Easy! Clone it down to the atomic level.
But maybe that "cover", while technically new, is so close it falls afoul of copyrights or the contracts studios write for cover vs. republish. Bring in the lawyers!
Entire new classes of jobs have been created in advanced, high-tech fields by creative, and then wealthy, people, and you haul out 19th century class warfare rhetoric?
When that holds sway, you simply don't have the rapid advancement with new jobs. Look at the bigger picture instead of taking the curerent state of affairs as magically appearing.
The ant who labored is a "have" in your worldview, to be characterized as...a lazy thief?!?!?
Incredible. Just providing hundreds of jobs is evil, and not thinking that that's better than nothing.
I find it sickening the meme has now spread to the masses that people who actually do things, businesses, are looked at the way Adam and Eve looked at plants in the Garden of Eden -- they only exist at your beknighted sufferance, and may ne plucked at your whim so you can do things.
They're in Ireland because they're fleeing even worse confiscatory self-righteousness elsewhere.
Woe be to this planet with a world government and nowhere to flee.
See also: Silicon Valley fleeing, and now rich people fleeing. The gaping maw of meme sob stories and self-righteous politicians preening to the masses is never sated. It can only be killed by refusing to support it.
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No, I'm fartacus!
They used to use $ in naming variables in Basic. It could be that.=
Was working out of a guy's home mid '90s. We went to get a new computer, a Pentium Pro . He says, "You should probably get something to stress test it." So we got Duke Nukem and Quake.
Quake ruled. The doof who invented it didn't know what he had, with his incomprehensible hatred of the two best features: rocket jumping, which fell out naturally from the well-defined physics, and the grappling hook, the single-most popular mod, included in many other popular mods like capture the flag.
All soul was lost with Quake II, where they got rid of hateful rocket jumping, then added a hack to put it back in by popular demand. And we won't even get into the silly mechanical grappling hook.
Then came Quake 3 with jump pads. Sigh.
No soul. Even the grenade launcher went from a cool, red-light thing bouncing all over the place to a semi-sticky glowing 2-bounce sweet potato "so people could place it more easily".
No soul. Go watch Quake Done Quicker on YouTube for some groovy soul apparently forever past in history :(
When notable conservative warhawks like Nancy Pelosi bitch about Zero Dark Thirty's exaggerated US-handled torture scenes, you have to wonder.
Gas stations started doing separate costs per gallon when we left dollar-a-gallon long behind. Their profit (as opposed to oil companies') remained more or less constant at 9 cents or so per gallon, whether the gallon was $1 or $4. 3% of a dollar is 3 cents. Of $4 it's 12 cents. There goes your profit, so split it.
Whethe they hide it in everybody's price or not, and whether the CC companies colluded or not are separate issues.
The vast majority of people don't see government's massive power as a problem as long as "their guy" is wielding it. Then power inevitably changes (Democrats are on a furious masturbatory kick right now that History Is Now Over) and only then does that side suddenly become concerned with constitutional issues.
Both sides do it over and over as the decades go by, never learning the lessons the founding fathers did which was why they limited government originally.
Power will change hands again. It always does.
You've obviously never saved a Word or Excel document to disk.
> A hacker has releasedÂa brilliant, yet simple trick to
> circumvent this protection
Beating up the guy after he logs in?
This is, of course, just a minor scandal compared to those bastards breaking up Santana and Brittany, and turning Brittany straight!
Fuck you Glee! >:-(
One would think such a high-visibility show by a deep pockets company would have entire folders of legal provenance for everything long before they even get around to recordings.
The fog of war deepens.
IIRC, some bands sued the Guitar Hero and similar games because they made almost identical cover versions.
I don't know, but I'll bet it costs a lot less to do a professionally-released (so to speak) cover than to republish actual recordings. So what to do when people really get their rocks off to the big hit original and dislike even slight variations? Easy! Clone it down to the atomic level.
But maybe that "cover", while technically new, is so close it falls afoul of copyrights or the contracts studios write for cover vs. republish. Bring in the lawyers!
Well, I wonder if the spacetime continuum is unravelling -- I could swear I read exactly this story several days ago, including the topic OP.
This has happened several times in the past few weeks. I don't know what's going on. I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON!
We mean this car blows.
Entire new classes of jobs have been created in advanced, high-tech fields by creative, and then wealthy, people, and you haul out 19th century class warfare rhetoric?
When that holds sway, you simply don't have the rapid advancement with new jobs. Look at the bigger picture instead of taking the curerent state of affairs as magically appearing.
The ant who labored is a "have" in your worldview, to be characterized as...a lazy thief?!?!?
Technically, "USian" is just annoying, not pedantic.
Well, that explains why he was involved. I can't imagine Ashley getting teased much as a boy though.
Silicon Nanoparticles Could Lead To On-Demand Hydrogen Generation
That's some serious R&D by the whoopie cushion industry.
Incredible. Just providing hundreds of jobs is evil, and not thinking that that's better than nothing.
I find it sickening the meme has now spread to the masses that people who actually do things, businesses, are looked at the way Adam and Eve looked at plants in the Garden of Eden -- they only exist at your beknighted sufferance, and may ne plucked at your whim so you can do things.
They're in Ireland because they're fleeing even worse confiscatory self-righteousness elsewhere.
Woe be to this planet with a world government and nowhere to flee.
Californiais stupid so they did the second thing.
See also: Silicon Valley fleeing, and now rich people fleeing. The gaping maw of meme sob stories and self-righteous politicians preening to the masses is never sated. It can only be killed by refusing to support it.
Ironically, many young men around here have girlfriends that resemble the hilt of a lightsaber.
Slashdot seems to succumb to these shrill stories more and more now.
"Oh fucking no! (insert distorted descriptions more fitting on the back cover of a UFO book)! Ain't that just awful gais?"
> "Spurred by the mark holder'scease and desist letter"
Good lord, how cheap. Looks like someone was profiteering by gayming the system.
He likes bitching at things, much like you apparently.
If the "nerd" wants to push the Jews into the sea, I'm fine with being the bully. We should bully such murderous assholes more.