I heartily agree. I have "only" a 20GB drive on my home system, and it still has ~6GB free! Where the hell does anyone get off calling a 40GB drive useless, especially in a home-user context? Are people archiving entire seasons of television shows? Never uninstalling full-installs of games? What's going on here? How could 40GB be useless?
Hitler (and/or Himmler and Goebbels and other "religious" Nazis) did have an obsession with the occult. The swastika is an ancient sun symbol, and the lightning-bolt SS sigil has Nordic occult meaning.
The Nazis carried out many archaeological and anthropological expeditions. I recall seeing some footage of them in India, measuring heads in an attempt to trace Aryan ancestry.
I wouldn't say Wolfenstein "uncovers" the Nazi relationship with the occult, but it doesn't pull the concept out of fatty butt, either.
Any search on "Nazi occult" will bring up a few hours of reading enjoyment!
There is no other country more/free/.
I don't care about God, or politics, or particularly about saving spotted owls or avoiding a greenhouse apocalypse. For me, America is one thing--Freedom.
I'm willing to fight and die for America, but if its captains gamble away our real and precious right to freedom on a longshot of safety against madmen, well, then it just isn't America anymore.
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> Strange that they chose a 3rd party review that > is so negative towards Netscape, though, eh?
I don't think so. It'd be strange, even miraculous, if they'd managed to find an objective review that's/positive/ towards Netscape.
I'm using Mozilla now, but it's slow as shit on Pluto. I suppose the best positive thing someone can say is, "It's gonna be great one day!"
Do plans remain for Mozilla getting faster, or has that goal been abandoned?
Any top list without Wasteland on it is completely and totally worthless. The absence of Fallout is perhaps even worse, considering the twerps running the site should have been out of short pants when it came out.
I spent years playing Wasteland. I even cracked it out in the late 90's and ran with it for a few weeks to push up to Supreme Jerk rank.
Obviously the people who wrote the list have no knowledge of gaming history beyond gleaning the best of screenshots from those before them.
I don't care enough to decide whether or not I believe. Global warming does not interest me.
Environmental fearmongers are pessimistic escapists. Pre-90's, our bogeyman was nuclear war. I was sure the world would be Wasteland by the time I could grow a beard.
Now it's post-millennium. No mutants, no feral children, no road warriors, not even a goddamned beard. I feel cheated.
I use Windowmaker, with a GNOME panel (currently only for GnomeICU, but eh); konqueror and kpasman are the only KDE apps I use. As noted earlier, some KDE libs are required, but you're by no means forced to use a full-KDE desktop.
The nightlies still sucked when I tried them about a month ago. Last week, I switched to Konqueror and haven't loaded the old NS4 since. I vaguely miss some of the wizzier features of Mozilla (saving http-auth passwords, form input, themes, etc.), but the speed and reliability of Konqueror is well worth it.
Plugins actually work, too. Hell, Acrobat files even come up in the browser pane. I don't particularly like that, but it's cool to see things work like they do everywhere else.
CSS seems a little off with regard to text colors, but I'm probably doing something wrong.
That isn't necessarily true. Crude language, imagery, and absurd humor have their place.
However, an obnoxious voice imploring others to eat his "mangina" in the middle of a work day is unprofessional on more than just a politically correct level. It's distracting.
That said, I agree with little the author stated, and he'd be dismissed as a whacko if he made similiar allegations about a hip-hop convention, or maybe a goddamned everyday FOOTBALL game?
Sex and violence are the most suppressed urges in Western culture, freed through gaming. Fantasy is what gaming is all about. You can't say the same about a football game--why all the cheerleaders splaying their legs willy-nilly?
As said by others, Diablo is a totally different beast from FPS like Unreal. I heard on the radio recently that videogames stimulate the brain in the same way cigarettes do. That would explain my cravings for Diablo and Fallout Tactics!
It's all about being rewarded for what, on the surface, is a repetitive behaviour. Like real life work, but more control, and better rewards.
As long as you don't sink into the "it's only a game" funk, it'll keep you happy as a drug.
As has been said previous, RPM's lack of an apt-get style tool kills its usefulness. RPM could be the best package management system in the universe, but as long as I have to hunt for a bazillion RPM to upgrade my system, and get maddening "depends on/bin/sh" errors forcing me to repeat the process, well--it'd be less headache to just compile and install the source!
Package managers are supposed to make installs and upgrades convenient. If RPM is more of a hassle than downloading and compiling source, why use it?
No way am I going back to big, bulky, ugly serially-accessed videotapes. DVD is "load and play." Interactive menus, features, it's a multimedia production, not just a damn movie. Resolution isn't as important as content to me. DVD is here to stay. This thing will go NOWHERE in the consumer market.
Amen. I've been involved with LambdaMOO for almost 10 years now. It's a community in every (good and bad) sense of the word. We have popular "celebrities," cliques, politics, elected positions, we vote on policy (MOO-wide petitions, ballots).
You just can't/do/ that on the Web. The Web is stateless, and every hack used to give it state is still just a hack.
That said, I consider Slashdot a community. We have our own lingo, mythos, and prominent figures. I'm not as involved here, but others certainly are, and know each other and their personalities.
I try nightlies every week or so. Just downloaded the latest, and it's still slow. Looks great, lots of promise, but SLOW SLOW SLOW. I'm certainly not giving up hope, but Mozilla isn't becoming my primary browser until it speeds up.
Again, not blasting the work they do. It looks awesome, and it has sped up considerably since the earlier builds. But it's still slow. Very slow. Way too slow.
No, this response is not "better than a socialist and a libertarian." At least those candidates took the time to answer the questions personally.
Nader's like Citizen Kane. He wants to lord his "gift" of freedom and justice over an island of ignorantly grateful monkeys.
That bitch belched, lemme add that nothing but the shades of injustice will change by voting Republicrat. If you want to change the colors, vote your heart.
The Linux demo is already out, and plays pretty smooth on my K62-450 w/Voodoo3. I enjoyed the violence, particularly crippling a subway thug, and blasting his nutsac into ground man-beef.
The sniper rifle didn't work very well in the version I tried. My headshots didn't give me no sat-is-fac-tion. Hopefully that'll be fixed.
No flaming in the version I tried, but plenty of fun barging into bathroom stalls and plugging studly men full of hot lead.
Jack Valenti is old, but more importantly, he states that he has a 102F temperature! He shouldn't even be giving the deposition in such a state. It's ridiculous.
I'm not on his side in this debate, but labeling a sick and feverish man a LUNATIC is just wrong.
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I heartily agree. I have "only" a 20GB drive on my home system, and it still has ~6GB free! Where the hell does anyone get off calling a 40GB drive useless, especially in a home-user context? Are people archiving entire seasons of television shows? Never uninstalling full-installs of games? What's going on here? How could 40GB be useless?
Maybe he meant "litteraly" as in he was compiling his kernel in a very messy way, a la "litter." Just a guess, hope this helps.
Rock and roll forever!!!
I recall Sci-Fi used to do Mystery Science Theatre 3000 marathons around Thanksgiving. I'd always be out of town during them, though.
I wish they'd ran a marathon of all owned episodes (Comedy Central included) one last time before shutting down the franchise for good.
Hitler (and/or Himmler and Goebbels and other "religious" Nazis) did have an obsession with the occult. The swastika is an ancient sun symbol, and the lightning-bolt SS sigil has Nordic occult meaning.
The Nazis carried out many archaeological and anthropological expeditions. I recall seeing some footage of them in India, measuring heads in an attempt to trace Aryan ancestry.
I wouldn't say Wolfenstein "uncovers" the Nazi relationship with the occult, but it doesn't pull the concept out of fatty butt, either.
Any search on "Nazi occult" will bring up a few hours of reading enjoyment!
The real reason they shut down is because they found out I can finally view all their Quicktime content with the Crossover plugin. God hates me, yo.
There are safer countries in the world.
/free/.
There are cleaner countries in the world.
There are healthier countries in the world.
There are smarter countries in the world.
There is no other country more
I don't care about God, or politics, or particularly about saving spotted owls or avoiding a greenhouse apocalypse. For me, America is one thing--Freedom.
I'm willing to fight and die for America, but if its captains gamble away our real and precious right to freedom on a longshot of safety against madmen, well, then it just isn't America anymore.
> Strange that they chose a 3rd party review that > is so negative towards Netscape, though, eh?
/positive/ towards Netscape.
I don't think so. It'd be strange, even miraculous, if they'd managed to find an objective review that's
I'm using Mozilla now, but it's slow as shit on Pluto. I suppose the best positive thing someone can say is, "It's gonna be great one day!"
Do plans remain for Mozilla getting faster, or has that goal been abandoned?
Any top list without Wasteland on it is completely and totally worthless. The absence of Fallout is perhaps even worse, considering the twerps running the site should have been out of short pants when it came out.
I spent years playing Wasteland. I even cracked it out in the late 90's and ran with it for a few weeks to push up to Supreme Jerk rank.
Obviously the people who wrote the list have no knowledge of gaming history beyond gleaning the best of screenshots from those before them.
I don't care enough to decide whether or not I believe. Global warming does not interest me.
Environmental fearmongers are pessimistic escapists. Pre-90's, our bogeyman was nuclear war. I was sure the world would be Wasteland by the time I could grow a beard.
Now it's post-millennium. No mutants, no feral children, no road warriors, not even a goddamned beard. I feel cheated.
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Are you accusing this bastard of resembling a Japanese soup, or do you mean "misogynistic?"
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I use Windowmaker, with a GNOME panel (currently only for GnomeICU, but eh); konqueror and kpasman are the only KDE apps I use. As noted earlier, some KDE libs are required, but you're by no means forced to use a full-KDE desktop.
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I don't think it's right to teach kids to rock and roll all night and party every day.
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I'd like to take this opportunity to "redicule" all the Slashdotters who can't spell "ridiculous."
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The nightlies still sucked when I tried them about a month ago. Last week, I switched to Konqueror and haven't loaded the old NS4 since. I vaguely miss some of the wizzier features of Mozilla (saving http-auth passwords, form input, themes, etc.), but the speed and reliability of Konqueror is well worth it.
Plugins actually work, too. Hell, Acrobat files even come up in the browser pane. I don't particularly like that, but it's cool to see things work like they do everywhere else.
CSS seems a little off with regard to text colors, but I'm probably doing something wrong.
Try Konqueror. You'll probably be impressed.
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That isn't necessarily true. Crude language, imagery, and absurd humor have their place.
However, an obnoxious voice imploring others to eat his "mangina" in the middle of a work day is unprofessional on more than just a politically correct level. It's distracting.
That said, I agree with little the author stated, and he'd be dismissed as a whacko if he made similiar allegations about a hip-hop convention, or maybe a goddamned everyday FOOTBALL game?
Sex and violence are the most suppressed urges in Western culture, freed through gaming. Fantasy is what gaming is all about. You can't say the same about a football game--why all the cheerleaders splaying their legs willy-nilly?
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As said by others, Diablo is a totally different beast from FPS like Unreal. I heard on the radio recently that videogames stimulate the brain in the same way cigarettes do. That would explain my cravings for Diablo and Fallout Tactics!
It's all about being rewarded for what, on the surface, is a repetitive behaviour. Like real life work, but more control, and better rewards.
As long as you don't sink into the "it's only a game" funk, it'll keep you happy as a drug.
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As has been said previous, RPM's lack of an apt-get style tool kills its usefulness. RPM could be the best package management system in the universe, but as long as I have to hunt for a bazillion RPM to upgrade my system, and get maddening "depends on /bin/sh" errors forcing me to repeat the process, well--it'd be less headache to just compile and install the source!
Package managers are supposed to make installs and upgrades convenient. If RPM is more of a hassle than downloading and compiling source, why use it?
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Are you or have you ever been a member of the Free Software Foundation?
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No way am I going back to big, bulky, ugly serially-accessed videotapes. DVD is "load and play." Interactive menus, features, it's a multimedia production, not just a damn movie. Resolution isn't as important as content to me. DVD is here to stay. This thing will go NOWHERE in the consumer market.
--
Amen. I've been involved with LambdaMOO for almost 10 years now. It's a community in every (good and bad) sense of the word. We have popular "celebrities," cliques, politics, elected positions, we vote on policy (MOO-wide petitions, ballots).
/do/ that on the Web. The Web is stateless, and every hack used to give it state is still just a hack.
You just can't
That said, I consider Slashdot a community. We have our own lingo, mythos, and prominent figures. I'm not as involved here, but others certainly are, and know each other and their personalities.
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> [OSX] is an improvement but it still relies
> on the WIMP metaphor.
OSX has harnessed the power of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles? Maybe I haven't been giving Macintosh enough credit. Quite an R&D team there!
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I try nightlies every week or so. Just downloaded the latest, and it's still slow. Looks great, lots of promise, but SLOW SLOW SLOW. I'm certainly not giving up hope, but Mozilla isn't becoming my primary browser until it speeds up.
Again, not blasting the work they do. It looks awesome, and it has sped up considerably since the earlier builds. But it's still slow. Very slow. Way too slow.
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No, this response is not "better than a socialist and a libertarian." At least those candidates took the time to answer the questions personally.
Nader's like Citizen Kane. He wants to lord his "gift" of freedom and justice over an island of ignorantly grateful monkeys.
That bitch belched, lemme add that nothing but the shades of injustice will change by voting Republicrat. If you want to change the colors, vote your heart.
--
The Linux demo is already out, and plays pretty smooth on my K62-450 w/Voodoo3. I enjoyed the violence, particularly crippling a subway thug, and blasting his nutsac into ground man-beef.
The sniper rifle didn't work very well in the version I tried. My headshots didn't give me no sat-is-fac-tion. Hopefully that'll be fixed.
No flaming in the version I tried, but plenty of fun barging into bathroom stalls and plugging studly men full of hot lead.
Aw yeeeeah, girlfriend.
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Jack Valenti is old, but more importantly, he states that he has a 102F temperature! He shouldn't even be giving the deposition in such a state. It's ridiculous.
I'm not on his side in this debate, but labeling a sick and feverish man a LUNATIC is just wrong.
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