Well, I agree for the most part, but you have to agree that RealPlayer sucks ass. RealPlayer has low framerates, crashes randomly, and can't seek through a partially downloaded media file. All in all, lame. And each successive version of realplayer gets bigger and bigger. I think RP8 was what, 14mb?
Here's an example: I decide that I don't like you very much, so I sit on the sidewalk or lawn in front of your house, holding a sign saying "THIS MAN IS A CHILD MOLESTOR" and screaming to every passersby that you rape children. Now, am I 100% protected by free speech, or am I breaking some laws? Am I entitled to sit on YOUR lawn, YOUR property, and scream out that you're a child molestor? Free speech doesn't mean you can break laws.
I agree. People always bitch about how bad the united states is, and how everyone is at fault except them... but they're never willing to go live someplace else. Instead they advocate killing all the 'opressors' or whatever their favorite word is at the time.
I mean, come on. Some script kiddi3 who doesn't like having to pay for things and believes we should all be communists, or whatever... gets busted for hacking. Big deal.
Yeah, I have that problem... I'm out in the middle of nowhere, so I'm stuck paying over $50 a month for DSL service that only works 75% of the time, and is slow as hell. I have friends in other cities who pay $40 for 8mbps cable modem connections, and I pay $50 for 384kbps DSL. Plus, I had to pay $200 for a router because the internal modem they gave me wouldn't work.
This is revolutionary, now bloated compilers are capable of reproducing! Next thing you know, the compiler will be writing code for you... and then it exterminates the human race!
Lookie here, my Sound Blaster Audigy supports direct digital recording of audio output, without a cable!
I just cracked the audio encryption on Liquid Audio and Napster Files!
Windows has done that since NT4 and 95.
Also, Windows XP added a little 'cd' icon that appears next to the mouse cursor when it's reading your CD-rom drive or loading an autoplay app, solving another usability problem... for some reason, it doesn't let you CHANGE that cursor, though.:(
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Uplink is one of the best games I have ever played.. $25 US well spent. I purchased it about 2 days after I heard about it on Penny-Arcade, and I haven't regretted it once. Even if you only play through it once, it's a highly enjoyable experience, plus free of all that violence and nudity that parents don't like. Nothing beats altering a criminal record to bear the name of one of your friends, adding tons of offenses, and sending them a picture... Fun for the whole family!:)
Demolition Man... you actually WATCHED that movie? That point wasn't even worth making... Since when is Taco Bell evil? O_o
Anyway, there ARE people who watch DVDs on their computers, and on HDTV's, buddy. Just because most people won't experience the improved quality doesn't make it worthless.
Heh, no hardware imcompatibilities or driver problems? Like hell.
Haven't you ever seen the N64 kiosks way back when, running rogue squadron? Every time i walked by one of those, it was jammed/frozen/crashed. And then there's the stories of the XBox crashing... and of course, there's always going to be third-party addons for consoles that DON'T WORK RIGHT.
Wahee! Luigi's Mansion! I can hit ghosts with hammers! Yaaaaaay!
More seriously, I can't understand what nintendo is thinking. They have a console that would have been impressive hardware-wise about 1-2 years ago, and a set of games that is for the most part, unimpressive. (I admit that Zelda/Metroid are pretty nice though.) They can't rely on Mario and Pokemon to keep them alive anymore, and it shows - Most of the games people are looking forward to for gamecube are 3rd party games, with the exception of a select few.
I don't see anything evil here.
Honestly, I bet a majority of the parents out there who aren't half-assed drunken idiots would be glad to know that words like 'fuck' and 'niggar' won't show up in Word while their children are typing papers.
Anyway, Slashdot does even worse - The lameness filter. You're saying that removing words from your thesaurus is censoring, but removing posts that appear to be spam, is not?
Here at our office of CalTrans (the calif. dept of transportation), almost all of our machines are having the same problem: None of the Office 2000 applications will run. They sit for about 5 minutes in the background, taking up 2mb of ram and 0% of the cpu, and then start... and give strange errors about corrupted files when you try to open something.
Related? My pc right here works fine, but it seems almost everyone else can't use office 2000.
I'm sure the pr0n sites will find a way to use more floaating-point capabilities and less size constraints. They're so inventive.
Next thing you know, they'll take the money out of your bank account for you, without you even having to ask, and then personally deliver the porn to your door.
Kinda funny how you didn't even specify your name.
There's a lot to be said for the fact that he actually has BOTHERED to write all this shit. He could easily be working for some company and getting paid big bucks, no matter how lame-ass you claim his code is. You people are lucky Rob even made slash's code free open source in the first place.
Personally I think a lot of the people in the open source community are idiots, and this is why.
Why will people want to share their code if all they get is attacks on their character like this, all based around small fragments of code?
Go find some child to molest or something. I'm sure you'll enjoy it more anyway.
A bunch of 14 and 15-year-olds get all their CDs, rip them, and upload them to every free fileservice they can find, post the URLs all over the web, along with their email addresses, names, phone numbers, and home addresses, and wait for the lawyers. Then the lawyers can waste thousands of dollars trying to sue kids for giving away their music.:)
"The MHz myth: We created it to make G4's and G3's look a hell of a lot faster than they really are. After all, what else would you want to do on a PC except apply photoshop filters under optimal conditions? *grin*"
Damn, you're right, I'm sure not a CS major and that was really easy to understand! ^_^
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Well, I agree for the most part, but you have to agree that RealPlayer sucks ass. RealPlayer has low framerates, crashes randomly, and can't seek through a partially downloaded media file. All in all, lame. And each successive version of realplayer gets bigger and bigger. I think RP8 was what, 14mb?
Heh, it's not that simple. Ever heard of context?
Here's an example: I decide that I don't like you very much, so I sit on the sidewalk or lawn in front of your house, holding a sign saying "THIS MAN IS A CHILD MOLESTOR" and screaming to every passersby that you rape children. Now, am I 100% protected by free speech, or am I breaking some laws? Am I entitled to sit on YOUR lawn, YOUR property, and scream out that you're a child molestor? Free speech doesn't mean you can break laws.
I agree. People always bitch about how bad the united states is, and how everyone is at fault except them... but they're never willing to go live someplace else. Instead they advocate killing all the 'opressors' or whatever their favorite word is at the time.
Does anyone give a damn?
I mean, come on. Some script kiddi3 who doesn't like having to pay for things and believes we should all be communists, or whatever... gets busted for hacking. Big deal.
I know! She has one of them optical mice, and because it's upside down when she uses it, the laser burns her hand!
The human genome project isn't even a complete map, it's more of a generalized list...
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Anyway, that movie sucked.
"Not that our government would ever allow genetic discrimination, but just look at the pieces of the cospiracy puzzle!!" - Is this sarcasm?
Yeah, I have that problem... I'm out in the middle of nowhere, so I'm stuck paying over $50 a month for DSL service that only works 75% of the time, and is slow as hell. I have friends in other cities who pay $40 for 8mbps cable modem connections, and I pay $50 for 384kbps DSL. Plus, I had to pay $200 for a router because the internal modem they gave me wouldn't work.
The joy of citizens communications.
hahahahahahahahaha... idiot.
if you're going to make a bad joke, at least spell all 14 words right...
This is revolutionary, now bloated compilers are capable of reproducing! Next thing you know, the compiler will be writing code for you... and then it exterminates the human race!
Lookie here, my Sound Blaster Audigy supports direct digital recording of audio output, without a cable!
I just cracked the audio encryption on Liquid Audio and Napster Files!
I'm a l33t h4x0r now!
Windows has done that since NT4 and 95. :(
Also, Windows XP added a little 'cd' icon that appears next to the mouse cursor when it's reading your CD-rom drive or loading an autoplay app, solving another usability problem... for some reason, it doesn't let you CHANGE that cursor, though.
Uplink is one of the best games I have ever played.. $25 US well spent. I purchased it about 2 days after I heard about it on Penny-Arcade, and I haven't regretted it once. Even if you only play through it once, it's a highly enjoyable experience, plus free of all that violence and nudity that parents don't like. Nothing beats altering a criminal record to bear the name of one of your friends, adding tons of offenses, and sending them a picture... Fun for the whole family! :)
Demolition Man... you actually WATCHED that movie? That point wasn't even worth making... Since when is Taco Bell evil? O_o
Anyway, there ARE people who watch DVDs on their computers, and on HDTV's, buddy. Just because most people won't experience the improved quality doesn't make it worthless.
Heh, no hardware imcompatibilities or driver problems? Like hell.
Haven't you ever seen the N64 kiosks way back when, running rogue squadron? Every time i walked by one of those, it was jammed/frozen/crashed. And then there's the stories of the XBox crashing... and of course, there's always going to be third-party addons for consoles that DON'T WORK RIGHT.
Or perhaps nintendo wants to sue all their asses to make up for all the money they're going to lose to microsoft and sony? :P
Wahee! Luigi's Mansion! I can hit ghosts with hammers! Yaaaaaay!
More seriously, I can't understand what nintendo is thinking. They have a console that would have been impressive hardware-wise about 1-2 years ago, and a set of games that is for the most part, unimpressive. (I admit that Zelda/Metroid are pretty nice though.) They can't rely on Mario and Pokemon to keep them alive anymore, and it shows - Most of the games people are looking forward to for gamecube are 3rd party games, with the exception of a select few.
I don't see anything evil here.
Honestly, I bet a majority of the parents out there who aren't half-assed drunken idiots would be glad to know that words like 'fuck' and 'niggar' won't show up in Word while their children are typing papers.
Anyway, Slashdot does even worse - The lameness filter. You're saying that removing words from your thesaurus is censoring, but removing posts that appear to be spam, is not?
Next on "ask slashdot":
Dear slashdot,
How can I use slashdot to whine and wail about the evils of closed-source software?
Sincerely,
Dumbass
Heretic.
Stoning, anyone? How about a hanging? Okay, how about an old-fashioned tarball, gzip and feathering? anybody?
Here at our office of CalTrans (the calif. dept of transportation), almost all of our machines are having the same problem: None of the Office 2000 applications will run. They sit for about 5 minutes in the background, taking up 2mb of ram and 0% of the cpu, and then start... and give strange errors about corrupted files when you try to open something.
Related? My pc right here works fine, but it seems almost everyone else can't use office 2000.
You used a mac? Grar! :P
I see a lynching coming!
I'm sure the pr0n sites will find a way to use more floaating-point capabilities and less size constraints. They're so inventive.
Next thing you know, they'll take the money out of your bank account for you, without you even having to ask, and then personally deliver the porn to your door.
Kinda funny how you didn't even specify your name.
There's a lot to be said for the fact that he actually has BOTHERED to write all this shit. He could easily be working for some company and getting paid big bucks, no matter how lame-ass you claim his code is. You people are lucky Rob even made slash's code free open source in the first place.
Personally I think a lot of the people in the open source community are idiots, and this is why.
Why will people want to share their code if all they get is attacks on their character like this, all based around small fragments of code?
Go find some child to molest or something. I'm sure you'll enjoy it more anyway.
*grr*
A bunch of 14 and 15-year-olds get all their CDs, rip them, and upload them to every free fileservice they can find, post the URLs all over the web, along with their email addresses, names, phone numbers, and home addresses, and wait for the lawyers. Then the lawyers can waste thousands of dollars trying to sue kids for giving away their music. :)
"The MHz myth: We created it to make G4's and G3's look a hell of a lot faster than they really are. After all, what else would you want to do on a PC except apply photoshop filters under optimal conditions? *grin*"
Damn, you're right, I'm sure not a CS major and that was really easy to understand! ^_^