Totally. Was this question worthy of Slashdot's index page?
If not, you can't really blame the guy for asking. I'd hate to think about how many stupid questions the editors have to wade through every day... but when of this huge mass of questions, they decide on one like this, it makes you wonder if they're just throwing darts.
Agreed. Music radio sucks. If I want music, I'll listen to what I want when I want it with my own music collection. As a news outlet, radio stations such as NPR are still great sources for news, especially on the move... At least NPR hasn't been fawning over Reagan 24/7 for the last few days.
Is it really their bandwidth? If your plan includes webspace, you're effectively paying for the bandwidth and space you're using. So to relate to your metaphore, its like paying a company to print and distribute your content, then having them take the money but refuse to distribute the content because someone complained.
As for having a right to do what they want with the bandwidth, they probably cover that in their AUP.
This actually brings up a good point. Games like Postal 2 are full of brutal and bloody violence. In the article, Clive Thompson says the characters in games look like "animated corpse(s)." I for one would rather be brutally killing things that may try to be realistic, but are obviously not, than ones that actually come closer to fooling us into believing they're human.
I never played that one, but there was also a sim-copter where you flew around putting out fires and saving injured people. It was the same deal, it used maps from SimCity, and let you fly through them in 3d. It was a pretty cool idea.
About all I've ever managed to get for helping my friends with their computer troubles is their recommendation to their friends to bug me to help them. A losing proposition all around.
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No, that was invented by an IBM employee.
Apple sells something that only costs 100 dollars?! Where do I sign??
Yeah, its all according to a plan:
1. Allow IP Address Portability, breaking the internet as we now know it
2. ???
3. PROFIT!
Exactly. Its not like changing addresses is impossible. With home addresses, you have mail forwarding, and with IP addresses, you have DNS.
That raelly wouldn't apply here. You don't need any special tools to view C++ code, unless you consider a text editor a special tool.
Erm, thanks. Precisely. I was a bit rushed at work, so I was just providing a source that had the answer to the question.
No. They will not continue to record the series. The movie is all thats left, unfortunately. It was a terrific series.
Wait, so, you're saying putting your mouse over the link and looking down before clicking is an extra couple steps then? And I thought I was lazy!
Well, thats all well and good, but I think he was talking about the BWM itself.
Always expect spyware. The question is whether we'll be pleasantly surprised.
Thank god!
Without google, yahoo, apple, etc. AND Slashdot, I might actually have to do some work!
I love liberal propaganda you insensative clod!
Agreed. Music radio sucks. If I want music, I'll listen to what I want when I want it with my own music collection. As a news outlet, radio stations such as NPR are still great sources for news, especially on the move... At least NPR hasn't been fawning over Reagan 24/7 for the last few days.
Is it really their bandwidth? If your plan includes webspace, you're effectively paying for the bandwidth and space you're using. So to relate to your metaphore, its like paying a company to print and distribute your content, then having them take the money but refuse to distribute the content because someone complained.
As for having a right to do what they want with the bandwidth, they probably cover that in their AUP.
This actually brings up a good point. Games like Postal 2 are full of brutal and bloody violence. In the article, Clive Thompson says the characters in games look like "animated corpse(s)." I for one would rather be brutally killing things that may try to be realistic, but are obviously not, than ones that actually come closer to fooling us into believing they're human.
I never played that one, but there was also a sim-copter where you flew around putting out fires and saving injured people. It was the same deal, it used maps from SimCity, and let you fly through them in 3d. It was a pretty cool idea.
Or the SimSlashdotEffect?
The irony in them asking their readers why they use Linux and not Windows? I don't think thats irony, but thanks Alanis.
In my experience, we need a "Just Plain Wrong" mod.
Well here's a mirror
Couldn't they just have a card you get punched, and every 50 big macs you get a free liposuction?
I think you're thinking of the Past and Go plugin. It works for both Firefox and Mozilla, and lets you copy and go to a URL in one step.
About all I've ever managed to get for helping my friends with their computer troubles is their recommendation to their friends to bug me to help them. A losing proposition all around.
I just like that perticular form because:
(*) It has the term Asshats
(*) Due to the nature of Asshats, they're always a part of the problem.