Not quite. The production run was only three hundred fifty, so they were already a hot commodity before everybody and his brother tried to break the sound barrier with it. I think something like ten or twenty have already been totaled. My uncle has been trying to get one for a year but no one will sell. I wish they sold them to anyone with money.
That's a pathetically shortsighted statement. The day Linux can run the latest released games (Doom? Sweet! erm.. four years ago, anyways) at the same speed Windows does (multiplayer included) is the day I'll wipe Windows off my hard drive. Q3A is the first major game to be released simultaneously for Linux, and I can all but guarantee you that it'll run a good 25% slower than its Windows counterpart.
For a loyal Onion fan such as myself, it's sites like this that make me want to vomit. At first I was irked that they stole the Onion's site design, but after reading a few of their stories I became far more sympathetic, suddenly realizing that they have neither the talent nor creativity to come up with something, anything, original. You'll note the site's ads, which are even more liberally dispersed on the pages than on the Onion. I give these greedy hacks a week before they go public.
No! Don't write about yourself. It's the lack of Katz-isms and a storyline that doesn't revolve centrally around Katz that made this piece good. I don't give a flying fuck about Katz's "nerd discovery," his first online frag, or anything else in his life. You're right though, Katz did hit gold writing about other people. *Other*. Key word there.
I wish someone could keep track a la Brill's Content of the computer pundits and how often their predictions come true. Dvorak would be batting like a.050. Anyone remember the "Unix is dead" piece? Also, anyone take time to read his other column in this month's issue, "Adobe is in shambles"? What the hell was that? I really have a hard time seeing where stories of Adobe's founders being taken hostage by terrorists fit in the rest of the content of the magazine. That column belongs in a tabloid, not a computer publication. The best part of the article is when he touts the "amazing" results he got from Adobe ImageReady - he was able to crank out this "amazing" page "in literally 30 minutes." What a disgrace. I can't believe PC Magazine lets him run one of his gossip columns each month, let alone two like he did this issue.
Okay, let's draw the battle lines. Anyone who wants to sound like a total dumbass, and identify with "geek humor" (wee, what fun mommy!) can use boxen. The rest of us shall use "Linux boxes." You may it sound like a herd of pack animals.
Everyone says "complain here, send e-mail here." Yeah right. Be realistic, folks. The music industry is so far in the stone age that they figure anyone using a computer is a minortiy. So of course they ignore your e-mails; they don't give a crap. MP3 is biting them in the ass and it takes them what, five years to figure it out? I was downloading MP3s on a 9600! They're not gonna listen to us with simple text based complaints. So here's my idea. I know a lot of you on slashdot are in college, or at work, or otherwise connected via a pretty big pipe. I think anyone with the bandwidth should forward their entire collection of MP3s to all the customer service e-mails you can find: RIAA, whatever agency is responsible for this travesty, etc. Not only would it be an incredible bitch for whoever's on the receiving end (the Slashdot effect times a thousand, ha!), but it would also, a.) let them know how not to act in the future, and b.) give them some tangible proof of how much love and respect they've fostered in the past by continually pulling this crap. I'm tempted to write a perl script that just crawls around and forwards every MP3 it finds to these guys, complete with some cryptic message about lyrics.ch and OLGA attached. What do you guys think?
How does this affect the registered versions? PovLab was originally shareware. Is he releasing the crippled code (shareware version) or the fully functional code?
So this company decides to build computers and install Linux, Apache, and KDE on them. The fortune they must have spent on R&D.. and to think that no one had thought of this for the last 6 years! Incredible.
Is this anything besides a glorified Linux distro which happenes to come with its own CPU and pretty little case. Is there some reason to warrant the incredible amount of money they're charging for it?
I used it for a couple of hours once, and I was impressed but it's not worth $100. It's quite flimsy IMO, and I'd probably break it after a couple of days of serious thrashing. That's just my playing style. Bottom line, it didn't any easier or harder to aim with than a good old mouse and keyboard. It's main selling point is that it demystifies the moves that give newbies a lot of trouble, like circle strafing. Well that's great, but what Q2 player that's worth their salt can't circle strafe anyways. This is pretty much indicative as to who the product is geared to - newbies that don't won't to spend 3 months getting their asses kicked to to learn the ropes.
Speaking of which, I recently got a USB mouse for x-mas as well as a special mousepad, called the 'Precision Mousing Surface'. It's made by 3M.. these to things really helped. I was surprised, I'd say I'm consistenly getting about 25% more FPH from these 2 periphs alone. Try that and save yourself some money, you'd be much happier.
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Let's get to what he's really saying here:
"Work from home" - I'm unemployed and live with my parents
"Have cool management" - My mom washes my clothes and vacuums, even though I'm 25
"Open source our bongs" - We pass the bowl, like every other pothead in the world
"The only thing that falls off is customer service" - Whenever I order Domino's I'm too scared it's the cops to open the door and get the pizza
So there you have it. Pretty cool job until your mom dies or dad kicks you out.
3 days? Good god, where can I get some of that? Tomorrow's 4/20, my Christmas, and there's nothing I'd like more to buzz `til 4/23.
Not quite. The production run was only three hundred fifty, so they were already a hot commodity before everybody and his brother tried to break the sound barrier with it. I think something like ten or twenty have already been totaled. My uncle has been trying to get one for a year but no one will sell. I wish they sold them to anyone with money.
As for the second half of the post... Windows.
For a loyal Onion fan such as myself, it's sites like this that make me want to vomit. At first I was irked that they stole the Onion's site design, but after reading a few of their stories I became far more sympathetic, suddenly realizing that they have neither the talent nor creativity to come up with something, anything, original. You'll note the site's ads, which are even more liberally dispersed on the pages than on the Onion. I give these greedy hacks a week before they go public.
No! Don't write about yourself. It's the lack of Katz-isms and a storyline that doesn't revolve centrally around Katz that made this piece good. I don't give a flying fuck about Katz's "nerd discovery," his first online frag, or anything else in his life. You're right though, Katz did hit gold writing about other people. *Other*. Key word there.
Heh.. tru running Emacs on a 386SX-16 with 8 megs of RAM. Then you'll understand the true nature of Emacs: Eighty Megs And Constantly Swapping.
I wish someone could keep track a la Brill's Content of the computer pundits and how often their predictions come true. Dvorak would be batting like a .050. Anyone remember the "Unix is dead" piece? Also, anyone take time to read his other column in this month's issue, "Adobe is in shambles"? What the hell was that? I really have a hard time seeing where stories of Adobe's founders being taken hostage by terrorists fit in the rest of the content of the magazine. That column belongs in a tabloid, not a computer publication. The best part of the article is when he touts the "amazing" results he got from Adobe ImageReady - he was able to crank out this "amazing" page "in literally 30 minutes." What a disgrace. I can't believe PC Magazine lets him run one of his gossip columns each month, let alone two like he did this issue.
Heheh. No. It ranks up their on my lameness scale slightly below "virii," "boxen," and "3r33+."
Okay, let's draw the battle lines. Anyone who wants to sound like a total dumbass, and identify with "geek humor" (wee, what fun mommy!) can use boxen. The rest of us shall use "Linux boxes." You may it sound like a herd of pack animals.
http://hbd.org/brewery/Software.html
here's some Unix software. You still can't have my "Stanley Steemer" brew mix tho
God fuck.. if that isn't the most annoying term ever invented. It's "boxes". B-O-X-E-S. Boxes.
...or something. It's down.
"Aww fuck.. the atmosphere is mainly ammonia. Okay guys, back in the ship..."
Everyone says "complain here, send e-mail here." Yeah right. Be realistic, folks. The music industry is so far in the stone age that they figure anyone using a computer is a minortiy. So of course they ignore your e-mails; they don't give a crap. MP3 is biting them in the ass and it takes them what, five years to figure it out? I was downloading MP3s on a 9600! They're not gonna listen to us with simple text based complaints. So here's my idea. I know a lot of you on slashdot are in college, or at work, or otherwise connected via a pretty big pipe. I think anyone with the bandwidth should forward their entire collection of MP3s to all the customer service e-mails you can find: RIAA, whatever agency is responsible for this travesty, etc. Not only would it be an incredible bitch for whoever's on the receiving end (the Slashdot effect times a thousand, ha!), but it would also, a.) let them know how not to act in the future, and b.) give them some tangible proof of how much love and respect they've fostered in the past by continually pulling this crap. I'm tempted to write a perl script that just crawls around and forwards every MP3 it finds to these guys, complete with some cryptic message about lyrics.ch and OLGA attached. What do you guys think?
How does this affect the registered versions? PovLab was originally shareware. Is he releasing the crippled code (shareware version) or the fully functional code?
So this company decides to build computers and install Linux, Apache, and KDE on them. The fortune they must have spent on R&D.. and to think that no one had thought of this for the last 6 years! Incredible.
Is this anything besides a glorified Linux distro which happenes to come with its own CPU and pretty little case. Is there some reason to warrant the incredible amount of money they're charging for it?
I used it for a couple of hours once, and I was impressed but it's not worth $100. It's quite flimsy IMO, and I'd probably break it after a couple of days of serious thrashing. That's just my playing style. Bottom line, it didn't any easier or harder to aim with than a good old mouse and keyboard. It's main selling point is that it demystifies the moves that give newbies a lot of trouble, like circle strafing. Well that's great, but what Q2 player that's worth their salt can't circle strafe anyways. This is pretty much indicative as to who the product is geared to - newbies that don't won't to spend 3 months getting their asses kicked to to learn the ropes.
Speaking of which, I recently got a USB mouse for x-mas as well as a special mousepad, called the 'Precision Mousing Surface'. It's made by 3M.. these to things really helped. I was surprised, I'd say I'm consistenly getting about 25% more FPH from these 2 periphs alone. Try that and save yourself some money, you'd be much happier.