Your favorite new media (song, movie, etc...) is available for purchase. It is released in a completely non-DRM'ed format. Do you pay for it, or do you search for somebody else who has already paid for it and is sharing it?
I am not the parent poster, but you should probably address the cost of this hypothetical content (not media, that's different).
I guess Homer was on to something when he was working for Globex and wanted to get some hammocks for his team.
Hank: Uh, hi, Homer. What can I do for you? Homer: Sir, I need to know where I can get some business hammocks. Hank: Hammocks? My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that? Hammocks! Homer, there's four places. There's the Hammock Hut, that's on third. Homer: Uh-huh. Hank: There's Hammocks-R-Us, that's on third too. You got Put-Your-Butt-There? Homer: Mm-Hmm. Hank: That's on third. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot... Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex; it's the hammock complex on third. Homer: Oh, the hammock district. Hank: That's right.
This is why Vegas has legalized gambling and prostitution.
Actually, prostitution is not legal in Las Vegas, or in the other large cities in Nevada. State law prohibits prostitution in counties whose population exceeds some value. Other counties may legalize it at their discretion.
Pretty soon we'll be "Former United States of America".
I for one hope that the MacOS X version properly supports the middle mouse button (apparently the nightly builds have before the 1.0.3 release, but that release doesn't). Additionally, I hope it also uses Emacs key bindings.
Yeah, I'm always clicking on (or otherwise selecting) links in Post-it notes in order to retrieve and view other documents. Some people think of them as mere pieces of paper with a strip of adhesive, but they are unaware of the linking feature.
The World Wrestling Federation and the World Wide Fund for Nature (known as the World Wildlife Fund in the USA)
signed an agreement in 1994 which (among other things) limited the Federation's use of the WWF trademark in non-US markets.
In 2001, a British court found that the Federation had broken this agreement,
and awarded use of the wwf.com domain (previously held by the Federation) to the Fund.
If not for the 1994 agreement, it's likely that the Federation would have kept the domain (and wouldn't have changed its name to WWE).
So there's more to that case than just name overlap.
Neverwinter Nights introduced a new generation of gamers to D&D style roleplaying.
From this statement, I conclude
that either Zonk played really boring D&D,
or the later NWN expansions were really revolutionary.
I found NWN to be pretty fun,
but a far cry from "D&D style roleplaying".
NWN modules are heavily scripted,
and do not accomodate significant deviation from that script.
At any given point in a conversation with an NPC,
there are only a handful of things a player can say.
Player motion is limited to "run" and "walk" --
there is no swimming, crawling, jumping, wall climbing, horse riding, flying, etc.
If I decide to leave Neverwinter to its own fate
and instead look for adventure in some other land,
how will the game handle that other than with the "Quit" option?
Sure, there's a DM client that provides additional flexibility,
but it's no substitute for a real live DM that can radically
alter the nature of the game world on the fly.
Is there any word about whether they'll offer cheap updates to people who recently bought a Mac? I've heard that they've done so in the past, and I hope that they do again, because I just got my iBook yesterday.
Yesterday I did a google search for "fink" and was asked to accept a cookie from fink.sourceforge.net when it displayed the search results. I was wondering about that.
That's funny, Firefox crashes so inrequently on me that I don't remember the last time it happened. Also, it just took three seconds to load (not ten) on a machine that has half the memory and clock speed as what you describe.
Of course, I'm using it with an OS that's not a total piece of shit, so your mileage may vary.
Even political parties aren't monoliths -- at least not in my country. Plurality voting tends to result in the formation of two major parties, which necessarily have to become coalitions of diverse viewpoints as there are more than two ways to look at things.
Anyway, suffice to say the jury is still out. Since GNOME 1.4 I've felt
that GNOME is going in a direction that doesn't fit well with Slackware's
goals, and for at least as long I've considered removing it completely and
taking whatever flames I get for that decision. Right now, I think
removing it would be the best thing for Slackware as it's become a
maintainance nightmare (unlike nearly every other./configure'ed source,
GNOME doesn't build into packages easily with DESTDIR).
Not what you wanted to hear, I'm sure, but I do believe it would be best
to let Dropline produce Slackware's GNOME and quit wasting my own time
with it. Probably 1/3 of developement time here is used maintaining
GNOME, and *most* of the bug reports I get have something to do with GNOME
(and aren't bugs I caused, or can fix). KDE, on the other hand, tends to
build using the existing build scripts with no changes at all. I can
start the build and come back to finished packages in a few hours. A
GNOME update usually takes at least a week of manual labor, and another
week of cleaning up broken things. It's been a long time (like I said,
around GNOME 1.4), since I've felt the effort was worth the return.
As far as I know, those motherless cocksuckers at ClearChannel had owned KSJO for quite some time before they changed the format.
I used to listen to it around 1999 and knew then that it was a CC station.
That was right around the time that I got sick of commercial radio.
I don't maintain a Linux distribution, but apparently creating GNOME packages is a huge pain in the ass, and that KDE is much easier. Here's what Pat Volkerding of Slackware had to say about it:
Anyway, suffice to say the jury is still out. Since GNOME 1.4 I've felt that GNOME is going in a direction that doesn't fit well with Slackware's goals, and for at least as long I've considered removing it completely and taking whatever flames I get for that decision. Right now, I think removing it would be the best thing for Slackware as it's become a maintainance nightmare (unlike nearly every other./configure'ed source, GNOME doesn't build into packages easily with DESTDIR).
Not what you wanted to hear, I'm sure, but I do believe it would be best to let Dropline produce Slackware's GNOME and quit wasting my own time with it. Probably 1/3 of developement time here is used maintaining GNOME, and *most* of the bug reports I get have something to do with GNOME (and aren't bugs I caused, or can fix). KDE, on the other hand, tends to build using the existing build scripts with no changes at all. I can start the build and come back to finished packages in a few hours. A GNOME update usually takes at least a week of manual labor, and another week of cleaning up broken things. It's been a long time (like I said, around GNOME 1.4), since I've felt the effort was worth the return.
Personally, I don't care. I use FVWM and can download and build it easily enough, even if it were not included in my distribution of choice.
If you appreciate noncommercial media, you may want to support them.
If you live in the US, you are likely near a PBS television station and an NPR radio affiliate.
If you're really lucky, you may have some excellent college radio stations or a Pacifica affiliate.
I particularly enjoy KFJC and support them every year.
Some broadcasters may not be actively soliciting funds during this period
(KFJC for example has its yearly fund drive in October),
but I'm sure they'd be willing to accept donations at any time.
I read that message four times and failed to detect any medical advice. The closest thing to advice I can see is being suspicious about self-diagnosis and doctor-shopping.
Perhaps there's somebody else who should be quiet.
I've got a very small and basic Wiki CGI script that I use as a glorified bookmark system. It's a modified version of the script that used to be available at Ward's Wiki at c2.com (back when that had a page which generated a custom script for you). That no longer seems to be available, but there are plenty of other Wiki implementations out there.
Actually it was Rob Corddry who said that (or rather, something close to that).
Corddry: How does one report the facts in an unbiased way when the facts themselves are biased?
Stewart: Im sorry, Rob, did you say the facts are biased?
Corddry: Thats right Jon. From the names of our fallen soldiers to the gradual withdrawal of our allies to the growing insurgency, its become all too clear that facts in Iraq have an anti-Bush agenda.
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I for one hope that the MacOS X version properly supports the middle mouse button (apparently the nightly builds have before the 1.0.3 release, but that release doesn't). Additionally, I hope it also uses Emacs key bindings.
Yeah, I'm always clicking on (or otherwise selecting) links in Post-it notes in order to retrieve and view other documents. Some people think of them as mere pieces of paper with a strip of adhesive, but they are unaware of the linking feature.
It's probably still worth it, though.
So there's more to that case than just name overlap.
NWN modules are heavily scripted, and do not accomodate significant deviation from that script. At any given point in a conversation with an NPC, there are only a handful of things a player can say. Player motion is limited to "run" and "walk" -- there is no swimming, crawling, jumping, wall climbing, horse riding, flying, etc. If I decide to leave Neverwinter to its own fate and instead look for adventure in some other land, how will the game handle that other than with the "Quit" option?
Sure, there's a DM client that provides additional flexibility, but it's no substitute for a real live DM that can radically alter the nature of the game world on the fly.
Is there any word about whether they'll offer cheap updates to people who recently bought a Mac? I've heard that they've done so in the past, and I hope that they do again, because I just got my iBook yesterday.
Yesterday I did a google search for "fink" and was asked to accept a cookie from fink.sourceforge.net when it displayed the search results. I was wondering about that.
Of course, I'm using it with an OS that's not a total piece of shit, so your mileage may vary.
Even political parties aren't monoliths -- at least not in my country. Plurality voting tends to result in the formation of two major parties, which necessarily have to become coalitions of diverse viewpoints as there are more than two ways to look at things.
As far as I know, those motherless cocksuckers at ClearChannel had owned KSJO for quite some time before they changed the format. I used to listen to it around 1999 and knew then that it was a CC station. That was right around the time that I got sick of commercial radio.
Personally, I don't care. I use FVWM and can download and build it easily enough, even if it were not included in my distribution of choice.
If you appreciate noncommercial media, you may want to support them. If you live in the US, you are likely near a PBS television station and an NPR radio affiliate. If you're really lucky, you may have some excellent college radio stations or a Pacifica affiliate. I particularly enjoy KFJC and support them every year. Some broadcasters may not be actively soliciting funds during this period (KFJC for example has its yearly fund drive in October), but I'm sure they'd be willing to accept donations at any time.
Sherman Austin
Perhaps there's somebody else who should be quiet.
I've got a very small and basic Wiki CGI script that I use as a glorified bookmark system. It's a modified version of the script that used to be available at Ward's Wiki at c2.com (back when that had a page which generated a custom script for you). That no longer seems to be available, but there are plenty of other Wiki implementations out there.
Corddry: How does one report the facts in an unbiased way when the facts themselves are biased?
Stewart: Im sorry, Rob, did you say the facts are biased?
Corddry: Thats right Jon. From the names of our fallen soldiers to the gradual withdrawal of our allies to the growing insurgency, its become all too clear that facts in Iraq have an anti-Bush agenda.