You don't need to call off, you only have to go to work every other day to not get fired. I always hate when the boss calls to yell during the middle of my nap after a long morning of weight lifting, doesn't he know that's only going to make me skip work the day after tomorrow too?
Seriously, it looks like they did a great job with this game. Don't know if I'll like having my sims age and die on me but we'll see.
Also gamespy has a brand new interview with Will Wright about the game.
It just so happens that those thieves also stole my BMW, well actually my wife's BMW, since I don't like it as much I'm only willing to offer $500 CN for it. I'll give a bonus for the quick reply and throw in some canadian bacon too.
Strangely enough my car was stolen too, yeah that's the ticket. So, I'm offering $500US to anyone who retrieves my Mercedes Benz with a wireless capable laptop and a cell phone in it... just send me the car, the laptop, and the phone and I will send you your $500. Thank you for your support during this trying time.
How does the radar get your attention when it detects something?
A noise? How will I hear that over my radio? Think how the clicking of a turn signal can go unnoticed for miles.
A visual cue on the dash? But my head is turned looking for traffic, I won't see it. Again remember the blinking light of a turn signal.
Will this cause people to not look before changing lanes, etc? Will they become completly reliant on the technology? Is that neccesarily a bad thing?
One thing though, at $500 it's much cheaper than that rear looking camera that some new luxury cars have. And for those cameras to work you have to be looking at the little screen not behind you, or in front of you, or out the side window. Doesn't seem to help the situation there.
> they should move to digital money. They already do for bank transfers and credit cards, why not go all the way?
Imagine the story: US Government moves to all digital currency. Every man, woman, and child in the whole world that has ever or may at some point in the future use US currency will recieve a small card that contains they're personal information and an account balance.
Within the week the FBI, CIA, and NSA all agree that under the Patriot Act (or whatever it's called at the time) they have the right to track everyone's spending in order to "find terrorists". The IRS hops on in order to crack down on being paid under the table and people claiming business expenses that aren't. And so on and so on.
Plus I'm sure every person in the world wont mind using this card, because everyone loves and knows they can trust the US goverment.
The only HP printer driver I've ever needed was from cups.org. But if someone can tell me why after every print job it spits out one extra piece of paper, I'd be very happy.
The only flaw I've ever had with my printer is that it only prints 4 pages a minute (if you're lucky), hence why I got it for free.
They won't have to wait to deal with Redmond. "The Giant" has so many lawyers it makes Microsoft and SCO look like companies that... don't have many lawyers (ok, not all analagies are clever).
Apparantly only one or it would be called BrainsShare. But that's fine because most of the time people're not even using most of their brain, (how much processing power does it take to watch TV?) so someone else borrowing it shouldn't bother you, you probably would't even notice. The only questions I have are, how many people are sharing that one brain? Is it in some sort of jar, or someone's head? Who's brain was it before, hopefully they didn't do drugs or drink or anythign fun with their lives...
'We're in discussions with Sun. We'd like to do this with their support.'
It'd be hard to do it without Sun's support since they have been known on occasion to get very mad about people making versions of Java without their support. Of course that was mainly about a non-standard version, so maybe it wouldn't matter as long as it followed the standard.
How far is RedHat into this? Planning, Writing, Compiling, Marketing? If they're only planning it, java may finally be dead before it gets done; of course java may outlive me, of course I may die this evening, we just don't know.
Considering that if you went to a store and bought an overpriced CD, the artist would get somewhere around 1-3 cents per CD; I don't think that 12 cents per song is a bad deal. I was quite surprised by how often, from Apple's claims, people are downloading whole CDs from them. Then I thought it out. $1 per song, 15 songs: $15 from iTunes; $20 from a store... plus I don't have to get up and walk to the car to drive to the store. Anything that saves you money while making you lazier will be a success.
I know a lot of people here are going to be mad that the record company is getting anything, but I also dont see a problem with that as long as it is the record company that's doing the work of recording, advertising, listing with iTunes, etc. It's what record companies are for, after all.
I can honestly say that I have never, nor do I plan to in the forseeable future, sped on the New Jersey Turnpike. Now the Pennsylvania turnpike is another question, but how can they honestly expect me to do 55 around Pittsburgh?
And just for the record I always obey all speed limits while using P2P software, because frankly my cable connection sucks. Because of the limitations of Adelphia, I can also say I don't download illegal music, movies, or software; I find it much easier to have someone hand me a CD for such things.
Think Dorf. All the hobbits have to walk on their knees... Just like Tolkien imagined.
Personally I wonder how well Lothlorien will be shown with a matte painting. Ahh the beautiful two dimensional woods, the home of the two dimensional elfs.
So a few companies have managed to survive once the investors pulled out. General economics tells me that these survivors are the few that actually have a viable product (i.e. google) and also that these were what should have been invested in and not the ones that just had a good domain name. Great, I'm happy this is how real innovation in capitalism works.
Now I'm being told that these remaining companies still aren't making money (you're going to have a hard time convincing me that google's owners aren't happy with their current financial situation). To innovate a company must do at least the following: do something, test that thing, pay the people who did that thing (got to eat, no matter how much you like who you're working for), and advertise (what's the point of something new if noone knows about it?); How does one do these things without at least some income? If anyone knows how this works please tell me, I have no money and would love to do something with it.
Where BSD needs to copy Linux is in the packaging systems. First, you need so many different ways to package a program that half of every development team is devoted just to making all the variations. Then, you need a dumb public who only recognizes one of those systems, as a hint here they should choose the one with the worst dependency techniques of the group. Once this is complete a group of people who are completly unreleated to any section of the development of BSD have to get together to make a BSD-SB. This group should continue the tradition of choosing the worst variants of how things are done and make them the new standard. Finally a small group of hard core BSDers need to get together to create a new distirbution which will not be BSD-SB compliant, but will be based on a cool idea for software distribution that they saw implemented in Gentoo. Then the circle of popular unix clones will be complete.
Note to the people with no sense of humor: don't read this comment.
Ok, I admit it I'm not a big hulk fan, I hardly ever watched the show as a kid and I haven't read the comic books. I will probably go see the movie because for some reason I will never understand my wife is very excited to go see it.
But what exactly is the story they have to stick to? He gets mad, he becomes the hulk, (I love that the TV hulk was just him with green skin, a ripped shirt, and tussled hair) the hulk then breaks stuff, and there's like evil to fight and stuff. I imagine even Stallone could manage this one (except the part where he's not the hulk, because frankly ol' Sly is not that believable as a human).
Now this movie could be more of the beginning of the story type of thing (like X-Men or Spiderman, which were both good) in which case there's a story there to follow. I wouldn't worry too much about them screwing that story up though.
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I don't generally consider my sex life to have anything to do with the start or end of seasons.
Ok, maybe the end...
Can God create a slashdot that he himself can not Slashdot?
You don't need to call off, you only have to go to work every other day to not get fired. I always hate when the boss calls to yell during the middle of my nap after a long morning of weight lifting, doesn't he know that's only going to make me skip work the day after tomorrow too?
Seriously, it looks like they did a great job with this game. Don't know if I'll like having my sims age and die on me but we'll see.
Also gamespy has a brand new interview with Will Wright about the game.
It just so happens that those thieves also stole my BMW, well actually my wife's BMW, since I don't like it as much I'm only willing to offer $500 CN for it. I'll give a bonus for the quick reply and throw in some canadian bacon too.
Strangely enough my car was stolen too, yeah that's the ticket. So, I'm offering $500US to anyone who retrieves my Mercedes Benz with a wireless capable laptop and a cell phone in it... just send me the car, the laptop, and the phone and I will send you your $500. Thank you for your support during this trying time.
Thanks, that seems to have fixed it.
Happiness is a working printer...
How does the radar get your attention when it detects something?
A noise? How will I hear that over my radio? Think how the clicking of a turn signal can go unnoticed for miles.
A visual cue on the dash? But my head is turned looking for traffic, I won't see it. Again remember the blinking light of a turn signal.
Will this cause people to not look before changing lanes, etc? Will they become completly reliant on the technology? Is that neccesarily a bad thing?
One thing though, at $500 it's much cheaper than that rear looking camera that some new luxury cars have. And for those cameras to work you have to be looking at the little screen not behind you, or in front of you, or out the side window. Doesn't seem to help the situation there.
Strangely, I am happy.
But let me rephrase, if someone can tell me how to get it to stop doing that,then I'd be extremely happy.
> they should move to digital money. They already do for bank transfers and credit cards, why not go all the way?
Imagine the story: US Government moves to all digital currency. Every man, woman, and child in the whole world that has ever or may at some point in the future use US currency will recieve a small card that contains they're personal information and an account balance.
Within the week the FBI, CIA, and NSA all agree that under the Patriot Act (or whatever it's called at the time) they have the right to track everyone's spending in order to "find terrorists". The IRS hops on in order to crack down on being paid under the table and people claiming business expenses that aren't. And so on and so on.
Plus I'm sure every person in the world wont mind using this card, because everyone loves and knows they can trust the US goverment.
The only HP printer driver I've ever needed was from cups.org. But if someone can tell me why after every print job it spits out one extra piece of paper, I'd be very happy.
The only flaw I've ever had with my printer is that it only prints 4 pages a minute (if you're lucky), hence why I got it for free.
More importantly:
Can God create a Lego Brick so large that He Himself can not build ith it?
Would it collapse under it's own weight? Probably.
So which human could understand R2D2?
They won't have to wait to deal with Redmond. "The Giant" has so many lawyers it makes Microsoft and SCO look like companies that... don't have many lawyers (ok, not all analagies are clever).
I hope their not trying to bring the exact same type of excitement as NASCAR. Most of the people there are just waiting for a big crash to watch.
Apparantly only one or it would be called BrainsShare. But that's fine because most of the time people're not even using most of their brain, (how much processing power does it take to watch TV?) so someone else borrowing it shouldn't bother you, you probably would't even notice. The only questions I have are, how many people are sharing that one brain? Is it in some sort of jar, or someone's head? Who's brain was it before, hopefully they didn't do drugs or drink or anythign fun with their lives...
'We're in discussions with Sun. We'd like to do this with their support.'
It'd be hard to do it without Sun's support since they have been known on occasion to get very mad about people making versions of Java without their support. Of course that was mainly about a non-standard version, so maybe it wouldn't matter as long as it followed the standard.
How far is RedHat into this? Planning, Writing, Compiling, Marketing? If they're only planning it, java may finally be dead before it gets done; of course java may outlive me, of course I may die this evening, we just don't know.
Considering that if you went to a store and bought an overpriced CD, the artist would get somewhere around 1-3 cents per CD; I don't think that 12 cents per song is a bad deal. I was quite surprised by how often, from Apple's claims, people are downloading whole CDs from them. Then I thought it out. $1 per song, 15 songs: $15 from iTunes; $20 from a store... plus I don't have to get up and walk to the car to drive to the store. Anything that saves you money while making you lazier will be a success.
I know a lot of people here are going to be mad that the record company is getting anything, but I also dont see a problem with that as long as it is the record company that's doing the work of recording, advertising, listing with iTunes, etc. It's what record companies are for, after all.
I can honestly say that I have never, nor do I plan to in the forseeable future, sped on the New Jersey Turnpike. Now the Pennsylvania turnpike is another question, but how can they honestly expect me to do 55 around Pittsburgh?
And just for the record I always obey all speed limits while using P2P software, because frankly my cable connection sucks. Because of the limitations of Adelphia, I can also say I don't download illegal music, movies, or software; I find it much easier to have someone hand me a CD for such things.
Think Dorf. All the hobbits have to walk on their knees... Just like Tolkien imagined.
Personally I wonder how well Lothlorien will be shown with a matte painting. Ahh the beautiful two dimensional woods, the home of the two dimensional elfs.
That also would explain the note on the bottom about "See a problem with this? e-mail ..." That editor probably got a flood of emails today.
I'm very excited by this news. Not only is it free but it is available for Windows AND Linux, already.
Now, why is the story red? It really looks wierd on the front page, and probably on games.slashdot.org too since that color scheme is purple.
> Wow. You may want to spell-check (and grammar-check!) your signature... not one, but two blatant errors. Sheesh.
I knew about the funNest, but haven't fixed it yet due to the fact that I'm really lazy. But I just noticed the wrong it's. Thanks.
So a few companies have managed to survive once the investors pulled out. General economics tells me that these survivors are the few that actually have a viable product (i.e. google) and also that these were what should have been invested in and not the ones that just had a good domain name. Great, I'm happy this is how real innovation in capitalism works.
Now I'm being told that these remaining companies still aren't making money (you're going to have a hard time convincing me that google's owners aren't happy with their current financial situation). To innovate a company must do at least the following: do something, test that thing, pay the people who did that thing (got to eat, no matter how much you like who you're working for), and advertise (what's the point of something new if noone knows about it?); How does one do these things without at least some income? If anyone knows how this works please tell me, I have no money and would love to do something with it.
Where BSD needs to copy Linux is in the packaging systems. First, you need so many different ways to package a program that half of every development team is devoted just to making all the variations. Then, you need a dumb public who only recognizes one of those systems, as a hint here they should choose the one with the worst dependency techniques of the group. Once this is complete a group of people who are completly unreleated to any section of the development of BSD have to get together to make a BSD-SB. This group should continue the tradition of choosing the worst variants of how things are done and make them the new standard. Finally a small group of hard core BSDers need to get together to create a new distirbution which will not be BSD-SB compliant, but will be based on a cool idea for software distribution that they saw implemented in Gentoo. Then the circle of popular unix clones will be complete.
Note to the people with no sense of humor: don't read this comment.
Ok, I admit it I'm not a big hulk fan, I hardly ever watched the show as a kid and I haven't read the comic books. I will probably go see the movie because for some reason I will never understand my wife is very excited to go see it.
But what exactly is the story they have to stick to? He gets mad, he becomes the hulk, (I love that the TV hulk was just him with green skin, a ripped shirt, and tussled hair) the hulk then breaks stuff, and there's like evil to fight and stuff. I imagine even Stallone could manage this one (except the part where he's not the hulk, because frankly ol' Sly is not that believable as a human).
Now this movie could be more of the beginning of the story type of thing (like X-Men or Spiderman, which were both good) in which case there's a story there to follow. I wouldn't worry too much about them screwing that story up though.