So you saw a "news report"/promotional fluff piece, then?
It's like how Leno says he loves watching whatever show/movie his guest is currently hawking, except it's not late night talk it's a 24-hour cable channel "news report". Do you think the anchor really plays GTA, like Leno watches his guests shows all day?
They oughtta have that guy on the Daily Show. Seems like ample fodder for them.
The GPL does restrict your rights, in one important way: it restricts you from the right to recompensation if the software incurs injury or damages upon you. It's a no-liability clause (Sect. 12), and it's identical to one you might see in any EULA.
Some lawyers and economists think no-liability clauses are a Bad Idea, but that's another discussion.
Who said Slashdot needs/wants/has a political agenda?
CmdrTaco did, in this NYTimes article. He said he "still considers the site his own personal soapbox" [para]. Given his new TiBook, I think we're going to see more and more stories like this.
It's really not that hard to hack around with. I mean, it's only 200 lines, the majority of which are comments. All the work is done by the Quicktime library, which isn't that difficult to use.
Wanna open up a sf project?
One thing I was thinking about was adding a progress bar. It couldn't be that hard to do. It could use characters not used in the ASCII encoding, even overlayed on the last line of the movie.
That's really cool. For some reason, the luminence is inverted, which is easy enough to fix.
Change line 174 to the following and it looks much better: convert[255 - i] = table[i * strlen(table) / 256];
Also, you get a better framerate (ha!) using an OpenGL-based terminal like GLterm which is much, much faster than the default terminal. I thought the idea of an OpenGL terminal was silly, until now.
What makes an economy less "real"? I think you're trying to say that EverQuest is not an important economy, but it is an economy nonetheless.
We are surrounded by little microeconomies, even in your own home. Say, even in your own home, your mom specializes in making dinners (you do live with your mom, don't you?) and you specialize in taking out the garbage. If you are each have a comparative advantage in your trade, you can both gain by cooperating and trading made dinners for garbage removal.
Just because it is small does not mean that it doesn't exist.
The USA should be a free country. Just because we experience a terrorist attack, or any other attack we shouldn't have to give up our freedoms... Case in point is when I heard a democrat saying we need to pass the bill that will make each gun get "fingerprinted". That would be a total waste of taxpayer money.
Ah, yes the freedom to have un-fingerprinted guns! You know everyone holds that right dearly. You'll probably tell me next it's just a ploy to start to take away our Guns. All anti-gun control arguments just boil to an appeal to fear.
How about another appeal to fear? I want to freedom to walk around in parking lots in Maryland without being afraid of getting my brains blown out. Go ahead, tell me I'm irrational. Apparently a lot of people in Maryland are very irrational.
Point is, some "rights" are traded away when we demand other rights. For instance, the more guns we have the freedom to have, the more gun-related crimes we're going to have. Or, if you don't like that one, the more drugs we have the freedom to use, the more drug-related crimes and deaths we are going to have. There are many examples of this which are rarely examined in these terms.
. You take away the terrorist's ability to complain by making his country somewhat wealthy.
I hate it when people say this. Oh, is that all we have to do? Eliminate poverty? Since we've had such success solving poverty in our own country, it should be a snap for us to get rid of it in every other country.
I could write a book about why Counter Strike is so great. The game is like a combination of Quake and chess; you move carefully, thoughtfully, and then blow the hell out of somebody. When it comes down to it, no player has any real advantage over another; all the guns are in the end very similar and you can only carry one at time. Your success depends on both your reflexes and your wits, and the result is an endlessly playable game.
That being said, the people who play Counter Strike should be beaten over the head. I've never seen a more contentious, petty, jealous bunch. Anyone who is even moderately good is *obviously* cheating. God forsake someone would forsake their precious little egos and admit to themselves they lost a round legitimately. If you beat someone, it *must* have because they were doing something unscrupulous.
Worse, are the people who actually do cheat. I don't know what their deal is, but they suck even more than the people who accuse everyone *else* of cheating. Tipping the board in your favor defeats the purpose of playing. How can you say you won if you didn't win fairly? It's much more satisfying to beat the pants out of another team knowing it was just your own skill and strategy that did it, not some goddamn program you downloaded off the internet. Those people should be rounded up, put on barges and set adrift into the pacific.
It's so tiny! Where would the ordinance go? I get the feeling that this is just a prototype that was never intended for real combat use, cool as it is.
Didn't know, don't care. I'm not interesting in the particular partisan stances on the issue. In purely theoretical terms, I don't see any objective reason to believe that what Benjamin Franklin famously said is true.
I can think of plenty of cultural reasons like it reaffirms an existing cultural value but I don't see it as a statement of any objective value.
By your argument, there should be pointy-clicky stuff for all 1100+ configurable parameters in Mozilla. Implement that, and Mozilla turns into something like Microsoft Word or the Windows Control Panel
Just because there is a lot of stuff to configure does not mean they have to do a poor job designing the interface.
Also, try to find something in the kitchen or basement that has eight segments coated with a high-quality aluminum to provide for reflectivity in steps from 10% to 80% at 45 incidence (use a ruler or tape measure for quick measurements).
Seems easier to just move my hand.
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That's true for that case. However, it works *wonders* for things like the PHP manual. Wanna look up a string function? Go to the manual page, type "str" and it hilites the "String Functions" link. Hit return and type "rep" to move to the "replace()" function...
You just don't have a sense of humor. On slashdot, you can get moderated to +5 on an unpopular view as long as you use any standard rhetorical device that you would in any other form of writing.
Make it funny. If it's a rant/troll even it's ok as long as it is really entertaining.
Start your post by convincingly describing yourself as an authority on the subject
Start off saying, "I used to strongly believe in [popular view], but then I realized...."
Look around, I think it's not hard to see these devices in action in highly moderated posts.
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It's like how Leno says he loves watching whatever show/movie his guest is currently hawking, except it's not late night talk it's a 24-hour cable channel "news report". Do you think the anchor really plays GTA, like Leno watches his guests shows all day?
They oughtta have that guy on the Daily Show. Seems like ample fodder for them.
If you think ellen's hot, you should check this chick out
Some lawyers and economists think no-liability clauses are a Bad Idea, but that's another discussion.
CmdrTaco did, in this NYTimes article. He said he "still considers the site his own personal soapbox" [para]. Given his new TiBook, I think we're going to see more and more stories like this.
Wanna open up a sf project?
One thing I was thinking about was adding a progress bar. It couldn't be that hard to do. It could use characters not used in the ASCII encoding, even overlayed on the last line of the movie.
Change line 174 to the following and it looks much better:
convert[255 - i] = table[i * strlen(table) / 256];
Also, you get a better framerate (ha!) using an OpenGL-based terminal like GLterm which is much, much faster than the default terminal. I thought the idea of an OpenGL terminal was silly, until now.
We are surrounded by little microeconomies, even in your own home. Say, even in your own home, your mom specializes in making dinners (you do live with your mom, don't you?) and you specialize in taking out the garbage. If you are each have a comparative advantage in your trade, you can both gain by cooperating and trading made dinners for garbage removal.
Just because it is small does not mean that it doesn't exist.
Good thing I never drank and joined the army... sheesh that would be regrettable.
Yeah, it just has a paltry 4.5 billion. Peanuts.
Ah, yes the freedom to have un-fingerprinted guns! You know everyone holds that right dearly. You'll probably tell me next it's just a ploy to start to take away our Guns. All anti-gun control arguments just boil to an appeal to fear.
How about another appeal to fear? I want to freedom to walk around in parking lots in Maryland without being afraid of getting my brains blown out. Go ahead, tell me I'm irrational. Apparently a lot of people in Maryland are very irrational.
Point is, some "rights" are traded away when we demand other rights. For instance, the more guns we have the freedom to have, the more gun-related crimes we're going to have. Or, if you don't like that one, the more drugs we have the freedom to use, the more drug-related crimes and deaths we are going to have. There are many examples of this which are rarely examined in these terms.
I hate it when people say this. Oh, is that all we have to do? Eliminate poverty? Since we've had such success solving poverty in our own country, it should be a snap for us to get rid of it in every other country.
Really, how do we suggest we do this?
That being said, the people who play Counter Strike should be beaten over the head. I've never seen a more contentious, petty, jealous bunch. Anyone who is even moderately good is *obviously* cheating. God forsake someone would forsake their precious little egos and admit to themselves they lost a round legitimately. If you beat someone, it *must* have because they were doing something unscrupulous.
Worse, are the people who actually do cheat. I don't know what their deal is, but they suck even more than the people who accuse everyone *else* of cheating. Tipping the board in your favor defeats the purpose of playing. How can you say you won if you didn't win fairly? It's much more satisfying to beat the pants out of another team knowing it was just your own skill and strategy that did it, not some goddamn program you downloaded off the internet. Those people should be rounded up, put on barges and set adrift into the pacific.
Which, by the way, is anything she says. "Today Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience to go home, read more books, and await further instructions."
You're not honestly going to defend the British spelling of "manoevre" (maneuver) are you?!
No, they are now known as what they always should have been -- bored idiots: people who need to find more productive hobbies.
I think they rejected your request because of poor speling. It's a ditionary, after all.
It's so tiny! Where would the ordinance go? I get the feeling that this is just a prototype that was never intended for real combat use, cool as it is.
I can think of plenty of cultural reasons like it reaffirms an existing cultural value but I don't see it as a statement of any objective value.
Just because there is a lot of stuff to configure does not mean they have to do a poor job designing the interface.
I think he was joking.
FYI Type Ahead is not a new, unique feature. IE 5.* for the Mac has had it for the past 3 years. I should know, I've been using it since that time.
Really? Does it send some other kind of header informing the webmaster at the receiving end of a prefetch what is going on?
Oh, and BTW ad schemes don't use referer headers anyway. They usually have referer id tags hidden in the URL.
Seems easier to just move my hand. [ Reply to This | Parent ] That's true for that case. However, it works *wonders* for things like the PHP manual. Wanna look up a string function? Go to the manual page, type "str" and it hilites the "String Functions" link. Hit return and type "rep" to move to the "replace()" function ...
In other news, Bill Gates' erection was visible from Virginia today
Look around, I think it's not hard to see these devices in action in highly moderated posts.