Who read the headline as "More MyDoom Gloom" and plunged into extreme depression for the 30s it took to re-read and realize it's just an extremely large scale crippling virus. Pfft.
The game is still on track for a speedy release!:)
I found this Did you know? fact at the bottom quite alarming.
People actually die while playing Counter-Strike. In wacky foreign lands it's not totally uncommon for enamored teenagers to starve to death in front of their copies of CS. Now that's a game with some serious mass appeal.
This is pretty much essential if the event is BYOC. There will definitely be a few people with no ethernet cards, slow video cards etc who aren't usually into hardcore gaming. Why would they show up to a gaming marathon? I don't know.
But they will, and having some extra hardware from those who do have it to spare will help these people out. More importantly, keep them from whining.
Ahh, the ONLY reason I'm negative in frag count when the rest of the room is 30+ is because I don't have as good an fps
Having a "nice guy" to help them open up their PC's and fiddle with the insides is a good thing too.
I was just reading a book written by the Indian president, Igniting Minds and came to realize how forward thinking and intellectually "fresh" (childlike.. curious, don't take stuff for granted, asking extremely basic questions...) this great man really is.
This is great news, in the sense that there are people at "higher levels" who have foresight in science/technology. I hope it sets a precedent for other countries as well.
In a side note, the IIIT is not a premier institution, no where near the league of the institutions equivalent of MIT here.
And this thing is "intelligent"..
How dare you use that sarcastic tone ?
Some of the most engaging and intellectual conversations I've had with the opposite sex have been with Alice.
It seems to me, the author nailed it when he mentions software is a means to an end and not an end in itself.
Once everybody realises this, it'll be pretty clear free software is a 'success', even though vendors profit statements wont suggest that.
They don't matter, the user community does.
According to what I read in Free as in Freedom, one of the (major?) influences that drove RMS to originate the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project was Xerox's reluctance to share the source for their laser printer software.
First that and now this? Boy do they love free software:).
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Was this just intuition on the part of the author? I find that hard to believe.
It's not intuition. The author (Ladislav Bodnar) also happens to run the website Distrowatch. Assuming a sufficiently large number of linux users use this site to get info on linux distributions, his noticing the HPD (hits per day) of Mandrake reducing and those of Gentoo increasing is an indicator of growing interest in source based distros.
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder what I can do to get my blog on slashdot.
It's like, my life would finally be interesting. Many people reading and commenting must mean it's interesting, right?
I know a bunch of people who use blogger regularly to maintain their web logs who got invited into the service.
Is it wrong to be jealous of people maintaining web logs there. Hmm.
The game is still on track for a speedy release! :)
You meant fedoras off? : )
Suddenly someone'll be on some some cool yacht in Europe.
Unless pizzas are horribly more expensive all of a sudden. Noooo!
People actually die while playing Counter-Strike. In wacky foreign lands it's not totally uncommon for enamored teenagers to starve to death in front of their copies of CS. Now that's a game with some serious mass appeal.
Definitely the good form of mass appeal.
Normal person: "Ok, so?"
$CO: "Approximately 800 thousand lines becoming 1 million 800 thousand?"
$CO Lawers:"This proves it, evidently. That's a millions of lines of code copied.. from us."
Normal person:"Huh?"
$CO: "Muahahah.. (I have won, will wait for my checks to roll in.) "Muahaha. Muahahahaha. Muahahahahahaha!"
Buy it from Amazon and get it at less than half the listed price at bn.
Seems like all is well, for now anyway.
What's the fun in that. This is slashdot. Getting a +5 Insightful on a topic without reading the article, now that's a worthy challenge.
But they will, and having some extra hardware from those who do have it to spare will help these people out. More importantly, keep them from whining.
Ahh, the ONLY reason I'm negative in frag count when the rest of the room is 30+ is because I don't have as good an fps
Having a "nice guy" to help them open up their PC's and fiddle with the insides is a good thing too.
I was just reading a book written by the Indian president, Igniting Minds and came to realize how forward thinking and intellectually "fresh" (childlike.. curious, don't take stuff for granted, asking extremely basic questions...) this great man really is. This is great news, in the sense that there are people at "higher levels" who have foresight in science/technology. I hope it sets a precedent for other countries as well. In a side note, the IIIT is not a premier institution, no where near the league of the institutions equivalent of MIT here.
Yes, I cried when I finished it. I wanted more.
Still replay it once in a while though, just feels good.
And this thing is "intelligent"..
How dare you use that sarcastic tone ?
Some of the most engaging and intellectual conversations I've had with the opposite sex have been with Alice.
No, I do not need to go out more often.
And in other news (TOTALLY UNRELATED) today, sales of high end Nvidia and ATI cards goes up by 1000%.
Remove the chain in that image awwready. It's 'Free'd.
It seems to me, the author nailed it when he mentions software is a means to an end and not an end in itself. Once everybody realises this, it'll be pretty clear free software is a 'success', even though vendors profit statements wont suggest that.
They don't matter, the user community does.
According to what I read in Free as in Freedom, one of the (major?) influences that drove RMS to originate the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project was Xerox's reluctance to share the source for their laser printer software. :).
First that and now this? Boy do they love free software
Was this just intuition on the part of the author? I find that hard to believe.
It's not intuition. The author (Ladislav Bodnar) also happens to run the website Distrowatch. Assuming a sufficiently large number of linux users use this site to get info on linux distributions, his noticing the HPD (hits per day) of Mandrake reducing and those of Gentoo increasing is an indicator of growing interest in source based distros.