Yeah...those damned "facts" can be so stubborn sometimes.
What facts would that be? The fact that you hate being rogered by an all-powerful hierarchical uberstupid government because you would rather be rogered by an all-powerful hierarchical uberstupid corporation?
The problem with libertarianism is that it expects competition to exist indefinitely without regulation. Fact is, without a moderate amount of regulation, competition will evaporate like so much smoke.
To put it in different words, optimizing the market is a lot like maximizing the area of a rectangle in a Calculus problem. You get zero area if you don't have any regulations and you get zero area if you have max regulations (i.e. everything government-owned). The optimal position is somewhere between the two extremes.
2) The Typing Of The Dead. I'm not sure if too many people know about The Type of the Dead but basically they took The House of the Dead and instead of shooting zombies with a gun, you have a keyboard and each zombie has a word you have to type in order to kill it.
That sounds exactly like the Mario Teaches Typing sidescroller that my elementary school had on its library computers.:)
Steffen Gerlach's Scanner (see also his excellent Borland Delphi-based Civilization clone) and SequoiaView were invaluable back when my hard-drive was a puny 20 giger. I highly recommend you all get them and try them out.
P.S. Be sure to turn on the colour mode in SequoiaView.;)
I think it says a lot about religion and spirituality that computers crash when they achieve enlightenment. Namely, that's it's a load of hogwash that I wouldn't dare bathe my dear pet pig in.:)
Yeah, those brainslugs are kinda neat. Wait a sec, someone's ringing my doorbell...
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD! LPETRAZICKIS IS SAYING THIS OF HIS OWN VOLITION AND NOT BECAUSE THE HYPNOTOAD IS TELLING HIM TO. ALL GLORY OF THE HYPNOTOAD! THE BRAINSLUGS ARE INFERIOR! HAIL HYPNOTOAD!
Whoa, I don't know what came over me there for a sec. Sorry.;)
All of my rifles play an open-source audio compression format that developed myself. They also can be hooked up to a computer with a coax cable so that source can be read at all times.:)
and, most importantly, the ethics of performing experiments in humans ? (after all, there can be no more extreme experiment than tayloring an organism)
On whom else could we perform these experiments? Our fellow Animals, Plants, and Bacteria cannot give consent. We can only perform them ethically on ourselves.
and you're wrong because in fact you're confusing him with a general NASA engineer
Dude, that was a joke. I am very well aware of John's work and I was not referencing his rocketry hobby at all.;)
At this point, everyone should be running at full speed (rocket-jumping, if they got them) because you've just opened the biggest black-hole of geekery since Stallman and Torvalds took the stage together and ignited a GNU/Linux naming flamewar at a Linux Award Ceremony.
Carmack? Aren't you that famous guy who lost a Mars probe because you coded in Imperial instead of Metric? I suggest that you switch now before something truly horrific happens.
The next probe lost due to a standards crash could conceivably do something like rip the fabric of reality and unleash the hordes of hell. Of course, I wouldn't think that a down-to-earth NASA scientist would worry about things like that. Right?:)
It was copied word for word from another website where I am on friendly terms with a Mozilla evangelist at whom that line was directed. I should have edited it.:)
But when Opera has tabbed browsing like mozilla, its just Opera being great and not ripping off. Give credit where credit is due.
Opera has had tabbed browsing since version 4.0 in 2000. I am sorry I was rude about Mozilla-based browsers, but a lot of their design is inspired by that of Opera Software's.
Or why should I settle for an ad-supported browser?
Because the ad does not report your surfing habits and is generally innocuous.
And especially since I have so many free and open source choices.
It's a free planet. If you prefer them, use them.;)
Why would I not use Phoenix, Mozilla or Konqueror?
I use the Windows version of 7.10 and it is simply amazing. The interface is extremely smooth and has loads of little touches that are simply missing from Phoenix 0.5 and Mozilla 1.4.
I'll paste in a pro-Opera 7.10 rant that I posted in elsewhere:
0. Mouse gestures (you know, the things that Mozilla and Phoenix ripped off from Opera) are now customizable. In other words, there will be no more accidental window closures.
1. There is now a good interface for saving toolbar layouts so that you will not have to recustomize after every upgrade.
2. The Notes feature is a multiple item clipboard (independent of the usual thing) done right. The storage is permanent, it doesn't throw itself at you, and you can misuse it for something goofy like a personal quotation database.
3. The nature of 7.0 MDI/SDI is even more obvious now. Context menus allow you to open links in the current child window, in a new child window, in a background child window, in a new parent window, and in a new background parent window.
4. Fast Forward has become even better. To quote the changelog, "FastForward can now be used as a "slide show" on galleries, like http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asi a/".
5. All dialogue boxes are now skinned. You won't believe how much skinned javascript prompts imrove the user experience.
6. All the great features from 7.0x are back. I can go through those if anyone wants. The include universal interface dragndrop, Links sidebar/CTRL+ALT+J, pervasiveness of text files, etc.
Unfortunately, the Active Bookmark Folder concept from 5.x/6.x is still not back, but I am managing without it. It's likely to reappear in 7.20, no one in the Mozilla/Phoenix crowd has used Opera enough to learn the full splendour Insane Greatness, and Microsoft has stopped shovelling features into MSIE after it killed off Netscape 4.x.
P.S. Do remember to set Opera to Always Check Documents in the History and Cache preferences panel.
P.P.S. I've just discovered skin scaling. Wow. Not quite as cool as skin colour schemes, but still very wow.
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Yeah...those damned "facts" can be so stubborn sometimes.
What facts would that be? The fact that you hate being rogered by an all-powerful hierarchical uberstupid government because you would rather be rogered by an all-powerful hierarchical uberstupid corporation?
The problem with libertarianism is that it expects competition to exist indefinitely without regulation. Fact is, without a moderate amount of regulation, competition will evaporate like so much smoke.
To put it in different words, optimizing the market is a lot like maximizing the area of a rectangle in a Calculus problem. You get zero area if you don't have any regulations and you get zero area if you have max regulations (i.e. everything government-owned). The optimal position is somewhere between the two extremes.
2) The Typing Of The Dead. I'm not sure if too many people know about The Type of the Dead but basically they took The House of the Dead and instead of shooting zombies with a gun, you have a keyboard and each zombie has a word you have to type in order to kill it.
That sounds exactly like the Mario Teaches Typing sidescroller that my elementary school had on its library computers.:)
Steffen Gerlach's Scanner (see also his excellent Borland Delphi-based Civilization clone) and SequoiaView were invaluable back when my hard-drive was a puny 20 giger. I highly recommend you all get them and try them out.
P.S. Be sure to turn on the colour mode in SequoiaView.;)
I think it says a lot about religion and spirituality that computers crash when they achieve enlightenment. Namely, that's it's a load of hogwash that I wouldn't dare bathe my dear pet pig in.:)
I use Opera 7.11 on Windoze and I can't make heads or tails of your post. What is opt-mod and what is left-scrolling?:)
Yeah, those brainslugs are kinda neat. Wait a sec, someone's ringing my doorbell...
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD! LPETRAZICKIS IS SAYING THIS OF HIS OWN VOLITION AND NOT BECAUSE THE HYPNOTOAD IS TELLING HIM TO. ALL GLORY OF THE HYPNOTOAD! THE BRAINSLUGS ARE INFERIOR! HAIL HYPNOTOAD!
Whoa, I don't know what came over me there for a sec. Sorry.;)
The lameness filter would like me to elaborate on my point so I will. For example, you can behold your Lord and Saviour Hypnotoad here. You can also check out the cybersquatter hypnotoad.org before the Legions of the Faithful destroy them. There's ascoi art of the ONE here. OBEY HYPNOTOAD!;)
As someone who used to work in a similar establishment, let me just say that I hated people like you.;)
And I like math.:P
The guys at Paradox Entertainment, the makers of Europa Universalis II and Hearts of Iron, also release patches years after the original game had come out while working without pay. Now, that's what I call true gamer geek spirit.:)
I know that Galeon has an automatic "recover session" option.
Opera had it first.;) Unfortunately, it doesn't remember form contents either.
All of my rifles play an open-source audio compression format that developed myself. They also can be hooked up to a computer with a coax cable so that source can be read at all times.:)
and, most importantly, the ethics of performing experiments in humans ? (after all, there can be no more extreme experiment than tayloring an organism)
On whom else could we perform these experiments? Our fellow Animals, Plants, and Bacteria cannot give consent. We can only perform them ethically on ourselves.
and you're wrong because in fact you're confusing him with a general NASA engineer
Dude, that was a joke. I am very well aware of John's work and I was not referencing his rocketry hobby at all.;)
At this point, everyone should be running at full speed (rocket-jumping, if they got them) because you've just opened the biggest black-hole of geekery since Stallman and Torvalds took the stage together and ignited a GNU/Linux naming flamewar at a Linux Award Ceremony.
Did you just liken me to RMS? Wow, thanks.:)
Carmack? Aren't you that famous guy who lost a Mars probe because you coded in Imperial instead of Metric? I suggest that you switch now before something truly horrific happens.
The next probe lost due to a standards crash could conceivably do something like rip the fabric of reality and unleash the hordes of hell. Of course, I wouldn't think that a down-to-earth NASA scientist would worry about things like that. Right?:)
Hmm, didn't Futurama name Popplers with dialogue identical to the one in the parent post? Sweet Zombie Jesus, it's an Alien Conspiracy!:)
You'd have to pay me a lot if you want me to learn a language that ends a while with a labourious end while instead of the vastly superior }.
After all, we all know how much Socialists just looooove corporations and their copyrights.
/me rolls eyes
opera users paid the $40 because they were too stupid to find a good free browser.
If you had cared to look at my screenshot, you would have noticed that I am using the "adware" Opera.
An easy way to change between the windows is important.
Unless, of course, they have also always had that. If they have, I apologize. I only started using Opera with version 4.:)
Notice how they are always submitted by some person without a slashdot account.
WTF are you talking about? I have a buttload of journal entries and a posting history going back a year or two. Are you drunk?:)
It was copied word for word from another website where I am on friendly terms with a Mozilla evangelist at whom that line was directed. I should have edited it.:)
But when Opera has tabbed browsing like mozilla, its just Opera being great and not ripping off. Give credit where credit is due.
Opera has had tabbed browsing since version 4.0 in 2000. I am sorry I was rude about Mozilla-based browsers, but a lot of their design is inspired by that of Opera Software's.
Because Opera is worth the money.
Or why should I settle for an ad-supported browser?
Because the ad does not report your surfing habits and is generally innocuous.
And especially since I have so many free and open source choices.
It's a free planet. If you prefer them, use them.;)
Why would I not use Phoenix, Mozilla or Konqueror?
I use the Windows version of 7.10 and it is simply amazing. The interface is extremely smooth and has loads of little touches that are simply missing from Phoenix 0.5 and Mozilla 1.4.
I'll paste in a pro-Opera 7.10 rant that I posted in elsewhere: To illustrate the customizable interface, check out this pic of my personalized Opera.
I hope that helped.;)
Isn't it time for Slashdot to get an Opera icon? It has a Mozilla icon, a Netscape icon, and even an AOL icon.
/me sulks:)
Opera happens to be my favourite browser and I want to see it's giant O at my favourite tech news site.
Are you actually saying that pr0n is worse than reality television?:)
There is not such thing as a cool car, dumbass.