Nope, I read it that way as well (just searched the page for "Vista" to see if anyone else had commented that, before making my own top-level comment to that effect).
The sad thing: that actually sounds like it could be a really cool game. Of course, if it were a game produced by EA, it'd suck big time. But in the hands of competent people, it could be cool.
Any noun can be verbed! Podcast is a stupid word, but that doesn't make it any less of a word - it's just a stupid one. And, being that it's a noun, it can thus be verbed.
Amusingly enough, I just switched back from Mepis yesterday. I'd tried Ubuntu a couple years ago, but it didn't work very well on my laptop. The only distro that I found played reasonably nicely at the time was Mepis, plus I like KDE way better than Gnome. Well, Ubuntu works way better now than it did back then - I just swapped Mepis out in favor of Kubuntu. Ironically, Kubuntu figured out a few things automatically that even Mepis didn't, like that I have extra buttons on my keyboard.
I'd never heard of half my favorite bands. Take that. I've then gone out and bought the majority of said cds (unless they're owned by an RIAA subsidiary - then I just pirate them, and wait for them to play live near me).
Yup, same here. Then again, I thought it might have something to do with Microsoft, as well - the Bill, in that case, being Gates.
Reminds me of something someone posted ages ago, about something they saw in London: "I came upon a wall covered with bills. In the middle of
the wall was a sign that read, "Bill Posters Will Be Prosecuted." Beneath it, someone had written, "Bill Posters Is Innocent." I've always wondered how Bill's trial turned out."
There's one problem with that: I can think of at least half a dozen ways to get labeled a "child molester" without actually being one, and there's very little you can do once you've broken some stupidly broad law and gotten yourself that label.
Nope, I've read it - every single person on the planet dies at the end. Hermione, Harry, Ron, Voldemort, Ginny, Hagrid, Snape, Dudley, Vernon, that random guy that gave Harry some money at the beginning of the first book. They all die.
I haven't actually read it, by the way, but I'm assuming it's a joke.
Also, mashup and other sample-based artists would be all the hell over that. I'd certainly pay 2-3 bucks per song for tracks like that, every so often.
That's nice... now give me back my Firefly already, please.
No, seriously. I've watched all of Farscape, including the crappy movie. About 3/4ths of the first season, half of the second season, and a third of the third season were worth watching, by my rather rough estimate. The series had promise, I'll grant that, and it even lived up to it... for a bit. But I would assume any new Farscape, which would presumably take place starting where the series previously ended, would suck just as much as the last couple seasons + tv movie did, which is to say, rather a lot. It was like Bab5 in reverse - Bab5 started out horrifically cheesy and dumb, and gradually got more complex and believable and awesome. FS, on the other hand, started out pretty believable and awesome, and got more and more cheesy and stupid. By the end, it was pretty painful, and I had to force myself to keep watching out of a stubborn desire to know how it ended.
I think you're confusing causation and correlation, just like all the journalists you seem to admire. You seem to think that because school killers tend to enjoy playing games like Postal, that clearly Postal deranges people and makes them into killers. How about this, instead: people who are likely to decide to shoot up innocent people, are likely to also enjoy games that let them do the same thing.
Of course, many people that wouldn't enjoy ending the lives of real people, would also find it interesting to simulate being a mass murderer, knowing full well that their actions aren't real. Anyone messed up enough to go on a shooting spree in real life because he could do it in a video game, probably would have done something insane sooner or later anyway, even without the video game.
Thus clearly, the answer is that information is like light: whether it's considered to be liquid-like or made up of small chunks depends entirely on why you want to know!
"If you're in a FPS and you're in an urban setting, then maybe a few billboards would add to the realism -- but if every wall is plastered with ads then it takes away from the realism and the game suffers."
Why would it? After all, if you walk into downtown LA, say, pretty much everything ever is an ad. So why not in a game?...I'm pretty glad I don't live in downtown LA, can you tell?
I'd rather use the search that I think will get me better search results. I don't care what company it is that produces the search, I just care about the results. Let's see: from other products they've made recently, MS seems to be run by arrogant idiots, and Google seems to be run by arrogant geniuses. I'll go with the one more likely to be produced by competent people.
Oh no, they've saved my search results. If the government ever comes spying, they'll find out that I've searched for... ok, well, I suppose that I've searched for torrents makes me a copywrite offender. But other than that.
I've said it before, but I'll say it again: the point is not that we want to take down the targets, by supporting the RIAA. The point is, these are high-profile targets, with lots of power, and it'd be a great way to convince those in power, however much we might not like them, to take the RIAA down a few notches. Sadly, I think you're right, that if the RIAA actually thought this was worth their time, they'd simply make it look like they'd gone after them, while actually quickly settling for spare change.
That's not the point, though. The point is that we all have made mix tapes. But we don't have the power to say, you're stupid, stop litigating us. The President, however, has that power, which is why it would be great if the RIAA tried to go after his children.
I recall, for instance, how McCarthy went after just about everyone with impunity... but then he tried to go after the military, and got shot down fast.
I don't think the *government* had anything to do with getting people interested in celebrity gossip. Granted, they're sure not going out of their way to publicize any of the various mud-on-their-face activities they've been up to, and I'm sure the higher-ups *like* the fact that everyone here is concerned with Paris's jail hissy-fit activities than their own government... but the government is not the media. Good thing, too. It's the media's fault all we get from the media is garbage, not the government's.
To be fair, NT was designed for business users, and I gather the NT family was always several steps ahead of the 95 family, right up until XP, when the two paths joined together again. Might explain why XP is the only half-decent OS to come out of Redmond in a while.
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Also anything written by Zahn.
Nope, I read it that way as well (just searched the page for "Vista" to see if anyone else had commented that, before making my own top-level comment to that effect).
The sad thing: that actually sounds like it could be a really cool game. Of course, if it were a game produced by EA, it'd suck big time. But in the hands of competent people, it could be cool.
Any noun can be verbed! Podcast is a stupid word, but that doesn't make it any less of a word - it's just a stupid one. And, being that it's a noun, it can thus be verbed.
P.S. I podcasted your mom last night.
Amusingly enough, I just switched back from Mepis yesterday. I'd tried Ubuntu a couple years ago, but it didn't work very well on my laptop. The only distro that I found played reasonably nicely at the time was Mepis, plus I like KDE way better than Gnome. Well, Ubuntu works way better now than it did back then - I just swapped Mepis out in favor of Kubuntu. Ironically, Kubuntu figured out a few things automatically that even Mepis didn't, like that I have extra buttons on my keyboard.
Mepis was decent, but Kubuntu is (now) better.
I'd never heard of half my favorite bands. Take that. I've then gone out and bought the majority of said cds (unless they're owned by an RIAA subsidiary - then I just pirate them, and wait for them to play live near me).
Yup, same here. Then again, I thought it might have something to do with Microsoft, as well - the Bill, in that case, being Gates.
Reminds me of something someone posted ages ago, about something they saw in London: "I came upon a wall covered with bills. In the middle of the wall was a sign that read, "Bill Posters Will Be Prosecuted." Beneath it, someone had written, "Bill Posters Is Innocent." I've always wondered how Bill's trial turned out."
There's one problem with that: I can think of at least half a dozen ways to get labeled a "child molester" without actually being one, and there's very little you can do once you've broken some stupidly broad law and gotten yourself that label.
Nope, I've read it - every single person on the planet dies at the end. Hermione, Harry, Ron, Voldemort, Ginny, Hagrid, Snape, Dudley, Vernon, that random guy that gave Harry some money at the beginning of the first book. They all die.
I haven't actually read it, by the way, but I'm assuming it's a joke.
Also, mashup and other sample-based artists would be all the hell over that. I'd certainly pay 2-3 bucks per song for tracks like that, every so often.
That's nice... now give me back my Firefly already, please.
No, seriously. I've watched all of Farscape, including the crappy movie. About 3/4ths of the first season, half of the second season, and a third of the third season were worth watching, by my rather rough estimate. The series had promise, I'll grant that, and it even lived up to it... for a bit. But I would assume any new Farscape, which would presumably take place starting where the series previously ended, would suck just as much as the last couple seasons + tv movie did, which is to say, rather a lot. It was like Bab5 in reverse - Bab5 started out horrifically cheesy and dumb, and gradually got more complex and believable and awesome. FS, on the other hand, started out pretty believable and awesome, and got more and more cheesy and stupid. By the end, it was pretty painful, and I had to force myself to keep watching out of a stubborn desire to know how it ended.
I think you're confusing causation and correlation, just like all the journalists you seem to admire. You seem to think that because school killers tend to enjoy playing games like Postal, that clearly Postal deranges people and makes them into killers. How about this, instead: people who are likely to decide to shoot up innocent people, are likely to also enjoy games that let them do the same thing.
Of course, many people that wouldn't enjoy ending the lives of real people, would also find it interesting to simulate being a mass murderer, knowing full well that their actions aren't real. Anyone messed up enough to go on a shooting spree in real life because he could do it in a video game, probably would have done something insane sooner or later anyway, even without the video game.
Thus clearly, the answer is that information is like light: whether it's considered to be liquid-like or made up of small chunks depends entirely on why you want to know!
P.S. Nazis.
"If you're in a FPS and you're in an urban setting, then maybe a few billboards would add to the realism -- but if every wall is plastered with ads then it takes away from the realism and the game suffers."
...I'm pretty glad I don't live in downtown LA, can you tell?
Why would it? After all, if you walk into downtown LA, say, pretty much everything ever is an ad. So why not in a game?
No, he's "the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince."
Alternatively, simply "the artist currently known as Prince".
I'd rather use the search that I think will get me better search results. I don't care what company it is that produces the search, I just care about the results. Let's see: from other products they've made recently, MS seems to be run by arrogant idiots, and Google seems to be run by arrogant geniuses. I'll go with the one more likely to be produced by competent people.
Oh no, they've saved my search results. If the government ever comes spying, they'll find out that I've searched for... ok, well, I suppose that I've searched for torrents makes me a copywrite offender. But other than that.
Actually, I'm pretty sure "interweb" was coined as a joke, and is never used nonsarcastically. It's up there with "blagosphere" and "intertubes".
I've said it before, but I'll say it again: the point is not that we want to take down the targets, by supporting the RIAA. The point is, these are high-profile targets, with lots of power, and it'd be a great way to convince those in power, however much we might not like them, to take the RIAA down a few notches. Sadly, I think you're right, that if the RIAA actually thought this was worth their time, they'd simply make it look like they'd gone after them, while actually quickly settling for spare change.
That's not the point, though. The point is that we all have made mix tapes. But we don't have the power to say, you're stupid, stop litigating us. The President, however, has that power, which is why it would be great if the RIAA tried to go after his children.
I recall, for instance, how McCarthy went after just about everyone with impunity... but then he tried to go after the military, and got shot down fast.
I keep trying... none of the songs I've wanted to get my hands on, that iTunes had, were available in the new format. But I'll keep trying, anyway.
It's one gigantic hated, monopoly-spawning megacorp against another! Who am I supposed to hate, now?!
Just kidding... I still hate both of them.
"The pool is closed. Desudesudesudesudesudesudesudesudesudesu.
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Do a barrel roll!"
I don't think the *government* had anything to do with getting people interested in celebrity gossip. Granted, they're sure not going out of their way to publicize any of the various mud-on-their-face activities they've been up to, and I'm sure the higher-ups *like* the fact that everyone here is concerned with Paris's jail hissy-fit activities than their own government... but the government is not the media. Good thing, too. It's the media's fault all we get from the media is garbage, not the government's.
My guess, from the first two words, is that it's lorem ipsum. Go look it up.
To be fair, NT was designed for business users, and I gather the NT family was always several steps ahead of the 95 family, right up until XP, when the two paths joined together again. Might explain why XP is the only half-decent OS to come out of Redmond in a while.