I assumed that the link & post was verified by the/. team prior to its approval for display on the/. website.
Of course, the anonymous author could just as well have changed the.exe after the article was published but... nah... I prefer blaming/. for linking a virus if it happens:p
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As a bilingual french guy, I often have to write in english. I'm sure just about anything I write in english has errors in it but that doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about, it only means I lack the syntaxical and grammatical knowledge to write it properly in english.
I think it is not correct that you discredit the author about the seriousness of his article. After all, from what i can see, most mistakes in there are the usual typos and common mistake from those having english as their second/third/fourth language.
This doesn't excuse the fact the he didn't use a spellchecker but i certainly dont think it (and i quote) renders the reader incapable of trusting the subject matter presented.
I don't stress about the 911, I activated it only because they asked for it....but... let me emphasize on this:
>> People survived for decades without any 911 service. They had emergency phone numbers taped to the phone
1. Most of us still have emergency phone number taped on the phone or on the fridge or...somewhere
2. The fact that this is how it was done before, does it make it anymore wrong to do better today ? I don't think spending like... 1$ every month (make it worst...2$) for the 911 service is killing anyone. But for the ONE day you will need it, it will sure be worth every penny of it.
3. Clearly you have no kids, because when your little 6-months old baby starts choking because he swallowed a lego block or that he hurt himself badly tumbling down the stairs, you will be so worried about the little toddler that YOUR LAST wish will be to even think about what to do. This is why 911 is there. if something bad happens, call 911. period.
4. Attitude like mine...hum... its not like I do it on purpose, what should I do, riot against vonage, stand up and say NO! I shall not pay for thy ridiculous fees for 911 ? Shall I refuse to active my 911 until vonage cuts my service because they are forced to ?
Let me be clear, I don't really care for 911 on vonage either, but I think its a useful community service and i dont mind paying the extra fee for it. I respect the fact that you're against that but don't tell me that MY attitude raises the cost of phone services. Take your war with the FCC in their offices, its a much better place to debate the usefulness of 911 and its associated cost.
What protects them from YOU sueing them for not being able to dial 911 when you had this "life-threatening" situation where 911 would have come in handy.
You can't leave anything to the customer because customers are unstable and unreliable...especially in these days where fattys sues McDo for being fat.
I'm a vonage customer by the way, just activate the darn thing, this way, it *might* help you one day and they'll stop bugging you in the mean time.
You know, as a VoIP user, I really dont get what the fuss is all about.
I've been using VoIP for about 4-5 months and thats the happiest change I've made in my life ever since they created the condom.
I save truckloads of money each month, I get to be able use my line from anywhere in the world..and tons of other things.
I know that if there's a power outage my phone wont work, I also know about the 911 thing.
Just get a cellphone, we almost all have one anyway. My VoIP always rings on my cellphone and my VoIP line at the same time (a nice feature) so even if there's no power, i still get my calls.... and i can still use my cellphone's 911....and...if you make the calculation, my VoIP phone bill + some basic cellphone plan = much cheaper than my regular phone line with the long distance and other crap they always charge at the end of the month.
VoIP is a new technology, we have to give some time to the providers to fix the few bumps it may have.
The more they extend it, the more they destroy what people like in FF. It really could've stopped after IX, IMO.
Cheap plot lines, fancy graphics (its not bad..but...shouldnt take so much importance), shallow characters, stupid endless mini games, all of these gradually contributed to destroy my love of Final Fantasy.
I'm excited and very very afraid to see what FF VII will look like on the PS3.... are they going to destroy a classic ?
I understand what you are saying...and I somewhat agree....
Je comprends ce que tu dis et ca fait beaucoup de sens.
Comment pourrais-tu comprendre le besoin d'être bilingue si ce n'est pas ta langue qui disparaît.
Toi tu me dis pourquoi apprendre le francais. Et moi je te réponds, pourquoi pas ? Quel mal y a t'il dans l'apprentissage du francais ?
C'est précisément à cause de gens comme toi que personne n'essaie d'apprendre l'anglais au québec ou d'apprendre le francais dans l'ouest canadien. Je ne fais que penser à toute les opportunités d'affaire qui s'ouvrirait si nous voulions bien passer par dessus la question de la langue. Le fait que tout le monde doivent connaitre le l'anglais est un obstacle.
Je suis parfaitement bilingue et je travaille dans les deux languages à chaque jour. Pas parce que j'en suis forcé, parce que ca m'aide à communiquer avec mon entourage, avec le monde sur internet et dans la rue.
I'm sorry to learn that 70% of your budget goes to translating your website, that really scares me about its functionalities. I'm a public servant, working for government of canada. bilingual website are also a mandatory item and i can assure you that with good design, making a a website bilingual doesn't even reach 10% and trust me, we've made some pretty text intensive systems out there... I actually worked a lot on these systems.
Canada's Job Bank http://www.jobbank.gc.ca/
Labour Market Information http://www.labourmarketinformation.ca /
My point with all this isn't it isn't a whole of trouble to learn french....or to learn english, wanting is all what's required.
I used to be play AC1 and 2 and after a while got bored out of my skull of always the same monsters coming back, same techniques... the lvl grind, poor craftmasnship.
In WoW, I am just that, WoW'ed, its no wonder people already call it "World of Warcrack" its so goddamn addictive. It really does takes me a lot of will just to be able to log off:)
I really love the auction house, it totally removes all the frickin 14 years old l33t spammers! Nice & Clean.
WoW still has a few issues to adress though, mainly server stability but also on the PvP side. I'm only lvl 21 in the game so it doesn't really touch me yet but they'll have to fix it pretty soon because the player community have become very impatient since this is a problem with all MMOs.
Have you ever thought about creating a comic book ?
Examples 1. A collection of your most popular comic strips 2. An adventure of Gabe and Tycho (open topic). We know how duos are popular in comics Ex.: asterix & obelix or lucky luke & the daltons 3. Something unrelated to PA but nonetheless cool such as a sci-fi comic book... for instance.
The reason I'm asking is that I'm not exactly into mugs or shirts and I think it'd make a nice addition to your store.
I think what is sad here is that companies are emphasizing on email account size, they're using that as a marketing tool to promote their service.
While there is nothing wrong with promoting their big accounts, they definitely should emphasize on the quality services such as accessibility (for disabled people for instance), on different techniques for connecting to it. Allowing us to receive POP emails thru our online account.
The only reason there is a contest on storage space nowadays is because its what people think is the most important.
I don't think its about the tabs or the popups but the cookie / spyware blocking.
I did a major clean-up on client's computer last week. The computer was totally cluttered with junk, spy daemons (demons:p), viruses... all the fun stuff you know...
I installed the ad-aware, avg and firefox trio and didn't hear a single word ever since. Ok... its been only last week but given where they browse... 1 week is significative:)
ad-aware is there for the safety because it isn't even cleaning a thing now.
in days where they keep rehashing their own games themselves, why do this to a team that does it for free ??
Heck... let them finish and buy the product, and release it yourself....
I don't know really, but just not THAT. I mean... every single RPGer I've met loves CT. Square outta know that, as a company, they should try to take advantage of that, now they're killing it.
Actually... after posting this, I'll start working on a petition and I'll post the URL after, I really think this is not a strategic move for square and for us, the buyers/gamers.
I really like what Moore is doing, I think its good that someone dares to do what he does
That being said, maybe I've seen too many mob movies but if he succesfully gets his movie on TV... the eve of the election... boy... he's gonna get shot.
I don't even need a high school grade to know that a lot of things happen in silence, behind the curtains.
I sure admire his work but I for one wouldn't do that just yet.
Pff.... MS isn't even able to write a text processor correctly, think they'll get something like that right ??
No, and as in all other cases, MS will attempt to buy it, as an added bonus, I saw that Tableau supports MS Access and SQL Server but NOT Oracle, this is going to be a major plus for MS since Oracle is their biggest competitor.
I'm not sure whether there are more telemarketers or more spammers in the world.
You've learned how to avoid spam... or... not be bothered with it.
Here's a useful hint to avoid telemarketer and got caller id.
unless you know the number of the caller, just don't answer and let them leave a message, most telemarketer won't leave one or their machine will hang up at the tone. if its a legitimate call, the person will (hopefully) leave a message.
Its still very disapointing to see just how far some are ready to go just to make a buck, deceiving people outta be the worst technique of 'em all.
Okay, your post is flagged as funny but I don't see anything funny in your post.
What I don't like about your post is that you try to incriminate Carmack for all teen's bad behaviour. You use the popularity of gaming, particularly 1st person shooting as the reason for crimes that are related reasons that are probably a lot more important than the games they play.
>>using his gifts at computer coding to create games instead of furthering the knowledge of humanity
No one has any obligation to use his intellect to the use of a greater (?) purpose if he so desire.
As a human being, Jon have rights. As such, he may use his intelligence to do whatever it is that he likes as long as that use does not cause harm in a way carmack can be knowingly or not related to.
Carmack likes programming, game programming. As a matter of fact, he excels at it, so much that he became a reference in the gaming industry.
YES, some people like the bastards at columbine did play Doom, which ironically, is a killing game.
Facts :
1. Millions of kids have played Doom
2. Less than 0.5% of these kids have actually done something very wrong (like killing)
3. That's lower than the average criminal rate per capita.
Nowadays, we see it just too often that people search for a victim, they search for a culprit, a guilty whose head is to be cutted to alleviate people conscience.
So, Carmack wrote several violent games and popularized the genre.
Does that make him a criminal mind ?
Instead of looking at possibly the most irrelevant cause for increasing crimes, why don't you investigate
The increasing rate of drug consumption
Inflation that forces both parents to work in order to keep up
Less attention being given to kids, leaving their education to be desired
Why don't you do something about firearms being so readily avaiable on the market
You see, instead of looking at what they're playing, why don't you look at how they live, how they were raised, where they lived, who surrounds them.
You fail to realize its our whole modern society that his the problem, not some genius who actually used his mind at something.
I'm not writing this to defend Carmack, the guy makes good games but I don't give a sh#t about him.
But I do despise the action of putting the responsibility on someone else than the person who did it.
For all I know, you could be a parent who's neglecting his kid, giving trouble with your kid, leaving you in a position where you want to know why.
I'm not an expert, I'm just someone that take responsibility for what I do. If someday I go and steal a car, don't go think its because I really like GTA, its gonna be because I have problems in my life and that I will have sunk really down to resort to that. I will probably do it out of money problems, maybe I'll be scared for my life, maybe it'll be because I'll try to escape from something but it certainly won't be because some game made me do it.
Heck, MOVIES have been around for decades, killing, blood spilling deadly movies have been there for quite some time and that didn't change a lot.
Besides, we're not forced to view the movies, we're not forced to play the games. Also, I'm enough of an adult to judge all by myself what is good and what is not. I'm intelligent enough to know that a game is a game.
Also, you could see it on the other way around. What if we played Doom just to avoid fighting in the street. What if we saw Doom as a passive way of expressing violence....
There are a thousand reasons why people kill each other. I don't mean to say Doom isn't one of them, but there are lot more pressing matters than Carmack's decision to use his intellect to create killing games.
if you ever tried to teach anything to anyone, you know that it takes great knowledge to be able to explain it in simple terms so that linux illerates like me can understand (i have her book)
I read somewhere above you that the linux community was somewhat composed of male chauvinist. I largely agree with that but I think its a necessary evil for the community in general to mature. Dee-Ann is one of the first to get shot at but as linux will gain popularity, it will attract several types of persons, not only hardcore parameter-freak linux users but also illiterates like me for instance.
Just remember how computers began, how geeks at the time were see... just the same way linux users are seen now - as freaks.
then it will evolve...
I feel sorry for Dee-ann but I can only tell her to hang in there, it will change
Slashdot Mirror
Actually...you know, yes, i just did that :)
/. team prior to its approval for display on the /. website.
.exe after the article was published but ... nah ... I prefer blaming /. for linking a virus if it happens :p
I assumed that the link & post was verified by the
Of course, the anonymous author could just as well have changed the
As a bilingual french guy, I often have to write in english. I'm sure just about anything I write in english has errors in it but that doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about, it only means I lack the syntaxical and grammatical knowledge to write it properly in english.
I think it is not correct that you discredit the author about the seriousness of his article. After all, from what i can see, most mistakes in there are the usual typos and common mistake from those having english as their second/third/fourth language.
This doesn't excuse the fact the he didn't use a spellchecker but i certainly dont think it (and i quote) renders the reader incapable of trusting the subject matter presented.
Attitudes like mine ?
...but ... let me emphasize on this :
...somewhere
... 1$ every month (make it worst...2$) for the 911 service is killing anyone. But for the ONE day you will need it, it will sure be worth every penny of it.
...hum... its not like I do it on purpose, what should I do, riot against vonage, stand up and say NO! I shall not pay for thy ridiculous fees for 911 ? Shall I refuse to active my 911 until vonage cuts my service because they are forced to ?
LOL, dude, chill out.
I don't stress about the 911, I activated it only because they asked for it.
>> People survived for decades without any 911 service. They had emergency phone numbers taped to the phone
1. Most of us still have emergency phone number taped on the phone or on the fridge or
2. The fact that this is how it was done before, does it make it anymore wrong to do better today ? I don't think spending like
3. Clearly you have no kids, because when your little 6-months old baby starts choking because he swallowed a lego block or that he hurt himself badly tumbling down the stairs, you will be so worried about the little toddler that YOUR LAST wish will be to even think about what to do. This is why 911 is there. if something bad happens, call 911. period.
4. Attitude like mine
Let me be clear, I don't really care for 911 on vonage either, but I think its a useful community service and i dont mind paying the extra fee for it. I respect the fact that you're against that but don't tell me that MY attitude raises the cost of phone services. Take your war with the FCC in their offices, its a much better place to debate the usefulness of 911 and its associated cost.
What an easy way out for Vonage.
...especially in these days where fattys sues McDo for being fat.
What protects them from YOU sueing them for not being able to dial 911 when you had this "life-threatening" situation where 911 would have come in handy.
You can't leave anything to the customer because customers are unstable and unreliable
I'm a vonage customer by the way, just activate the darn thing, this way, it *might* help you one day and they'll stop bugging you in the mean time.
You know, as a VoIP user, I really dont get what the fuss is all about.
.... and i can still use my cellphone's 911. ...and...if you make the calculation, my VoIP phone bill + some basic cellphone plan = much cheaper than my regular phone line with the long distance and other crap they always charge at the end of the month.
I've been using VoIP for about 4-5 months and thats the happiest change I've made in my life ever since they created the condom.
I save truckloads of money each month, I get to be able use my line from anywhere in the world..and tons of other things.
I know that if there's a power outage my phone wont work, I also know about the 911 thing.
Just get a cellphone, we almost all have one anyway. My VoIP always rings on my cellphone and my VoIP line at the same time (a nice feature) so even if there's no power, i still get my calls
VoIP is a new technology, we have to give some time to the providers to fix the few bumps it may have.
Anyway...
Surely I'm not the only one still using floppies to "reliably" boot a computer with problems...
..whatever new techniques we have.
I mean, not every computer can boot from a CD or from a LAN or
I find that a floppy is still the best way to boot and begin troubleshooting a computer...especially when there's a virus around the corner.
I agree that the FF series should come to an end.
.... are they going to destroy a classic ?
The more they extend it, the more they destroy what people like in FF. It really could've stopped after IX, IMO.
Cheap plot lines, fancy graphics (its not bad..but...shouldnt take so much importance), shallow characters, stupid endless mini games, all of these gradually contributed to destroy my love of Final Fantasy.
I'm excited and very very afraid to see what FF VII will look like on the PS3
I understand what you are saying...and I somewhat agree....
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Je comprends ce que tu dis et ca fait beaucoup de sens.
Comment pourrais-tu comprendre le besoin d'être bilingue si ce n'est pas ta langue qui disparaît.
Toi tu me dis pourquoi apprendre le francais. Et moi je te réponds, pourquoi pas ? Quel mal y a t'il dans l'apprentissage du francais ?
C'est précisément à cause de gens comme toi que personne n'essaie d'apprendre l'anglais au québec ou d'apprendre le francais dans l'ouest canadien. Je ne fais que penser à toute les opportunités d'affaire qui s'ouvrirait si nous voulions bien passer par dessus la question de la langue. Le fait que tout le monde doivent connaitre le l'anglais est un obstacle.
Je suis parfaitement bilingue et je travaille dans les deux languages à chaque jour. Pas parce que j'en suis forcé, parce que ca m'aide à communiquer avec mon entourage, avec le monde sur internet et dans la rue.
I'm sorry to learn that 70% of your budget goes to translating your website, that really scares me about its functionalities. I'm a public servant, working for government of canada. bilingual website are also a mandatory item and i can assure you that with good design, making a a website bilingual doesn't even reach 10% and trust me, we've made some pretty text intensive systems out there... I actually worked a lot on these systems.
Canada's Job Bank
http://www.jobbank.gc.ca/
Labour Market Information
http://www.labourmarketinformation.c
My point with all this isn't it isn't a whole of trouble to learn french....or to learn english, wanting is all what's required.
I completely agree.
... the lvl grind, poor craftmasnship.
:)
I used to be play AC1 and 2 and after a while got bored out of my skull of always the same monsters coming back, same techniques
In WoW, I am just that, WoW'ed, its no wonder people already call it "World of Warcrack" its so goddamn addictive. It really does takes me a lot of will just to be able to log off
I really love the auction house, it totally removes all the frickin 14 years old l33t spammers! Nice & Clean.
WoW still has a few issues to adress though, mainly server stability but also on the PvP side. I'm only lvl 21 in the game so it doesn't really touch me yet but they'll have to fix it pretty soon because the player community have become very impatient since this is a problem with all MMOs.
I hate to state the obvious but it all starts with a simples (Go)oogle search :)
....
n G= Google+Search&meta=
I search for "Go rules" and i got this
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=go+rules&bt
How can they possibly understand if they never fragged their neighbor in the face with an RPG.
Have you ever thought about creating a comic book ?
... for instance.
Examples
1. A collection of your most popular comic strips
2. An adventure of Gabe and Tycho (open topic). We know how duos are popular in comics Ex.: asterix & obelix or lucky luke & the daltons
3. Something unrelated to PA but nonetheless cool such as a sci-fi comic book
The reason I'm asking is that I'm not exactly into mugs or shirts and I think it'd make a nice addition to your store.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/
:)
:
You're very close, so close we say you got it
according to the URL, FLOSS is for
Free/Libre/Open Source Software
Libre being french word for "Free"
I think what is sad here is that companies are emphasizing on email account size, they're using that as a marketing tool to promote their service.
While there is nothing wrong with promoting their big accounts, they definitely should emphasize on the quality services such as accessibility (for disabled people for instance), on different techniques for connecting to it. Allowing us to receive POP emails thru our online account.
The only reason there is a contest on storage space nowadays is because its what people think is the most important.
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
RFC 1925 2.(3)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1925.html
I don't think its about the tabs or the popups but the cookie / spyware blocking.
:p), viruses ... all the fun stuff you know...
... its been only last week but given where they browse ... 1 week is significative :)
I did a major clean-up on client's computer last week. The computer was totally cluttered with junk, spy daemons (demons
I installed the ad-aware, avg and firefox trio and didn't hear a single word ever since. Ok
ad-aware is there for the safety because it isn't even cleaning a thing now.
That's very dumb of Square-Enix....
... let them finish and buy the product, and release it yourself ....
... every single RPGer I've met loves CT. Square outta know that, as a company, they should try to take advantage of that, now they're killing it.
... after posting this, I'll start working on a petition and I'll post the URL after, I really think this is not a strategic move for square and for us, the buyers/gamers.
in days where they keep rehashing their own games themselves, why do this to a team that does it for free ??
Heck
I don't know really, but just not THAT. I mean
Actually
I really like what Moore is doing, I think its good that someone dares to do what he does
... the eve of the election ... boy ... he's gonna get shot.
That being said, maybe I've seen too many mob movies but if he succesfully gets his movie on TV
I don't even need a high school grade to know that a lot of things happen in silence, behind the curtains.
I sure admire his work but I for one wouldn't do that just yet.
Heh, then I'll call it a close call, its better not to find partial matches than one exact match.
DoH! didn't think about that ....
ehhehehe
actually, I didn't input the entire number, I omitted the last four.
Pff .... MS isn't even able to write a text processor correctly, think they'll get something like that right ??
No, and as in all other cases, MS will attempt to buy it, as an added bonus, I saw that Tableau supports MS Access and SQL Server but NOT Oracle, this is going to be a major plus for MS since Oracle is their biggest competitor.
Ha Ha Ha!
:)
That was very hilarious, especially example #5
I'll be sure to try to build something like this at home
I'm not sure whether there are more telemarketers or more spammers in the world.
... or ... not be bothered with it.
You've learned how to avoid spam
Here's a useful hint to avoid telemarketer and got caller id.
unless you know the number of the caller, just don't answer and let them leave a message, most telemarketer won't leave one or their machine will hang up at the tone. if its a legitimate call, the person will (hopefully) leave a message.
Its still very disapointing to see just how far some are ready to go just to make a buck, deceiving people outta be the worst technique of 'em all.
What I don't like about your post is that you try to incriminate Carmack for all teen's bad behaviour. You use the popularity of gaming, particularly 1st person shooting as the reason for crimes that are related reasons that are probably a lot more important than the games they play.
>>using his gifts at computer coding to create games instead of furthering the knowledge of humanity
No one has any obligation to use his intellect to the use of a greater (?) purpose if he so desire.
As a human being, Jon have rights. As such, he may use his intelligence to do whatever it is that he likes as long as that use does not cause harm in a way carmack can be knowingly or not related to.
Carmack likes programming, game programming. As a matter of fact, he excels at it, so much that he became a reference in the gaming industry.
YES, some people like the bastards at columbine did play Doom, which ironically, is a killing game.
Facts : 1. Millions of kids have played Doom 2. Less than 0.5% of these kids have actually done something very wrong (like killing) 3. That's lower than the average criminal rate per capita.
Nowadays, we see it just too often that people search for a victim, they search for a culprit, a guilty whose head is to be cutted to alleviate people conscience.
So, Carmack wrote several violent games and popularized the genre.
Does that make him a criminal mind ?
Instead of looking at possibly the most irrelevant cause for increasing crimes, why don't you investigate
- The increasing rate of drug consumption
- Inflation that forces both parents to work in order to keep up
- Less attention being given to kids, leaving their education to be desired
- Why don't you do something about firearms being so readily avaiable on the market
You see, instead of looking at what they're playing, why don't you look at how they live, how they were raised, where they lived, who surrounds them.You fail to realize its our whole modern society that his the problem, not some genius who actually used his mind at something.
I'm not writing this to defend Carmack, the guy makes good games but I don't give a sh#t about him.
But I do despise the action of putting the responsibility on someone else than the person who did it.
For all I know, you could be a parent who's neglecting his kid, giving trouble with your kid, leaving you in a position where you want to know why.
I'm not an expert, I'm just someone that take responsibility for what I do. If someday I go and steal a car, don't go think its because I really like GTA, its gonna be because I have problems in my life and that I will have sunk really down to resort to that. I will probably do it out of money problems, maybe I'll be scared for my life, maybe it'll be because I'll try to escape from something but it certainly won't be because some game made me do it.
Heck, MOVIES have been around for decades, killing, blood spilling deadly movies have been there for quite some time and that didn't change a lot.
Besides, we're not forced to view the movies, we're not forced to play the games. Also, I'm enough of an adult to judge all by myself what is good and what is not. I'm intelligent enough to know that a game is a game.
Also, you could see it on the other way around. What if we played Doom just to avoid fighting in the street. What if we saw Doom as a passive way of expressing violence....
There are a thousand reasons why people kill each other. I don't mean to say Doom isn't one of them, but there are lot more pressing matters than Carmack's decision to use his intellect to create killing games.
there is a reason she wrote Linux for Dummies
... just the same way linux users are seen now - as freaks.
if you ever tried to teach anything to anyone, you know that it takes great knowledge to be able to explain it in simple terms so that linux illerates like me can understand (i have her book)
I read somewhere above you that the linux community was somewhat composed of male chauvinist. I largely agree with that but I think its a necessary evil for the community in general to mature. Dee-Ann is one of the first to get shot at but as linux will gain popularity, it will attract several types of persons, not only hardcore parameter-freak linux users but also illiterates like me for instance.
Just remember how computers began, how geeks at the time were see
then it will evolve...
I feel sorry for Dee-ann but I can only tell her to hang in there, it will change