Jeff Grubb has left WotC to focus more on his writing. His story, "Apocalypse Noun," is being included in the upcoming Thieves' World: Turning Points collection of short stories, due out this November. He is also currently working on the final WARCRAFT novel, The Last Guardian.
I get it now. Slashdot will review MacOSX, but not Windows 2000 or XP; not because it's a better OS, but because it's not a Microsoft OS.
Somehow, giving your money to a giant corporation for a commercial, closed product is "better" than giving it to some other giant corporation for a commercial, closed product.
Why doesn't pudge review Yellow Dog Linux, or Mandrake for PPC?
Yes, the same John Wayne Gacy that was convicted of 33 serial murders. Whom did he rape and murder, you ask? Why, he raped and murdered small children.
That's right, HE RAPED AND MURDERED SMALL CHILDREN. And now he's being used to sell things on Slashdot.
Yes, the same John Wayne Gacy that was convicted of 33 serial murders. Whom did he rape and murder, you ask? Why, he raped and murdered small children.
That's right, HE RAPED AND MURDERED SMALL CHILDREN. And now he's being used to sell things on Slashdot.
According to this well written story, music sharing actually increases music sales.
I'll be the first to admit that I stopped buying CD's because I download all my music from the internet.
That, and I have a $500/day cocaine habit. Well, at least until I became incarcerated for molesting farm animals, which keeps me from making that trip over to Tower Records. So I guess that's three reasons I stopped buying CD's:
1) I download music from the internet.
2) Heavy narcotics use.
3) Felony conviction for molesting farm animals.
But overall, I'd say my main problem is downloading music from the internet.
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PC users will be forced to make a decision that they have not in the past: 1) Pay for a legitimate copy of a given title, or 2) Use a Free (or free) alternative.
You forgot choice 3) Download the RaZOR 1911 release of said software from IRC.
Am I the only one that sees the obvious connections between what the RIAA/MPAA are doing and the actions of Communist despots?...For that matter, has anybody noticed how much Jack Valenti looks like Chairman Mao? Or how much Hillary Rosen looks like Josef Stalin?
I don't recall either of those people as Communist despots. They were despots, but they dropped the "Communism" act right quick once they had a stranglehold on things. Pick up a history book. It'll do you some good. For that matter, read the Communist Manifesto. It's not as scary as your McCarthy-addled parents obviously taught you.
"Buying drugs supports terrorism", my ass. It should be "Buying gold supports terrorism", or "growing alfalfa with gold in it because you put extra gold in the soil supports terrorism", or "buying gas for your car supports terrorism". Wait, that one's already true. Nevermind.
I'll tell you why not. Because Apple doesn't produce cookie-cutter products. Steve Jobs can't just go to the company that builds Nokias and say, "Produce XXXXXX of these, but oh yeah -- make the case white and silver."
Oh, that's right, you're stuck in Jobs' Reality Distortion Field.
Sub-par performance, sluggish UI, overpriced commodity hardware, DDR mated to an outdated SDR bus... It's crap, but it's not cookie-cutter crap, so that magically makes it a good product?
But if the cost is the same, why would you ever buy the machine without the Windows license. We would certainly opt for the Windows machine, even if we weren't buying it to run Windows, simply because it would allow us to redeploy the machine as a Windows box at a later date at no cost.
That's exactly my point. They cost the same, except instead of microsoft getting your money, Dell gets your money, and you're stuck with FreeDOS instead of XP or W2K.
"N-series PCs [with FreeDOS] will cost the same as PCs that ship with Windows, a Dell representative said."
What's the point of buying the machine with no OS/FreeDOS if it costs the same as the Windows box? This is just a PR ploy to make Dell look like a hero to the OSS/Anti-MS Community.
Now, we must also accept that self-actualization is progress...And if you like Kant, erecting a society in which people can actualize themselves follows directly from the Categorical Imperative.
That interpretation is quite relevant to Hegel's position of the achievement of true freedom as the litmus of human progress. That is, if you believe self-actualization and true freedom are one in the same.
If indeed that's the case, then the spirit of a people provides the best evidence of progress, and can be best looked at as the essence of a state. When a people rises and falls, it is accompanied by its particular world-spirit, which is its consciousness of freedom. Every people has a different consciousness of freedom. Some peoples believe in freedom for all (man, as man, is free), why others believe in freedom for a few (some men are free, while others are not).
Kant, Hegel, and Marx (hell, you can even throw Wagar in there) were all forward-thinking progressivists with interrelated theories on the symantics of human progress. Personally, I prefer the classicist dionysian interpretation in that man's destiny is to suffer and die as part of the larger, cyclical process of the perpetuation of mankind as a species. Man's destiny is cyclical, regressive, or a regressive cycle, but it's certainly not progressive, regardless of the popular illusion. Nietzsche put it best: "We say it is 'explanation' ; but it is only in 'description' that we are in advance of the older stages of knowledge and science. We describe better, we explain just as little as our predecessors."
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Jeff Grubb has left WotC to focus more on his writing. His story, "Apocalypse Noun," is being included in the upcoming Thieves' World: Turning Points collection of short stories, due out this November. He is also currently working on the final WARCRAFT novel, The Last Guardian.
Long hours seem to affect spelling.
Long hours effect spelling. You affect knowledge about grammar.
Is this gonna be kosher or not?
I wouldn't think so. Being fisted by a police officer isn't kosher, either. I asked.
I get it now. Slashdot will review MacOSX, but not Windows 2000 or XP; not because it's a better OS, but because it's not a Microsoft OS. Somehow, giving your money to a giant corporation for a commercial, closed product is "better" than giving it to some other giant corporation for a commercial, closed product.
Why doesn't pudge review Yellow Dog Linux, or Mandrake for PPC?
I wonder what Jim has done to prevent what happened to Nightmare When he met the horizontal spinner Son of Wyachi.......damn that was a hit.
Yeah, or at the San francisco battlebots tournament, when Nightmare got torn into pieces by Warhead.
Champion, my ass. This whole "BattleBots" thing is a sham.
It nice to see Tradwars on it. Haven't seen that and years.
I haven't seen this in years. In case you were wondering, that's a banner ad Slashdot is running featuring John Wayne Gacy.
Yes, the same John Wayne Gacy that was convicted of 33 serial murders. Whom did he rape and murder, you ask? Why, he raped and murdered small children.
That's right, HE RAPED AND MURDERED SMALL CHILDREN. And now he's being used to sell things on Slashdot.
God Bless America.
Please, stop beating it.
I agree. We should be discussing why Slashdot is running ads featuring John Wayne Gacy.
Yes, the same John Wayne Gacy that was convicted of 33 serial murders. Whom did he rape and murder, you ask? Why, he raped and murdered small children.
That's right, HE RAPED AND MURDERED SMALL CHILDREN. And now he's being used to sell things on Slashdot.
God Bless America.
Likewise, when speeding on the highways, one doesn't usually give the local police a call to let them know.
Damn, then why did I even get this cell phone?
According to this well written story, music sharing actually increases music sales.
I'll be the first to admit that I stopped buying CD's because I download all my music from the internet.
That, and I have a $500/day cocaine habit. Well, at least until I became incarcerated for molesting farm animals, which keeps me from making that trip over to Tower Records. So I guess that's three reasons I stopped buying CD's:
1) I download music from the internet.
2) Heavy narcotics use.
3) Felony conviction for molesting farm animals.
But overall, I'd say my main problem is downloading music from the internet.
*sniff*
That's the most beautiful thing I've ever read.
The import DVD of 'Spirited away is available on DVD right now, so you don't have to deal with all the drooling idiots and their drooling, seat-kicking idiot kids that flock to any movie with 'Disney' plastered on it.
The resounding consensus is that most folks appreciate how, compared to these other OSes, Mac OS X 'just works.'
Resounding consensus, my ass. Macs don't "just work" any more than *anything* "just works".
Don't believe me? Believe this.
PC users will be forced to make a decision that they have not in the past: 1) Pay for a legitimate copy of a given title, or 2) Use a Free (or free) alternative.
You forgot choice 3) Download the RaZOR 1911 release of said software from IRC.
These diamonds are a girl's best friend. If it doesn't help perpetuate poverty and strife, it's not a real diamond. Just ask DeBeers.
Yes it is.
Which part? I think you might be reading the Bible by mistake.
Am I the only one that sees the obvious connections between what the RIAA/MPAA are doing and the actions of Communist despots?...For that matter, has anybody noticed how much Jack Valenti looks like Chairman Mao? Or how much Hillary Rosen looks like Josef Stalin?
I don't recall either of those people as Communist despots. They were despots, but they dropped the "Communism" act right quick once they had a stranglehold on things. Pick up a history book. It'll do you some good. For that matter, read the Communist Manifesto. It's not as scary as your McCarthy-addled parents obviously taught you.
And where are they getting the gold?
"Buying drugs supports terrorism", my ass. It should be "Buying gold supports terrorism", or "growing alfalfa with gold in it because you put extra gold in the soil supports terrorism", or "buying gas for your car supports terrorism". Wait, that one's already true. Nevermind.
My question is... why did you have that link so handy? Both in memory, and in url?
Why do you want to know? Are you french, or something?
Who wasn't anticipating part 2 of "Best of Both Worlds" all summer long?
My question is, why were you that interested in part one?
I'll tell you why not. Because Apple doesn't produce cookie-cutter products. Steve Jobs can't just go to the company that builds Nokias and say, "Produce XXXXXX of these, but oh yeah -- make the case white and silver."
Isn't that exactly what he does with computers? What makes you think he wouldn't do the same thing with phones?
Oh, that's right, you're stuck in Jobs' Reality Distortion Field.
Sub-par performance, sluggish UI, overpriced commodity hardware, DDR mated to an outdated SDR bus... It's crap, but it's not cookie-cutter crap, so that magically makes it a good product?
You sound like the sort of user has grown beyond boasting specs to getting something accomplished.
We'd love to have you.
What are you, in a cult? Does he have to shave his head and kill his parents to join, or is it just the standard "give us all your money and worldly posessions"?
But if the cost is the same, why would you ever buy the machine without the Windows license. We would certainly opt for the Windows machine, even if we weren't buying it to run Windows, simply because it would allow us to redeploy the machine as a Windows box at a later date at no cost.
That's exactly my point. They cost the same, except instead of microsoft getting your money, Dell gets your money, and you're stuck with FreeDOS instead of XP or W2K.
But you're forgetting this fact:
"N-series PCs [with FreeDOS] will cost the same as PCs that ship with Windows, a Dell representative said."
What's the point of buying the machine with no OS/FreeDOS if it costs the same as the Windows box? This is just a PR ploy to make Dell look like a hero to the OSS/Anti-MS Community.
Now, we must also accept that self-actualization is progress...And if you like Kant, erecting a society in which people can actualize themselves follows directly from the Categorical Imperative.
That interpretation is quite relevant to Hegel's position of the achievement of true freedom as the litmus of human progress. That is, if you believe self-actualization and true freedom are one in the same.
If indeed that's the case, then the spirit of a people provides the best evidence of progress, and can be best looked at as the essence of a state. When a people rises and falls, it is accompanied by its particular world-spirit, which is its consciousness of freedom. Every people has a different consciousness of freedom. Some peoples believe in freedom for all (man, as man, is free), why others believe in freedom for a few (some men are free, while others are not).
Kant, Hegel, and Marx (hell, you can even throw Wagar in there) were all forward-thinking progressivists with interrelated theories on the symantics of human progress. Personally, I prefer the classicist dionysian interpretation in that man's destiny is to suffer and die as part of the larger, cyclical process of the perpetuation of mankind as a species. Man's destiny is cyclical, regressive, or a regressive cycle, but it's certainly not progressive, regardless of the popular illusion. Nietzsche put it best: "We say it is 'explanation' ; but it is only in 'description' that we are in advance of the older stages of knowledge and science. We describe better, we explain just as little as our predecessors."
Why does everything have to be "X"? Why can't they just use the number 10?
We have "Generation X",
"OS X"
the "X BOX"
the "X Games"
the movie "Jason X"
the movie "Triple X".
Cut the marketing crap. Using the roman numeral "X" doesn't make anything more cool or "hip", it just makes it seem tired, rehashed, and derivative.
Maybe they'll even advertise it as "Defcon: eXtreme"! I can hardly wait to see!