I remember the GURPs supers book calling the SuperHeros 'Metahumans' becaues Marvel/DC threatened to sue. It sucked rocks then, and it sucks rocks now. It's ridiculous, a trademark identiifies a business. Marvel's a trade mark, so is DC. I don't know of any company called 'SuperHero'. Shit, why not let them patent it while your at it so the next time someguy flys around in tights they can sue.
that makes it more user friendly in my book. Slack, Vanilla Debian, Knoppix harddisk all choked on it. I didn't want the hassle of Fedora (custom packages and all that). I'm still a slackware user myself, but for my friends box, when he wanted linux, Unbuntu was the only thing that didn't screw up his 8500. And I'm talking about 2d accel (dvds and video clips), 3D wasn't even an issue.
Now if something can just be done about the mess that is multichannel audio in linux (and pcs in general frankly), I'll be one happy camper.
and isn't it great the way the profit motive works? There's tons of crap like this in the PC world. You can't buy an inkjet with easily (and properly) refillable cartridges, and the American counterparts print half as many pages before dying. There's little or no innovation in midrage ($100-$200) soundcards since too much too fast might kill the market for next years upgrades. And noone wants to sell you a decent video card for less than $200 dollars ever since 3dfx bought the farm. I'm sure you could find this crap going on outside the technology sector ( I hear it's a major problem in the drug industry ). I say get the gov't involved in combating this. Sure they'll muck things up pretty bad, but the way I see it the corps are screwing us all so bad hamstringing them a little couldn't hurt. Christ, at least put a stop the the landfill expanding nightmare that is inkjet printers.
Windows 2k is a vast improvement over NT 4, and XP is an improvement over 2k (albeit a marginal one, but still an improvement). I don't deal with servers, but 2k3 is suppose to be a pretty large step up from XP. No, Microsoft isn't going to fix everything at once. They'd spend a ton of money doing it and kill the upgrade market in the process. What they're hoping now is to kill the hobbiest and upgrade market, and make everyone go to OEMs for their hardware, while moving everyone to a subscription model for software. That way your constantly paying for software meanwhile the hardware to run the old stuff is off the market.
if a right can vary by culture, then it's not fundamental. By definition a fundamental right is one that applies across cultural boundries. You can argue that there are no fundamental rights if you like, but you can't argue that they vary from one country to the next. That's a non-sequitor.
seriously, console manufacturers design with long term cost cuts in mind these days. Sony and MS will hit the hardcore up for whatever they can and then gradually drop the price, subsidising losses with software and accessory sales.
any script that could make it easy to get those installed (and maybe warn you if you're missing/have extra kernel modules) would be worth it's weight in gold. Even the oss ones are a bit of a pain if you compile your own kernel ( remembering the right mix of modules to get it all working).
what he means to says is profits. For a well designed computer the software and support is pretty cheap. Networking? Last I checked a chunch of removable media in the mail still had more bandwidth than any broadband you care to name, and that's dirt cheap. OTOH, providing software in need of constant upgrades and support and fun but uncecessary networking services is prtty damn profitable. I guess if gobs of money's my aim, I'd be selling cheap wintel boxen too.
1. China and the USSR where dictatorships. You can make that comment about following the same path about any society. We can't all murder or rob each other. Your confusing the way a society governs itself (dictatorship, democracy, oligarchy, theocracy, etc) with how it allocates it's limited resources (Capitalism, Socialism, Comunnism, etc). There's some overlap, so it's an easy enough mistake to make, but ultimately they're different things. A society can be Democratic and Socialist, the USSR and China are neither.
2. That's a non sequitur. You seem to be implying that a theory, even one with imperical evidence backing it up, is inherently worthless. What evidence that Socialism works we do have looks pretty good (Canada's doing fine, so's France, they've got problems but then, who doesn't?). What evidence we have about Global Capitalism (that's really what we're talking about when we say 'Globalism') shows that Capital flows whereever labor is cheapest, keeping wages and standards of living down while a few grow stronger and use brutality and power to protect themselves (Mexico's a prime example, as is most of China. India's growth is slowing as wages rise and work moves to Malaysia).
3. The US is the closest to the Ideal we've got right now, and that's quite enough thank you. Check up Upton Sinclare's "The Jungle" if you want to get an eye full of unfettered capitalism.
1. China and the USSR were not Communist nations. They were facist dictatorships that borrowed communist rhetoric to justify the horrible things they did.
2. Globalism breaks Capitalism. Adam Smith envisioned a world where capitalists would act responsible because they lived right next to the squalor they create. Capitilism was layed out in an era before global transportation and telecommunications, not to mention before modern militaries eclipsed what a civilian militia could stand up aganst and modern propaganda/populace management techniques existed. These things combined mean a modern capitalist can live detached from the hellhole he creates, pit labor in one country aganst another to lower everyone's standard of living, and use the military and gov't propaganda engines to put down any serious challenge to his power.
3. The US became the most powerful country because we're on a continent with two really weak countries at either end. We have no serious rivals, and could prosper as such. While the rest of the world was reeling from WWII, we just kept on growing. It has nothing to do with Capitalism and everything to do with Geography and dumb luck.
or what not is it going to be a problem for older (i.e. taller) gamers? My bro got that Jedi Traing Ball tv game for X-Mas (huge starwars fan) and he can't really play it because it's calibrated for kids, and he just doesn't fit into it's field of vision.
do you work for EA or something? At any rate, Penny Arcade's response is certainly luke warm at best. No campaign multi-player co-op you see. Hell, I'm more excited about God of War and GT 4 hitting greatest hits then Ghost Recon:AW. I guess it is hard to imagine someone with a 360 without it though, there just isn't that much out right now. The EA sports games in particular disappointed me what with their shacky framerate. I haven't been impressed with a sports game since Sega's first Dreamcast NBA game. Well, I guess there was Fight Night Round 2.
I don't know, I was kinda hoping for more from the 360 launch. Not that I expect miricles, but I miss those little touches in launch titles where you can see the programers playing with the new hardware. Like the big sprites in Revenge of Shinobi or transparecies in Super Mario World or the water effects in Dark Cloud. I Didn't see a lot of that on the 360. Just higher res and more polygons. King Kong was pretty amazing, but not any better (or worse) than the PC version.
there's a pattern that, if followed, will allow you to clear every board. It's pretty complicated too, I couldn't imagine committing it to memory, but then again I choke on the Tekken 5 movelist so...
is playing video games instead of the usual 'Family fun' with the wife and kids. i.e. "Sure Honey, lets spend the evening together as a family... Power Leveling in WoW!". Plus it's a great way to talk the missus into letting you drop 8 grand on high end computers for the entire house or 4 grand on a home theatre + game console.
since ebay has a patent on holding auctions online. You can't compete with someone who has a gov't supplied monopoly, since you're paying them to 'compete'.
going back and playing old Genesis games the graphics aren't as unrecognizable as the 2600/intellivision era stuff. Even 10+ year old games like Mega Turrican, Granada and Wizard of Wor hold up pretty well. Some later stuff like Maximum Carnage and the Sonic Series look better then a lot of games out today. There were some rough edges when 3D graphics first hit (early PSX and Saturn titles are nearly as laughable as 2600 games), but by the Dreamcast's era that wasn't much of an issue. Sad to say, but the era of firing up a videogame and not having a flying f*** what's going on has passed.
the ps2 still won't play dvd-R's right because Sony's behind +R, for years their portable "mp3" players only played ATRAK and included conversion software and they're cameras (and psp) need an expensive memory stick instead of cheap flash. It's just how they do business.
He's undeserving because he does not act in a manner befitting the power and wealth society entrusts in him. When you reach a certain level of wealth it ceases to be material goods and becomes raw power. Bloomberg has reached that stage. In a functional capitalist society those entrusted with such power are responsible and even-handed. In America they fire people for 5 minutes of solitare.
There's plenty of customers who are furious Microsoft isn't providing antivirus software. For them this is the fix. They think mechanically, and don't understand that computers shouldn't need fixing unless the hardware takes a dive. To them, this is maintence that ought to be provided by the manufacture. And besides, there's plenty of viruses that can't be stoped by good security (iloveyou.jpg.exe).
That said, Norton, McCafee, AVG, et. al. can kiss their collective butts good by. It's one thing if they had products Microsoft couldnt' compete with (ala Quicken), but last I check Microsoft Antispyware was one of the beter ones out there.
Real Transparency! But who's providing the hardware accel? This is still kinda sticky, right now your choices boil down to nvidia's closed source driver (not that I have a problem with that), ATI's bug fest (sorry, but it's true), or a really old Radeon. Oh yeah, while I'm idly wondering, what are the odds of this making it into mainstream desktops ( stock gnome/kde )?
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I remember the GURPs supers book calling the SuperHeros 'Metahumans' becaues Marvel/DC threatened to sue. It sucked rocks then, and it sucks rocks now. It's ridiculous, a trademark identiifies a business. Marvel's a trade mark, so is DC. I don't know of any company called 'SuperHero'. Shit, why not let them patent it while your at it so the next time someguy flys around in tights they can sue.
that makes it more user friendly in my book. Slack, Vanilla Debian, Knoppix harddisk all choked on it. I didn't want the hassle of Fedora (custom packages and all that). I'm still a slackware user myself, but for my friends box, when he wanted linux, Unbuntu was the only thing that didn't screw up his 8500. And I'm talking about 2d accel (dvds and video clips), 3D wasn't even an issue.
Now if something can just be done about the mess that is multichannel audio in linux (and pcs in general frankly), I'll be one happy camper.
and isn't it great the way the profit motive works? There's tons of crap like this in the PC world. You can't buy an inkjet with easily (and properly) refillable cartridges, and the American counterparts print half as many pages before dying. There's little or no innovation in midrage ($100-$200) soundcards since too much too fast might kill the market for next years upgrades. And noone wants to sell you a decent video card for less than $200 dollars ever since 3dfx bought the farm. I'm sure you could find this crap going on outside the technology sector ( I hear it's a major problem in the drug industry ). I say get the gov't involved in combating this. Sure they'll muck things up pretty bad, but the way I see it the corps are screwing us all so bad hamstringing them a little couldn't hurt. Christ, at least put a stop the the landfill expanding nightmare that is inkjet printers.
it'd be nice to see what the dev team could have done after Katamari beyond sequals.
Windows 2k is a vast improvement over NT 4, and XP is an improvement over 2k (albeit a marginal one, but still an improvement). I don't deal with servers, but 2k3 is suppose to be a pretty large step up from XP. No, Microsoft isn't going to fix everything at once. They'd spend a ton of money doing it and kill the upgrade market in the process. What they're hoping now is to kill the hobbiest and upgrade market, and make everyone go to OEMs for their hardware, while moving everyone to a subscription model for software. That way your constantly paying for software meanwhile the hardware to run the old stuff is off the market.
if a right can vary by culture, then it's not fundamental. By definition a fundamental right is one that applies across cultural boundries. You can argue that there are no fundamental rights if you like, but you can't argue that they vary from one country to the next. That's a non-sequitor.
seriously, console manufacturers design with long term cost cuts in mind these days. Sony and MS will hit the hardcore up for whatever they can and then gradually drop the price, subsidising losses with software and accessory sales.
any script that could make it easy to get those installed (and maybe warn you if you're missing/have extra kernel modules) would be worth it's weight in gold. Even the oss ones are a bit of a pain if you compile your own kernel ( remembering the right mix of modules to get it all working).
what he means to says is profits. For a well designed computer the software and support is pretty cheap. Networking? Last I checked a chunch of removable media in the mail still had more bandwidth than any broadband you care to name, and that's dirt cheap. OTOH, providing software in need of constant upgrades and support and fun but uncecessary networking services is prtty damn profitable. I guess if gobs of money's my aim, I'd be selling cheap wintel boxen too.
1. China and the USSR where dictatorships. You can make that comment about following the same path about any society. We can't all murder or rob each other. Your confusing the way a society governs itself (dictatorship, democracy, oligarchy, theocracy, etc) with how it allocates it's limited resources (Capitalism, Socialism, Comunnism, etc). There's some overlap, so it's an easy enough mistake to make, but ultimately they're different things. A society can be Democratic and Socialist, the USSR and China are neither.
2. That's a non sequitur. You seem to be implying that a theory, even one with imperical evidence backing it up, is inherently worthless. What evidence that Socialism works we do have looks pretty good (Canada's doing fine, so's France, they've got problems but then, who doesn't?). What evidence we have about Global Capitalism (that's really what we're talking about when we say 'Globalism') shows that Capital flows whereever labor is cheapest, keeping wages and standards of living down while a few grow stronger and use brutality and power to protect themselves (Mexico's a prime example, as is most of China. India's growth is slowing as wages rise and work moves to Malaysia).
3. The US is the closest to the Ideal we've got right now, and that's quite enough thank you. Check up Upton Sinclare's "The Jungle" if you want to get an eye full of unfettered capitalism.
1. China and the USSR were not Communist nations. They were facist dictatorships that borrowed communist rhetoric to justify the horrible things they did.
2. Globalism breaks Capitalism. Adam Smith envisioned a world where capitalists would act responsible because they lived right next to the squalor they create. Capitilism was layed out in an era before global transportation and telecommunications, not to mention before modern militaries eclipsed what a civilian militia could stand up aganst and modern propaganda/populace management techniques existed. These things combined mean a modern capitalist can live detached from the hellhole he creates, pit labor in one country aganst another to lower everyone's standard of living, and use the military and gov't propaganda engines to put down any serious challenge to his power.
3. The US became the most powerful country because we're on a continent with two really weak countries at either end. We have no serious rivals, and could prosper as such. While the rest of the world was reeling from WWII, we just kept on growing. It has nothing to do with Capitalism and everything to do with Geography and dumb luck.
or what not is it going to be a problem for older (i.e. taller) gamers? My bro got that Jedi Traing Ball tv game for X-Mas (huge starwars fan) and he can't really play it because it's calibrated for kids, and he just doesn't fit into it's field of vision.
do you work for EA or something? At any rate, Penny Arcade's response is certainly luke warm at best. No campaign multi-player co-op you see. Hell, I'm more excited about God of War and GT 4 hitting greatest hits then Ghost Recon:AW. I guess it is hard to imagine someone with a 360 without it though, there just isn't that much out right now. The EA sports games in particular disappointed me what with their shacky framerate. I haven't been impressed with a sports game since Sega's first Dreamcast NBA game. Well, I guess there was Fight Night Round 2.
I don't know, I was kinda hoping for more from the 360 launch. Not that I expect miricles, but I miss those little touches in launch titles where you can see the programers playing with the new hardware. Like the big sprites in Revenge of Shinobi or transparecies in Super Mario World or the water effects in Dark Cloud. I Didn't see a lot of that on the 360. Just higher res and more polygons. King Kong was pretty amazing, but not any better (or worse) than the PC version.
there's a pattern that, if followed, will allow you to clear every board. It's pretty complicated too, I couldn't imagine committing it to memory, but then again I choke on the Tekken 5 movelist so...
is playing video games instead of the usual 'Family fun' with the wife and kids. i.e. "Sure Honey, lets spend the evening together as a family... Power Leveling in WoW!". Plus it's a great way to talk the missus into letting you drop 8 grand on high end computers for the entire house or 4 grand on a home theatre + game console.
is in case his town is visited by an evil Circus.
GTL (Grand theft Llama), Llama: Combat Evolved, Virtua Llama, and who can forget Super Llama Bros. 64? This list goes on and on.
since ebay has a patent on holding auctions online. You can't compete with someone who has a gov't supplied monopoly, since you're paying them to 'compete'.
Fuck fuck shit. Shit damn crap fuck shit. Fuck shit, shit fuck crap damn. Damn fuck fuck shit fuck. So in conclusion, fuck shit damn fuck.
you spelled 'intarweb' right both times.
going back and playing old Genesis games the graphics aren't as unrecognizable as the 2600/intellivision era stuff. Even 10+ year old games like Mega Turrican, Granada and Wizard of Wor hold up pretty well. Some later stuff like Maximum Carnage and the Sonic Series look better then a lot of games out today. There were some rough edges when 3D graphics first hit (early PSX and Saturn titles are nearly as laughable as 2600 games), but by the Dreamcast's era that wasn't much of an issue. Sad to say, but the era of firing up a videogame and not having a flying f*** what's going on has passed.
the ps2 still won't play dvd-R's right because Sony's behind +R, for years their portable "mp3" players only played ATRAK and included conversion software and they're cameras (and psp) need an expensive memory stick instead of cheap flash. It's just how they do business.
He's undeserving because he does not act in a manner befitting the power and wealth society entrusts in him. When you reach a certain level of wealth it ceases to be material goods and becomes raw power. Bloomberg has reached that stage. In a functional capitalist society those entrusted with such power are responsible and even-handed. In America they fire people for 5 minutes of solitare.
There's plenty of customers who are furious Microsoft isn't providing antivirus software. For them this is the fix. They think mechanically, and don't understand that computers shouldn't need fixing unless the hardware takes a dive. To them, this is maintence that ought to be provided by the manufacture. And besides, there's plenty of viruses that can't be stoped by good security (iloveyou.jpg.exe).
That said, Norton, McCafee, AVG, et. al. can kiss their collective butts good by. It's one thing if they had products Microsoft couldnt' compete with (ala Quicken), but last I check Microsoft Antispyware was one of the beter ones out there.
Real Transparency! But who's providing the hardware accel? This is still kinda sticky, right now your choices boil down to nvidia's closed source driver (not that I have a problem with that), ATI's bug fest (sorry, but it's true), or a really old Radeon. Oh yeah, while I'm idly wondering, what are the odds of this making it into mainstream desktops ( stock gnome/kde )?