It is my duty to inform everyone that ALYX DIES in Half Life 2: Episode One. It will be felt throughout the gaming community with neverending sadness, as ALYX DIES in HL2: Episode One. That's right, ALYX DIES.
You could argue that this is fraud on Google's part, since these webmasters are deprived of legitimately-earned revenue. Worse, since they're banned for life from the program, in many cases their small businesses will be destroyed. And there is no appeal and no recourse.
Relying on one other business for yours is bad business sense.
Dvorak's accusation does nothing. Nobody with any clout pays attention to Dvorak, because he's a hack, making up shit for attention. That's why you only see this excrement on Slashdot. Slashdot has as much to with journalism as McDonald's does with an honest attempt to promote a healthy lifestyle with its customers.
It's only one virtual world of many and it is not even close to the biggest. To the best of my knowledge, less than 200,000 people have ever signed up to use it.
In the most recent Town Hall, Peter Linden remarked that they've almost hit 1,000,000 signups.
Yep. Let's also not forget that Lieberman, Tipper Gore, and Hillary Clinton are all democrats too, and love to take dumps on first amendment rights when it suits their own "morality". When it comes to politics, no one's guiltless for trampling on our rights. Though I guess others are worse.
Dell makes the majority of their cash from corporate customers, from what I understand. Who actually _do_ care about nitpicky performance differences that Joe Blow Douchebag doesn't care about because he's too busy spilling his budweiser on his keyboard.
If they really cared, they wouldn't be signed to a shit-ass major label in the first place. They can't have their street cred indie underground image and swing for the major league cocksuckers at the same time.
The problem with this is that when cURL or any other decent HTTP library is used, you can fudge the referrers with ease. THINK, friend. CAPTCHAs are flawed.
There's only one flaw with your argument: Your average person has heard of and in all probability has used Windows or OS X. Nobody has heard of Solaris. Most people only know about Java because Windows doesn't include the VM anymore.
They might want to look into the legal implications, since many of the Doom background music pieces are actually note for note copies of real songs. There's a couple by Slayer, Alice in Chains, Pantera, and others I'm sure that no one has noticed.
Well, thank *somebody* for saying it. Mod the parent up...
These side programs are merely the cost of these great free utilities. It used to be that you had to pay $5 and $10 for these little utilities. Now I get a cool password safe and an address book manager, and it just costs me some extra pop-up ads and them wanting to do some market research on me. Boo fucking hoo! That's my choice! The ads show me products I wouldn't have seen otherwise, and it's not like I have anything to hide on my machine. I don't mind if they look around to see what I might enjoy buying! This is America, and hello? We're capitalists?
As I see it, they're doing me a service. It's not like I'm taxing my CPU when I'm not playing a game or working with
non-browser applications. Why not give up some system resources instead of having to
break out PayPal whenever I want a cool new file sharing app? Let me make my own
choices about what goes on my system. Don't presume you get to choose what's good
and bad for me. Aren't you guys supposed to be about software freedom?
Sorry, but I don't see this. I loaded the page earlier and went through all the pictures again just now. I think you are karma trolling or trying to get back at the parent poster for something personal.
Did anyone else bother to check before moderating this guy up?
If Ralsky's email address collection operation includes a bot that sucks down email address from web sites - and doesn't honor robots.txt file entries - the above posting will put Ralsky's lawyer on Ralsky's mailing lists. B-)
Oh no no! Haven't you heard?
Ralsky is an opt-in bulk mailer. *sage nod* Also, I have a flying car.
With Moz and Explorer, all you need to do to defeat the right-click "blocking" pop up dialog is hit escape to dismiss the dialog without having let up on the right mouse button. Let go of the right mouse button afterward, and the menu pops up.
You suggest threatening to contact the Public Utilities Commission about bad cell service.
Can you expand a bit on this? What does the PUC enforce, and how does it apply? I've got AT&T service and it's been pure ass. They haven't delivered on many things promised, and the quality is miserable. I'd like to think I could just break out of the contract and be done with this thing.
Explorer - too many pages require that and/or Windows plugins
PowerDVD with 5.1 output
MAME32
There's no equivalent for Visual Studio. The class browser, inline completion, UML export and integrated dialog tools make creating tools which regular humans can use and normal programmers can extend into a single day's work. The Visual Studio debugger has no equal. It's convoluted, but it does most anything you could ever want.
I know about the crossover plugin, Wine, etc. But I want to sit down and be productive or have fun when I browse the web. I don't want to tinker with little changes and incomplete hacks each time plugins change, and like it or not, it's a Windows web. I browse with Mozilla by default, but it's rare to go a week without having to hit IE half a dozen times.
I don't want to load a client's doc into Star Office and not be able to see some of its components, or to make changes and have it back, only to have them ask what the hell I did to the formatting.
There are a few ports of MAME for Linux, but I don't know of any with the nice, easy menu, comfortable feature set and overall performance.
I've looked at a few DVD player options. I haven't found anything like DVD, and my last venture at getting 5.1 sound under Linux was an utter failure.
I use my Linux and FreeBSD boxes for more and more things every day, but it's mostly server-side work and random data processing tasks. It's just not ready for my desktop.
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It is my duty to inform everyone that ALYX DIES in Half Life 2: Episode One. It will be felt throughout the gaming community with neverending sadness, as ALYX DIES in HL2: Episode One. That's right, ALYX DIES.
Relying on one other business for yours is bad business sense.
Dvorak's accusation does nothing. Nobody with any clout pays attention to Dvorak, because he's a hack, making up shit for attention. That's why you only see this excrement on Slashdot. Slashdot has as much to with journalism as McDonald's does with an honest attempt to promote a healthy lifestyle with its customers.
In the most recent Town Hall, Peter Linden remarked that they've almost hit 1,000,000 signups.
Not to mention 'bleak'.
Yep. Let's also not forget that Lieberman, Tipper Gore, and Hillary Clinton are all democrats too, and love to take dumps on first amendment rights when it suits their own "morality". When it comes to politics, no one's guiltless for trampling on our rights. Though I guess others are worse.
What kind of shitty 23" display do you use analog with?
Sadly safari was based on konquerer so you'd think it would be comparable.
Safari was based on KHTML, the rendering engine, not Konqueror. There's a difference.
Dell makes the majority of their cash from corporate customers, from what I understand. Who actually _do_ care about nitpicky performance differences that Joe Blow Douchebag doesn't care about because he's too busy spilling his budweiser on his keyboard.
Actually, it's a really good business move. In fact, almost perfect. Why are you condemning a business for trying to make money?
If they really cared, they wouldn't be signed to a shit-ass major label in the first place. They can't have their street cred indie underground image and swing for the major league cocksuckers at the same time.
The problem with this is that when cURL or any other decent HTTP library is used, you can fudge the referrers with ease. THINK, friend. CAPTCHAs are flawed.
There's only one flaw with your argument: Your average person has heard of and in all probability has used Windows or OS X. Nobody has heard of Solaris. Most people only know about Java because Windows doesn't include the VM anymore.
They might want to look into the legal implications, since many of the Doom background music pieces are actually note for note copies of real songs. There's a couple by Slayer, Alice in Chains, Pantera, and others I'm sure that no one has noticed.
You're paranoid, delusional, and probably on drugs. Microsoft recognizes the linux fad, which is already fading.
This is really just another fanboy whining that he can't run OS X on a PC. He then made up reasons to support it. Move on...
that's just blogger. the whole thing is a fad.
weblogging.
These side programs are merely the cost of these great free utilities. It used to be that you had to pay $5 and $10 for these little utilities. Now I get a cool password safe and an address book manager, and it just costs me some extra pop-up ads and them wanting to do some market research on me. Boo fucking hoo! That's my choice! The ads show me products I wouldn't have seen otherwise, and it's not like I have anything to hide on my machine. I don't mind if they look around to see what I might enjoy buying! This is America, and hello? We're capitalists?
As I see it, they're doing me a service. It's not like I'm taxing my CPU when I'm not playing a game or working with non-browser applications. Why not give up some system resources instead of having to break out PayPal whenever I want a cool new file sharing app? Let me make my own choices about what goes on my system. Don't presume you get to choose what's good and bad for me. Aren't you guys supposed to be about software freedom?
Did anyone else bother to check before moderating this guy up?
Oh no no! Haven't you heard?
Ralsky is an opt-in bulk mailer. *sage nod* Also, I have a flying car.
With Moz and Explorer, all you need to do to defeat the right-click "blocking" pop up dialog is hit escape to dismiss the dialog without having let up on the right mouse button. Let go of the right mouse button afterward, and the menu pops up.
What's most important in the article above, though, is that it makes Microsoft's stance on interoperability crystal clear.
Can you expand a bit on this? What does the PUC enforce, and how does it apply? I've got AT&T service and it's been pure ass. They haven't delivered on many things promised, and the quality is miserable. I'd like to think I could just break out of the contract and be done with this thing.
There's no equivalent for Visual Studio. The class browser, inline completion, UML export and integrated dialog tools make creating tools which regular humans can use and normal programmers can extend into a single day's work. The Visual Studio debugger has no equal. It's convoluted, but it does most anything you could ever want.
I know about the crossover plugin, Wine, etc. But I want to sit down and be productive or have fun when I browse the web. I don't want to tinker with little changes and incomplete hacks each time plugins change, and like it or not, it's a Windows web. I browse with Mozilla by default, but it's rare to go a week without having to hit IE half a dozen times.
I don't want to load a client's doc into Star Office and not be able to see some of its components, or to make changes and have it back, only to have them ask what the hell I did to the formatting.
There are a few ports of MAME for Linux, but I don't know of any with the nice, easy menu, comfortable feature set and overall performance.
I've looked at a few DVD player options. I haven't found anything like DVD, and my last venture at getting 5.1 sound under Linux was an utter failure.
I use my Linux and FreeBSD boxes for more and more things every day, but it's mostly server-side work and random data processing tasks. It's just not ready for my desktop.