People always admire a success more than a dismal failure.
Except the contrarians. Who publish books about what a genius 'Tesla' was, books that then end up on the remainder shelf at Barnes and Noble, failures, just like the man they commemorate.
Tesla slowly devolved into a nut as time went on. It's no coincidence that the nuts all flock around him to make him their hero.
Well, if you're going to call a dead-end technology which wasn't even electric 'television' I guess then we should credit Edison and the pioneers of film-based motion pictures. That is just as relevant to what modern television became.
But, really, this is about throwing up a parody of 'The Ugly American' to hurl insults at, isn't it, now?
Actually, by dropping in the word 'books' you just proved that the statement isn't meaningless. There are far more worthwhile books, and far less sludge content, that television.
I'd estimate that 10% of books are worth reading, and less than 1% of television programming is worth the electricity to transmit it.
Thank goodness television goes away much faster than books do.
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Physical property is also an artificial construct.
I 'own' this land because of this chunk of paper from the government that says I own it.
And it's the same sort of sophistry to claim 'intellectual propery' is an artificial construct as it is you to show up and claim my property.
Not that people like you will ever stop carrying on about it....
Sorry. None of those Free Software products qualify for the kind of commercial use that companies license $50,000 per seat per year EDA software to perform.
It's really really cool that all that stuff is out there, I even use some of it. It's nowhere near the level of robustness or power as the big commercial UNIX EDA tools. Hell, gEDA isn't even as good as the cheap Pee-Cee tools like Protel.
Getting rid of binary attachments on Usenet wouldn't be that horrible a thing to anybody who actually uses Usenet for what it was intended, verbal discussions in text.
Contrary to popular belief, Usenet is still a good place for discussion and learning, in many of the newsgroups.
(I know, Slashbots wouldn't get their banner advertising on Usenet- you all can use Google/Deja if you insist on clinging to your little 'Web' thing.)
Maybe when somebody runs over one of your children, or a cherished pet, because he was driving through your neighborhood at an unsafe speed, you will start to feel that speeding is wrong.
Well, Harry Potter is a worse choice, because it is even less of a work of Science Fiction than Gaiman's book.
I read the Sandman comics, when they were coming out. It's good work, though I think Gaiman now suffers from a little bit of 'genre literary chic' (you know, being so associated with those smarmy 'masquerade' sorts who hang out at Cons.)
It deserved a Hugo IMO even though it is *not* SF in the classical sense.
Why does it deserve the Hugo, then?
That's a little bit like saying 'it wasn't a cat, in fact, it was a dog, but it deserved the first prize at the cat show, because it was so beautiful.'
ProComm 2.4.2 ruled. But the newer commercial versions of ProComm (i.e. ProComm Plus) were evil. But Telemate had come along by then and it kicked ProComm butt.
I think he means: during the short window in time after the old venereal diseases were 'cured' and the new venereal disaease (AIDS) came on the scene.
There really is only a narrow slice of time in which having anonymous promiscuous sex was perceived as 'safe.' Before then, there were fatal venereal diseases like syphilis, and lots of other non-venereal diseases that were fatal one could catch by hanging out in a bathhouse.
There's this revisionist history thing going on, where people claim that AIDS is a 'new phenomenon, a disease unlike anything humankind has experienced in the past' which is a lot of nonsense. Many, many people died of sexually transmitted diseases before modern antibiotics.
There's a reason most people are monogamous, and it's not just superstition.
One thing Americans never tolerate well is the Government passing laws to mandate they behave in a certain way.
Maybe the government should pass laws limiting the use of computers. They use a lot of energy too. Do you really need that computer? Here, fill out Form 13-293B and let the Assessment Board make that determination...
You repeated 4) twice. Also, add this one, after correcting your second number 4:
6) There's this carbeurator a guy came up with that will run a gas engine on plain water. But, you see, the evil corporation$ bought the patent and hid it all away.
SUVs aren't popular just because they're marketed in some fashion or other. People. Like. Big. Cars.
If you're going to say it's wrong for people to like big cars, fine. But be honest and realistic. People aren't fooled into buying SUVs because of a marketing campaign.
He has never had to change the battery pack. As far as he knows, no owner has.
How long has he owned it? How long have any people using the same generation of vehicle owned them? The battery pack will have to be replaced eventually.
The sad truth of the matter is, there is a serious deficiency in good RF design engineers. It just isn't being taught well. It's much more complicated than cookie-cutter digital design work.
So, what you're saying is if you consult a list and choose to test only games that someone has said have run on WineX successfully before, you'll have a better than 50/50 chance that they will run?
How much better than a 50/50 chance? I'd hope a lot better, but you didn't indicate.
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People always admire a success more than a dismal failure.
Except the contrarians. Who publish books about what a genius 'Tesla' was, books that then end up on the remainder shelf at Barnes and Noble, failures, just like the man they commemorate.
Tesla slowly devolved into a nut as time went on. It's no coincidence that the nuts all flock around him to make him their hero.
Well, if you're going to call a dead-end technology which wasn't even electric 'television' I guess then we should credit Edison and the pioneers of film-based motion pictures. That is just as relevant to what modern television became.
But, really, this is about throwing up a parody of 'The Ugly American' to hurl insults at, isn't it, now?
Actually, by dropping in the word 'books' you just proved that the statement isn't meaningless. There are far more worthwhile books, and far less sludge content, that television.
I'd estimate that 10% of books are worth reading, and less than 1% of television programming is worth the electricity to transmit it.
Thank goodness television goes away much faster than books do.
Physical property is also an artificial construct.
I 'own' this land because of this chunk of paper from the government that says I own it.
And it's the same sort of sophistry to claim 'intellectual propery' is an artificial construct as it is you to show up and claim my property.
Not that people like you will ever stop carrying on about it....
Sorry. None of those Free Software products qualify for the kind of commercial use that companies license $50,000 per seat per year EDA software to perform.
It's really really cool that all that stuff is out there, I even use some of it. It's nowhere near the level of robustness or power as the big commercial UNIX EDA tools. Hell, gEDA isn't even as good as the cheap Pee-Cee tools like Protel.
OS X does NOT classify as 'a BSD.'
Bolting a Corvette muffler into your Camaro doesn't make it a 'vette, either.
Sorry. I know it's one of the main points in the marketing FAX from Apple, but no cookie.
He was using DMCA as shorthand, not meaning the specific law. DMCA means 'the bogeyman' here on Slashdot. Didn't you know?
You've just got a better rendering engine than a lot of the mush brains who read less than one book a year.
We don't need to shut down Usenet.
Getting rid of binary attachments on Usenet wouldn't be that horrible a thing to anybody who actually uses Usenet for what it was intended, verbal discussions in text.
Contrary to popular belief, Usenet is still a good place for discussion and learning, in many of the newsgroups.
(I know, Slashbots wouldn't get their banner advertising on Usenet- you all can use Google/Deja if you insist on clinging to your little 'Web' thing.)
That does not mean that people who like Science Fiction, and view 'Fantasy' as an intrusion, have to like it, or approve.
'Speculative fiction' is redundant.
All fiction is speculative.
Because for Science Fiction fans, it's always a travesty when the award is given to a work of flounce-fiction rather than SF.
It doesn't really matter if it was deliberately leaked. The trafficing is illegal, no matter how the content got out into the wild.
How it 'escaped' is a seperate matter, to be dealt with seperately.
Maybe when somebody runs over one of your children, or a cherished pet, because he was driving through your neighborhood at an unsafe speed, you will start to feel that speeding is wrong.
Well, Harry Potter is a worse choice, because it is even less of a work of Science Fiction than Gaiman's book.
I read the Sandman comics, when they were coming out. It's good work, though I think Gaiman now suffers from a little bit of 'genre literary chic' (you know, being so associated with those smarmy 'masquerade' sorts who hang out at Cons.)
His current work isn't as good.
It deserved a Hugo IMO even though it is *not* SF in the classical sense.
Why does it deserve the Hugo, then?
That's a little bit like saying 'it wasn't a cat, in fact, it was a dog, but it deserved the first prize at the cat show, because it was so beautiful.'
ProComm 2.4.2 ruled. But the newer commercial versions of ProComm (i.e. ProComm Plus) were evil. But Telemate had come along by then and it kicked ProComm butt.
I think he means: during the short window in time after the old venereal diseases were 'cured' and the new venereal disaease (AIDS) came on the scene.
There really is only a narrow slice of time in which having anonymous promiscuous sex was perceived as 'safe.' Before then, there were fatal venereal diseases like syphilis, and lots of other non-venereal diseases that were fatal one could catch by hanging out in a bathhouse.
There's this revisionist history thing going on, where people claim that AIDS is a 'new phenomenon, a disease unlike anything humankind has experienced in the past' which is a lot of nonsense. Many, many people died of sexually transmitted diseases before modern antibiotics.
There's a reason most people are monogamous, and it's not just superstition.
One thing Americans never tolerate well is the Government passing laws to mandate they behave in a certain way.
Maybe the government should pass laws limiting the use of computers. They use a lot of energy too. Do you really need that computer? Here, fill out Form 13-293B and let the Assessment Board make that determination...
I'm going to clue you in on a secret:
SUVs aren't popular just because they're marketed in some fashion or other. People. Like. Big. Cars.
If you're going to say it's wrong for people to like big cars, fine. But be honest and realistic. People aren't fooled into buying SUVs because of a marketing campaign.
He has never had to change the battery pack. As far as he knows, no owner has.
How long has he owned it? How long have any people using the same generation of vehicle owned them? The battery pack will have to be replaced eventually.
The sad truth of the matter is, there is a serious deficiency in good RF design engineers. It just isn't being taught well. It's much more complicated than cookie-cutter digital design work.
So, what you're saying is if you consult a list and choose to test only games that someone has said have run on WineX successfully before, you'll have a better than 50/50 chance that they will run?
How much better than a 50/50 chance? I'd hope a lot better, but you didn't indicate.
It happens that I am in the business of selling corporate Open Source policy and practices,
Somebody I know was recently hassled by a telemarketer trying to sell her aluminum siding for her house.
She told the salesman: "But our house is made of brick!"
The salesman answere: "We can put aluminium siding on a brick building....."
So post your Slashdot password, dude.
Also include a copy of your SSN, your mother's maiden name, your home and work phone numbers. Include the names and ages of your children, please.
"The issue here is the free and frank and convenient exchange of knowledge, including knowledge that you don't want people to have."