I wasn't exactly popular, and in fact was a pretty big-time nerd. However I still picked on the kids 'nerdier' than me because I was too immature and insecure and just plain ignorant to know what I was doing was the same exact thing that all the 'cool' people were doing to me.
That's it. Not missing out on 'prom night', not missing out on beer and sex and all that (which came in the dozens later). The only thing I look back on and regret are the few times when I snapped and put down people who I felt were even 'lower' than me. God, I hope they are kicking ass out in the real world and I hope they don't give me a second thought.
Is it just me of does 'musicmix' scream out 'double standard'? Unless users of the product are having to pay the same bogus "internet radio" fees to which all net broadcasters are subject?
... but seeing as how most of my SPAM is from out of the country... oh well. This is a good start to get American business SPAM out of my inbox, I'll have to rely on procmail and SpamAssassin for the rest of it, I guess.
As soon as Ain't It Cool Games really gets off the ground, I'll be able to finally stop visiting IGN at all.
So far there's only one GameCube review... but soon hopefully I'll be able to get my fix of GameCube news without having to wade through the ads at IGN.
In the future, before you get sanctimonious on the original poster, and start calling others theives, it would probably be a good idea to make sure you're clear on the facts.
Um... the person to whom you were responding WAS the original poster, unless/. is rendering things very strangely tonight.
The TV show "The Incredible Hulk" was fantastic, not because of all kinds of crazy special effects, of the Hulk throwing TANKS around like discarded toys -- the trailer I just saw makes me not want to bother seeing this film at all.
They should definitely have found a new Lou Ferigno instead.
In other news, anyone catch any of Lou's cameo's on "King of Queens" lately?
The windows/sfu URL links to this site with a link labeled "GPL Source" or something like that.
Well, the Interop Store will sell you a CD containing the source code... for $20!
First, props to MS for putting the source code out there, available even to those who have not purchased the binary software.
But second, $20? This seems to fail section 3b of the GPL:
... for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange...
$20 is pretty high for the cost of physically performing source distribution, isn't it? Unless when you buy the "regular" version of the software and it comes with the source code on the CD, of which there is no mention that I can see... this seems pretty fishy to me.
IBM (and others) is exerting a lot of pressure upon Sun to more fully "open" Java. At least Java has the community process (JSR, etc) for new features and so on, as well as more than one development kit vendor.
The notiont of communism attracts powerhungry people because they have seen the way in which socialist or totalitarian states have applied communism to enslave the people.
There has not been a single communist country in the modern era, so how would you know if it only attracts naive and powerhungry people?
Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people Living for today... Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too, Imagine all the people Living life in peace... Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people Sharing all the world... You may say Im a dreamer, But Im not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will live as one.
People who think they know what communism is about tick me off. It is completely about openness and free choice.
Communism isn't BAD -- powerhungry people are BAD.
I enjoyed his take on the Arthurian legends. The style is lyrical and mystic, and thoroughly enjoyable.
1. The Dragon and the Unicorn (1994) 2. The Eagle and the Sword (1997) 3. The Wolf and the Crown (1998) 4. The Serpent and the Grail (1999)
I wish he would continue the story. A A Attanasio Bibliography. I picked up "The Dragon and the Unicorn" in a grocery store check-out line of all places. It sat unread for a couple of years, and then much like you I started hunting for things to read. After reading the book, I immediately went to the local bookstore and bought the series, one after the other.
Damn that's a great idea. I usually don't go to the extra effort. When an original CD gets hosed, I call up friends and get a copy. Hey, since I don't "own" the music, I only "own" a license to listen to it, right?
1. buy CD 2. take off plastic wrapper 3. peel off sticky thing on the top of CD 4. take out CD 5. put CD in PC 6. rip CD to OGG 7. take out CD 8. put CD back in case 9. put case in cabinet and forget it is there
what would the budget increase have been for him had he gone with a commercial embedded OS, like Windows CE, etc? being able to use GRUB, Linux, Perl, etc, is one of the primary things which got his project off the ground (ha ha ha).
This is another principal reason why the 'Bono Act' should have been struck down by the courts. How in the world can a copyright extension law which acts retroactively possibly fall under the powers granted to 'promote the progress of science and useful arts'. How does extending existing copyrights promote the creation of that art, some 70+ years ago?
One very overlooked part of that clause, 'science and useful arts', gets far less attention that I think it should. I'm not sure how 'Mickey Mouse', Britney Spears, etc, are 'useful arts' or 'science'.
Well, the difficulty bar is raised a bit from the 'bar code'. It seems reasonably more difficult to both (1) secure an object with a clear figerprint of mine and (2) use said fingerprint to etch a 3D image onto some PCB board than to (1) use a photocopier or camera/printer to copy a bar code.
That insecurity is indeed real. Although those systems which were compromised were single-finger systems, and my system uses 3 as well as hand shape. Being able to get 3 clear fingerprints and mimic hand shape is more difficult than simply picking the lock, anyway, so your efforts would be better served in investing a a few dollars worth of decent lock-picking tools instead of a set of hobbyist PCB boards and etchers.
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Indeed a cool idea. I would add that the holder of a 'key' should definitely keep it in a sleeve, though, lest high-res photography would allow for a duplicate key to be easily created.
The 'sending a JPG' to the baby-sitter starts out as a very neat idea, but what happens when baby-sitter has a popular e-mail virus which sends her e-mail to 100 people in her address book? Instant house party? Naturally they would only have the same access time slice as the baby-sitter, but they could just wait until after he/she is alone in the house and walk on in.
but without the major hassles (specialized equipment to punch holes or re-stripe a card)
It also means any Joe with a printer can make themselves a valid access card. I thought for quite a while about putting a similar setup at my house, but I decided instead to go with an extremely similar method, except instead of bar-codes I use hand prints. A lot of the advantages (time slices for the maid and sitters) without being able to be so easily produced (until advanced cloning techniques allow people to commonly grow copies of my hand).
And w.r.t. the people who keep asking about 'power outages' for (1) ever heard of generators of batteries and (2) naturally a physical key still works in the lock, duh!
I still prefer getting out my old NES and playing RBI baseball when I want to play a "fun" baseball game. Somewhere along the lines of making it look more realistic and play more realistic, the people making baseball games lost track of simply making it FUN.
Same for the original SEGA NHL Hockey game, although Sega NHL 2K3 for GameCube is a pretty damned fun hockey game, for the first time in like 10 years.
I'm not saying that adding realism and good graphics isn't a good thing. But in general, it seems like game designers add those features to the detriment of actual gameplay.
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1. Not beating the crap out of people who pushed me around
I think in all honesty you would regret beating people up even more.
5. Going to the shittiest school district in central Texas (Del Valle - may you rot in peace...)
Not much you can do about that, so why regret?
I wasn't exactly popular, and in fact was a pretty big-time nerd. However I still picked on the kids 'nerdier' than me because I was too immature and insecure and just plain ignorant to know what I was doing was the same exact thing that all the 'cool' people were doing to me.
That's it. Not missing out on 'prom night', not missing out on beer and sex and all that (which came in the dozens later). The only thing I look back on and regret are the few times when I snapped and put down people who I felt were even 'lower' than me. God, I hope they are kicking ass out in the real world and I hope they don't give me a second thought.
Is it just me of does 'musicmix' scream out 'double standard'? Unless users of the product are having to pay the same bogus "internet radio" fees to which all net broadcasters are subject?
may Johnny, and that joke, RIP...
what, you want MORE of the jobs going to India?
... but seeing as how most of my SPAM is from out of the country... oh well. This is a good start to get American business SPAM out of my inbox, I'll have to rely on procmail and SpamAssassin for the rest of it, I guess.
As soon as Ain't It Cool Games really gets off the ground, I'll be able to finally stop visiting IGN at all.
So far there's only one GameCube review... but soon hopefully I'll be able to get my fix of GameCube news without having to wade through the ads at IGN.
In the future, before you get sanctimonious on the original poster, and start calling others theives, it would probably be a good idea to make sure you're clear on the facts.
/. is rendering things very strangely tonight.
Um... the person to whom you were responding WAS the original poster, unless
The TV show "The Incredible Hulk" was fantastic, not because of all kinds of crazy special effects, of the Hulk throwing TANKS around like discarded toys -- the trailer I just saw makes me not want to bother seeing this film at all.
They should definitely have found a new Lou Ferigno instead.
In other news, anyone catch any of Lou's cameo's on "King of Queens" lately?
Well, the Interop Store will sell you a CD containing the source code... for $20!
First, props to MS for putting the source code out there, available even to those who have not purchased the binary software.
But second, $20? This seems to fail section 3b of the GPL:
$20 is pretty high for the cost of physically performing source distribution, isn't it? Unless when you buy the "regular" version of the software and it comes with the source code on the CD, of which there is no mention that I can see... this seems pretty fishy to me.
IBM (and others) is exerting a lot of pressure upon Sun to more fully "open" Java. At least Java has the community process (JSR, etc) for new features and so on, as well as more than one development kit vendor.
He's going to Berkeley, numb-nuts. Virginity isn't a problem. :)
There has not been a single communist country in the modern era, so how would you know if it only attracts naive and powerhungry people?
People who think they know what communism is about tick me off. It is completely about openness and free choice.
Communism isn't BAD -- powerhungry people are BAD.
I enjoyed his take on the Arthurian legends. The style is lyrical and mystic, and thoroughly enjoyable.
1. The Dragon and the Unicorn (1994)
2. The Eagle and the Sword (1997)
3. The Wolf and the Crown (1998)
4. The Serpent and the Grail (1999)
I wish he would continue the story. A A Attanasio Bibliography. I picked up "The Dragon and the Unicorn" in a grocery store check-out line of all places. It sat unread for a couple of years, and then much like you I started hunting for things to read. After reading the book, I immediately went to the local bookstore and bought the series, one after the other.
This is a sensible idea. Mod parent up.
Damn that's a great idea. I usually don't go to the extra effort. When an original CD gets hosed, I call up friends and get a copy. Hey, since I don't "own" the music, I only "own" a license to listen to it, right?
The world == several billion people.
95% of the world would be several billion people.
There are not several billion people running Windows. There are not even a billion people running Windows.
There are not even a billion people with computers.
1. buy CD
2. take off plastic wrapper
3. peel off sticky thing on the top of CD
4. take out CD
5. put CD in PC
6. rip CD to OGG
7. take out CD
8. put CD back in case
9. put case in cabinet and forget it is there
what would the budget increase have been for him had he gone with a commercial embedded OS, like Windows CE, etc? being able to use GRUB, Linux, Perl, etc, is one of the primary things which got his project off the ground (ha ha ha).
This is another principal reason why the 'Bono Act' should have been struck down by the courts. How in the world can a copyright extension law which acts retroactively possibly fall under the powers granted to 'promote the progress of science and useful arts'. How does extending existing copyrights promote the creation of that art, some 70+ years ago?
One very overlooked part of that clause, 'science and useful arts', gets far less attention that I think it should. I'm not sure how 'Mickey Mouse', Britney Spears, etc, are 'useful arts' or 'science'.
word up. ditto Hercules, Hans Christian Anderson, Aesop, etc, etc.
I don't think so, I think the editor simply has no idea what 'upshot' means. He probably meant to use a fancy word for 'summary'.
Well, the difficulty bar is raised a bit from the 'bar code'. It seems reasonably more difficult to both (1) secure an object with a clear figerprint of mine and (2) use said fingerprint to etch a 3D image onto some PCB board than to (1) use a photocopier or camera/printer to copy a bar code.
That insecurity is indeed real. Although those systems which were compromised were single-finger systems, and my system uses 3 as well as hand shape. Being able to get 3 clear fingerprints and mimic hand shape is more difficult than simply picking the lock, anyway, so your efforts would be better served in investing a a few dollars worth of decent lock-picking tools instead of a set of hobbyist PCB boards and etchers.
Indeed a cool idea. I would add that the holder of a 'key' should definitely keep it in a sleeve, though, lest high-res photography would allow for a duplicate key to be easily created.
The 'sending a JPG' to the baby-sitter starts out as a very neat idea, but what happens when baby-sitter has a popular e-mail virus which sends her e-mail to 100 people in her address book? Instant house party? Naturally they would only have the same access time slice as the baby-sitter, but they could just wait until after he/she is alone in the house and walk on in.
but without the major hassles (specialized equipment to punch holes or re-stripe a card)
It also means any Joe with a printer can make themselves a valid access card. I thought for quite a while about putting a similar setup at my house, but I decided instead to go with an extremely similar method, except instead of bar-codes I use hand prints. A lot of the advantages (time slices for the maid and sitters) without being able to be so easily produced (until advanced cloning techniques allow people to commonly grow copies of my hand).
And w.r.t. the people who keep asking about 'power outages' for (1) ever heard of generators of batteries and (2) naturally a physical key still works in the lock, duh!
I still prefer getting out my old NES and playing RBI baseball when I want to play a "fun" baseball game. Somewhere along the lines of making it look more realistic and play more realistic, the people making baseball games lost track of simply making it FUN.
Same for the original SEGA NHL Hockey game, although Sega NHL 2K3 for GameCube is a pretty damned fun hockey game, for the first time in like 10 years.
I'm not saying that adding realism and good graphics isn't a good thing. But in general, it seems like game designers add those features to the detriment of actual gameplay.