Slashdot certainly got its share of the tin foil hat brigade but this guy takes the cake. He is also a fine example of the living in mothers basement type since anyone ever having been in a protest gone wrong would know that merely being unbalanced would be peanuts compared to getting a face full of teargass.
What half the posters seem to be missing is that he has been helped out. He got into trouble and they gave him shelter, food and a way back home and they even allow him to take his plane home.
What more could you expect? They are not an airfield or refuel station. Say I am climbing in the alps and get stranded. Can I then ask the rescue chopper to fly me to the top of the hill or drop me off at my hotel? Of course not. I get rescued. That is it. Nothing more nothing less. Rescue services are not cabs, hotels or supply stations.
Yes okay but the complaint by the people here is that the RAF doesn't take the idiots back to base refit their climbing equipment and then put them back refreshed and warmed up to continue their trip.
The RAF just bring you back to base or hospital and then you can pay for your own bloody cab back to your hotel. Oh and that really expensive backpack? Well maybe they take it with them but don't count on it.
Same with the coast guard. They pick up the sailors. Towing the boat back to harbor is rarely done by the rescuers.
The goverments on the world have agreed to keep antartica as clean and undisturbed as possible. They ship the shit of the people there out instead of just digging a hole in the ice.
They don't want people to come there. It is not banned but they really don't like people to visit. You can go in but if you want to spend the night you gotta bring your own tent. Ask Michael Palin about his trip "Pole to Pole".
They don't sell or give him the fuel because they are not a fuel station. They rescued him. Gave him shelter and food and that is all they have to do and anyone with a brain can expect them to do.
By your logic embassy's should give tourists bed and breakfast and US aircarriers should allow civilian pilots to land for a refuel. Not the way the real world works. Ask the armie in say Switzerland how they feel about constantly having to bail out stupid tourists.
Yes they have the fuel but they are keeping it. He can just take the first flight home and try again. Stop whining.
I am playing through Deus Ex Invisible war right now. First off IT IS NOT A BAD GAME.
Second. It blows. I am sorry but this game makes me hate console owners. If right now one would walk up to me he would get a full can of coke in his face. Unopened.
The game has been dumbed down. The simplest example is the quick save. It is an Unreal game. YET THERE IS NO QUICK SAVE. Plenty of other factors are dumbed down as well. Only 1 supply of ammo meaning that there is no longer falling back on a wimpy pistol after you machine gunned down the guards at the front. Flame throwers, rocket launchers, guns and stun battons all use the same ammo supply. Don't even get me started on the inventory or the hud. It is clearly made for the x-box controler. Not the pc.
Play the game by all means. As said it is not bad but it is no Deus Ex 2. Read the forums.
Thief 3 by the same studio horrifies me. Is it going to be a real successor or just another, sorry but console owners don't have a button left for quick saving so get stuffed pc owners with your 101 keyboards.
No I rather see these golden games go down gracefully. I recently played Fallout 2 and the graphics were not unplayable. I am thinking of playing fallout 1 again and afterthat Planescape Torment. Maybe I can even get System Shock 2 to work. (crashes when I enter the training area without fail)
Maybe PC gaming is dying. Hopefully games like Neverwinter will allow talented individuals to continue to give us excellent RPG's while the money is being made in the console area.
Phew at least they given up on the idea of using them as troop transports.
America seems desperate to introduce all kind of high tech gadgets to make war easier. Yesterday there was a short news story about afghanistan on the BBC. A US post in a contested area was visited by reporters. At night the post comes under attack from rocket fire. The US calls in artilary on where it thinks the rockets have come from. In the morning they go out and check. What they find is missles setup with timers aimed at the post (some had not gone off). So all these highly equipped soldiers plus all the awacs stuff flying up there totally failed to spot a bunch of guys coming in, setting up a few missles and leaving again.
The US took heavy fire (no losses this time or at least not shown) the enemy took ZERO fire. Not one round.
Says it all really.
US army. War is putting a lot of soldiers on the ground with guns and getting them to kill more of the enemy then the enemy kills of you. This has worked for thousand of years. You are not going to be able to chance it. You want to because you don't want another vietnam. Well now you got two vietnams. War is hell but more importantly war only works when it is hell. Only when you totally slaughter the enemy will you convince the enemy to stop fighting. Little clever robots are not going to do this.
Ah, such fresh faced innocence. I bet you read the headline. The post AND the articles linked in the post. So naive. Real/. Trolls scan the headline, notice a few words as they scroll down for the reply button and then post their "thoughts" without previewing. You yet got much to learn.
Yes of course you are absolutly right. The post and articles point out clearly that the claims being held back have nothing to do with the lindows. These claims have been made by ordinary citizens of California and should have been handled.
As for why MS is doing this. Bill Gates is a little kid. For the last 20 years he has been head of an empire growing ever bigger. Everyone around him told him he was a hero. Now slowly he is finding out that outside his little empire people really don't share his vision of the world. Law makers are after him, geeks are building software for FREE, major companies he thought he had beaten multiple times are still there ready to see him fail.
I am willing to bet that nobody on this earth will be able to get Bill Gates to admit that this is a just punishment, that he Bill Gates was guilty and that this settlement is exactly what MS deserved. To all the MS apologists. Proof me wrong.
Yeah, sure. Like the public outcry over the tax on cd-r and dvd recordables. It is imposed in several countries and nobody spoke up about execept some geeks.
You see if you make it available for download then I presume you have an account with an ISP somewhere right? So the RIAA will tax you for that account and they will then send that money to proper artists not independent commies like you. Got it?
Ion engines are very efficient with their propelant. So yes the longer you want to burn the more you need to carry but it is a fraction of what you would need to carry for a normal rocket engine. ION engines work by constantly burning of a tiny amount of fuel/propelant amazingly effciently. The accelarition is awfull but it can just keep on accelaring for years.
This I think makes it only usefull for long flights. No tie fighters. Fortuanly real space flight has a lot of long flights.
Am I missing something but wasn't it IBM and Redhat and now Novell and Suse? If you look at the top of the 10gb and 100gb sections then this makes for some weird partners. Can't Redhats software be used for some reason with DB2?
For other odd results, Oracle doesn't seem to go up as high as DB2 and Teradata. I thought Oracle was supposed to be the heavy hitter?
Anyone got a clue as to how the opensource databases would fare in these tests?
If you look at the page linux indeed scores top in the 100gb and 300gb section. 1000gb it is just behind w2k but in the 3000gb and 10.000gb being talked about in this story. Nada. No linux or windows for that matter.
So looking at the chart you can only conclude for linux that it rules supreme the 100gb section with double the score of the 2nd. Middle class is really a money choice and since they don't use one currency, how much is a yaun anyway, it is hard to compare. But if you wanna go top neither windows or linux will do.
So to conclude that linux has won from this is completly and totally wrong. Sure it owns the light database side. This indeed is hardly news. But then this story wasn't about linux wasn't it?
I think it was the bbc but it showed a program about japan and the whaling industry. The japanese are hanging on to it by all their might. Why? Because the japanese consumers wants to eat whalemeat? Hardly. In fact the japanese consumers DOESN'T want to eat whalemeat. It is in such low demand that they have set up a subsidised fast foot restaurant to try to get people to eat heavily subisdised meat.
It seems more of a pride issue. The more the rest of the world says they should stop the more the old guard in japan, the same ones who see nothing wrong with japans war crimes, insist on keeping whaling alive.
The poor judge who is going to have to figure this one out.
At least I hope this kinda of case does not go before a jury. Can you imagine the average smuck not smart enough to escape jury duty trying to make sense of all this? Worse trying to make sense of it while getting the info from two different camps?
If it is trial by jury we better hope for a really smart and level headed judge who can properly instruct the jury.
Can this even all go before a single court? If they are really going to sue IBM + Novell + Linux customer + BSD + Little fluffy kittens, we might end up with a dozen trials. That is not counting the appeals.
Oh well at least now with BSD in the firing line as well we will see an end to the posts claiming BSD is safe because of some previous case. When a mad man is loose with a gun, noone is safe.
On the other hand, they already spend the money on the development of the software and I really doubt they are going to press 1 million cd's for this. So it could be seen as pretty much pure profit.
Remember software != normal products. Just like MS can afford to cut the price of windows for certain countries when people hear about linux, Sun can afford this. It is for them either 50million dollars they get, or they don't get. The investment has already been made.
Of course if this is going to work in the long run is anyones guess. Can you continue development when you only get $50 a seat? MS says no and charges more then tenfold. I hope sun is right. For 50 bucks an OS noone is going to bother with piracy in the west.
they get you to laugh at them. Remember the nazi's are now just a movie bad guy. Soviet russia is a slashdot joke and as for Gandhis enemy the british empire. Well. Just watch the news.
Note that so far noone seems to have made any serious comment on the presentation. Just a lot of jokes. What MS says is just not taken serious here. Does that matter? Nope.
Well, there are a number of different type of dating games. From real datingsims/rpgs to powerpoint slides. The first you typically are a boy who comes in a situation where several girls are not running away anymore. True Love gives you a number of days to find your true love. Each day is divided in three wich you can spend earning money, improving youreselve or dating. ID or Bioware need not worry but it certainly is a fun puzzle game. (Then again, didn't a lot of people complain about Nevewinter Nights because it lacked the romance that was in Baldur's gate? This romance "quest" was basically a dating sim light with only text suggestion of sex. Apparently westerners like it as well.)
At the other hand are games in wich you do nothing but click through text and watch some pics. Some force you to do option 1x2 option 3x2 then option 2x1 but this is just filler, not gameplay.
In between are an awfull lot of crap and enjoyable games that are usually labelled hentai games or more politly dating games.
So how acceptable are they? Several of them have been turned into anime shown on tv. So perhaps they are as acceptable as the porn movies "Deep Throat" and such classics were once.
Japan and the west, certainly america, have radically different ideas of what is acceptable.
Nowwhere does this show more then with the disclaimer in translated games. Kana Little Sister is a game liked by those who played it for the story. One of the few games that makes you sad, however you also screw your sister. However the american company felt need to warn you that all models are 18 or over. We are talking drawings here. Drawings of a girl in highschool.
That she is your sister is apparently of no concern although the story could easily have been adjusted to make clear from the beginning that she is not.
Oh well. In short I think that a game like True Love, To heart or Kanon is fairly acceptable in japan, in the same way that say playboy is here. Popotan and Kana Little Sister are probably titles you better not mention playing at work.
Any japanese around who can confirm or deny this?
Oh and as a side note. I wish some western games would spend half as much time as hentai games on plot and just working without crashing thank you very much.
Well to be fair you have to go to the next page.
then again the search for "microsoft windows" only returns 713 results wich seems to indicate that either MSN is censoring windows or they just like to lie to people about the actual number of sites and just give them "sponsored" results first.
Cause not having it is an important bit of info. Instant messaging is a bane to security and regulations inside many type of companies. They are illegal by law in places like hospitals and banks. Banks have to be accountable for every bit of info going out and IM doesn't allow this.
Sigh, gm does provide support for this in fact. It is called a garage and they do it in exchange for a lot of money but they do do it.
It happens often enough and the solution, cleaning the entire engine is simple enough. They are certainly not going to tell you to fuck off. Just that this doesn't fall under warranty and that the repair costs are on your account. But I am willing to bet a 100 dollars that if you call GM customer support and tell them that you put diesel into a gasoline car they will politly tell you how to get it fixed and they will not snigger until they go for their lunchbreak.
So apple should have some kind of way to reset their ipods to the factory default, I know my nomad has. Simply give out how to do this and then don't do what you did wrong again.
If Apple really told their customer to get stuffed then they did bad. (not that I think they did considering some other posts but owning neither an apple/ipod/itunes/_or_indeed_right_at_this_moment_ a_windows I feel I can't comment)
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Slashdot certainly got its share of the tin foil hat brigade but this guy takes the cake. He is also a fine example of the living in mothers basement type since anyone ever having been in a protest gone wrong would know that merely being unbalanced would be peanuts compared to getting a face full of teargass.
Now go away, you are taking up the space of the Microsoft apologists and I can use a good laugh.
What more could you expect? They are not an airfield or refuel station. Say I am climbing in the alps and get stranded. Can I then ask the rescue chopper to fly me to the top of the hill or drop me off at my hotel? Of course not. I get rescued. That is it. Nothing more nothing less. Rescue services are not cabs, hotels or supply stations.
The RAF just bring you back to base or hospital and then you can pay for your own bloody cab back to your hotel. Oh and that really expensive backpack? Well maybe they take it with them but don't count on it.
Same with the coast guard. They pick up the sailors. Towing the boat back to harbor is rarely done by the rescuers.
The goverments on the world have agreed to keep antartica as clean and undisturbed as possible. They ship the shit of the people there out instead of just digging a hole in the ice.
They don't want people to come there. It is not banned but they really don't like people to visit. You can go in but if you want to spend the night you gotta bring your own tent. Ask Michael Palin about his trip "Pole to Pole".
They don't sell or give him the fuel because they are not a fuel station. They rescued him. Gave him shelter and food and that is all they have to do and anyone with a brain can expect them to do.
By your logic embassy's should give tourists bed and breakfast and US aircarriers should allow civilian pilots to land for a refuel. Not the way the real world works. Ask the armie in say Switzerland how they feel about constantly having to bail out stupid tourists.
Yes they have the fuel but they are keeping it. He can just take the first flight home and try again. Stop whining.
Ehm, I am sorry but then the prize for 400 gallons would be eh 4000 dollar. Oh wowie yeah that should teach him.
Anyway it wouldn't stop europeans. For us that is cheap.
Second. It blows. I am sorry but this game makes me hate console owners. If right now one would walk up to me he would get a full can of coke in his face. Unopened.
The game has been dumbed down. The simplest example is the quick save. It is an Unreal game. YET THERE IS NO QUICK SAVE. Plenty of other factors are dumbed down as well. Only 1 supply of ammo meaning that there is no longer falling back on a wimpy pistol after you machine gunned down the guards at the front. Flame throwers, rocket launchers, guns and stun battons all use the same ammo supply. Don't even get me started on the inventory or the hud. It is clearly made for the x-box controler. Not the pc.
Play the game by all means. As said it is not bad but it is no Deus Ex 2. Read the forums.
Thief 3 by the same studio horrifies me. Is it going to be a real successor or just another, sorry but console owners don't have a button left for quick saving so get stuffed pc owners with your 101 keyboards.
No I rather see these golden games go down gracefully. I recently played Fallout 2 and the graphics were not unplayable. I am thinking of playing fallout 1 again and afterthat Planescape Torment. Maybe I can even get System Shock 2 to work. (crashes when I enter the training area without fail)
Maybe PC gaming is dying. Hopefully games like Neverwinter will allow talented individuals to continue to give us excellent RPG's while the money is being made in the console area.
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America seems desperate to introduce all kind of high tech gadgets to make war easier. Yesterday there was a short news story about afghanistan on the BBC. A US post in a contested area was visited by reporters. At night the post comes under attack from rocket fire. The US calls in artilary on where it thinks the rockets have come from. In the morning they go out and check. What they find is missles setup with timers aimed at the post (some had not gone off). So all these highly equipped soldiers plus all the awacs stuff flying up there totally failed to spot a bunch of guys coming in, setting up a few missles and leaving again.
The US took heavy fire (no losses this time or at least not shown) the enemy took ZERO fire. Not one round.
Says it all really.
US army. War is putting a lot of soldiers on the ground with guns and getting them to kill more of the enemy then the enemy kills of you. This has worked for thousand of years. You are not going to be able to chance it. You want to because you don't want another vietnam. Well now you got two vietnams. War is hell but more importantly war only works when it is hell. Only when you totally slaughter the enemy will you convince the enemy to stop fighting. Little clever robots are not going to do this.
Yes of course you are absolutly right. The post and articles point out clearly that the claims being held back have nothing to do with the lindows. These claims have been made by ordinary citizens of California and should have been handled.
As for why MS is doing this. Bill Gates is a little kid. For the last 20 years he has been head of an empire growing ever bigger. Everyone around him told him he was a hero. Now slowly he is finding out that outside his little empire people really don't share his vision of the world. Law makers are after him, geeks are building software for FREE, major companies he thought he had beaten multiple times are still there ready to see him fail.
I am willing to bet that nobody on this earth will be able to get Bill Gates to admit that this is a just punishment, that he Bill Gates was guilty and that this settlement is exactly what MS deserved. To all the MS apologists. Proof me wrong.
Sheep don't protest.
The above was an attempt at humor
This I think makes it only usefull for long flights. No tie fighters. Fortuanly real space flight has a lot of long flights.
For other odd results, Oracle doesn't seem to go up as high as DB2 and Teradata. I thought Oracle was supposed to be the heavy hitter?
Anyone got a clue as to how the opensource databases would fare in these tests?
So looking at the chart you can only conclude for linux that it rules supreme the 100gb section with double the score of the 2nd. Middle class is really a money choice and since they don't use one currency, how much is a yaun anyway, it is hard to compare. But if you wanna go top neither windows or linux will do.
So to conclude that linux has won from this is completly and totally wrong. Sure it owns the light database side. This indeed is hardly news. But then this story wasn't about linux wasn't it?
It seems more of a pride issue. The more the rest of the world says they should stop the more the old guard in japan, the same ones who see nothing wrong with japans war crimes, insist on keeping whaling alive.
You may not be able to leave earth without lawyers but nothing is said about bring them back.
Funny, for me it crashes Opera under linux but not mozilla. First page in ages that is giving me trouble. Oh well.
At least I hope this kinda of case does not go before a jury. Can you imagine the average smuck not smart enough to escape jury duty trying to make sense of all this? Worse trying to make sense of it while getting the info from two different camps?
If it is trial by jury we better hope for a really smart and level headed judge who can properly instruct the jury.
Can this even all go before a single court? If they are really going to sue IBM + Novell + Linux customer + BSD + Little fluffy kittens, we might end up with a dozen trials. That is not counting the appeals.
Oh well at least now with BSD in the firing line as well we will see an end to the posts claiming BSD is safe because of some previous case. When a mad man is loose with a gun, noone is safe.
Remember software != normal products. Just like MS can afford to cut the price of windows for certain countries when people hear about linux, Sun can afford this. It is for them either 50million dollars they get, or they don't get. The investment has already been made.
Of course if this is going to work in the long run is anyones guess. Can you continue development when you only get $50 a seat? MS says no and charges more then tenfold. I hope sun is right. For 50 bucks an OS noone is going to bother with piracy in the west.
Note that so far noone seems to have made any serious comment on the presentation. Just a lot of jokes. What MS says is just not taken serious here. Does that matter? Nope.
At the other hand are games in wich you do nothing but click through text and watch some pics. Some force you to do option 1x2 option 3x2 then option 2x1 but this is just filler, not gameplay.
In between are an awfull lot of crap and enjoyable games that are usually labelled hentai games or more politly dating games.
So how acceptable are they? Several of them have been turned into anime shown on tv. So perhaps they are as acceptable as the porn movies "Deep Throat" and such classics were once.
Japan and the west, certainly america, have radically different ideas of what is acceptable.
Nowwhere does this show more then with the disclaimer in translated games. Kana Little Sister is a game liked by those who played it for the story. One of the few games that makes you sad, however you also screw your sister. However the american company felt need to warn you that all models are 18 or over. We are talking drawings here. Drawings of a girl in highschool.
That she is your sister is apparently of no concern although the story could easily have been adjusted to make clear from the beginning that she is not.
Oh well. In short I think that a game like True Love, To heart or Kanon is fairly acceptable in japan, in the same way that say playboy is here. Popotan and Kana Little Sister are probably titles you better not mention playing at work.
Any japanese around who can confirm or deny this?
Oh and as a side note. I wish some western games would spend half as much time as hentai games on plot and just working without crashing thank you very much.
Well to be fair you have to go to the next page. then again the search for "microsoft windows" only returns 713 results wich seems to indicate that either MSN is censoring windows or they just like to lie to people about the actual number of sites and just give them "sponsored" results first.
So not having IM would be a selling point.
It happens often enough and the solution, cleaning the entire engine is simple enough. They are certainly not going to tell you to fuck off. Just that this doesn't fall under warranty and that the repair costs are on your account. But I am willing to bet a 100 dollars that if you call GM customer support and tell them that you put diesel into a gasoline car they will politly tell you how to get it fixed and they will not snigger until they go for their lunchbreak.
So apple should have some kind of way to reset their ipods to the factory default, I know my nomad has. Simply give out how to do this and then don't do what you did wrong again.
If Apple really told their customer to get stuffed then they did bad. (not that I think they did considering some other posts but owning neither an apple/ipod/itunes/_or_indeed_right_at_this_moment_ a_windows I feel I can't comment)