Myself I never saw the movie, but I think generally Moore has a reason to be against guns.
The stupid thing is that Michasel Moore isn't "against guns". He's a member of the NRA. His conclusion in Bowling for Columbine, as anyone who actually watched the movie should know, wasn't that guns are bad, but that there are serious problems with American society and fear.
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One could easily say that while Pokemon did not inspire Magic the Gathering, Shin Megami Tensei did.
Evidence? Just because it came shortly before doesn't mean it had any influence. The creators of M:TG may have been entirely unaware of its existence.
FireFox's grandparent Netscape would have 90% of browser market share
You're crazy. Netscape kicked ass up until version 4. There were several years where IE really was a better browser than Netscape/Mozilla.
Yeah, what Microsoft did was illegal. But I think most people would have chosen IE over Netscape anyway. Opera was my browser of choice until Firefox gave the Gecko engine a nice UI. Don't kid yourself; Netscape has been crap for a long time.
I love how you completely failed to answer the questoin. You made an assertion; now it's time to put up or shut up, not insult people who ask you a completely valid question.
There are lots of different ways to do secure identification, banking, voting, etc. Anyone who has read Bruce Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" should know how to design a good system.
The trouble is, the people who do design these systems tend to be either moronic, corrupt, or lazy.
Data points. Which may or may not support a specific theory/model. Newton's model looked really good until Einstein showed that it fails at certain edge cases.
Again, there's no such thing as "proof" or "fact" in science, just theories and models which have been tested. Evolution is a good model so far, but it's been revised many times. Darwin got many of the details wrong.
Oh, they're still around. I stopped playing Half-Life 2 because I got sick of all the jumping. They're not the hard, moving-platforms jumping puzzles, but they're annoying nonetheless.
Then I started playing Deus Ex again, which also has crates and several different kinds of exploding barrels, but at least the crate-stacking and jumping bits are optional. Deus Ex really needs a proper sequel.
I know. It would make diagnosing a strange network problem of mine (which only appears on Linux, not Windows or *BSD) much, much easier. I remember reading that Linus doesn't want it built-in for some reason or another. *sigh*
From the article: I started feeling the usual insane urge to play with a C compiler source.
It seems it's more for people who just want to poke at the source of a real compiler, without having to deal with the mind-boggling complexities of GCC. I might take a look myself.
Dear god, why? You mean this function can return a string or a Boolean value? If I had to use PHP, that would make me cry. Dynamic typing is nice and all, but abusing it like that in a standard API is just awful.
don't mean to flame, but this is one of the reasons why there is so much buggy / useless software out there.
as they say, premature optimization is the root of all evil
Precisely. One of the cool things about Python is that you can write your app with it, run it through a profiler, and rewrite the bottlenecks in C/C++ if you really need to.
What the hell are you talking about? Phrack isn't for script kiddies that only care about the latest exploits. Phrack is for those who actually want to learn how things work and how to take them apart.
It's not like it's even that difficult. Acid2 provides a nice test case for proper CSS handling. Unless IE is a huge mess of spaghetti code, I doubt it would take more than a few months for a couple guys to make IE support CSS properly.
I have a nasty suspicion that after IE 7.0, they won't stop or slow down, but will speed up. It's what MS does: crush the opponent.
I don't know. I'm truly surprised at how little has been done with Longhorn/Vista. There's a shiny new interface, a slightly improved version of IE, and some neat developer technologies. Oh, and desktop search. This has taken them 4-5 years? If they plan to crush the competition, they're going to have to pick up the pace quite a bit.
Linux should focus more on becoming user-friendly so it gets a bigger customer base, this would inspire more developers to include a Linux version of the more popular games/ apps
All the game makers need to do is use SDL and make a few other adjustments, and the game will be cross-platform. It's not terribly difficult. Most developers don't need all the shiny new features of Direct3D.
How can you say that over the next five years there won't be a single developer that tries it?
Because Microsoft, like all game console makers, approves all games before they're sold. Unless they're really, really stupid, they wouldn't approve a game that's incompatible with a whole generation of their console.
What Microsoft should do is open up their software, and invest their money in more programmers, but not to do coding, to act as support for the rest of us who do the coding.
Ah, so you support the "free as in slave labor" open-source model?
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On that note, be sure to check out Underdogs, which has a ton of greatoldgames for semi-legal download.
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The stupid thing is that Michasel Moore isn't "against guns". He's a member of the NRA. His conclusion in Bowling for Columbine, as anyone who actually watched the movie should know, wasn't that guns are bad, but that there are serious problems with American society and fear.
Evidence? Just because it came shortly before doesn't mean it had any influence. The creators of M:TG may have been entirely unaware of its existence.
You're crazy. Netscape kicked ass up until version 4. There were several years where IE really was a better browser than Netscape/Mozilla.
Yeah, what Microsoft did was illegal. But I think most people would have chosen IE over Netscape anyway. Opera was my browser of choice until Firefox gave the Gecko engine a nice UI. Don't kid yourself; Netscape has been crap for a long time.
Try comparing Apple to IBM (Thinkpad) instead. The Powerbook will probably be cheaper. Dell does not make "premium" computers.
I love how you completely failed to answer the questoin. You made an assertion; now it's time to put up or shut up, not insult people who ask you a completely valid question.
The trouble is, the people who do design these systems tend to be either moronic, corrupt, or lazy.
Again, there's no such thing as "proof" or "fact" in science, just theories and models which have been tested. Evolution is a good model so far, but it's been revised many times. Darwin got many of the details wrong.
Then I started playing Deus Ex again, which also has crates and several different kinds of exploding barrels, but at least the crate-stacking and jumping bits are optional. Deus Ex really needs a proper sequel.
Er, that's the definition of a cliche. It's overused.
No. The problem is with the kernel (ie, the networking stack). The exact same hardware has no problems with other OSes, as I said.
I know. It would make diagnosing a strange network problem of mine (which only appears on Linux, not Windows or *BSD) much, much easier. I remember reading that Linus doesn't want it built-in for some reason or another. *sigh*
I started feeling the usual insane urge to play with a C compiler source.
It seems it's more for people who just want to poke at the source of a real compiler, without having to deal with the mind-boggling complexities of GCC. I might take a look myself.
The common way is kuh-THOO-loo. Lovecraft himself told different things to different people about its pronunciation. See here.
Dear god, why? You mean this function can return a string or a Boolean value? If I had to use PHP, that would make me cry. Dynamic typing is nice and all, but abusing it like that in a standard API is just awful.
as they say, premature optimization is the root of all evil
Precisely. One of the cool things about Python is that you can write your app with it, run it through a profiler, and rewrite the bottlenecks in C/C++ if you really need to.
What the hell are you talking about? Phrack isn't for script kiddies that only care about the latest exploits. Phrack is for those who actually want to learn how things work and how to take them apart.
I'm starting to believe the conspiracy theories.
I don't know. I'm truly surprised at how little has been done with Longhorn/Vista. There's a shiny new interface, a slightly improved version of IE, and some neat developer technologies. Oh, and desktop search. This has taken them 4-5 years? If they plan to crush the competition, they're going to have to pick up the pace quite a bit.
All the game makers need to do is use SDL and make a few other adjustments, and the game will be cross-platform. It's not terribly difficult. Most developers don't need all the shiny new features of Direct3D.
Watch out, it's an infinitely recursive definition!
(f) Darken your peril-sensitive sunglasses, so you don't see anything alarming
Because Microsoft, like all game console makers, approves all games before they're sold. Unless they're really, really stupid, they wouldn't approve a game that's incompatible with a whole generation of their console.
Ah, so you support the "free as in slave labor" open-source model?
On that note, be sure to check out Underdogs, which has a ton of great old games for semi-legal download.
By what bizarre logic is Guild Wars "free"? Sure, it doesn't have any monthly fees, but you still have to pay for the boxed game!