From what I've seen, there is a lot less common sense in the Windows community than there is for other less widely distributed OSes.
There's also a much higher percentage of 13 year old script kiddies and grandmas using AOL in the Windows community. Of course there's less common sense, and a lot of it comes from people being either too young to have experience or too old to bother learning, plus hundreds of other factors. An OS with an relatively high required skill level (linux) or one that appeals to a niche market (apple) is going to be devoid of a lot of the flotsam and jetsam of humanity.
I was wondering why I thought the GCN version looked just as good as the X-Box... I'm neither crazy nor blind... I just don't have an HDTV.:P
At any rate, I've played all 3... and I saw the PS2 version on an HD, and it was spectacular. The GCN version is definitely my favorite of the group, and it's all because of the controls. The PS2 analog is just in too awkward a spot for me, and the X-Box controls feel, I dunno,... loose I guess, the analog joystick doesn't seem to respond as well as I'd like. But, as I don't own an X-Box, my preference there is pretty mute. Other than the controllers themselves, the 3 versions are practically indistinguishable.
But I got you to do it for me.:P In fact, I got 4 people to do it for me. And instead of having to search, I get my answer in a quick, consise summary form.
The site is slashdotted now and I can't get any browsing done, so I ask the slashdot community. What is xMule? What does it do, how does it work, and how is it any different from other P2P serivces? I'm not a linux user, so I'm unfamiliar with a lot of the popular linux apps (I assume it's a linux app, and that the "x" is for X-Windows).
However, if I do that you can sue me under various laws for filing a meritless lawsuit.
But the original supposition was that the person being sued doesn't have enough resources or knowledge to fight back and are spooked into going with the settlement. Even if it's a meritless lawsuit (like the recent DirecTV lawsuits), people fear that they'll loose in court, so they don't fight it.
I'll give this guy the benefit of the doubt. I just downloaded the codec for my work computer (I goof off a lot, m'kay?) and it took me a good while to find it.
Reminds me of when RealNetworks started having a pay-version of RealPlayer. One of their site designs obsfucated it so badly that it took me well over 15 minutes to find the "free" link.
Aww come on... not all of us Americans are fucking prudes. We just get a bad rap because of Disney. I hope they die from axphyxiating on their own vomit for turning the word "kids" into "family." "It's a family film!" Fuck you, it's for 3 year olds.
So don't be so quick to call us prudes. After all, our country is responsible for NAMbLA.
IANAL, so I'm gonna ask for a lawyer to answer this question for me:
Is there some sort of burden of minimum evidence requirement one has to meet to file a law suit? For example, would SCO have to show that the sources are at least similar (to a judge) before bringing suit? I'd imagine there must be some sort of protection here.
The reason I ask is because I see this situation happening. Small company uses linux for a server cluster. SCO sues small company without any tiny bit of proof. Small company can't afford to fight, settles with SCO.
I can't honestly believe that there's no minimum requrement. If SCO does start suing, they'll actually be so far off base as to make RIAA seem justified in suing Kazaa users. At least RIAA made an effort to gather evidence for something that is definitely illegal.
I was under the impression he was using MS Flight Simulator... but since it's been slashdotted into an alternate dimension, I have no way of checking that.
Damned straight! Texting should be banned! Educated consumers are a plague on the industry!
WTF?!?!
So their argument now is that they made more money in the past because people had to pay their $10 to find out if a movie sucked or not? I would have figured that dozens upon dozens of bad reviews just might have hurt Gigli a little bit.
Actually, SCO has to to quite a bit more than that. Since they're suing IBM for showing their IP to third parties by including in Linux, they have to show that (A) it's their IP, (B) it's been shown to Linux developer, and (C) IBM was the party responsible.
There's been reports that the code in question was widely available on the internet and through various published paper sources. All IBM has to do to win this suit is show that there are other places to get this code (numerous other places), and therefore it's reasonably likely that Linux developers read the questioned code from some other source.
SCO has no real chance against IBM if this is truly the code in question. And once IBM humiliates them, SCO won't have the credibility to extort any money from anyone else for this.
Also remember that it's Nintendo's European offices that decide on whether to import a game, not NCL. I always thought it was weird that people would release a game for "Europe" and that's supposed to cover more than a dozen countries, with various languages. What a crock. Well... if you're European and you desperately want to play it, and you happen to speak English, pick up the American version (hopefully you have NTSC) as the localization is pretty limited, and the best holidays are the ones that are made specially for the game.:)
the thing they don't tell you is that it's also the #1 game sold back to the stores. People get it, and are dissatisfied with it pretty early on, from what I've heard. It's definitely on the "rent first" list, since you'll easily find used copies later, so you can rent and buy used, and still save money over a new copy.
If anything, the PS2 will reduce its price (since Sony has room to wiggle). Perhaps the system won't drop in price, but a reduction for the broadband bundle?
I'll just be glad if the Gamecube controllers reduce in price. Lending my games out to other people has done a real number on mine.
because the 1 instead of the l makes it even harder to say to people.
"Go to slash-dot-one-dot-org with a one in it."
"What?"
"slash-dot-one-dot-org... with a one at the beginning... why is this so hard?"
"So it's '1/.1.org'? I'm soooo confused!"
Another great name: Danger Hiptop. Say it,... it just rolls of the tounge. It sounds Dangerous, and Hip. shocking, that.
So what the heck is this T-Mobile Sidekick BS? Was having "Danger" and "Hip" in the same name too frightening for the elderly? Or did they change it just because it wasn't their name?
Upon closer inspection it appears from their logo that the new name will actually be pa1mONE. That's the number 1, not the letter l. Wonderful. If that isn't cause for a DDOS attack, I don't know what is.
Not to start a flame war over the incorrect use of irony, but isn't it ironic that their name, which is meant to show their solidarity and dominance, uses a term for "one" twice?
And if you disagree with my use of "irony" as a word, please replace "ironic" with "hilariously coincidental," pretend I said it the whole time, and don't flame me for it.
Isn't it odd that we get uptight about the use of "irony" but we allow people to write "lol" in posts and get away with it. "lol" isn't even a word. Without capitalization or periods, it's not even a proper acronym, but it's totally acceptable.
Well, there's another post that's gonna be modded down for being off-topic. Damn my train-of-thought writing style!
At least the Gamecube has a niche... it's hard to see anyone developing a soft spot in their hearts for the Phantom. Unless it gives them some sort of heart disease...
Well, Rare had "it," but sadly, that was during the N64 era. DKC was sweet, and Battletoads, but Goldeneye is what really made them. Banjo Kazooie was a lot of fun (until you realized it was all about collecting puzzle pieces... snooze). Conker BFD was amazing. Perfect Dark was extremely cool. Heck, even Jet Force Gemini was a good-yet-ugly game. Star Fox Adventures was even reasonable (but again, once you realized you were just collecting stuff, it was pretty pointless). Both Killer Instinct games still hold up today (at least the arcade versions).
So Rare definitely had "it," but they have a very distinct style, and not all people like it. Even if they make good games, there's a portion of the gaming public who looks at their stuff and goes "well, it's just not for me." Still, like Nintendo said when they ended the partnership... huge investment, little return. Mostly due to extremely long development cycles.
Well, the point of the Celephane is to prevent the left eye from seeing the right eye's image, and vice-versa. It's exactly the same as crossing your eyes, but this way you don't get that ghosting effect. But nevertheless, in the end your eyes will hurt and everything is gonna look really close & small.
So, you're completely right, all this does is make that annoying ghost image disappear. It also makes looking at water hurt your head.
But they might also be working with paralell projection (where you try to look as far as you can, instead of as close as you can)
It's so that if my mom sends it to a client, and someone else picks it up out of the fax machine, they aren't supposed to give it to all their friends. It's weak juju to indemnify the sender of lapses in confidentiality.
It's not actually all that weak. In the case of a Psychiatrist, there's a reasonable chance that the message will fall under the auspices of doctor-patient confidentiality, and that if someone purposefully breaks that confidentiality, then they can be prosecuted. The bottom is a notice to anyone who would intercept any such confidential communications.
This also comes along with a lot of lawyers' e-mails because there is a good chance they're communicating with a client and the firm wants to cover its ass. The lawyers themselves don't have the option to remove this text, it's automatically appended by their e-mail system. But, since it's automatic, it also gets sent to people they don't represent.
My little brother works at a phramacy and whenever he sends me e-mails they come with similar boilerplate (the views in this e-mail are not necesarily those of the pharmacy, etc...). He never puts that text on, it gets appended after he hits "send."
Something new & revolutionary? Well, considering the multitude of GBA expansions, it's probably not one of those. I think it'll be some sort of prehipheral for the GCN, maybe some game where you need special input (like DDR).
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I was wondering why I thought the GCN version looked just as good as the X-Box... I'm neither crazy nor blind... I just don't have an HDTV. :P
At any rate, I've played all 3... and I saw the PS2 version on an HD, and it was spectacular. The GCN version is definitely my favorite of the group, and it's all because of the controls. The PS2 analog is just in too awkward a spot for me, and the X-Box controls feel, I dunno,... loose I guess, the analog joystick doesn't seem to respond as well as I'd like. But, as I don't own an X-Box, my preference there is pretty mute. Other than the controllers themselves, the 3 versions are practically indistinguishable.
But I got you to do it for me. :P In fact, I got 4 people to do it for me. And instead of having to search, I get my answer in a quick, consise summary form.
The site is slashdotted now and I can't get any browsing done, so I ask the slashdot community. What is xMule? What does it do, how does it work, and how is it any different from other P2P serivces? I'm not a linux user, so I'm unfamiliar with a lot of the popular linux apps (I assume it's a linux app, and that the "x" is for X-Windows).
I'll give this guy the benefit of the doubt. I just downloaded the codec for my work computer (I goof off a lot, m'kay?) and it took me a good while to find it.
Reminds me of when RealNetworks started having a pay-version of RealPlayer. One of their site designs obsfucated it so badly that it took me well over 15 minutes to find the "free" link.
Did it really have multiple endings, or are you refering to the incredibly hilarious "escapipe" flaw?
If you don't know what I'm talking about, you must read this review of Phantasy Star III.
Aww come on... not all of us Americans are fucking prudes. We just get a bad rap because of Disney. I hope they die from axphyxiating on their own vomit for turning the word "kids" into "family." "It's a family film!" Fuck you, it's for 3 year olds.
So don't be so quick to call us prudes. After all, our country is responsible for NAMbLA.
IANAL, so I'm gonna ask for a lawyer to answer this question for me:
Is there some sort of burden of minimum evidence requirement one has to meet to file a law suit? For example, would SCO have to show that the sources are at least similar (to a judge) before bringing suit? I'd imagine there must be some sort of protection here.
The reason I ask is because I see this situation happening. Small company uses linux for a server cluster. SCO sues small company without any tiny bit of proof. Small company can't afford to fight, settles with SCO.
I can't honestly believe that there's no minimum requrement. If SCO does start suing, they'll actually be so far off base as to make RIAA seem justified in suing Kazaa users. At least RIAA made an effort to gather evidence for something that is definitely illegal.
I was under the impression he was using MS Flight Simulator... but since it's been slashdotted into an alternate dimension, I have no way of checking that.
Damned straight! Texting should be banned! Educated consumers are a plague on the industry!
WTF?!?!
So their argument now is that they made more money in the past because people had to pay their $10 to find out if a movie sucked or not? I would have figured that dozens upon dozens of bad reviews just might have hurt Gigli a little bit.
Actually, SCO has to to quite a bit more than that. Since they're suing IBM for showing their IP to third parties by including in Linux, they have to show that (A) it's their IP, (B) it's been shown to Linux developer, and (C) IBM was the party responsible.
There's been reports that the code in question was widely available on the internet and through various published paper sources. All IBM has to do to win this suit is show that there are other places to get this code (numerous other places), and therefore it's reasonably likely that Linux developers read the questioned code from some other source.
SCO has no real chance against IBM if this is truly the code in question. And once IBM humiliates them, SCO won't have the credibility to extort any money from anyone else for this.
LWN has show that the code is protected under the BSD license! Now we don't have to pay SCO anything! w00t!
Wait... what am I saying? This is Slashdot, nobody was gonna give SCO anything to begin with.
Also remember that it's Nintendo's European offices that decide on whether to import a game, not NCL. I always thought it was weird that people would release a game for "Europe" and that's supposed to cover more than a dozen countries, with various languages. What a crock. Well... if you're European and you desperately want to play it, and you happen to speak English, pick up the American version (hopefully you have NTSC) as the localization is pretty limited, and the best holidays are the ones that are made specially for the game. :)
the thing they don't tell you is that it's also the #1 game sold back to the stores. People get it, and are dissatisfied with it pretty early on, from what I've heard. It's definitely on the "rent first" list, since you'll easily find used copies later, so you can rent and buy used, and still save money over a new copy.
If anything, the PS2 will reduce its price (since Sony has room to wiggle). Perhaps the system won't drop in price, but a reduction for the broadband bundle?
I'll just be glad if the Gamecube controllers reduce in price. Lending my games out to other people has done a real number on mine.
because the 1 instead of the l makes it even harder to say to people.
"Go to slash-dot-one-dot-org with a one in it."
"What?"
"slash-dot-one-dot-org... with a one at the beginning... why is this so hard?"
"So it's '1/.1.org'? I'm soooo confused!"
Another great name: Danger Hiptop. Say it,... it just rolls of the tounge. It sounds Dangerous, and Hip. shocking, that.
So what the heck is this T-Mobile Sidekick BS? Was having "Danger" and "Hip" in the same name too frightening for the elderly? Or did they change it just because it wasn't their name?
Upon closer inspection it appears from their logo that the new name will actually be pa1mONE. That's the number 1, not the letter l. Wonderful. If that isn't cause for a DDOS attack, I don't know what is.
Not to start a flame war over the incorrect use of irony, but isn't it ironic that their name, which is meant to show their solidarity and dominance, uses a term for "one" twice?
And if you disagree with my use of "irony" as a word, please replace "ironic" with "hilariously coincidental," pretend I said it the whole time, and don't flame me for it.
Isn't it odd that we get uptight about the use of "irony" but we allow people to write "lol" in posts and get away with it. "lol" isn't even a word. Without capitalization or periods, it's not even a proper acronym, but it's totally acceptable.
Well, there's another post that's gonna be modded down for being off-topic. Damn my train-of-thought writing style!
At least the Gamecube has a niche... it's hard to see anyone developing a soft spot in their hearts for the Phantom. Unless it gives them some sort of heart disease...
Well, Rare had "it," but sadly, that was during the N64 era. DKC was sweet, and Battletoads, but Goldeneye is what really made them. Banjo Kazooie was a lot of fun (until you realized it was all about collecting puzzle pieces... snooze). Conker BFD was amazing. Perfect Dark was extremely cool. Heck, even Jet Force Gemini was a good-yet-ugly game. Star Fox Adventures was even reasonable (but again, once you realized you were just collecting stuff, it was pretty pointless). Both Killer Instinct games still hold up today (at least the arcade versions).
So Rare definitely had "it," but they have a very distinct style, and not all people like it. Even if they make good games, there's a portion of the gaming public who looks at their stuff and goes "well, it's just not for me." Still, like Nintendo said when they ended the partnership... huge investment, little return. Mostly due to extremely long development cycles.
Well, the point of the Celephane is to prevent the left eye from seeing the right eye's image, and vice-versa. It's exactly the same as crossing your eyes, but this way you don't get that ghosting effect. But nevertheless, in the end your eyes will hurt and everything is gonna look really close & small.
So, you're completely right, all this does is make that annoying ghost image disappear. It also makes looking at water hurt your head.
But they might also be working with paralell projection (where you try to look as far as you can, instead of as close as you can)
This also comes along with a lot of lawyers' e-mails because there is a good chance they're communicating with a client and the firm wants to cover its ass. The lawyers themselves don't have the option to remove this text, it's automatically appended by their e-mail system. But, since it's automatic, it also gets sent to people they don't represent.
My little brother works at a phramacy and whenever he sends me e-mails they come with similar boilerplate (the views in this e-mail are not necesarily those of the pharmacy, etc...). He never puts that text on, it gets appended after he hits "send."
Kinda like a
well, in C you can solve that with:
void flavor()
{
do_stuff();
}
#define flavour flavor
or in Pascal you can do:
function flavor()
begin
flavor = do_stuff;
end
function flavour()
begin
flavour=flavor;
end
forgive mistakes, I haven't touched pascal in years.
Something new & revolutionary? Well, considering the multitude of GBA expansions, it's probably not one of those. I think it'll be some sort of prehipheral for the GCN, maybe some game where you need special input (like DDR).