"nth" isnt a word, it's a mathematical shorthand. Ie; "The nth term is described by n^2+(n-1)", or some such. The n of course stands in for some arbitrary whole number.
It's not a word in english, and if you're using it in scrabble you're a dirty, smelly cheater who deserves a hand full of "Q"s with no "U"s.
Then again, if you allow "nth" you probably allow "QED", which opens up the door to latin acronymns in which case, fuck it, any random assortment of letters is a "word".
Soul Calibur is a cool game for the genre and all, but I never found it deep enough to get as into it as these guys have. Button mashing works as well as any strategy I've tried.
Reading the descriptions, it watches the health bars and the squares at the character select screen. Which would be simple enough image detection, since they're always in the same x,y coordinates.
It would be really cool if it could grok the movements of the fighters and say things like "Kilik delivers a fierce scissor-kick to an uppercut combo!".. But you cant have everything.
Dunno if yer trying to make a joke, but it would have.
6000 people for 150 mil? Thats about 25k per new employee, much less when you add in all the real property that comes with the deal. That's damn cheap.
And Robertson took the grey-area legal challenge worldwide, not MSFT. MSFT cant sue in Germany if Lindows isnt in Germany.
And watching the way the EU has been treating Microsoft lately, it's hard to say that the injunctions went to them because they had the most money. They got the injunctions because they were right. Robertson was simply seeking to decieve people into thinking they're buying a Microsoft product, when they arent.
His whole website was a clone of MS's for that very purpose.
XBox' DRM scheme was cracked by bunnie before Robertson announced the prize, and would have been cracked regardless.
There's a hell of a lot more money selling modchips and bootlegs in places like Hong Kong than his 100,000 prize (which he's never paid due to some clause, to my knowledge)
He's just immature. Why not just call it "Linos: because microsoft are gayer than aids!!!!11!oneone LOLROFL"
I'd never buy a product that seems to exist only to give some other product the finger. Especially when there are so many user-friendly, good, distros out there.
Would you buy a car called "Ford is teh suck"? Even if the car was a piece of shit?
He should come up with a sensible normal name, and run his business like he actually wants it to succeed - I don't think he does, I think he wants it to bomb so he can sue MSFT, blaming them.
... sick of hearing Robertson whine like the world is out to get him?
"I believe it's the only way to respond to an onslaught from such a rich company, since we need to be able to continue to grow our business," he said.
Boo hoo. Who cares what you think of MSFT, they're in the right, IMO. If the OS was called Lacintosh OSX, Apple would do the same thing.
Selling a "windows replacement" as "lindows" is pushing the line. Myself, I see it as a sleazy attempt to confuse unsavvy K-Mart shoppers into thinking they're getting Windows compatible machine.
If MS released "Winux" do you think Linus would excercise his TM rights? I do, and he should.
Screw this guy. He poked a bear with a stick, and is now crying that the bear took a run at him. He should consider himself lucky to get away, company intact, without being mauled.
Actually, I did think they'd never come out with a new version of X.
This really isn't so much a "new version" as far as functions and features go, it's just a politically/philosophically motivated code fork. So I was right.
Time gets spent squabbling about liscensing clauses and other political horseshit. Now we have how many code forks of it? How splintered, exactly, is the dev community around X11?
Linux on the desktop, that white elephant, will roam around in obscurity for another decade or so.
The star wars universe is black and white. The plot of all movies is simple and straightforward. The dialogue is simplistic and easy to follow.
The movies, although I enjoyed them, have never been a pinnacle example of filmmaking. They're just a fun way to waste a couple hours.
When I was a kid I couldnt wait to see Empire or Jedi. And it wasnt for the brilliant dialogue, I wanted to see some cool space dogfights, neato lightsaber battles, and weirdo looking robots and aliens.
I wasn't as dissapointed in Eps 1 & 2 as the rest of you. I only showed up for the effects, and shut my brain off to watch 'em. Yoda going all Wu-Tang at the end of Ep 2 was cool.
The only character I ever thought was cool was Boba Fett, so I guess I'm a little miffed that they rewrote him as a hot-headed latino with a chip on his shoulder. I liked the mysterious, soulless, motivated-by-cold-hard-cash bounty hunter, myself.
Anyhow, there'll be a ton of cool fights in the next one. The Jedi get their asses kicked and Anakin gets knocked into some acid/lava/wookie urine..
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"nth" isnt a word, it's a mathematical shorthand. Ie; "The nth term is described by n^2+(n-1)", or some such. The n of course stands in for some arbitrary whole number.
It's not a word in english, and if you're using it in scrabble you're a dirty, smelly cheater who deserves a hand full of "Q"s with no "U"s.
Then again, if you allow "nth" you probably allow "QED", which opens up the door to latin acronymns in which case, fuck it, any random assortment of letters is a "word".
Make your lame-ass comments about WMDs on mercury and Bush and oil and blah blah.
Like any of you jog, let alone with a camcorder.
I think they're three of the nasties bulldykes in show biz!
but we like using quicktime to watch commercials.
Soul Calibur is a cool game for the genre and all, but I never found it deep enough to get as into it as these guys have. Button mashing works as well as any strategy I've tried.
Reading the descriptions, it watches the health bars and the squares at the character select screen. Which would be simple enough image detection, since they're always in the same x,y coordinates.
It would be really cool if it could grok the movements of the fighters and say things like "Kilik delivers a fierce scissor-kick to an uppercut combo!".. But you cant have everything.
Dunno if yer trying to make a joke, but it would have.
6000 people for 150 mil? Thats about 25k per new employee, much less when you add in all the real property that comes with the deal. That's damn cheap.
He was probably confused because it's spelled "waive".
He was wondering if you wanted to take them surfing or what.
Layoffs, or never-hires?
Who do you think is going to be taking calls for IBM's linux initiatives?
RedHat's outsourced already, noone ever mentions it here because you cant deride the almighty linux vendors.
I called Red Hat tech support once a couple years ago, and talked to some guy who barely spoke english who told me he was in the Philippines.
A free-as-in-beer OS needs a cheap-as-in-sweatshop support staff.
The case is continuing in the US.
And Robertson took the grey-area legal challenge worldwide, not MSFT. MSFT cant sue in Germany if Lindows isnt in Germany.
And watching the way the EU has been treating Microsoft lately, it's hard to say that the injunctions went to them because they had the most money. They got the injunctions because they were right. Robertson was simply seeking to decieve people into thinking they're buying a Microsoft product, when they arent.
His whole website was a clone of MS's for that very purpose.
XBox' DRM scheme was cracked by bunnie before Robertson announced the prize, and would have been cracked regardless.
There's a hell of a lot more money selling modchips and bootlegs in places like Hong Kong than his 100,000 prize (which he's never paid due to some clause, to my knowledge)
He's just immature. Why not just call it "Linos: because microsoft are gayer than aids!!!!11!oneone LOLROFL"
I'd never buy a product that seems to exist only to give some other product the finger. Especially when there are so many user-friendly, good, distros out there.
Would you buy a car called "Ford is teh suck"? Even if the car was a piece of shit?
He should come up with a sensible normal name, and run his business like he actually wants it to succeed - I don't think he does, I think he wants it to bomb so he can sue MSFT, blaming them.
... sick of hearing Robertson whine like the world is out to get him?
"I believe it's the only way to respond to an onslaught from such a rich company, since we need to be able to continue to grow our business," he said.
Boo hoo. Who cares what you think of MSFT, they're in the right, IMO. If the OS was called Lacintosh OSX, Apple would do the same thing.
Selling a "windows replacement" as "lindows" is pushing the line. Myself, I see it as a sleazy attempt to confuse unsavvy K-Mart shoppers into thinking they're getting Windows compatible machine.
If MS released "Winux" do you think Linus would excercise his TM rights? I do, and he should.
Screw this guy. He poked a bear with a stick, and is now crying that the bear took a run at him. He should consider himself lucky to get away, company intact, without being mauled.
All the various voip apps are incompatable too. You cant use skype to talk to someone with netmeeting or cucme or whatever else.
They're trivial apps, really. Open port - send sound - playback sound. I don't know why a geek site is all wound up about it.
Like Skype, PocketSkype can be used to make free, unlimited, and unmetered calls anywhere in the world.
Only to other running instances of skype though, or does it interface with POTS for free (doubt it)?
I mean, cool and all, but what's skype got that netmeeting/cucme/et al haven't had forever?
Actually, I did think they'd never come out with a new version of X.
This really isn't so much a "new version" as far as functions and features go, it's just a politically/philosophically motivated code fork. So I was right.
And two steps back.
X11R6. I used that a decade ago.
Time gets spent squabbling about liscensing clauses and other political horseshit. Now we have how many code forks of it? How splintered, exactly, is the dev community around X11?
Linux on the desktop, that white elephant, will roam around in obscurity for another decade or so.
I wouldn't be surprised.
Every criminal orginization in the world has a strong presence in Canada.
Extradition laws that prohibit extradition for people facing death penalty, etc, etc..
Canada's a great place to hide out. That's why all those germans showed up in the Kitchener/Waterloo area right around the late 40's.
Of course, Oktoberfest in Kitchener rocks, so harboring nazis is a small price to pay.
Carmack should just strap someone into his space ship, and plow em into the side of a mountain or explode them off the pad or whatever.
End this spaceman nonsense once and for all, and get back to work finishing Doom 3.
Police Academy didn't get truly stupid until 5. Well, stupid enough to be completely unwatchable, at least.
Bobcat Goldthwait saved the third and fourth ones. The sound effects guy wore out his welcome by the second.
Lord of the Rings 3
...
I'm sorry, but that sappy bullshit at the end drove me insane. It was an hour of munchkins crying and hugging in slow motion.
I just kept muttering to myself "Quit whining and just get on the fucking boat, I have to take a leak".
Oh, and dont forget Halloween 3 - Season of the Witch. I still shake my head when it comes on AMC, what the fuck was that supposed to be?
The star wars universe is black and white. The plot of all movies is simple and straightforward. The dialogue is simplistic and easy to follow.
The movies, although I enjoyed them, have never been a pinnacle example of filmmaking. They're just a fun way to waste a couple hours.
When I was a kid I couldnt wait to see Empire or Jedi. And it wasnt for the brilliant dialogue, I wanted to see some cool space dogfights, neato lightsaber battles, and weirdo looking robots and aliens.
I wasn't as dissapointed in Eps 1 & 2 as the rest of you. I only showed up for the effects, and shut my brain off to watch 'em. Yoda going all Wu-Tang at the end of Ep 2 was cool.
The only character I ever thought was cool was Boba Fett, so I guess I'm a little miffed that they rewrote him as a hot-headed latino with a chip on his shoulder. I liked the mysterious, soulless, motivated-by-cold-hard-cash bounty hunter, myself.
Anyhow, there'll be a ton of cool fights in the next one. The Jedi get their asses kicked and Anakin gets knocked into some acid/lava/wookie urine..
I'll watch it, and enjoy it for what it is.
Movies are generally released on thursdays.
Not sure why, exactly, but I have a theory.
Movie twits go to the opening, boast about the movies to their friends, who might go friday.
And no matter how horrible the film, movie twits pump it up like it's the be all and end all of western civilisation.
Because there was a lot of thought put into the original trilogy.
(Upon return from the death star)
"Luke!"
"Carrie!"
I don't want a bunch of 8.5x11's stapled together.
Couple it with publish-on-demand technology, that prints out glossy, real, bound books.
If you want the cloth map and plastic figurines, you have a reason to pay a premium for the boxed product.
Games wont take off on this. You can't copy protect a CD-R.
Think PD, shareware collections and demos. Those racks upon racks of crap for 1.99.