Every time theres an impending release everyone thinks 'Linux will be mature by'..
It's a fine OS for certain tasks (web serving, render farms), but for certain others (desktop use) it will always be playing catch-up to commercial offerings (Windows, OSX, etc)
That wasn't the whistle he found. (The one in the castle where you fly up). That one would have been more believable.
He found the one where you stand on top of the white hill, and just hold down for like 30 seconds until you drop 'behind' the scenery. You pretty much need to be told about that.
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Most didn't notice that they compared it to desktop cards, when the GPU is designed for mobile computing.
I wonder how it stacks up against the S4 Savage, NoForce, mobile Radeon or intels Xtreme grafx.
I mean "GPU designed for laptop not as cool as desktop gaming cards!" is kind of a no-shit conclusion.
I liked the artwork on full sized LPs much better. I have a few favorites. Led Zep's Physical Graffiti with all the stuff peeking through the cutout windows, and when you slide the album sleeve out, you see a whole new set of pictures.
CD art is just mass produced brochure-quality crap by comparison. Cassette liners are even worse. But the tech is much better, so noone complained.
I thought it was lame that the kid instinctively finds the warp whistle in world one, never having played the game before. Even if he did, why would he win? You get no points by warping. If anything, he'd have lost. He warped right past the treasure ship secret where you get all those coins.
A nice 2 hour commercial for the US release of Super Mario 3, though I'd imported the japanese version months earlier.
>> Now, with a video game, why would I pay $10 (or whatever) to play with the same kind of setup I have at home?
Because 10 of your friends can go with you, and you can all play. No waiting for the next lan party.
>> This isn't an arcade where one game is a quarter
No it isnt. Arcades are dead. Arcades are, for all intents and purposes, a singleplayer experience. The handful of head-to-head games don't count.
I can see a market for a place to kill a couple hours playing Halo with some friends, without all the hassle of setting it up yourself.
Throw in a few tourneys, a few prizes.. They could make a go of it.
>> With going to a movie theater, I can understand paying that price because I can watch a good movie on a huge screen with great sound.
You been to the movies lately? Huge screen, sure. Great sound? Unless you like the sound of some assholes cell phone and wanna-be smartass 13 year olds. Good movies indeed. -1 troll for you!
Wherever the line is drawn, there'll be assholes who want to push it to make some kind of dumb-ass freedom of speech comment, like those that think they need to teach about homosexuality in kindergarten.
There'll also be those that think the line is drawn to wide, like those that think the teletubbies are a subversive plot to make children gay.
Let them play, let them have fun, for fuck sakes. I really wish people would stop using them as pawns to push their own philosophical agendas.
We expect them to understand the world as we do at the ripe old ages of 6 or 7.
The cruelest thing we do in this day and age is rob kids of their childhood. It makes me sick.
Have you ever tried to set up a filter for 8-10 year olds to be able to browse the 'net, and do so safely?
I have. I don't want to sit over their shoulders all the time - I want them to enjoy playing around with computers on their own as I did when I was their age.
They aren't going to actively seek out porn or hate speech - they're much to young to know or care. But they might, and have, tried to search for video game tips.
Searching for a game faq for one of my kids games, I realized just how sleazy and shitty the 'net is. Porn banners galore on video game sites.
So, I have a whitelist set up for their machines. Right now, when they hear a site mentioned on tv (like nickelodeon.com or cartoonnetwork.com) or whatever, they try it, it wont work, and they tell me, and I add it. After I search through it, make sure there's nothing they can accidentally click on.
This is just a whole TLD I can add to that whitelist. It's easier, and its a hell of a start. And it doesn't complicate the internet any more than any other TLD has.
It's either this, or real censorship. I think this is a great compromise.
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How can you force porn to.xxx domain? They have every right to free expression, and a.com domain, that you have.
THAT would be the start of a police state. This isn't. This is voluntary on both ends, and a perfectly practical solution to the problem.
If you want to set up a kiddy site, you don't have to do it on kids.us, and if you want your kids to see cnn.com, you can let 'em.
But, of course, everything to someone like you is 'another sign of the US becoming a police state.'
Theres absolutely nothing stopping you from letting your kids go to cnn.com, or wherever.. I mean, obviously subjecting them to certain sites would be child abuse.
I see nothing wrong with this. I see no conspiracy, I see no great evil here.
No doubt there will be endless squabbling from extremists and zealots at both ends. That's what they do.
You could never appease the religious groups, nor the ultra-liberal PC set. These guys wanted the teletubbies banned because one was purple - obviously to make children homosexual.
But, I can let my 10 year old 'go on the internet', without sitting over his shoulder, and without worrying about some pedophile trying to pick him up in a chat room, or him seeing stuff that well, noone should see.
I know the little buffer chips on the joystick ports had a tendency to fry themselves at will.
It was an easy fix, but still. I loved my 64, but it wasn't without its issues.
I killed about a dozen 1541s. By killed, I mean they were poorly designed with an internal power supply and would easily overheat and meltdown if you used it for more than a few hours at a time. The 1541-II and 1571 were better, but it was still a little late.
As an aside, I don't remember Kings Quest ever being a C64 game in the first place.
Damage due to a hydro storm, tornado, flood, earthquake, blizzard, typhoon or any other natural force beyond the reasonable control of humans is an act of god.
Ie; you may be liable if someone falls off your porch because you didn't properly secure the handrail. You wouldn't be liable if they fell off because a 7.0 quake knocked 'em off.
So as far as proving it in court.. Easy.. They just say "yeah judge, there was a quake/flood/typhoon.. here's our insurance claim"
The sticky issue would be something like a lightning strike - one could claim that if they didn't have adequate surge protection then it was their fault by way of negligence.
Anyways.
You can always host for free on slashdot. Just install linux on a computer, post about it, and piggyback your website on the post.
I mean, if we got a signal from our own future - then future scientists should realistically know that people from 2002 can hear them, and would probably broadcast stuff we can understand.
Like maybe cures for diseases and whatnot, or a tip about a meteor that will hit earth, so we can avoid it - something to avert an event that would have ended civilization.
And then the only reason they exist to tell us is because they told us!
And like... crazy shit. You know, crazy space man time travel shit like on TV!
>> That's easy -- it's clearly wrong. It's saying the Sun gets the lowest possible score according to the 3rd factor, when it should obviously get the highest score.
There's no proof there was life on mars. There's only a theory that mars could once have sustained life. That and a pile of rocks that looks like a smiley-face.
Maybe the space aliens have a cure for cancer already?
Me, I continue to 'waste' my spare cpu cycles. That way I don't use as much electricity, and my processor/memory/harddrive will last longer and not wind up killing babies in some 3rd world landfill.
Yes, you missed a few: - beowulf clusters - something about hot grits - something about natalie portman. - something about all your base belonging to us - links to goatse.cx - business plans that end in Profit! - offtopic rants about the DMCA/RIAA - informative posts about how this works in soviet russia
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>> Linux will mature by 2003
HAHAHAHA..
Every time theres an impending release everyone thinks 'Linux will be mature by'..
It's a fine OS for certain tasks (web serving, render farms), but for certain others (desktop use) it will always be playing catch-up to commercial offerings (Windows, OSX, etc)
>> I always thought it they used a video camera for movies
Nope, they film them.
That wasn't the whistle he found. (The one in the castle where you fly up). That one would have been more believable.
He found the one where you stand on top of the white hill, and just hold down for like 30 seconds until you drop 'behind' the scenery. You pretty much need to be told about that.
Most didn't notice that they compared it to desktop cards, when the GPU is designed for mobile computing.
I wonder how it stacks up against the S4 Savage, NoForce, mobile Radeon or intels Xtreme grafx.
I mean "GPU designed for laptop not as cool as desktop gaming cards!" is kind of a no-shit conclusion.
Than the ton of shareware/nagware games and crap thats already pre-installed, yet unregistered?
You can't use it until you buy a key.
Yet they always market it as "comes with 8 zillion dollars worth of free software!"
I liked the artwork on full sized LPs much better. I have a few favorites. Led Zep's Physical Graffiti with all the stuff peeking through the cutout windows, and when you slide the album sleeve out, you see a whole new set of pictures.
CD art is just mass produced brochure-quality crap by comparison. Cassette liners are even worse. But the tech is much better, so noone complained.
You could play anything with power glove.
Just not well.
I thought it was lame that the kid instinctively finds the warp whistle in world one, never having played the game before. Even if he did, why would he win? You get no points by warping. If anything, he'd have lost. He warped right past the treasure ship secret where you get all those coins.
A nice 2 hour commercial for the US release of Super Mario 3, though I'd imported the japanese version months earlier.
>> Now, with a video game, why would I pay $10 (or whatever) to play with the same kind of setup I have at home?
Because 10 of your friends can go with you, and you can all play. No waiting for the next lan party.
>> This isn't an arcade where one game is a quarter
No it isnt. Arcades are dead. Arcades are, for all intents and purposes, a singleplayer experience. The handful of head-to-head games don't count.
I can see a market for a place to kill a couple hours playing Halo with some friends, without all the hassle of setting it up yourself.
Throw in a few tourneys, a few prizes.. They could make a go of it.
>> With going to a movie theater, I can understand paying that price because I can watch a good movie on a huge screen with great sound.
You been to the movies lately? Huge screen, sure. Great sound? Unless you like the sound of some assholes cell phone and wanna-be smartass 13 year olds. Good movies indeed. -1 troll for you!
Wherever the line is drawn, there'll be assholes who want to push it to make some kind of dumb-ass freedom of speech comment, like those that think they need to teach about homosexuality in kindergarten.
There'll also be those that think the line is drawn to wide, like those that think the teletubbies are a subversive plot to make children gay.
Let them play, let them have fun, for fuck sakes. I really wish people would stop using them as pawns to push their own philosophical agendas.
We expect them to understand the world as we do at the ripe old ages of 6 or 7.
The cruelest thing we do in this day and age is rob kids of their childhood. It makes me sick.
Have you ever tried to set up a filter for 8-10 year olds to be able to browse the 'net, and do so safely?
I have. I don't want to sit over their shoulders all the time - I want them to enjoy playing around with computers on their own as I did when I was their age.
They aren't going to actively seek out porn or hate speech - they're much to young to know or care. But they might, and have, tried to search for video game tips.
Searching for a game faq for one of my kids games, I realized just how sleazy and shitty the 'net is. Porn banners galore on video game sites.
So, I have a whitelist set up for their machines. Right now, when they hear a site mentioned on tv (like nickelodeon.com or cartoonnetwork.com) or whatever, they try it, it wont work, and they tell me, and I add it. After I search through it, make sure there's nothing they can accidentally click on.
This is just a whole TLD I can add to that whitelist. It's easier, and its a hell of a start. And it doesn't complicate the internet any more than any other TLD has.
It's either this, or real censorship. I think this is a great compromise.
How can you force porn to .xxx domain? They have every right to free expression, and a .com domain, that you have.
THAT would be the start of a police state. This isn't. This is voluntary on both ends, and a perfectly practical solution to the problem.
If you want to set up a kiddy site, you don't have to do it on kids.us, and if you want your kids to see cnn.com, you can let 'em.
But, of course, everything to someone like you is 'another sign of the US becoming a police state.'
Theres absolutely nothing stopping you from letting your kids go to cnn.com, or wherever.. I mean, obviously subjecting them to certain sites would be child abuse.
I see nothing wrong with this. I see no conspiracy, I see no great evil here.
No doubt there will be endless squabbling from extremists and zealots at both ends. That's what they do.
You could never appease the religious groups, nor the ultra-liberal PC set. These guys wanted the teletubbies banned because one was purple - obviously to make children homosexual.
But, I can let my 10 year old 'go on the internet', without sitting over his shoulder, and without worrying about some pedophile trying to pick him up in a chat room, or him seeing stuff that well, noone should see.
I know the little buffer chips on the joystick ports had a tendency to fry themselves at will.
It was an easy fix, but still. I loved my 64, but it wasn't without its issues.
I killed about a dozen 1541s. By killed, I mean they were poorly designed with an internal power supply and would easily overheat and meltdown if you used it for more than a few hours at a time. The 1541-II and 1571 were better, but it was still a little late.
As an aside, I don't remember Kings Quest ever being a C64 game in the first place.
Damage due to a hydro storm, tornado, flood, earthquake, blizzard, typhoon or any other natural force beyond the reasonable control of humans is an act of god.
Ie; you may be liable if someone falls off your porch because you didn't properly secure the handrail. You wouldn't be liable if they fell off because a 7.0 quake knocked 'em off.
So as far as proving it in court.. Easy.. They just say "yeah judge, there was a quake/flood/typhoon.. here's our insurance claim"
The sticky issue would be something like a lightning strike - one could claim that if they didn't have adequate surge protection then it was their fault by way of negligence.
Anyways.
You can always host for free on slashdot. Just install linux on a computer, post about it, and piggyback your website on the post.
Modular!
/dev/null is all the syslog I need!
Scalable!
Backwards compatible!
Linux!
RFC 3195 functionality!
high performance!
forensically-sound auditing!
If only it was vertically integrated. Oh well, better luck next time!
till then,
It wasn't a joke?
Were you expecting the great guru to give meaning and direction to your life?
Does your collection of action figures and memorobelia now look like a bunch of toys?
Cause that's what it is.
Sheesh. Get a life, indeed.
What exactly were you expecting?
Q: I like star trek. Do you like star trek? Do you miss being in star trek?
Q: You like to sing. Do you miss singing? Do you like singing or acting more?
I mean, just how much insight and information can you pack into a reply to the moronic questions he was asked?
You may as well have asked him what his favorite color is, or if he was a pokemon, which pokemon would he be?
Kee-riste. In interview is only as good as the *INTERVIEWER*, not the interviewee. If you didn't like it, you have only yourselves to blame.
>> By which criteria is fire NOT life?
You can't sue it.
I've always had a problem with this.
SETI presupposes that the aliens know we're listening, how we're listening, and are sending signals just for us.
Now, even if they were, they're assumptions about what we'd expect to recieve could be radically different from ours.
Thats a nutty theory.
I mean, if we got a signal from our own future - then future scientists should realistically know that people from 2002 can hear them, and would probably broadcast stuff we can understand.
Like maybe cures for diseases and whatnot, or a tip about a meteor that will hit earth, so we can avoid it - something to avert an event that would have ended civilization.
And then the only reason they exist to tell us is because they told us!
And like... crazy shit. You know, crazy space man time travel shit like on TV!
>> That's easy -- it's clearly wrong. It's saying the Sun gets the lowest possible score according to the 3rd factor, when it should obviously get the highest score.
There's no life on the Sun, ya goofball!
There's no proof there was life on mars. There's only a theory that mars could once have sustained life. That and a pile of rocks that looks like a smiley-face.
Maybe the space aliens have a cure for cancer already?
Me, I continue to 'waste' my spare cpu cycles. That way I don't use as much electricity, and my processor/memory/harddrive will last longer and not wind up killing babies in some 3rd world landfill.
Yes, you missed a few:
- beowulf clusters
- something about hot grits
- something about natalie portman.
- something about all your base belonging to us
- links to goatse.cx
- business plans that end in Profit!
- offtopic rants about the DMCA/RIAA
- informative posts about how this works in soviet russia
Only if the govt had a copyright/IP treaty/agreement with the alien civilization.
Oh, and btw, quit turning every goddamn post into a lame ass rant or joke about the RIAA or DMCA. Thank you.