Quake 4 (aka Halo 3)
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It's pretty cool, even if they did liberally borrow elements from Halo.
My wife wanted to know what I was making so much noise about, as I frantically shook the mouse and pounded the keyboard trying to get out of the conveyor-belt gurney thing, as I watched the soldier ahead of me have his legs cut off, big needles jammed into his brain, and so on.
Anyways. I'm really glad I downloaded it. Well worth the 25 cents I spent on a blank DVD.
The good pragmatic folk of the real world will continue to use the tools best suited for the task at hand.
The rest find themselves at the end of the unemployment line.
Why no highlights on the war against Apple, Sun or IBM? They weren't always OSS "good guys", and IMHO, still aren't. Just corporations with their own particular strategies.
So go fight your imaginary "war". Convince yourself that the next version of KDE will totally "kill micro$oft w00t we so rock" and then get all angsty and whiny when it doesn't.
I don't see why every single device needs to be directly connected to the 'net.
I like NAT, I like maintaining just one firewall, and I guess with ipv6 I still could keep my "chokepoint", but the fact that I have it sort of neglegates the nescetivity of it.
It's also true of the ones who realize that FireFox has security flaws too, and know enough to not have some false sense of security by using it.
There are those who just plain don't like it, don't want to deal with the various weirdo rendering bugs (no they aren't all because of the latest MS conspiracy theory - there are some actual bugs), compatibility issues, or so on. There are many who have to because the policies at their place of work prevent the installation of third party software.
There are many who just cant be arsed to download it, since it really has nothing new to offer (except the aforementioned false sense of security).
They realize a good firewall and common sense already give them all the protection they're going to get. They aren't going to fall for phishing schemes. They know it's perfectly fine to use Outlook so long as you aren't running every attachment that some random email from a random sender has attached.
They're pragmatic and are more concerned with the task at hand then a bunch of rhetoric on slashdot.
I know it's not a popular sentiment, and completely contrary to their corporate mission statement, but Google is on it's way to becoming the most evil of evil corporations.
When technology exists to broadcast ads straight into your medulla oblongata, you can bet that Google will be the ones who developed it.
They constantly innovate new and exciting ways to shove ads up in my grill whether I like it or not, whether I use them or not.
The easy answer would be slashdot groupthink, but the truth is even simpler..
It's mod-bombing.. I have a pretty lengthy foes list, you see, and most of my posts get a few negative mods just by virtue of I made them.
And I'm all for wasting the mod points of people who don't really deserve to have 'em.
Seriously, watch my post history.. It's funny.. A post that was +5 whatever will eventually get smacked with a buttload of "overrated" "troll" and "flamebaits". I make my share of overrated, trollish and flamebait posts, sure, but sometimes I honestly try to post an opinion, or some info, etc.
I've even had posts DELETED. Yeah, they actually do it. Of course I can't prove it, the posts are deleted. Usually on the more vitriolic type of stuff I say once in awhile. I think it's really fucking cool that Taco and his crew consider some of my opinions that threatening that they take the time to pause the sailor moon dvd and brush enough cheeto crumbs off their fingertips to delete my post. Nice to know you care, daddypants.
And the coolest thing about it is, I get enough upmods to keep me hovering between good/excellent karma.. Neat, huh? In fact, I'm at excellent right now, so I'm going to use my karma bonus to waste three misallocated mod points on this complete non-sequitor post.
Does the rising popularity of reality TV not convince you as to just how damaging it is to peoples brains? Meth addicts are more coherent than "Fear Factor" fans. If you aren't familiar, it's a show where you watch people eat worms, and perform various Jackass-esque stunts.
If you want to witness first hand, the damage that long term TV usage can cause, drop by the next Star Trek or Star Wars or Star Gate or Star Man convention. What you see will not be pretty, and can emotionally cripple you permanently.
Quit trying to derail our childrens' train of thought, and join me in a campaign to make the broadcast flag manditory on all broadcasts, and to expand its scope to also restrict viewing of any sort.
In a perfect world, all future television sets should be shipped without any sort of viewing screen or speakers.
For centuries, the noble art of the puppet show was all humanity needed for entertainment.
You're unduly optimistic. They would mandate laundry, and if the far-lefties got in charge, they'd mandate that we all do China's laundry in a poorly thought out effort to reverse past stereotypes.
If it was being snuck in how'd you all find out about it?
" I would like to add an amendment to the bill, 100 million dollars for the perverted arts...."
I say so what, let them pass it into law. Not letting people watch TV or listen to Radio can only server to raise the average national IQ. They should tack it into the next education bill, "No Child Left To Sit On His Behind"
I don't give a fuck anymore if I can or can't Tivo "CSI: Des Moines" in 1080p resolution.
But that's just one little bear's opinion.
This is a book report, not a review
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Ubuntu Hacks
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That's right. How is the state going to represent the people, when the people time and time again "prove" that they only want two parties?
Where do you think those exclusionary state laws came from? The magical exclusionary law fairy?
Or, on another example, CLEARLY the people wanted the debates out of the hands of the League of Women Voters after the whole Ross Perot thing. He may have won the debates, but nobody voted for him. It's in the best interests of the people that we shut those fringe guys the hell up. The votes are clear, Americans only want Black and White, Left and Right, Right and Wrong.
Re:Remember when Firefox was a web browser?
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Quit trolling, everything "just works" on a Mac, the metrosexual anthropomophized PowerMac (are they called PentiuMacs now?) in the commercial said so himself.
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Knew what? How to double click on the icon that launches skype?
If this was going to catch on, it would have already with all the standalone clients like skype, or the 'cheap long distance' thingies they used to sell at CompUSA.
I don't think a plugin for a browser with ~9% (generous estimates) market share is going to topple the Telco giants any time soon.
But maybe I'm a gloomy gus.
Remember when Firefox was a web browser?
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How about a FORTRAN compiler plugin or a plugin to catalog the users collection of anal beads?
Seriously, can we say feature bloat?
The next firefox news I want to here is the news that firefox 1.5 isn't a memory leaking bloated piece of shit under linux. I'm not joking when I say that running IE under wine is faster and more stable on my machine. FF is leaking memory just sitting there doing nothing -- I can see it happen with top.
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It's pretty cool, even if they did liberally borrow elements from Halo.
My wife wanted to know what I was making so much noise about, as I frantically shook the mouse and pounded the keyboard trying to get out of the conveyor-belt gurney thing, as I watched the soldier ahead of me have his legs cut off, big needles jammed into his brain, and so on.
Anyways. I'm really glad I downloaded it. Well worth the 25 cents I spent on a blank DVD.
Like an "unofficial weblog". Yeah, sounds reputable to me!
The good pragmatic folk of the real world will continue to use the tools best suited for the task at hand.
The rest find themselves at the end of the unemployment line.
Why no highlights on the war against Apple, Sun or IBM? They weren't always OSS "good guys", and IMHO, still aren't. Just corporations with their own particular strategies.
So go fight your imaginary "war". Convince yourself that the next version of KDE will totally "kill micro$oft w00t we so rock" and then get all angsty and whiny when it doesn't.
I don't see why every single device needs to be directly connected to the 'net.
I like NAT, I like maintaining just one firewall, and I guess with ipv6 I still could keep my "chokepoint", but the fact that I have it sort of neglegates the nescetivity of it.
But thats just one little bears opinion.
So did MSN.. They've all had voice chat.
It's the PC to POTS feature that's really new.
Of course, only XBox users are smart enough to know that. Too bad slashdot isn't made-up-bullshit unfriendly.
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It's also true of the ones who realize that FireFox has security flaws too, and know enough to not have some false sense of security by using it.
There are those who just plain don't like it, don't want to deal with the various weirdo rendering bugs (no they aren't all because of the latest MS conspiracy theory - there are some actual bugs), compatibility issues, or so on. There are many who have to because the policies at their place of work prevent the installation of third party software.
There are many who just cant be arsed to download it, since it really has nothing new to offer (except the aforementioned false sense of security).
They realize a good firewall and common sense already give them all the protection they're going to get. They aren't going to fall for phishing schemes. They know it's perfectly fine to use Outlook so long as you aren't running every attachment that some random email from a random sender has attached.
They're pragmatic and are more concerned with the task at hand then a bunch of rhetoric on slashdot.
Will google be able to properly intermediate? or will they tend to side with their big advertisers when issues/complaints arise?
They'll side with who's paying them, like any publically traded corporation.
Simpsons did another schoolhouse rock parody, other than the "amendment to be" one?
Or did you link to the "100 million dollars for the perverted arts" quote, in which case, why not just paste that one line gag into your post?
It's called a job!
I know it's not a popular sentiment, and completely contrary to their corporate mission statement, but Google is on it's way to becoming the most evil of evil corporations.
When technology exists to broadcast ads straight into your medulla oblongata, you can bet that Google will be the ones who developed it.
They constantly innovate new and exciting ways to shove ads up in my grill whether I like it or not, whether I use them or not.
I say let them pass this super-shit version of it, as it's the most likely so far to get struck down by the Supreme Court......... Now and forever.
The supreme court only has to strike it down once to eliminate it now and for all eternity.
And they don't campaign, and thus dont get millions in donations from the entertainment industry.
Checks and balances, chum, checks and balances.
Not really, this isn't a constitutional amendment.
The easy answer would be slashdot groupthink, but the truth is even simpler..
It's mod-bombing.. I have a pretty lengthy foes list, you see, and most of my posts get a few negative mods just by virtue of I made them.
And I'm all for wasting the mod points of people who don't really deserve to have 'em.
Seriously, watch my post history.. It's funny.. A post that was +5 whatever will eventually get smacked with a buttload of "overrated" "troll" and "flamebaits". I make my share of overrated, trollish and flamebait posts, sure, but sometimes I honestly try to post an opinion, or some info, etc.
I've even had posts DELETED. Yeah, they actually do it. Of course I can't prove it, the posts are deleted. Usually on the more vitriolic type of stuff I say once in awhile. I think it's really fucking cool that Taco and his crew consider some of my opinions that threatening that they take the time to pause the sailor moon dvd and brush enough cheeto crumbs off their fingertips to delete my post. Nice to know you care, daddypants.
And the coolest thing about it is, I get enough upmods to keep me hovering between good/excellent karma.. Neat, huh? In fact, I'm at excellent right now, so I'm going to use my karma bonus to waste three misallocated mod points on this complete non-sequitor post.
They are inherently evil, the word sinister is even derived from "sinistra", meaning left-handed.
Why do you hate america?
Does the rising popularity of reality TV not convince you as to just how damaging it is to peoples brains? Meth addicts are more coherent than "Fear Factor" fans. If you aren't familiar, it's a show where you watch people eat worms, and perform various Jackass-esque stunts.
If you want to witness first hand, the damage that long term TV usage can cause, drop by the next Star Trek or Star Wars or Star Gate or Star Man convention. What you see will not be pretty, and can emotionally cripple you permanently.
Quit trying to derail our childrens' train of thought, and join me in a campaign to make the broadcast flag manditory on all broadcasts, and to expand its scope to also restrict viewing of any sort.
In a perfect world, all future television sets should be shipped without any sort of viewing screen or speakers.
For centuries, the noble art of the puppet show was all humanity needed for entertainment.
You're unduly optimistic. They would mandate laundry, and if the far-lefties got in charge, they'd mandate that we all do China's laundry in a poorly thought out effort to reverse past stereotypes.
If it was being snuck in how'd you all find out about it?
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" I would like to add an amendment to the bill, 100 million dollars for the perverted arts.
I say so what, let them pass it into law. Not letting people watch TV or listen to Radio can only server to raise the average national IQ. They should tack it into the next education bill, "No Child Left To Sit On His Behind"
I don't give a fuck anymore if I can or can't Tivo "CSI: Des Moines" in 1080p resolution.
But that's just one little bear's opinion.
n/t
Yeah, they better add some looping midis and some bitchin' flaming skull animated gifs if they want to be taken seriously on todays web.
A handful of counters couldn't hurt either. And 24-pt blinking text never goes out of style.
That's right. How is the state going to represent the people, when the people time and time again "prove" that they only want two parties?
Where do you think those exclusionary state laws came from? The magical exclusionary law fairy?
Or, on another example, CLEARLY the people wanted the debates out of the hands of the League of Women Voters after the whole Ross Perot thing. He may have won the debates, but nobody voted for him. It's in the best interests of the people that we shut those fringe guys the hell up. The votes are clear, Americans only want Black and White, Left and Right, Right and Wrong.
Quit trolling, everything "just works" on a Mac, the metrosexual anthropomophized PowerMac (are they called PentiuMacs now?) in the commercial said so himself.
Knew what? How to double click on the icon that launches skype?
I'll get the word out. Thanks.
If this was going to catch on, it would have already with all the standalone clients like skype, or the 'cheap long distance' thingies they used to sell at CompUSA.
I don't think a plugin for a browser with ~9% (generous estimates) market share is going to topple the Telco giants any time soon.
But maybe I'm a gloomy gus.
How about a FORTRAN compiler plugin or a plugin to catalog the users collection of anal beads?
Seriously, can we say feature bloat?
The next firefox news I want to here is the news that firefox 1.5 isn't a memory leaking bloated piece of shit under linux. I'm not joking when I say that running IE under wine is faster and more stable on my machine. FF is leaking memory just sitting there doing nothing -- I can see it happen with top.