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..but still I can't get ANY form of broadband. And I'm not even living in the sticks - I live in a fairly large English town, which the government had the nerve to dub "IP-City", even though 90% of it lacks any form of connectivity above 56K. I know this is offtopic, but damn it, when I sit here with a connection which I pay more than broadband for, which also ties up the phone line and disconnects every 2 hours, I feel real mad and need to rant about it. Oh, and from my window I can see the BT lab where they develop new and exciting broadband technologies, and then fail to deploy them anywhere near.
This is what you get when you keep on electing a government led by a snivelling weasel who won't do anything unless Bush tells him to first.
Great work, I am looking forward to playing it.
I have a small suggestion though - how about preparing a smaller media/game data pack, perhaps with the music/fmv ripped out so that this is more managable for dial up users? Also, people who have never played the game before may want to just try it out, but aren't prepared to download 140megs worth of data..
"Wow. Thanks to Fark.com, I've gone from 15 page views (mostly mine) to almost 5,000 in about 24 hours."
I get the feeling that that will soon change to "Wow. Thanks to slashdot.org, I've done from having a working server to an overloaded-to-buggery one in about 5 minutes.".
Well, no. Posting a criticism against something in the hope that I can find out other people's opinions (and it worked) is not the same as stamping my feet on the ground and screaming like a kid because I can't get my own way. Valuable posting space? Do you really think that other people will miss important posts because of this single thread?
It's not so much the amount of M$ stories, but the ratio of anti-M$ stories to anti-other-stuff stories. Of course, I'm not a fan of M$, but I believe that the war would be won a lot more quickly if the advantages and disadvantages from both sides were pointed out and weighed/discussed.
Come on Slashdot editors, the whole reporting-on-M$'s-every-move thing is getting REALLY old now. Do you realise that the people who are capable of thinking for theirselves are generally rolling their eyes at almost every headline posted? Why don't you try being a little less biased, and maybe we won't think you are all whining geeks. Sure, nothing wrong with being a geek, as long as you embody some of the positive qualities rather than all of the negative ones.
Moderators: Mod me down all you like, but perhaps a better use of your time would be to reply with constructive criticism.
Fair point. I guess it depends on how you define dead. As long as people still have DOS installed on a small partition on their hard disk for whatever reason, it's not entirely dead, IMO. But of course it would be ridiculous to say that it's still alive and kicking as a modern operating system solution. It's out of the running, certainly, and has been for a long, long time.
As long as I want to the original versions of games like Arkanoid, Doom, Quake - DOS is NOT dead. There are also plenty of games which exist only on DOS and have not been ported to modern OSes.
You are a sad, arrogant case. You really do appear to have personal relation problems.
Clearly you care more about points and moderation than a normal person should. You just WON'T accept the fact that the word principal is barely ever used in my country, if it even exists in our dictionary at all. Do you expect me to check each and every word I write here against dictionary definitions? You certainly implied that. Irrationality isn't going to get you far in life (isn't this your cue to state about how amazingly successful you have been and how far you have got in life? It would certainly be in character.). Of course, if you regularly assumed that I don't understand what the "..." means - yet another poor assumption from your oh-so-enlightened self. I know what it means, I also know that if you have the audacity to go around correcting other people's posts then you should CERTAINLY be using perfect English elsewhere.
Yes, as I already pointed out, I briefly checked over some of your posts, which is a fair thing to do before you're about to flame somebody. It took me all of 60 seconds, so turning that around to use as flame-material against me just isn't going to work. Oh, and the check was certainly worth it - what should I find, but you correcting other people's grammar. Certainly seems to be a hobby for people who can't actually write a meaningful post.
You can 'argue' against me all you like, but as long as you carry on with the blind retorts and poor wit, you won't be helping your case.
Heh, sorta waiving your anonymity by adding the URL to your site, there.
I didn't realise that so many other people had been shafted by lik-sang. From what I'd heard, my own experiences, friend's experiences etc., lik-sang have been nothing but helpful. Though I expect as with any company, it only takes a single bad rep, customer service guy or lost order to give a bad impression.
There are a few things I'd like you to understand:
1) Nobody likes a punctuator. If you really have nothing better to say then you're even more of a dull person than you make yourself out to be.
2) It has already been pointed out by another person with too much time on their hands that I used the wrong form of principal. Maybe certain shut-ins should try reading entire threads before they waste their time.
3) I explained above (again, try reading the post) that I would have normally not have used the American term for school heads. To me it's "headmaster", but I wanted to comform to the masses, the Americans, so that they wouldn't get confused. Now, again, if you read above you'd see that I'd NEVER used the word before, so it is an acceptable mistake to use the wrong form. Perhaps I've only ever seen it written by other people who also happened to get it wrong? Do you see how it's not a big deal?
4) For the love of God, GET A GIRLFRIEND.
5) Briefly looking at some of your other comments, you seem to think that "..." at the end of most sentences is good English. I do hope somebody laughs at you for it one day.
Actually, I'm from the UK, but used American terms as to not confuse them all.
Having never used the word before, I'd say it's fair to have spelt it incorrectly.
"Their legal actions have been hurting our customers and our business a lot"
That's something you don't see often - they mentioned customers first. Lik-Sang really are great, and I'm personally glad to see them sticking it to the man.
Reminds me of when I was a lot younger and the only net access I had was from the school library. I was banned, my parents were phoned, and I had to see the principle because they would log every hostname resolved and if they found anything suspicious, they would ban you. I explained at least 10 times that it isn't my fault if a perfectly reasonable site on a free host had a porn advertisement on it.
I argued with the principle for 15 minutes. He'd just repeat "You were accessing bad Internet numbers.". I tried so hard to explain about the concept of images residing under different hosts being shown in innocent web pages, yet he wouldn't listen. I then explained that he should probably learn to understand the technology before punishing me for using it. That didn't get through to him at all. I soon found myself explaining to him that I was amazed that somebody so ignorant, arrogant and most of all retardedly stupid could become the principle of a high school. So I got suspended.
2 months later I had to see the principle again. "Please design the school webpage for us..".
Wow, an article on Slashdot about somebody switching to Linux. Don't see that everyday.
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I've heard of an emulated Amiga running Linux under SOME version of UAE. I think it may have been WinUAE.
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How about installing Linux on an XBox, running Bochs on it, installing Linux onto the Bochs machine, running Virtual PC under Wine, installing Windows 98 on Virtual PC, running WinUae on it, installing Linux onto the emulated Amiga, running Bochs on the emulated Amiga...
OR you could go out and have sex with a woman, one with breasts and everything.
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..but still I can't get ANY form of broadband. And I'm not even living in the sticks - I live in a fairly large English town, which the government had the nerve to dub "IP-City", even though 90% of it lacks any form of connectivity above 56K. I know this is offtopic, but damn it, when I sit here with a connection which I pay more than broadband for, which also ties up the phone line and disconnects every 2 hours, I feel real mad and need to rant about it. Oh, and from my window I can see the BT lab where they develop new and exciting broadband technologies, and then fail to deploy them anywhere near.
This is what you get when you keep on electing a government led by a snivelling weasel who won't do anything unless Bush tells him to first.
You're confusing it with an Atari.
Great work, I am looking forward to playing it.
I have a small suggestion though - how about preparing a smaller media/game data pack, perhaps with the music/fmv ripped out so that this is more managable for dial up users? Also, people who have never played the game before may want to just try it out, but aren't prepared to download 140megs worth of data..
OK, so I wasn't the 3rd person to make that joke at the time of submitting.. guess I took too long.
"Wow. Thanks to Fark.com, I've gone from 15 page views (mostly mine) to almost 5,000 in about 24 hours."
I get the feeling that that will soon change to "Wow. Thanks to slashdot.org, I've done from having a working server to an overloaded-to-buggery one in about 5 minutes.".
Nice brickin', though.
Well, no. Posting a criticism against something in the hope that I can find out other people's opinions (and it worked) is not the same as stamping my feet on the ground and screaming like a kid because I can't get my own way. Valuable posting space? Do you really think that other people will miss important posts because of this single thread?
All very true. I guess with most people it's just a quest for karma around here..
It's not so much the amount of M$ stories, but the ratio of anti-M$ stories to anti-other-stuff stories. Of course, I'm not a fan of M$, but I believe that the war would be won a lot more quickly if the advantages and disadvantages from both sides were pointed out and weighed/discussed.
Come on Slashdot editors, the whole reporting-on-M$'s-every-move thing is getting REALLY old now. Do you realise that the people who are capable of thinking for theirselves are generally rolling their eyes at almost every headline posted? Why don't you try being a little less biased, and maybe we won't think you are all whining geeks. Sure, nothing wrong with being a geek, as long as you embody some of the positive qualities rather than all of the negative ones.
Moderators: Mod me down all you like, but perhaps a better use of your time would be to reply with constructive criticism.
Well, I won't need to change your settings, you've already done it.
Fair point. I guess it depends on how you define dead. As long as people still have DOS installed on a small partition on their hard disk for whatever reason, it's not entirely dead, IMO. But of course it would be ridiculous to say that it's still alive and kicking as a modern operating system solution. It's out of the running, certainly, and has been for a long, long time.
As long as I want to the original versions of games like Arkanoid, Doom, Quake - DOS is NOT dead. There are also plenty of games which exist only on DOS and have not been ported to modern OSes.
You are a sad, arrogant case. You really do appear to have personal relation problems.
Clearly you care more about points and moderation than a normal person should. You just WON'T accept the fact that the word principal is barely ever used in my country, if it even exists in our dictionary at all. Do you expect me to check each and every word I write here against dictionary definitions? You certainly implied that. Irrationality isn't going to get you far in life (isn't this your cue to state about how amazingly successful you have been and how far you have got in life? It would certainly be in character.). Of course, if you regularly assumed that I don't understand what the "..." means - yet another poor assumption from your oh-so-enlightened self. I know what it means, I also know that if you have the audacity to go around correcting other people's posts then you should CERTAINLY be using perfect English elsewhere.
Yes, as I already pointed out, I briefly checked over some of your posts, which is a fair thing to do before you're about to flame somebody. It took me all of 60 seconds, so turning that around to use as flame-material against me just isn't going to work. Oh, and the check was certainly worth it - what should I find, but you correcting other people's grammar. Certainly seems to be a hobby for people who can't actually write a meaningful post.
You can 'argue' against me all you like, but as long as you carry on with the blind retorts and poor wit, you won't be helping your case.
Heh, sorta waiving your anonymity by adding the URL to your site, there.
I didn't realise that so many other people had been shafted by lik-sang. From what I'd heard, my own experiences, friend's experiences etc., lik-sang have been nothing but helpful. Though I expect as with any company, it only takes a single bad rep, customer service guy or lost order to give a bad impression.
There are a few things I'd like you to understand:
1) Nobody likes a punctuator. If you really have nothing better to say then you're even more of a dull person than you make yourself out to be.
2) It has already been pointed out by another person with too much time on their hands that I used the wrong form of principal. Maybe certain shut-ins should try reading entire threads before they waste their time.
3) I explained above (again, try reading the post) that I would have normally not have used the American term for school heads. To me it's "headmaster", but I wanted to comform to the masses, the Americans, so that they wouldn't get confused. Now, again, if you read above you'd see that I'd NEVER used the word before, so it is an acceptable mistake to use the wrong form. Perhaps I've only ever seen it written by other people who also happened to get it wrong? Do you see how it's not a big deal?
4) For the love of God, GET A GIRLFRIEND.
5) Briefly looking at some of your other comments, you seem to think that "..." at the end of most sentences is good English. I do hope somebody laughs at you for it one day.
Actually, I'm from the UK, but used American terms as to not confuse them all. Having never used the word before, I'd say it's fair to have spelt it incorrectly.
"Their legal actions have been hurting our customers and our business a lot"
That's something you don't see often - they mentioned customers first. Lik-Sang really are great, and I'm personally glad to see them sticking it to the man.
No, I was too busy looking at porn.
Reminds me of when I was a lot younger and the only net access I had was from the school library. I was banned, my parents were phoned, and I had to see the principle because they would log every hostname resolved and if they found anything suspicious, they would ban you. I explained at least 10 times that it isn't my fault if a perfectly reasonable site on a free host had a porn advertisement on it.
I argued with the principle for 15 minutes. He'd just repeat "You were accessing bad Internet numbers.". I tried so hard to explain about the concept of images residing under different hosts being shown in innocent web pages, yet he wouldn't listen. I then explained that he should probably learn to understand the technology before punishing me for using it. That didn't get through to him at all. I soon found myself explaining to him that I was amazed that somebody so ignorant, arrogant and most of all retardedly stupid could become the principle of a high school. So I got suspended.
2 months later I had to see the principle again. "Please design the school webpage for us..".
Yeah! Indian people! That's funny!
oh yeh cuz he iz indian too lmao
'tard.
Wow, an article on Slashdot about somebody switching to Linux. Don't see that everyday.
I've heard of an emulated Amiga running Linux under SOME version of UAE. I think it may have been WinUAE.
How about installing Linux on an XBox, running Bochs on it, installing Linux onto the Bochs machine, running Virtual PC under Wine, installing Windows 98 on Virtual PC, running WinUae on it, installing Linux onto the emulated Amiga, running Bochs on the emulated Amiga...
OR you could go out and have sex with a woman, one with breasts and everything.
You should probably note that the word is "reference".