Flamebait? I don't get it, mods! I'm a self-described Valve-hater and even I've got to give props here. Maybe not the most original of ideas, but it is a VERY good one and I haven't seen anyone else do it before. And even if I had, it's still a good feature and I'd have to give props to the Halo team if they were to include it as well, even though I also hate that game.
So feel free to -flamebait me too, at least I kind of deserve it. All I'm trying to say is +10 Valve on this one. And now I have to go shower because I feel dirty.
People keep saying this as if it has never occured to them that playing your own stuff IS NOT FUN! It could have a million level editors that let you change and create everything and anything you could think of. It still won't be fun to play because you already know what everything is and where it is.
I used 3DS for a year and a half and hated every minute of it. It's not even that it's hard to learn, it's just annoying and hard to use.
Maya on the other hand actually operates in a sensible way. It took me about two weeks to get to the point where I was far better with Maya than I'd ever been with 3DS.
You probably can't "wrap your head around" Maya because you learned on 3DS where everything is done backwards and non-standard. 3DS teaches people who learn it the wrong things. These guys don't even know what diffusion is because of the "diffuse" setting on the 3DS shaders, which isn't diffuse at all.
This isn't really your fault, there seem to be two kinds of users of 3DS. Those who love it and it just works for them, and all the rest of us, even the ones who sometimes are forced to use it. But it really is a crappy system that's layer upon layer of kludgy bandaid hacks.
And isn't worth much more than a box of Cracker Jack. microsoft tried to game the system by offering an incomplete version of their console to keep from breaking the $300 barrier. Now it's coming back to bite them.
In related news, I'd like to congratulate you for being the ONE guy who managed to abbreviate Hard Disk Drive properly.
I'll have to disagree, learning Maya is WAY easier than learning Blender. Blender is much easier to learn than 3DS Max, however. But that isn't saying much as 3DS is a complete mess. Still not sure how I feel about Blender copying the modifier stack from 3DS, but their implementation does seem to be better (or at least not as bad, yet) as the one in 3DS.
Cool, good thing I've already claimed copyright on the bible in Sweden. I have to go call my lawyer now, a have a feeling I need to sue a TON of people.
Why wouldn't you expect it from microsoft? Seems right in line with fucking over anyone and everyone necessary to push their products, regardless of how few people want it.
BTW, kind off topic. But is the renaming of "personalized homepage" to "iGoogle" part of that unholy alliance between Google and apple? Because if that's the case, then we might very well not be using Google apps and.mac in ten years, we might just be using iGoogle with a mac-y interface.
I have to go now, I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Ok, all the other stuff you mentioned is totally relevent. But sleeping with the wife "before the divorce was finalized"? Once they're separated, who cares? At that point the divorce is just a legal technicality. If anything wouldn't it be more that Reiser would have a motive (jealousy) to frame the other guy?
*AA would just get the US government to take it down with a "killer" satellite. Since the evidence would be knocked off into space, or more likely burn up on re-entry, no one would ever be able to prove a thing... unless of course someone keeps a telescope with camera attached trained on it 24/7...
And this is all great until some stupid error on microsoft's part allows an exploit that circumvents the "protected mode" and then you're just as screwed as if it weren't there in the first place. As history has shown, this WILL occur with windows.
All of these restrictions aren't going to help, they're just going to annoy the user even more before the system gets hosed anyway.
Damn that's cheap! Regular (forget about "premium") tickets around here are at least $9 except for before 6 on a weekday (that's Monday-Thursday now) and the first show on Saturday or Sunday.
Just because garbage doesn't run on Linux isn't a reason to copy it just so it will. Seriously dude, stop shoving crap onto Linux and put your efforts to a good use. People who want to use a mac or windows DO use a mac or windows.
Linux is, and should be, so much more than a poor man's clone of either of these systems. The people who use Linux do so because they like it, not because it's free. If it were just about price any of us could have a "free" copy of windows too.
So please, please, please (we're all begging you!!!) do something constructive with your time, energy, and inexplicable influence. Or at least stop trying to destroy what we've got.
PS We all hate gnome, too. If we wanted the worst of mac combined with the worst of windows we'd just run vista!
I can't believe it took that fool this long to announce that he was going to copy microsoft's crap again. Can't someone please lock this idiot up before he completely turns Linux into a broken, poor-man's windows.
I don't know how he got so influential in the first place, but all he seems to do is copy the worst ideas from windows. That is, when he's not copying the worst ideas from mac.
I can't say I'm surprised that Valve would want in on something like this. But given their horrible record on security and hacking (and not just in their games) I am simply stunned that anyone would let them in on it.
If the users are anything like regular CS players though they'll just keep paying in to get ripped off by cheaters while complaining about all the cheating.
If they take it down it just means they have no balls, because I know both organizations have the financial backing to fight it in court for a long time. Where they WOULD win.
I don't see how it has anything to do with DMCA. I don't even know wtf you're supposed to do with the hex code, and I'm pretty sure it's that method, if anything, that would be in violation of the DMCA.
The kids are going a bit nuts over at digg, but that's what they get for fostering a community of 14 year-olds and then pissing them off.
Short "a" (like "ah") sounds are ALWAYS (or close enough) transliterated as "a" in Asian languages, even if "o" would make more sense for an English word. For instance in anime (note that the e makes the "long a" sound) and manga, which you should at least be familiar with the pronounciation of since you're posting on slashdot, even if you don't like them. It's also the same sound an "a" would make in Spanish.
I think it's actually a tradition of excellent transliteration and stupid Americans that makes it sound wrong.
Vista gives me a headache to use. Something about the popping animation when opening or closing a window. This would be bad enough with the regular over-use of popup dialogs in windows, but it's unbearable with all this "cancel/allow" bullshit.
And I'm pretty sure "normal geeks" (assuming normal == most) LOVE windows, since that's what they're all using. I'd argue that this makes them half-assed geeks as well as idiots, but there it is.
Microsoft loves popups. I had basically not used windows for the past three years until I took a job requiring it last summer. I'd almost forgotten that popup dialogs even existed! Most annoying interface "feature" EVER!
In related news, I hear that Miguel de Icaza has already started work on a version of UAC for Linux.
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Flamebait? I don't get it, mods! I'm a self-described Valve-hater and even I've got to give props here. Maybe not the most original of ideas, but it is a VERY good one and I haven't seen anyone else do it before. And even if I had, it's still a good feature and I'd have to give props to the Halo team if they were to include it as well, even though I also hate that game.
So feel free to -flamebait me too, at least I kind of deserve it. All I'm trying to say is +10 Valve on this one. And now I have to go shower because I feel dirty.
People keep saying this as if it has never occured to them that playing your own stuff IS NOT FUN! It could have a million level editors that let you change and create everything and anything you could think of. It still won't be fun to play because you already know what everything is and where it is.
SUPER MARIO WORLD!!!
I used 3DS for a year and a half and hated every minute of it. It's not even that it's hard to learn, it's just annoying and hard to use.
Maya on the other hand actually operates in a sensible way. It took me about two weeks to get to the point where I was far better with Maya than I'd ever been with 3DS.
You probably can't "wrap your head around" Maya because you learned on 3DS where everything is done backwards and non-standard. 3DS teaches people who learn it the wrong things. These guys don't even know what diffusion is because of the "diffuse" setting on the 3DS shaders, which isn't diffuse at all.
This isn't really your fault, there seem to be two kinds of users of 3DS. Those who love it and it just works for them, and all the rest of us, even the ones who sometimes are forced to use it. But it really is a crappy system that's layer upon layer of kludgy bandaid hacks.
And isn't worth much more than a box of Cracker Jack. microsoft tried to game the system by offering an incomplete version of their console to keep from breaking the $300 barrier. Now it's coming back to bite them.
In related news, I'd like to congratulate you for being the ONE guy who managed to abbreviate Hard Disk Drive properly.
microsoft is to provide support under the agreement. I'll go out on a limb and assume they aren't doing it for free.
I'll have to disagree, learning Maya is WAY easier than learning Blender. Blender is much easier to learn than 3DS Max, however. But that isn't saying much as 3DS is a complete mess. Still not sure how I feel about Blender copying the modifier stack from 3DS, but their implementation does seem to be better (or at least not as bad, yet) as the one in 3DS.
Cool, good thing I've already claimed copyright on the bible in Sweden. I have to go call my lawyer now, a have a feeling I need to sue a TON of people.
Why wouldn't you expect it from microsoft? Seems right in line with fucking over anyone and everyone necessary to push their products, regardless of how few people want it.
BTW, kind off topic. But is the renaming of "personalized homepage" to "iGoogle" part of that unholy alliance between Google and apple? Because if that's the case, then we might very well not be using Google apps and .mac in ten years, we might just be using iGoogle with a mac-y interface.
I have to go now, I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Ok, all the other stuff you mentioned is totally relevent. But sleeping with the wife "before the divorce was finalized"? Once they're separated, who cares? At that point the divorce is just a legal technicality. If anything wouldn't it be more that Reiser would have a motive (jealousy) to frame the other guy?
Ok, so this is kind of like a Chevy. The pizza place around the corner is like a Ford. And...
*AA would just get the US government to take it down with a "killer" satellite. Since the evidence would be knocked off into space, or more likely burn up on re-entry, no one would ever be able to prove a thing... unless of course someone keeps a telescope with camera attached trained on it 24/7...
And this is all great until some stupid error on microsoft's part allows an exploit that circumvents the "protected mode" and then you're just as screwed as if it weren't there in the first place. As history has shown, this WILL occur with windows.
All of these restrictions aren't going to help, they're just going to annoy the user even more before the system gets hosed anyway.
We can only hope.
Damn that's cheap! Regular (forget about "premium") tickets around here are at least $9 except for before 6 on a weekday (that's Monday-Thursday now) and the first show on Saturday or Sunday.
Just because garbage doesn't run on Linux isn't a reason to copy it just so it will. Seriously dude, stop shoving crap onto Linux and put your efforts to a good use. People who want to use a mac or windows DO use a mac or windows.
Linux is, and should be, so much more than a poor man's clone of either of these systems. The people who use Linux do so because they like it, not because it's free. If it were just about price any of us could have a "free" copy of windows too.
So please, please, please (we're all begging you!!!) do something constructive with your time, energy, and inexplicable influence. Or at least stop trying to destroy what we've got.
PS We all hate gnome, too. If we wanted the worst of mac combined with the worst of windows we'd just run vista!
Did he do something before gnome that would lead you to believe he ever found his way in the first place?
I can't believe it took that fool this long to announce that he was going to copy microsoft's crap again. Can't someone please lock this idiot up before he completely turns Linux into a broken, poor-man's windows.
I don't know how he got so influential in the first place, but all he seems to do is copy the worst ideas from windows. That is, when he's not copying the worst ideas from mac.
I can't say I'm surprised that Valve would want in on something like this. But given their horrible record on security and hacking (and not just in their games) I am simply stunned that anyone would let them in on it.
If the users are anything like regular CS players though they'll just keep paying in to get ripped off by cheaters while complaining about all the cheating.
If they take it down it just means they have no balls, because I know both organizations have the financial backing to fight it in court for a long time. Where they WOULD win.
I don't see how it has anything to do with DMCA. I don't even know wtf you're supposed to do with the hex code, and I'm pretty sure it's that method, if anything, that would be in violation of the DMCA.
The kids are going a bit nuts over at digg, but that's what they get for fostering a community of 14 year-olds and then pissing them off.
Short "a" (like "ah") sounds are ALWAYS (or close enough) transliterated as "a" in Asian languages, even if "o" would make more sense for an English word. For instance in anime (note that the e makes the "long a" sound) and manga, which you should at least be familiar with the pronounciation of since you're posting on slashdot, even if you don't like them. It's also the same sound an "a" would make in Spanish.
I think it's actually a tradition of excellent transliteration and stupid Americans that makes it sound wrong.
Vista gives me a headache to use. Something about the popping animation when opening or closing a window. This would be bad enough with the regular over-use of popup dialogs in windows, but it's unbearable with all this "cancel/allow" bullshit.
And I'm pretty sure "normal geeks" (assuming normal == most) LOVE windows, since that's what they're all using. I'd argue that this makes them half-assed geeks as well as idiots, but there it is.
Microsoft loves popups. I had basically not used windows for the past three years until I took a job requiring it last summer. I'd almost forgotten that popup dialogs even existed! Most annoying interface "feature" EVER!
In related news, I hear that Miguel de Icaza has already started work on a version of UAC for Linux.
"Moral" is so subjective as to be useless. It just sounds childish when you people say it.
Can we get the hard science discussion of intellectual property rights already?