If Anonymous posts bother you, set them to -6 score in your preferences, and as long as you read posts with your threshold at 0 or more, you'll never see them.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again./. has more than its fair share of mouthbreathers, but compared to most online forum/blog type things out there,/. reads like de Tocqueville in comparison.
So, what you're saying is once machines achieve sentience and creativity, Sweden should better change their copyright rules or a good defense against hordes of autonomous robot warriors?
Eh, I think we all understand that this is a joke. They could get 10 million signatures, and Boll could say "Screw you guys, I'm going to make MORE bad movies!" and I'm not going to be up in arms about it, even though I did sign the petition, because I think it's funny.
Even if it weren't a joke, it's not censorship if he voluntarily does it. It's one thing if I say "I'll quit making movies if you get a million to sign a petition." It's quite another to say "I've got a million to sign a petition that your product should be banned. I'm going to pass a law and ban it."
The cattle guard rule wouldn't be terribly useful in Arizona. There's at least one exit off I-10 south of Phoenix (Riggs Road) that has cattle grids on it. I think that overpass is in Indian land, so that may have something to with it, but it's clearly a publicly accessible place.
Wow, I guess we have our answer. The Mods REALLY hate the Dead Milkmen.
The lesson is learned. One must contain their pop-culture references to the approved Linux, Star Trek, Star Wars, Simpsons, South Park and Zero Wing canon. All else is anathema and must be labeled "Flamebait" so as to not taint the/. culture. If one questions this, one will get further modded Offtopic. By all means, don't fail to disappoint. Do your part and mod this down right away!
Yes. The A&R people find talented musicians and then the record companies drown them in it. It's all part of their business model preservation strategy.
And as a person who used Drupal for the last two years, I can honestly say it's a pretty darn useful framework for creating dynamic websites. Developing modules for it can be a pain, given the way PHP's introspection features are abused to extend it (I shit you not, I once had to deal with a function named "video_cck_video_video" in third-party add-on module. WTF?) instead of using true objects (I hear rumors that will change in Drupal 7). That was sometimes comparable to getting beaten up in the face, but on balance I think the platform saved me a lot of effort. I don't like PHP, but I (mostly) like Drupal and will put up with it in that context.
Funny thing is, copyright and patent law require restrictions on the free market to work at all. By having a law that specifies what one can and cannot do with their own physical property like "you can't type this person's book, print it on your press and sell it", and "no, you can't make that novel device with your own equipment unless you come to an agreement with the patent holder", you ipso facto do not have a free market. A fully free market does indeed settle this issue: They can publish it, we can copy it without repercussions.
Yeah, your question was totally valid and I agree with you. My son is a gamer and I had to explain the "Duke Nukem Forever" joke to him, since the last Duke Nukem game came out when he was three.
His reply was aimed at someone who responded to your post, not your post directly. And it was a fair characterization to make.
FWIW, I'm 40, my wife's 38, and I have a son who is 15. And all three of us are working on hatching a plan to break into Blizzard's offices and horking a developer copy of StarCraft II.:-) We're just one big ol' gamer geek family. These things are not mutually exclusive.
I guess there wasn't a "-1, Don't know WTF you're talking about" mod, so flamebait had to do. It's not a good moderation, but it's not a surprising one.
Netrek wasn't some massive game project written by a major software house looking for VC funds or a buyout from Vivendi. It was real-time multiplayer strategy game written by a various people in the 80s and 90s for the fun of it, and evolved from much earlier games, written for research and/or amusement. Marketing wasn't really the point of it... most who played it were already computer + Star Trek geeks and the name made perfect sense to us. You will find many Unix people who were at a university in the early to mid 90s who have fond memories of it. Sorry you weren't a part of it. That's okay, I never heard of Meridian 59 until I looked at your resume, so we're even, I guess. I'm not a big online gamer, but I played the hell out of Netrek when I worked at a school in the 90s.
But why you're bitching about the name of a game that had its heyday 10+ years ago is beyond me, and I guess that's what drew the moderator's ire. The "net wreck" interpretation was not lost on the players, BTW. When the wartier features got bandied about by the developers, that term got tossed out more than once, and ISTR someone who played in the leagues used it as their nom de plume.
I'm a 40-year-old burnt-out techie, thank you very much.:-P
Personally, I do use Yahoo finance, del.icio.us, and occasionally Yahoo maps (mostly for sanity checking with Google maps). Professionally, for at least the area I work in, Yahoo's geocoding service is better than Google's. I get about 80% address level geocoding with Yahoo, and only about 60% with Google, given the same address data sets (house addresses for real-estate ads).
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If Anonymous posts bother you, set them to -6 score in your preferences, and as long as you read posts with your threshold at 0 or more, you'll never see them.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. /. has more than its fair share of mouthbreathers, but compared to most online forum/blog type things out there, /. reads like de Tocqueville in comparison.
better response: "Went to pub, had 4 porters, found no arrows. Will continue testing for the rest of the week."
So, what you're saying is once machines achieve sentience and creativity, Sweden should better change their copyright rules or a good defense against hordes of autonomous robot warriors?
Eh, I think we all understand that this is a joke. They could get 10 million signatures, and Boll could say "Screw you guys, I'm going to make MORE bad movies!" and I'm not going to be up in arms about it, even though I did sign the petition, because I think it's funny.
Even if it weren't a joke, it's not censorship if he voluntarily does it. It's one thing if I say "I'll quit making movies if you get a million to sign a petition." It's quite another to say "I've got a million to sign a petition that your product should be banned. I'm going to pass a law and ban it."
The cattle guard rule wouldn't be terribly useful in Arizona. There's at least one exit off I-10 south of Phoenix (Riggs Road) that has cattle grids on it. I think that overpass is in Indian land, so that may have something to with it, but it's clearly a publicly accessible place.
You have to admit, as spelling errors go, it was a curiously apt one...
"The Village" is to "A Canticle for Liebowitz" as "Teach yourself HTML in 24 Hours" is to "The Art of Computer Programming".
Wow, I guess we have our answer. The Mods REALLY hate the Dead Milkmen.
The lesson is learned. One must contain their pop-culture references to the approved Linux, Star Trek, Star Wars, Simpsons, South Park and Zero Wing canon. All else is anathema and must be labeled "Flamebait" so as to not taint the /. culture. If one questions this, one will get further modded Offtopic. By all means, don't fail to disappoint. Do your part and mod this down right away!
Flamebait? Or mods who just hate the Dead Milkmen?
These sets are also not completely disjoint. :-)
Case dismissed.
Yes. The A&R people find talented musicians and then the record companies drown them in it. It's all part of their business model preservation strategy.
And as a person who used Drupal for the last two years, I can honestly say it's a pretty darn useful framework for creating dynamic websites. Developing modules for it can be a pain, given the way PHP's introspection features are abused to extend it (I shit you not, I once had to deal with a function named "video_cck_video_video" in third-party add-on module. WTF?) instead of using true objects (I hear rumors that will change in Drupal 7). That was sometimes comparable to getting beaten up in the face, but on balance I think the platform saved me a lot of effort. I don't like PHP, but I (mostly) like Drupal and will put up with it in that context.
While I hate the RIAA bastards, too, I really found this comment hideously offensive.
Do you have any idea how valuable a truck full of blank media is? What a shameless waste.
Funny thing is, copyright and patent law require restrictions on the free market to work at all. By having a law that specifies what one can and cannot do with their own physical property like "you can't type this person's book, print it on your press and sell it", and "no, you can't make that novel device with your own equipment unless you come to an agreement with the patent holder", you ipso facto do not have a free market. A fully free market does indeed settle this issue: They can publish it, we can copy it without repercussions.
Remember, the RIAA tends to go after the sharers, not the downloaders, so they may actually bust you for "sharing" your music with Customs. :-)
Actually, it's anything that matches the regex /14\.9+/, but apparently there's no amount of pedantry that's so small for slashdot, bonehead.
Yeah, your question was totally valid and I agree with you. My son is a gamer and I had to explain the "Duke Nukem Forever" joke to him, since the last Duke Nukem game came out when he was three.
About 2.5 weeks of interest payments to service the debt.
His reply was aimed at someone who responded to your post, not your post directly. And it was a fair characterization to make.
FWIW, I'm 40, my wife's 38, and I have a son who is 15. And all three of us are working on hatching a plan to break into Blizzard's offices and horking a developer copy of StarCraft II. :-) We're just one big ol' gamer geek family. These things are not mutually exclusive.
But if the Bible is the unerring Word of God, surely God wouldn't have said 10 cubits when he meant anywhere from 5 to 14.9 cubits, would he? :-P
I guess there wasn't a "-1, Don't know WTF you're talking about" mod, so flamebait had to do. It's not a good moderation, but it's not a surprising one.
Netrek wasn't some massive game project written by a major software house looking for VC funds or a buyout from Vivendi. It was real-time multiplayer strategy game written by a various people in the 80s and 90s for the fun of it, and evolved from much earlier games, written for research and/or amusement. Marketing wasn't really the point of it... most who played it were already computer + Star Trek geeks and the name made perfect sense to us. You will find many Unix people who were at a university in the early to mid 90s who have fond memories of it. Sorry you weren't a part of it. That's okay, I never heard of Meridian 59 until I looked at your resume, so we're even, I guess. I'm not a big online gamer, but I played the hell out of Netrek when I worked at a school in the 90s.
But why you're bitching about the name of a game that had its heyday 10+ years ago is beyond me, and I guess that's what drew the moderator's ire. The "net wreck" interpretation was not lost on the players, BTW. When the wartier features got bandied about by the developers, that term got tossed out more than once, and ISTR someone who played in the leagues used it as their nom de plume.
I'm a 40-year-old burnt-out techie, thank you very much. :-P
Personally, I do use Yahoo finance, del.icio.us, and occasionally Yahoo maps (mostly for sanity checking with Google maps). Professionally, for at least the area I work in, Yahoo's geocoding service is better than Google's. I get about 80% address level geocoding with Yahoo, and only about 60% with Google, given the same address data sets (house addresses for real-estate ads).
Or as Darl McBride calls it: "going home for the holidays."