How much do you like breathing smog? You must like it a lot. Try sticking your head behind a car's tailpipe and see how long you can stay there. Oh wait, that's right, you never go outside anyway.
No way. This is a very bad idea, and I strongly oppose it. I do not get spam. I do not want to pay for emails I send, because other people #1 give out their email addresses to untrusted sources, #2 have emails with a serviceprovider who gives their emails to other "trusted" sources, #3 have email addresses which are easily randomly generated. If you get an outrageous amount of spam, it's no fault but your own.
Yes, but you must realize something. There comes a time, when you cannot do much more to improve word processing. Adding bloat and "eyecandy" (and "artistic features") does not make a product higher quality. There is nothing, I repeat NOTHING that Microsoft Word does that other word processors cannot do. In some ways, other word processors even do a better job. The problem as I see it, is when companies get greedy. Yes, they want to hold on to their power. But this is reality, not a game. People need to get things done, and just keeping them locked into a single product to which they have to pay outrageous amounts of money to use is not right. Yes, principles matter. Yes, there is such thing as ethics. Some people would rather there was no such thing as ethics, or principles. But without them, things look bleak for the individual.
Er, it's not the people in the media that are stupid. They are extremely intelligent. What is stupid is that the media thinks (well, not thinks, but knows...it's true) that low-level type stuff (violence, murder, blood, babies dying etc.) make people pay attention and watch the news. So, they pander to the lowest and basest elements of humanity to increase their ratings. Most of the people in the media actually don't make that choice. It's the editors/managers/higherup people who make those desicions, because they want to keep money...The others do it so they don't lose their job and end up on the street, with their name blacklisted. It's a scary world out there.
Excellent points. I couldn't agree more. This obsession with DNA is like the obsession of a child with a complex machine. The child decides to stick his hand in the machine to see what happens...
These things are too massive to even start playing with them. We're talking about the biosphere of an entire planet, not to mention hundreds of millions of years of evolution. If they continue on this route, I see humans becoming incredibly strong..and yet incredibly weak at the same time. We will introduce the possibility of "super" viruses running around. Viruses that are a result of mutations/living in the host who has been genetically engineered, wreaking havoc. By manipulating genes, as you said, you may take out a support beam in a structure designed to protect the human. There is nothing wrong with us, there is no reason to make us "super" beings.
Sheesh people, go put some effort into it and do it the old fashioned way...get some exercise =P
It's great to see such an awesome game being released for free. This was the second GTA I played (I played gta2 first) and I must say that this one was a much different experience. Besides that, I feel that other gaming companies should follow this initiative and release free, "modern" updated versions, like this one, of classic games (Wolf3D, monster bash, commander keen, etc. come to mind...Man, those were the days!) There are a lot of good classic games that are in need of an update. Besides, isn't part of programming updating the software you write?
Oh well, since most of them won't make money by doing it, probably they won't...but here's some wishful thinking;)
This would completely change the face of war...Now, not only can whole cities be vaporized in a second, but we can turn hundreds of enemy combatants into quivering piles of mush at a whim. What kind of a war would it be if both sides had such powerful weapons? Why is it that people are obsessed with our own destruction? Frankly, it's extremely disappointing and depressing.
I don't see how you could like the NES metroid, and not like Metroid prime. I really don't think naysayers will come out of the woodwork, unless maybe they never played metroid before, and don't like that style of game.
Wow. There were a lot of double negatives in that paragraph;)
Yeh, but who cares about longhorn? Win2k is just fine, if you're on linux, you'll be fine with a copy of win2k (Hey, who knows, in a few years it might go for $50! w00t). I can't imagine that MS would tell their programmers to code their programs so they don't work with older operating systems. Man people with win2k/xp/98/95/me would be PISSED (myself included) all that money down the TUBES and then I have to pay even MORE for an operating system that doesn't give me that much improvement in return! Microsoft has to be careful.
Sheesh, I'd buy it just for that! The heat dissapation must be not too much. The cooling would be minimal, no loud whines in the machine! Damn. I'd like to be able to play around with a system that has these chips, and test it out for myself.
Hmm, so would open source make it easier for a standardized system to propogate to other agencies? I'm not familiar with the programs that they use, so I don't know if that would be feasible; however, I feel it might make it easier for standards to be kept, if they all see and use the same source code, and don't go to different vendors on the whim of an administrator.
Erm..That's the whole spirit of email thoguh isn't it? It's quick, easy...No hassle. Sure, if you sign up with providers who are targeted by spammers, you're going to get spam (I.e. people should NOT use AOL if they don't want spam). I use yahoo, and I get maybe one unwanted piece of spam a week (usually that damn nigeria one). All this trusted computing seems to be losing more than you're gaining. Email was never designed to be like telephones; the design and usage is completely different. Now, if someone could develop a painless protocol to verify senders, then I would be all for it. Perhaps we could have a server-side "trusted email address" list, so that trusted emails get first priority, but other email addresses don't get processed unless the email server is idle, or maybe the untrusted email addresses would get a bandwidth limit placed upon them, for the whole server. This of course would include a server-side email block list (which I guess could get extremely large with all those faked email addresses...*Sigh* I don't know much about that stuff)
We started thinking about the future when we realized the technology was there so that we didn't ever have to do any work, again. Oh yeah, wouldn't that rock? Having everything done for us, so we could escape the toil of life and have some fun?
That's what the industrial revolution promised. Instead, it's created the greatest soul-sucking mechanism in our history, at least in the U.S... Europeans get 9 weeks...9 WEEKS of vacation. We get how many? And, they don't even have 40 hour work weeks. What will it be like when the "worker drone" jokes aren't jokes anymore, and we work 60 hours a week, just to pay rent? It seems that technology creates more work, than alleviating it. Some may think this is good. But how long can we stay sane?
Now, whoever says this doesn't stifle innovation...
Seriously, it's obvious this company has no intention to allow people to choose what operating system they use. Sure, Microsoft can choose to not be engaged in a product. But they damn better have OpenGL come with their OS. For god sakes, it's open, they don't have to pay anything for it do they?
Yet another thing to hate about Microsoft. IMHO, OpenGL seems to perform better on my machine than Direct3D (Although that may be because I have an NVIDIA card) Direct3D is a good language, but what use is a thing that is only useful in one API???
Just like you said "Yeah, riiight" to Intel's decision to not be backwards compatibile with the 32bit chipset? I think Microsoft is serious. They are taking a gamble..That people will be willing to spend money for new systems in order to get their next great product. I hate them for this. They are forcing people to upgrade, simply because if people don't upgrade, they won't want to buy new Microsoft OS and Microsoft brand products and Microsoft supported products (Hey, I still know people who use and love windows 98, and never want to change.) I don't think microsoft should force everyone to pay money for new computers and OS every 3 or 2 years. Bah. Go to hell microsoft.
Those damn news sites! Why don't they ever have pictures of cool stuff?????? Man, I want to see these little guys zipping around, maybe an avi =)))))) Sounds like the ultimate geek toy.
Well, I feel it might be that Miyamoto is referring to the ease with which you control the player on the screen. SMB you had four buttons (start select A B) and directional arrows. The simplistic interface makes the game intuitive (at first) and easy to use (at first) though the game has a very steep curve towards the later parts of the game. You have to get really good. But the cool thing is, there isn't the mindless "point-and-click" It's more about timing. Modern console games have made it certainly more complicated (with a bajillion buttons) but there's still that synchronicity that happens that is very cool, and is very important for making a game fun. It's not the spiffy graphics that necessarily make a game fun. I found games like NWN and DS to be fun at first, but after the nth repetitive level with the nth repetitive bad guys, it lost it's appeal (also the fact that the games themselves were incredibly easy, IMO.)
It is quite nice that the BSA rep did apologize, but personally I think they were just covering their ass, not being nice. They routinely use scare tactics (Isn't that all they do anyway? They don't really have the force of the law) and it seems like someone goofed on their end by making a lazy, half-assed script to search for stuff. I just wish they would go mind their own business and stop sticking their noses in everyone elses.
Wheee here's another windows! I bet it will be even more riddled with security holes than windows xp was. When will people stop buying new windows products? Don't they see that microsoft isn't interested in releasing quality products? All Microsoft wants is your money. Stick with win2k, a halfway decent OS.
Oh, dressing up windows in new clothes every two years is not worth $200. I'm quite capable of managing my own picture/movie/music collection by myself, thank you very much Microsoft. I want the OS to be as simple and non-invasive as possible. And it does not appear that this is the route Microsoft is taking. They are trying to make windows users like AOL users...heh, doing everything for you, coddling you the whole way...
Maybe some users like being patronized in such an insulting way by Microsoft, but I like to do things myself.
The XP interface is cluttered and annoying, I find all emulations of it to be disturbing. The win2k interface is much more pure and less eyecandy. I'm not running windows to be entertained. I'm running it to do work. XP reminds me of a baby's toy.
Well, this is quite interesting. We could create biomass in the atmosphere, and let it generate Ozone up there, using biological technology. I bet it would work!
The bolded text is what the script must have caught! how hilarious! it searches for *MS*OFFICE* LOL What a lame script! whoever wrote that script needs to be shot!
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How much do you like breathing smog? You must like it a lot. Try sticking your head behind a car's tailpipe and see how long you can stay there. Oh wait, that's right, you never go outside anyway.
No way. This is a very bad idea, and I strongly oppose it. I do not get spam. I do not want to pay for emails I send, because other people #1 give out their email addresses to untrusted sources, #2 have emails with a serviceprovider who gives their emails to other "trusted" sources, #3 have email addresses which are easily randomly generated. If you get an outrageous amount of spam, it's no fault but your own.
Just tell me one thing. If it's not about the oil, why aren't we attacking North Korea? That insane maniac is worse than Saddam Hussein.
Yes, but you must realize something. There comes a time, when you cannot do much more to improve word processing. Adding bloat and "eyecandy" (and "artistic features") does not make a product higher quality. There is nothing, I repeat NOTHING that Microsoft Word does that other word processors cannot do. In some ways, other word processors even do a better job. The problem as I see it, is when companies get greedy. Yes, they want to hold on to their power. But this is reality, not a game. People need to get things done, and just keeping them locked into a single product to which they have to pay outrageous amounts of money to use is not right. Yes, principles matter. Yes, there is such thing as ethics. Some people would rather there was no such thing as ethics, or principles. But without them, things look bleak for the individual.
As you can tell, I'm slightly dyslexic. =P
Er, it's not the people in the media that are stupid. They are extremely intelligent. What is stupid is that the media thinks (well, not thinks, but knows...it's true) that low-level type stuff (violence, murder, blood, babies dying etc.) make people pay attention and watch the news. So, they pander to the lowest and basest elements of humanity to increase their ratings. Most of the people in the media actually don't make that choice. It's the editors/managers/higherup people who make those desicions, because they want to keep money...The others do it so they don't lose their job and end up on the street, with their name blacklisted. It's a scary world out there.
These things are too massive to even start playing with them. We're talking about the biosphere of an entire planet, not to mention hundreds of millions of years of evolution. If they continue on this route, I see humans becoming incredibly strong..and yet incredibly weak at the same time. We will introduce the possibility of "super" viruses running around. Viruses that are a result of mutations/living in the host who has been genetically engineered, wreaking havoc. By manipulating genes, as you said, you may take out a support beam in a structure designed to protect the human. There is nothing wrong with us, there is no reason to make us "super" beings.
Sheesh people, go put some effort into it and do it the old fashioned way...get some exercise =P
Oh well, since most of them won't make money by doing it, probably they won't...but here's some wishful thinking ;)
This would completely change the face of war...Now, not only can whole cities be vaporized in a second, but we can turn hundreds of enemy combatants into quivering piles of mush at a whim. What kind of a war would it be if both sides had such powerful weapons? Why is it that people are obsessed with our own destruction? Frankly, it's extremely disappointing and depressing.
Wow. There were a lot of double negatives in that paragraph ;)
Yeh, but who cares about longhorn? Win2k is just fine, if you're on linux, you'll be fine with a copy of win2k (Hey, who knows, in a few years it might go for $50! w00t). I can't imagine that MS would tell their programmers to code their programs so they don't work with older operating systems. Man people with win2k/xp/98/95/me would be PISSED (myself included) all that money down the TUBES and then I have to pay even MORE for an operating system that doesn't give me that much improvement in return! Microsoft has to be careful.
Sheesh, I'd buy it just for that! The heat dissapation must be not too much. The cooling would be minimal, no loud whines in the machine! Damn. I'd like to be able to play around with a system that has these chips, and test it out for myself.
Hmm, so would open source make it easier for a standardized system to propogate to other agencies? I'm not familiar with the programs that they use, so I don't know if that would be feasible; however, I feel it might make it easier for standards to be kept, if they all see and use the same source code, and don't go to different vendors on the whim of an administrator.
Erm..That's the whole spirit of email thoguh isn't it? It's quick, easy...No hassle. Sure, if you sign up with providers who are targeted by spammers, you're going to get spam (I.e. people should NOT use AOL if they don't want spam). I use yahoo, and I get maybe one unwanted piece of spam a week (usually that damn nigeria one). All this trusted computing seems to be losing more than you're gaining. Email was never designed to be like telephones; the design and usage is completely different. Now, if someone could develop a painless protocol to verify senders, then I would be all for it. Perhaps we could have a server-side "trusted email address" list, so that trusted emails get first priority, but other email addresses don't get processed unless the email server is idle, or maybe the untrusted email addresses would get a bandwidth limit placed upon them, for the whole server. This of course would include a server-side email block list (which I guess could get extremely large with all those faked email addresses...*Sigh* I don't know much about that stuff)
That's what the industrial revolution promised. Instead, it's created the greatest soul-sucking mechanism in our history, at least in the U.S... Europeans get 9 weeks...9 WEEKS of vacation. We get how many? And, they don't even have 40 hour work weeks. What will it be like when the "worker drone" jokes aren't jokes anymore, and we work 60 hours a week, just to pay rent? It seems that technology creates more work, than alleviating it. Some may think this is good. But how long can we stay sane?
Seriously, it's obvious this company has no intention to allow people to choose what operating system they use. Sure, Microsoft can choose to not be engaged in a product. But they damn better have OpenGL come with their OS. For god sakes, it's open, they don't have to pay anything for it do they?
Yet another thing to hate about Microsoft. IMHO, OpenGL seems to perform better on my machine than Direct3D (Although that may be because I have an NVIDIA card) Direct3D is a good language, but what use is a thing that is only useful in one API???
Just like you said "Yeah, riiight" to Intel's decision to not be backwards compatibile with the 32bit chipset? I think Microsoft is serious. They are taking a gamble..That people will be willing to spend money for new systems in order to get their next great product. I hate them for this. They are forcing people to upgrade, simply because if people don't upgrade, they won't want to buy new Microsoft OS and Microsoft brand products and Microsoft supported products (Hey, I still know people who use and love windows 98, and never want to change.) I don't think microsoft should force everyone to pay money for new computers and OS every 3 or 2 years. Bah. Go to hell microsoft.
Those damn news sites! Why don't they ever have pictures of cool stuff?????? Man, I want to see these little guys zipping around, maybe an avi =)))))) Sounds like the ultimate geek toy.
Well, I feel it might be that Miyamoto is referring to the ease with which you control the player on the screen. SMB you had four buttons (start select A B) and directional arrows. The simplistic interface makes the game intuitive (at first) and easy to use (at first) though the game has a very steep curve towards the later parts of the game. You have to get really good. But the cool thing is, there isn't the mindless "point-and-click" It's more about timing. Modern console games have made it certainly more complicated (with a bajillion buttons) but there's still that synchronicity that happens that is very cool, and is very important for making a game fun. It's not the spiffy graphics that necessarily make a game fun. I found games like NWN and DS to be fun at first, but after the nth repetitive level with the nth repetitive bad guys, it lost it's appeal (also the fact that the games themselves were incredibly easy, IMO.)
It is quite nice that the BSA rep did apologize, but personally I think they were just covering their ass, not being nice. They routinely use scare tactics (Isn't that all they do anyway? They don't really have the force of the law) and it seems like someone goofed on their end by making a lazy, half-assed script to search for stuff. I just wish they would go mind their own business and stop sticking their noses in everyone elses.
Oh, dressing up windows in new clothes every two years is not worth $200. I'm quite capable of managing my own picture/movie/music collection by myself, thank you very much Microsoft. I want the OS to be as simple and non-invasive as possible. And it does not appear that this is the route Microsoft is taking. They are trying to make windows users like AOL users...heh, doing everything for you, coddling you the whole way...
Maybe some users like being patronized in such an insulting way by Microsoft, but I like to do things myself.
The XP interface is cluttered and annoying, I find all emulations of it to be disturbing. The win2k interface is much more pure and less eyecandy. I'm not running windows to be entertained. I'm running it to do work. XP reminds me of a baby's toy.
Mods, I noticed something odd. There are posts on here for "No War in Iraq" How did this happen? This has nothing to do with Iraq.
Well, this is quite interesting. We could create biomass in the atmosphere, and let it generate Ozone up there, using biological technology. I bet it would work!
What was located as infringing content: /mandrake_current/SRPMS/OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk. src.rpm
(199,643kb)
Filename:
Filename: /mandrake_current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/OpenOffice.or g-libs-1.0.1-9mdk.i586.rpm
(35,444kb)
Notice the line:
Filename: /mandrake_current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/OpenOffice.or g-libs-1.0.1-9mdk.i586.rpm
(35,444kb)
The bolded text is what the script must have caught! how hilarious! it searches for *MS*OFFICE* LOL What a lame script! whoever wrote that script needs to be shot!