That reminds me of something I heard somewhere regarding the use of mobile (cell-) phones in Petrol (Gas) stations. They always say not to use them, and it was always said that this was because there is a small chance that the radiation could ignite the stored petrol. But I heard that it is actually because the radiation can reset the counter of money you owe to 0, hence fiddling the amount you have to pay! Don't know how much of any of it is true though...
Serious Sam, Deus Ex (can't remember if the original got ported after), Half-Life (and its mods), C&C: Generals, Baldur's Gate 2, X-COM, BF:1942. I would name more but I'm trying to stick to ones that where only on PC (as far as I'm aware). In return I grant you Metal Slug, Sonic, and Streets of Rage as wins for the console;-)
I'll bite. If you already have the PC anyway then its gaming on a PC I already have ($0) or buying a console ($200). Also, how do you get mods for games on console? Or shareware/freeware/open source games on consoles? What about the fact that the graphics are better quality on a PC?
Oh and btw - doesn't laptop use on planes cause problems with navigation equipment? Or is it just during take-off and landing that its problematic?
If you can't put out an interesting argument on why it's better beyond it's cool and I am in control, well, you ain't that elite, either;-)
Regardless of whether you are a troll (hey, the AC thing always makes me wonder!) those two reasons are enough for me. My linux box doesn't fall over and is easy enough to upgrade. So I'm happy.
I build everything from source, from the stage2 (I think, poss. stage 1) bootstrap. It combines the best of both worlds because it allows building from source automatically. Personally I like it because I was driven away from binary package managers by RPMs, but stayed with Gentoo because building from source appeals to me.
Germany demanding the removal of every website which mentions the words "Nazi" or "World War II"
AFAIK, Germany is only against misrepresenting the facts of the war and holocaust (such as denying the holocaust or misrepresenting the numbers killed), not simply mentioning it. And in fact a history writer in the UK got taken to court for doing the same thing and was found against and denounced by the judge. It's not like Germany are against ever mentioning the war.
No, but is Flash actually a standard? Erm... no. It's propietary. I personally always click intro still and generally once I've installed mozilla I never bother getting the Flash plugin because Flash has yet to enhance a website rather than just getting in the way of using it in my opinion.
Clearly from the two replies things are different in the US - my mistake! In the UK the loyalty card in supermarkets makes no immediate difference to prices but for every hundred pounds you spend you get a voucher for a pound or something along those lines.
if everybody did that, instead of doing the sheeple thing and sticking with one card
Surely its a trade-off deal. People aren't being sheep, they are accepting that the company collects their data in return for gaining reward points/discounts. And for most people (myself included), that is an acceptable deal. Not all supermarkets offer loyalty cards, you can do business with them if you are not keen.
Actually my experience with GIMP (1.2 or so) was that it would not treat a Print Screen-ed image on the clipboard as an image, so you couldn't paste it in. Which was a big pain.
Unfortunately EULAs and things like the DMCA restrict what you can do with your own stuff. There's laws/licences against what you can do with your own property in most western countries nowadays:(
I don't think they think you're part of Australia. Its more like the US and Canada - if the US introduced something like the DMCA but Canada didn't then that would be of interest because why should the US have introduced it if their neighbour hasn't, and doesn't that mean people can just shift across to Canada if they want to be free of it.
I'm not sure you can compare an empire to a company, as for IBM they may have been used as the word for PCs before my time, or in another country, so you may be right about that one. Hoover I admit are nowhere these days, but thats mainly because of that whole free flights scandal..
The parents was that google gained advantage from being the term for searching, i.e. "Just google for it". None of your examples had such an advantage.
Too often as open source developers we think, "this is what's good for the GPL" or "this is what's good for a feature list," not "this is what's good for some guy's mother."
Surely (and I'm not meaning you necessarily) we need a developer who says "this is what my mother needs, so I will code it myself". I have no idea how difficult coding this thing is, I'm just trying to say that developers for these products may often be someone for whom it is personally a need, rather than a developer for whom it is a feature that would be good in a Linux distro.
You don't think it's a big deal that, to the access of all on public airwaves including little children, a major teen idol ripped the top off of another woman in front of millions of people as a form of entertainment?
Surely treating this as a sexual act is part of the problem? By making it shocking you are contributing the obsessing about sex. If you just said, "hey its a breast, everyone has them", then it would not be a big deal, and it would not be sexing up young children.
I'm guessing from your post that you do not view cheerleading as treating women like objects or sexual, so why does one bare breast have to be?
I'm still puzzled as to why that was such a massive deal, I mean everyone has seen female breasts at some point during their lifetime, so why the big fuss? Just because it was prime-time?
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That reminds me of something I heard somewhere regarding the use of mobile (cell-) phones in Petrol (Gas) stations. They always say not to use them, and it was always said that this was because there is a small chance that the radiation could ignite the stored petrol. But I heard that it is actually because the radiation can reset the counter of money you owe to 0, hence fiddling the amount you have to pay! Don't know how much of any of it is true though...
Serious Sam, Deus Ex (can't remember if the original got ported after), Half-Life (and its mods), C&C: Generals, Baldur's Gate 2, X-COM, BF:1942. I would name more but I'm trying to stick to ones that where only on PC (as far as I'm aware). In return I grant you Metal Slug, Sonic, and Streets of Rage as wins for the console ;-)
Oh and btw - doesn't laptop use on planes cause problems with navigation equipment? Or is it just during take-off and landing that its problematic?
So... after the useful subject and the useful web page, can anyone explain what this is and why it is significant?
Regardless of whether you are a troll (hey, the AC thing always makes me wonder!) those two reasons are enough for me. My linux box doesn't fall over and is easy enough to upgrade. So I'm happy.
I build everything from source, from the stage2 (I think, poss. stage 1) bootstrap. It combines the best of both worlds because it allows building from source automatically. Personally I like it because I was driven away from binary package managers by RPMs, but stayed with Gentoo because building from source appeals to me.
Gentoo! (Combines the best of both worlds)
Ah yep you're right he sued her not vice versa, my mistake. Guardian Story
AFAIK, Germany is only against misrepresenting the facts of the war and holocaust (such as denying the holocaust or misrepresenting the numbers killed), not simply mentioning it. And in fact a history writer in the UK got taken to court for doing the same thing and was found against and denounced by the judge. It's not like Germany are against ever mentioning the war.
No, but is Flash actually a standard? Erm... no. It's propietary. I personally always click intro still and generally once I've installed mozilla I never bother getting the Flash plugin because Flash has yet to enhance a website rather than just getting in the way of using it in my opinion.
Clearly from the two replies things are different in the US - my mistake! In the UK the loyalty card in supermarkets makes no immediate difference to prices but for every hundred pounds you spend you get a voucher for a pound or something along those lines.
Surely its a trade-off deal. People aren't being sheep, they are accepting that the company collects their data in return for gaining reward points/discounts. And for most people (myself included), that is an acceptable deal. Not all supermarkets offer loyalty cards, you can do business with them if you are not keen.
Actually my experience with GIMP (1.2 or so) was that it would not treat a Print Screen-ed image on the clipboard as an image, so you couldn't paste it in. Which was a big pain.
Maybe if KDE gets compromised too it could bring them closer together? *ducks*
Unfortunately EULAs and things like the DMCA restrict what you can do with your own stuff. There's laws/licences against what you can do with your own property in most western countries nowadays :(
I don't think they think you're part of Australia. Its more like the US and Canada - if the US introduced something like the DMCA but Canada didn't then that would be of interest because why should the US have introduced it if their neighbour hasn't, and doesn't that mean people can just shift across to Canada if they want to be free of it.
Just as long as they don't make him put on an accent - in 24 he was terrible!
I can do centigrade to kelvin in my head... that count?
To me that is funny, as people say "I'll ICQ you" and "MSN me" all the time, but never "AIM me", at least round my way..
I'm not sure you can compare an empire to a company, as for IBM they may have been used as the word for PCs before my time, or in another country, so you may be right about that one. Hoover I admit are nowhere these days, but thats mainly because of that whole free flights scandal..
The parents was that google gained advantage from being the term for searching, i.e. "Just google for it". None of your examples had such an advantage.
Surely (and I'm not meaning you necessarily) we need a developer who says "this is what my mother needs, so I will code it myself". I have no idea how difficult coding this thing is, I'm just trying to say that developers for these products may often be someone for whom it is personally a need, rather than a developer for whom it is a feature that would be good in a Linux distro.
Surely treating this as a sexual act is part of the problem? By making it shocking you are contributing the obsessing about sex. If you just said, "hey its a breast, everyone has them", then it would not be a big deal, and it would not be sexing up young children.
I'm guessing from your post that you do not view cheerleading as treating women like objects or sexual, so why does one bare breast have to be?
I'm still puzzled as to why that was such a massive deal, I mean everyone has seen female breasts at some point during their lifetime, so why the big fuss? Just because it was prime-time?
Aha! Two Microsoft products sunk with one fell swoop?