In classic, I mapped several of my F keys to iTunes-controlling applescripts (plenty out there to download). I'm assuming X would work in much the same way.
On a side note, where's the goodies for the Windows version? Where's the visualizations, scripts, add-ons and plugins? Come on, It's been out for over 6 months now!
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I wouldn't worry too much about definitions. The reason there is a Left and a Right in politics (and not much else), is to project the illusion of choice without actually providing one.
I'm so used to multiple partitions, that a drive with only C: just looks wrong:)
No kidding, it's like a dozen paradigm shifts ago. I always have to restrain the urge to partition client's machines with a part for OS, swap, apps, files. It's the first thing I do with any of mine, and it has saved me countless hours of agony.
(And who the heck is Guybrush Threepwood??)
The Secret of Monkey Island. Quite possibly one of the funniest games I've ever played. Worth a download from your local P2P network. I'd give you my copy, but I think it got lost with the 386 I played it on.
Come and join us sometime: 67.18.55.148:27965 (=SG= Clan ET server). We have a great crew of regulars, not to mention some of the best-ranked ET players.
Best of all, no freakin' panzers, so we have a very low percentage of idiots.
Give me shout if you plan on coming over, I'll try to be on and introduce you around. We're always on the lookout for new faces to join the fun.
A quick word of warning: the server runs the shrubmod and a few custom maps so be prepared to do some downloading. More info can be found here.
I feel like you think that people have a right to a job and that someone who makes alot of money should be punished if they fire other people.
Not really (although I will admit having freedom from poverty as a basic human right would be nice.)
But you're being a little disingenuous here, by couching your argument in statistics. Another way to look at it would be something like this:
500 hard-working people laid off because management made a mistake. All of sudden, the future they've worked at could collapse at any moment (banks couldn't give a rat's ass about you). Living on a tight budget makes job-seeking harder, and in a country so fixated with "career", the fact that yours disappeared is a big black mark that stays with you forever. Stay jobless for a few more months, and the vicious cycle gets tighter and tighter. How do you get to that job interview when you can't afford daycare or paying the mechanic to fix your car? How can you keep your skills current and your job experience fresh when you're reduced to working in a more menial industry? Nobody wants to hire a fast-food worker or janitor for a white-collar position.
Being laid off wouldn't be such a big deal if the mechanics of the system weren't geared to punish the worker for it. And don't forget, it tends to be a cyclical thing, so it could be decades before you get back to the standard of living you once enjoyed, and by then you're screwed: You're too old to enjoy it, your kids missed their chance at a decent education. But the company is OK, so that's alright then.
Ofcourse, the entire problem is that corporations got the courts to say they are equal citizens over a century ago. The flaw in that is that corporations don't die, ever, so they can keep gathering power and resources as long as they want, making them inherently superior to humans. Because of that over time you've seen corporate power grow. The only way to avoid corporations dominating the people is by giving them less rights than you give humans, and it will require a huge populist movement to roll back that decision.
Exactly. That whole "fuck you, I've got mine mentality" is ridiculous when you stop to think about it. You can talk about competition, survival of the fittest, etc. but haven't we transcended that by now? If not, shouldn't we? I'd hate to think the human race stopped evolving in any way.
When someone starts a business, they don't say, "oh, I want to lose money, but help people." Well, not unless it's part of a bigger picture in order to get tax breaks...
I don't see why business has to be about money and nothing else. Of course money's an important consideration, but what about providing the best goods/services/whatever, or committing a certain percentage of resources to charitable causes? What about starting your own business and forsaking steady pay for doing what you love?
Not to mention there's making money and then there's making obscene amounts of money and wasting it. Companies laying off workers while simultaneously awarding mutli-million salaries and bonuses to their CEOs are, as far as I'm concerned, failures.
Regardless, a business makes money. If it doesn't, it will no longer exist.
Unless the government bails you out or takes the hit (too many instances to bloody mention.)
And then, you've completely forgotten to take into account businesses that have been wiped out by greed, adverse tax law, predatory competitors or government regulation, and not because they weren't making a profit.
IMO, the spawning problem can be solved with limited lives. Tweak it so that it provides a medium-skilled player just enough lives to complete the given map in the given time. That way, you have several chances, but you still have to make each life count (because it does.)
For example, my FPS of choice at the moment, Enemy Territory, has the option for limited lives. Once you've tried it, going back to unlimited lives anything is like being a Sumo wrestler beating up first graders: It's boring and far too easy.
Very good points. As a tech, I try to do the same myself as it makes the customer happier and means more return business.
But at home, I prefer a clean reinstall about once a year, and there are several reasons for this:
-I run my computer like I own it, ie as hard and as fast as I feel like. After all, I built the damn thing, I know what it can do, and what limits I can push. This leads, despite best efforts, to bloat, corruption and slowdown.
-Doing a clean reinstall also helps me learn more, to discover what settings change what, how and when particular hardware and software quirks pop up. It also gives me a clean slate to try new things, like the first time I successfully triple booted a system (98, 2000 and Mandrake).
-Not to mention that I'm a firm believer in partitioning, so getting back up to speed takes a couple of hours at best, during which time I have at least one other fully-functioning system to pass the time with:)
-Last but not least, you do things this way long enough and it'll teach you just what constitutes "essential software". Plenty of crap out there I've learned I can live quite happily without.
I bet every coffee shop and hotel in town would be shut down if that was the case.
Yeah, but they're not reselling their bandwidth as their main business model. All it takes is a couple of resellers being litigated by their ISPs to help put a damper on things.
Granted, as a previous poster mentioned, many police departments (and quite a few ISPs) don't have the resources, time or even savvy to track down, properly observe, arrest and prosecute anybody, but that's now. Give it ten years and a few juicy cases (they will happen), and ISPs everyewhere will have their networks locked down and fully transparent while all law enforcement agencies will have access to well-funded and organized "cybercrime" units.
There is good news, though: They'll both be using a large amount of open-source software to do their jobs!
Yeah, but the game was a bit of a precursor. Then the sequels nailed the coffin shut.
All in all, this isn't a bad idea. I mean, come on,one of the big corps is actually going to assess their output using something other than the bottom line!
Having said that, I foresee a rise in Game review payola. Anybody want to handicap various game reviewers and how much they can be bought for?
Y'know, Leo's a nice guy, and I can respect his passion for what he does, but I never learned much from him. Patrick, Yoshi and Kevin, on the other hand, have actually managed to clue me in to stuff I didn't know about.
Anyway, this is the Slashdot crowd, and stuff like TechTV has never been aimed at us.
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On a side note, where's the goodies for the Windows version? Where's the visualizations, scripts, add-ons and plugins? Come on, It's been out for over 6 months now!
I wouldn't worry too much about definitions. The reason there is a Left and a Right in politics (and not much else), is to project the illusion of choice without actually providing one.
No kidding, it's like a dozen paradigm shifts ago. I always have to restrain the urge to partition client's machines with a part for OS, swap, apps, files. It's the first thing I do with any of mine, and it has saved me countless hours of agony.
(And who the heck is Guybrush Threepwood??)
The Secret of Monkey Island. Quite possibly one of the funniest games I've ever played. Worth a download from your local P2P network. I'd give you my copy, but I think it got lost with the 386 I played it on.
Come and join us sometime: 67.18.55.148:27965 (=SG= Clan ET server). We have a great crew of regulars, not to mention some of the best-ranked ET players.
Best of all, no freakin' panzers, so we have a very low percentage of idiots.
Give me shout if you plan on coming over, I'll try to be on and introduce you around. We're always on the lookout for new faces to join the fun.
A quick word of warning: the server runs the shrubmod and a few custom maps so be prepared to do some downloading. More info can be found here.
Not really (although I will admit having freedom from poverty as a basic human right would be nice.)
But you're being a little disingenuous here, by couching your argument in statistics. Another way to look at it would be something like this:
500 hard-working people laid off because management made a mistake. All of sudden, the future they've worked at could collapse at any moment (banks couldn't give a rat's ass about you). Living on a tight budget makes job-seeking harder, and in a country so fixated with "career", the fact that yours disappeared is a big black mark that stays with you forever. Stay jobless for a few more months, and the vicious cycle gets tighter and tighter. How do you get to that job interview when you can't afford daycare or paying the mechanic to fix your car? How can you keep your skills current and your job experience fresh when you're reduced to working in a more menial industry? Nobody wants to hire a fast-food worker or janitor for a white-collar position.
Being laid off wouldn't be such a big deal if the mechanics of the system weren't geared to punish the worker for it. And don't forget, it tends to be a cyclical thing, so it could be decades before you get back to the standard of living you once enjoyed, and by then you're screwed: You're too old to enjoy it, your kids missed their chance at a decent education. But the company is OK, so that's alright then.
Nicely stated. I may have to quote you someday!
Exactly. That whole "fuck you, I've got mine mentality" is ridiculous when you stop to think about it. You can talk about competition, survival of the fittest, etc. but haven't we transcended that by now? If not, shouldn't we? I'd hate to think the human race stopped evolving in any way.
So, basically, there's no limits!
I don't see why business has to be about money and nothing else. Of course money's an important consideration, but what about providing the best goods/services/whatever, or committing a certain percentage of resources to charitable causes? What about starting your own business and forsaking steady pay for doing what you love?
Not to mention there's making money and then there's making obscene amounts of money and wasting it. Companies laying off workers while simultaneously awarding mutli-million salaries and bonuses to their CEOs are, as far as I'm concerned, failures.
Regardless, a business makes money. If it doesn't, it will no longer exist.
Unless the government bails you out or takes the hit (too many instances to bloody mention.)
And then, you've completely forgotten to take into account businesses that have been wiped out by greed, adverse tax law, predatory competitors or government regulation, and not because they weren't making a profit.
For example, my FPS of choice at the moment, Enemy Territory, has the option for limited lives. Once you've tried it, going back to unlimited lives anything is like being a Sumo wrestler beating up first graders: It's boring and far too easy.
But at home, I prefer a clean reinstall about once a year, and there are several reasons for this:
-I run my computer like I own it, ie as hard and as fast as I feel like. After all, I built the damn thing, I know what it can do, and what limits I can push. This leads, despite best efforts, to bloat, corruption and slowdown.
-Doing a clean reinstall also helps me learn more, to discover what settings change what, how and when particular hardware and software quirks pop up. It also gives me a clean slate to try new things, like the first time I successfully triple booted a system (98, 2000 and Mandrake).
-Not to mention that I'm a firm believer in partitioning, so getting back up to speed takes a couple of hours at best, during which time I have at least one other fully-functioning system to pass the time with :)
-Last but not least, you do things this way long enough and it'll teach you just what constitutes "essential software". Plenty of crap out there I've learned I can live quite happily without.
Otherwise I would not be able to walk quietly and open doors silently in Enemy Territory.
So me not particularly ecstatic.
Not when he's smart enough to offer a torrent of the file.
Yeah, but they're not reselling their bandwidth as their main business model. All it takes is a couple of resellers being litigated by their ISPs to help put a damper on things.
Granted, as a previous poster mentioned, many police departments (and quite a few ISPs) don't have the resources, time or even savvy to track down, properly observe, arrest and prosecute anybody, but that's now. Give it ten years and a few juicy cases (they will happen), and ISPs everyewhere will have their networks locked down and fully transparent while all law enforcement agencies will have access to well-funded and organized "cybercrime" units.
There is good news, though: They'll both be using a large amount of open-source software to do their jobs!
Absolutely. The Presidency of the United States appears to be a more suitable reward.
All in all, this isn't a bad idea. I mean, come on,one of the big corps is actually going to assess their output using something other than the bottom line!
Having said that, I foresee a rise in Game review payola. Anybody want to handicap various game reviewers and how much they can be bought for?
Eh, that'll probably be a relief after DHS is done with them.
I'm not a liberal though, so I don't know if that counts.
If it's the price, then ideed they're far, far better. Other than that, have not clue one.
In my day, you could barely get 5 people together. And a flaming torch? Luxury!
Here he mentions the Iraqi war may have had more to do with the US dollar than WMDs or Human rights, and here's another look at falling oil supplies.
Thanks for a good laugh at the end of a long week.
Ah, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship I suppose?
Anyway, this is the Slashdot crowd, and stuff like TechTV has never been aimed at us.