If you were to drop a G5 from a 10 story building (GODFORDBID) along with a tennis ball at the same time they both would hit the ground at the same time.
Yeah...in a vacuum. Last time I checked Earth had an atmosphere.
You can't run Linux binaries under Windows, or vice-versa (without an emulator or tools like Wine or Cygwin), can you? That's because while programs for either use the same set of opcodes, the way they pass information to and from the kernel is different. Not only the kernel, but the available libraries differ greatly.
Windoze is lucky to get more than a day of uptime, especially when you run media applications on it.
You're talking out of your ass. I've had mine on since Tuesday, and that's only because i didn't want to leave it on while i was home for my month-long winter break. I've had it on for weeks (maybe months, i've never really been insecure enough to measure the uptime) at a time before, played games, movies, music, burned several cd's, installed software, uninstalled software, downloaded gigs of stuff, with no restarts.
Anyway, I should know better than to read past the word "Windoze" in anyone's post before I waste 5 minutes of my life agitated at their fabricated information.
"You're comparing real-world composites to computer generated images and saying that they didn't look as natural, without actually realizing that you're looking at nothing more than a drawing!"
So you're saying that it's actually SUPPOSED to look fake? Where on Earth did you get that idea, aside from the Toy Story-style modelling and denial?
"...we were no longer seeing the movie through our own eyes, but through the heightened perceptions of Neo's "one" powers."
There actually were other times when we were supposed to be looking through the "Neo-cam", in which case it was displayed as the encoded matrix (i.e. the green katakana symbols and stuff on black background), such as when he first meets Seraph. Besides, if we were truly supposed to be looking through Neo's eyes, I would expect the physical position of the camera to be inside Neo's head, which was not the case.
Anyway, I agree and/or find interesting everything else you had to say. I've only seen the movie twice, so I suppose it's possible I'm flat-out wrong about all this.
If you're not sharing these files, then you have nothing to worry about, since they are only (as I understand it) going after those who are sharing copyrighted files. If you are, then you are offering copyrighted material up for grabs for people who may or may not own the CD.
Just because you legally own the CD's does not make sharing them legal.
Well, sure, they're branding strategies, but they're still different. You don't have Office.NET or IE.NET or Exchange.NET, but you have KOffice and Konqueror and KMail. Anyway, it's semantics, and I was just arguing for the sake of arguing, and nobody probably cares anyway (I know I really don't), and so I'll shut up now.
"I find it impossible to believe that life...could spontaneously form from random atoms flying around in space..."
If time and space are infinite, then it was bound to happen. It's like the infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters reproducing the works of Shakespeare.
Besides, people have been using gods to explain things they didn't understand since we stopped scraping our knuckles on the ground, and possibly before that. Apollo carried the sun across the sky in a Golden chariot, right? People in that day probably thought it was impossible that it was actually a huge ball of fire, millions of times the size of the rock under their feet, and was the same sort of object as those tiny twinkling lights they saw when it was dark. My point is, just because we don't understand something doesn't mean God did it.
You are not qualified to pass judgement on my philosophical choices, as you have no fucking clue who I am, what I believe, or why I believe what I believe.
I haven't seen an IPv6 address...but couldn't there be a way of integrating IPv4 as a subset of IPv6? Like, say IPv6 had five 0-255 numbers instead of four. Then we could take all the old addresses and make them all part of, say, 255.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
So, for example, 127.0.0.1 would become 255.127.0.0.1 or something. I realize IPv6 is way more than just a new numbering system, but is it completely infeasible to be somewhat backwards compatibility?
RTFA. There was not one mention of unsolicited commercial e-mail at all. The word "spam" refers to newsgroup spamming, whose legality is questionable at best.
Wow...IANAL, but this seems like outright libel to me. Sounds like he could sue them.
libeln.
a. A false publication, as in writing, print, signs, or pictures, that damages a person's reputation.
b. The act of presenting such material to the public.
Well, we know what your major malfunction is: you are one of those Microsoft zealots. Your support for that company is so irrational that you just don't want people looking at alternatives.
Holy shit. This person was trying to keep the discussion limited to, God fucking forbid, the actual question put forth by the author, and you decide he (or she) is a Microsoft zealot. Absolutely no qualifying statments were made with regards to Microsoft or open-source (such as "Microsoft R0x0rz! or "Linux 1z t3h $ux0r5"), and yet you are able to glean the fact that the grandparent poster is irrationally, willfully enslaved by Microsoft.
My number one pet peeve is zealots for anything. My number two pet peeve is people who accuse people of being zealots without realizing that they, too, are exhibiting zealot-like behavior.
> It will teach parents a lesson that ignoring their responsibilities is their fault.
...it's a poorly-constructed, ambiguous sentence with respect to the use of "their."
Actually, there's nothing wrong with his choice of "their"; both "responsibilities" and "fault" belong to "parents". If you think "they're" or "there" would make more sense, you're a fucking tool.
Sorry you're afflicted with a complete lack of diction.
Everybody has diction - it's not something you can be without. Diction is just a person's choice of words. That would be like trying to insult somebody by telling them that they have "a complete lack of shoes" when they're (or is it their...) quite obviously wearing shoes. You could tell them that their shoes are stupid-looking, if you wanted, but to say that they're (there?) not wearing shoes would be just plain incorrect. Similarly, you could tell someone that there...i mean, they're...um...you could tell them that the diction which belongs to them is stupid, if you wanted, but those in your vicinity would probably want to kick you in the solar plexus for being such a tool. Besides, your post was bitching about grammar, not diction. Actually, come to think of it, your choice of the word "diction" was incorrect diction!
In summary: shut the fuck up and quit being a tool. I probably fucked something up in my post, too. Nobody's fucking perfect.
In case you were wondering, "fuck" is my favorite word, followed closely by "tool".
"...if the first minute and the last minute of the movie totally destroy my suspension of disbelief..."
Can you explain what you mean here? What was it about the first and last minutes of the movie that destroyed your suspension of disbelief? I'm just wondering, because I don't remember exactly what happened in those moments, and I also don't recall having MY suspension of disbelief ruined. I'm also asking because I was disappointed somewhat by the film, too, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why.
You are so stupid I find myself frustrated. Even if you are joking, you are so not funny that you're stupid.
The post contains two sentences. One of them is: "This is noteworthy because normally there are large time spans between releases of DVDs and Sequels..." In case you did not grasp its meaning, it explains "what the big deal is."
Not to mention the fact that the movie did not come out last year; it came out May of this year.
Not to mention the fact that the DVD is not out yet; it will be out in October, as noted by the other sentence in the post.
Not to mention the fact that Slashdot never claimed to hate the MPAA. Slashdotters may generally express dislike towards them, but I fail to see where it says "We here at Slashdot claim to hate the MPAA".
I would like to reiterate that you are so stupid. I hope you win a Darwin Award.
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What is the reaction of your interviewees to this study? Are the data and conclusions sound?
Yeah...in a vacuum. Last time I checked Earth had an atmosphere.
That is awesome. I love the industrious use of Legos - my absolute favorite toy as a child.
Death: "Oh, Sandy...oh, Sandy.... Sandy? Oh man, I'm gonna be a virgin forever...or will I?"
You can't run Linux binaries under Windows, or vice-versa (without an emulator or tools like Wine or Cygwin), can you? That's because while programs for either use the same set of opcodes, the way they pass information to and from the kernel is different. Not only the kernel, but the available libraries differ greatly.
Microsoft already did.
You're talking out of your ass. I've had mine on since Tuesday, and that's only because i didn't want to leave it on while i was home for my month-long winter break. I've had it on for weeks (maybe months, i've never really been insecure enough to measure the uptime) at a time before, played games, movies, music, burned several cd's, installed software, uninstalled software, downloaded gigs of stuff, with no restarts.
Anyway, I should know better than to read past the word "Windoze" in anyone's post before I waste 5 minutes of my life agitated at their fabricated information.
Whatever, I'll drink it off anyway.
but it has a different meaning than the one intended....
it's a phone, not a calculator....2 would go up and 8 would go down...
So you're saying that it's actually SUPPOSED to look fake? Where on Earth did you get that idea, aside from the Toy Story-style modelling and denial?
"...we were no longer seeing the movie through our own eyes, but through the heightened perceptions of Neo's "one" powers."
There actually were other times when we were supposed to be looking through the "Neo-cam", in which case it was displayed as the encoded matrix (i.e. the green katakana symbols and stuff on black background), such as when he first meets Seraph. Besides, if we were truly supposed to be looking through Neo's eyes, I would expect the physical position of the camera to be inside Neo's head, which was not the case.
Anyway, I agree and/or find interesting everything else you had to say. I've only seen the movie twice, so I suppose it's possible I'm flat-out wrong about all this.
sharing books != sharing files. Sharing books is borrowing, sharing files is copying. And I didn't say shit about terrorism, you stupid fucking troll.
Just because you legally own the CD's does not make sharing them legal.
Either that, or "init 6". That sure is intuitive.
Well, sure, they're branding strategies, but they're still different. You don't have Office.NET or IE.NET or Exchange.NET, but you have KOffice and Konqueror and KMail. Anyway, it's semantics, and I was just arguing for the sake of arguing, and nobody probably cares anyway (I know I really don't), and so I'll shut up now.
If time and space are infinite, then it was bound to happen. It's like the infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters reproducing the works of Shakespeare.
Besides, people have been using gods to explain things they didn't understand since we stopped scraping our knuckles on the ground, and possibly before that. Apollo carried the sun across the sky in a Golden chariot, right? People in that day probably thought it was impossible that it was actually a huge ball of fire, millions of times the size of the rock under their feet, and was the same sort of object as those tiny twinkling lights they saw when it was dark. My point is, just because we don't understand something doesn't mean God did it.
You are not qualified to pass judgement on my philosophical choices, as you have no fucking clue who I am, what I believe, or why I believe what I believe.
It occured to me for about 18 years. Then, suddenly, it occured to me that it might all be made up. And everything made much more sense that way.
So, for example, 127.0.0.1 would become 255.127.0.0.1 or something. I realize IPv6 is way more than just a new numbering system, but is it completely infeasible to be somewhat backwards compatibility?
Or am I just a clueless tool?
RTFA. There was not one mention of unsolicited commercial e-mail at all. The word "spam" refers to newsgroup spamming, whose legality is questionable at best.
libel n.
a. A false publication, as in writing, print, signs, or pictures, that damages a person's reputation.
b. The act of presenting such material to the public.
Holy shit. This person was trying to keep the discussion limited to, God fucking forbid, the actual question put forth by the author, and you decide he (or she) is a Microsoft zealot. Absolutely no qualifying statments were made with regards to Microsoft or open-source (such as "Microsoft R0x0rz! or "Linux 1z t3h $ux0r5"), and yet you are able to glean the fact that the grandparent poster is irrationally, willfully enslaved by Microsoft.
My number one pet peeve is zealots for anything. My number two pet peeve is people who accuse people of being zealots without realizing that they, too, are exhibiting zealot-like behavior.
Actually, there's nothing wrong with his choice of "their"; both "responsibilities" and "fault" belong to "parents". If you think "they're" or "there" would make more sense, you're a fucking tool.
Sorry you're afflicted with a complete lack of diction.
Everybody has diction - it's not something you can be without. Diction is just a person's choice of words. That would be like trying to insult somebody by telling them that they have "a complete lack of shoes" when they're (or is it their...) quite obviously wearing shoes. You could tell them that their shoes are stupid-looking, if you wanted, but to say that they're (there?) not wearing shoes would be just plain incorrect. Similarly, you could tell someone that there...i mean, they're...um...you could tell them that the diction which belongs to them is stupid, if you wanted, but those in your vicinity would probably want to kick you in the solar plexus for being such a tool. Besides, your post was bitching about grammar, not diction. Actually, come to think of it, your choice of the word "diction" was incorrect diction!
In summary: shut the fuck up and quit being a tool. I probably fucked something up in my post, too. Nobody's fucking perfect.
In case you were wondering, "fuck" is my favorite word, followed closely by "tool".
Can you explain what you mean here? What was it about the first and last minutes of the movie that destroyed your suspension of disbelief? I'm just wondering, because I don't remember exactly what happened in those moments, and I also don't recall having MY suspension of disbelief ruined. I'm also asking because I was disappointed somewhat by the film, too, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why.
The post contains two sentences. One of them is: "This is noteworthy because normally there are large time spans between releases of DVDs and Sequels..." In case you did not grasp its meaning, it explains "what the big deal is."
Not to mention the fact that the movie did not come out last year; it came out May of this year.
Not to mention the fact that the DVD is not out yet; it will be out in October, as noted by the other sentence in the post.
Not to mention the fact that Slashdot never claimed to hate the MPAA. Slashdotters may generally express dislike towards them, but I fail to see where it says "We here at Slashdot claim to hate the MPAA".
I would like to reiterate that you are so stupid. I hope you win a Darwin Award.