None of my Steam games work, and I don't find it reasonable to reinstall the OS to fix nVidia driver problems. Is that a satisfactory answer for "gaming is broken"?
My understanding is that your point is that a little courtesy helps let the ideas flow into your mind instead of being blocked by an emotional reaction to the fucking assholery that normally takes place in these so-called discussions. I generally agree with this, as this human tendency to react more positively when treated with courtesy is exactly what caused it to become the norm in the first place. It should come as no surprise when, in the course of an intellectual discussion, someone requests that all participants stop acting like assholes.
That said, the blocking of an idea, no matter how vile the idea is, should not be a matter of government control. Once those in power can block an idea that threatens them, what's to stop them from blocking others? What if Americans were suddenly unable to obtain information about products made in China? Unable to purchase them? What effect would that have on the global economy? Some might like to find out, but the truth is that such a drastic change would likely temporarily devastate the US economy, which has been shown to have worldwide effects. If US manufacturers want to sell more products domestically, they just have to find another way to make their products more attractive to US consumers. What if the President suddenly appeared to be running for another term unopposed because no one could find any information about the existence of such opposition? Where does it stop?
So you would misunderstand the meaning of, "The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel," thinking that meant RGB blue? Gibson was referring to the grey of random noise.
So it's a compromise, then? Neither men nor women get the full respect they deserve, and some of each are willing to put up with that so that they can have what they want from the other party. It appears to be under continuous negotiation, and neither party is ever getting exactly what they want because each wants something that directly opposes what the other wants. The extremists in each party who refuse to compromise make so much noise that the majority of each party, the rational ones who agree that some kind of compromise is necessary, cannot effectively negotiate what that compromise should be.
If we were to start shooting our own National Guard because they follow the orders of an apparently broken government that we can't seem to fix, we would be branded as terrorists who hate America and incur the wrath of any nearby gun-toting hothead who believes everything the media reports. We don't have the luxury of having a government that openly doesn't give a crap what we want and meets on the other side of an ocean, with a logistical nightmare to solve to support fighting a guerrilla force using outmoded tactics. We would start off surrounded by a force that has the backing of the local people, uses modern tactics and advanced weaponry, while our slowly diminishing rights only allow us to have small arms, in and limited locations. Plus, we would be indistinguishable from any other criminal organization. We can't just start "shooting redcoats," we have to change the government from within. The complaints are about the fact that actually attempting to implement such a change would probably prove futile because our government is so large and bloated, as well as likely to be full of corruption, that such an attempt would be like the same kind of political warfare. Who can blame people for moving away and posting on Slashdot?
I know it's been said already, but why do Wii care so much that Wii have to have two articles in as many days about how Wii don't like the new name of the next-generation Nintendo console, or that Wii love it, or that people think it's Wii-rd, or Wii-lly stupid, or Wii-lly smart, or Wii-lly funny? Do Wii really have to have conversations about people envisioning French ads running, "Dit 'oui' a 'Wii'," and links to (hilarious) punk videos because the song is comprised mostly of people shouting something that sounds like "Wii?" The answer: Yes, Wii do, because this is Slashdot. What would Wii do without them?
The equivalent of they is actually attested in writing as far back as the 1300s in English, and some who study Old English and Anglo-Saxon beleive that it was also the common use. If one remembers that it is usually the most common use at a particular point in time (among those who would be literate) that eventually gives rise to a "proper" literary use, then one has no problem figuring out that when the common usage diverges from the literary use, the literary one will eventually change too. Given this view, one could argue that the "proper" form was chosen incorrectly anyway, and that the common usage never converged on the "proper" one. The literary usage will change, but because there is a record to refer back to, it takes longer (which also explains English spelling, but that's another issue...).
Yes, I intentionally misused the parentheses. It's more intuitive than the "proper" usage. Deal with it. All y'all can't stand that can pay attention to 'em'all who can.:-)
I can't believe how insensitive so many of you are being towards this guy. He's put a lot of work into that suit, and you just mock him. I'd like to see you do better.
If you were paying attention, you'd have noticed that they mentioned that laser text looks better than dot-matrix. While I agree with you about most of what you've said, you missed the fact (which wasn't clearly stated) that they replaced the dot-matrix by a laser printer, and mentioned that at least there is a place for ink jets, but if the customer had had an ink jet to begin with, they still would have replaced it.
Is telling someone how to use TweakUI, which is written by the same people who wrote Windows, a violation of the DMCA? It has a function that diables Autorun...
I also have my own mail server. I am a residential DSL customer, and my ISP allows me to run my own servers. Actually, my ISP pretty much allows me to do whatever I want as long as it doesn't disrupt service, is legal, and I don't make any money from it. I have a static IP address at home. I also can't send mail to any AOL account from my server (which meets all of the requirements AOL posts on their page explaining such things) simply because they choose not to re-enable incoming mail from my server.
They provided no email address to send requests to. The only contact information they provide is a long-distance toll phone number that I can't afford to sit on hold on and wait for someone to tell me that I'm not worth helping.
I have an upload cap of 128 kbps on my line, so the idea that they'd get a whole lot of spam from me is laughable. Yet, for some reason, I get a CD from them about once every two weeks, and they block emails from my server.
My gf also uses my server to send mail. She was, until recently, the treasurer of a non-for-profit organization, several members of which have AOL accounts at which they recieve theior email. She had to get a "free" webmail account (meaning she gets inundated with more ads than usual) to do this business, and was inconvenienced by having to check another account, just because AOL blocks my server.
I have family across the country that I can't send email to using my usual account because AOL blocks my server.
I have friends out-of-state that I can't send email to using my usual account because AOL blocks my server.
If I call and have to pay long-distance charges because I was on hold for an hour, can I sue AOL in small-claims court for those charges, plus the loss of my time and my gf's time in having to dick around with everything else?
I have a mouse that I got on clearance at Staples that has both a horizontal and a vertical scroll wheel. Getting drivers for it for anything other than Win95 was a pain, and I finally found some half-@$$ ones for XP that are ok. The only reason I was disappointed with this mouse was the fact that the current software treats the horizontal scroll bar, if there is one, as a vertical bar, if that doesn't exist. Maybe this is a Windows API problem, or maybe this is a workaround for mice that only have one wheel. I would actually use the horizontal wheel if it worked in more stuff.
I love the fact that people make a big deal out of this, and how Apple has done it before, and that maybe some others have done it before, but it's news because M$ is doing it now. At least now maybe the horizontal wheel I have might actually work, since I'll be able to just grab a usable Intellimouse driver from M$ to use on my existing mouse.
First, this isn't a government thing, it's a corporate thing. Second, it IS a privacy violation, because if this is the same technology someone I know at Purdue was working on, a skilled person could tell which pocket you had your wallet in. How's that for scary?
"The US is and claims to be a global leader. It should set the standard on the environment. The fact that it doesn't live up to that is puzzling."
A leader is only a leader if they have followers. If the US sets the standard on the environment, then other countries have to comply with that standard if we are to consider it leading. The problem is that since those countries see this problem as smaller for them, since they don't produce the vast quantities of greenhouse gases that the US does, the effect is really that the US has to change things while those other countries just watch. This makes the earlier argument of this accord just being a way to hurt the US economy a potentially valid one, since only the US businesses have to spend huge amounts of money on reducing greenhouse gas production.
Also, by saying that developing countries don't have to worry about this problem, you are encouraging them to do whatever it takes to become an industrialized nation just short of actually becoming an industrialized nation. They get to the point where they can spew out the stuff and not deal with the problem because they're not industrialized nations, even when they get to the point that they really are, but don't quite produce enough product to be considered such. Furthermore, they may never do so, just to avoid having to deal with emissions restrictions. This could stagnate their development. If restrictions are to be imposed, they should be imposed on all that sign, equally. Those that have a larger problem already have more to deal with, as far as this accord goes.
Of course, I'm talking out of my a$$, which only increases greenhouse gas production, but at least I don't have to wear an exhaust scrubber like so many factories do....:-)
In some dialects of Englihs, particularly those spoken throughout the American Midwest, "then" and "than" sound a lot alike, and are often misused in print for that reason.
Purdue University's Engineering Computer Network maintains several of these for the various engineering schools and their research groups on campus. The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering had ten of them the last time I counted, but I know that they have more now. Many of the other Schools of Engineering have a few as well, and some of the ECE research groups have one or two to themselves. ECN suggested these machines for the same reasons as the review likes them: they are small, have a lot of capability to be upgraded, and can be made very powerful. Just watch out for the price tag...:-)
The CEO/founder of Charmed is the woman on the web page. Technically, she is not a "he" and it is not "his", and she did industrial espionage before founding Charmed.
Don't flame me for saying this either. I just happen to have read an interview with her in some mag or another that I no longer have lying around (probably Fortune), and thought that disseminating information was the point of this site.
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None of my Steam games work, and I don't find it reasonable to reinstall the OS to fix nVidia driver problems. Is that a satisfactory answer for "gaming is broken"?
He wears the cone of shame!
My understanding is that your point is that a little courtesy helps let the ideas flow into your mind instead of being blocked by an emotional reaction to the fucking assholery that normally takes place in these so-called discussions. I generally agree with this, as this human tendency to react more positively when treated with courtesy is exactly what caused it to become the norm in the first place. It should come as no surprise when, in the course of an intellectual discussion, someone requests that all participants stop acting like assholes.
That said, the blocking of an idea, no matter how vile the idea is, should not be a matter of government control. Once those in power can block an idea that threatens them, what's to stop them from blocking others? What if Americans were suddenly unable to obtain information about products made in China? Unable to purchase them? What effect would that have on the global economy? Some might like to find out, but the truth is that such a drastic change would likely temporarily devastate the US economy, which has been shown to have worldwide effects. If US manufacturers want to sell more products domestically, they just have to find another way to make their products more attractive to US consumers. What if the President suddenly appeared to be running for another term unopposed because no one could find any information about the existence of such opposition? Where does it stop?
So you would misunderstand the meaning of, "The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel," thinking that meant RGB blue? Gibson was referring to the grey of random noise.
So it's a compromise, then? Neither men nor women get the full respect they deserve, and some of each are willing to put up with that so that they can have what they want from the other party. It appears to be under continuous negotiation, and neither party is ever getting exactly what they want because each wants something that directly opposes what the other wants. The extremists in each party who refuse to compromise make so much noise that the majority of each party, the rational ones who agree that some kind of compromise is necessary, cannot effectively negotiate what that compromise should be.
If we were to start shooting our own National Guard because they follow the orders of an apparently broken government that we can't seem to fix, we would be branded as terrorists who hate America and incur the wrath of any nearby gun-toting hothead who believes everything the media reports. We don't have the luxury of having a government that openly doesn't give a crap what we want and meets on the other side of an ocean, with a logistical nightmare to solve to support fighting a guerrilla force using outmoded tactics. We would start off surrounded by a force that has the backing of the local people, uses modern tactics and advanced weaponry, while our slowly diminishing rights only allow us to have small arms, in and limited locations. Plus, we would be indistinguishable from any other criminal organization. We can't just start "shooting redcoats," we have to change the government from within. The complaints are about the fact that actually attempting to implement such a change would probably prove futile because our government is so large and bloated, as well as likely to be full of corruption, that such an attempt would be like the same kind of political warfare. Who can blame people for moving away and posting on Slashdot?
I know it's been said already, but why do Wii care so much that Wii have to have two articles in as many days about how Wii don't like the new name of the next-generation Nintendo console, or that Wii love it, or that people think it's Wii-rd, or Wii-lly stupid, or Wii-lly smart, or Wii-lly funny? Do Wii really have to have conversations about people envisioning French ads running, "Dit 'oui' a 'Wii'," and links to (hilarious) punk videos because the song is comprised mostly of people shouting something that sounds like "Wii?" The answer: Yes, Wii do, because this is Slashdot. What would Wii do without them?
As in: Worst. Comment. Ever. :-)
Yes, I intentionally misused the parentheses. It's more intuitive than the "proper" usage. Deal with it. All y'all can't stand that can pay attention to 'em'all who can. :-)
I can't believe how insensitive so many of you are being towards this guy. He's put a lot of work into that suit, and you just mock him. I'd like to see you do better.
Oh wait, this is Slashdot. Never mind.
If you were paying attention, you'd have noticed that they mentioned that laser text looks better than dot-matrix. While I agree with you about most of what you've said, you missed the fact (which wasn't clearly stated) that they replaced the dot-matrix by a laser printer, and mentioned that at least there is a place for ink jets, but if the customer had had an ink jet to begin with, they still would have replaced it.
Was this supposed to be Interesting, or Funny?
Is telling someone how to use TweakUI, which is written by the same people who wrote Windows, a violation of the DMCA? It has a function that diables Autorun...
I also have my own mail server. I am a residential DSL customer, and my ISP allows me to run my own servers. Actually, my ISP pretty much allows me to do whatever I want as long as it doesn't disrupt service, is legal, and I don't make any money from it. I have a static IP address at home. I also can't send mail to any AOL account from my server (which meets all of the requirements AOL posts on their page explaining such things) simply because they choose not to re-enable incoming mail from my server.
They provided no email address to send requests to. The only contact information they provide is a long-distance toll phone number that I can't afford to sit on hold on and wait for someone to tell me that I'm not worth helping.
I have an upload cap of 128 kbps on my line, so the idea that they'd get a whole lot of spam from me is laughable. Yet, for some reason, I get a CD from them about once every two weeks, and they block emails from my server.
My gf also uses my server to send mail. She was, until recently, the treasurer of a non-for-profit organization, several members of which have AOL accounts at which they recieve theior email. She had to get a "free" webmail account (meaning she gets inundated with more ads than usual) to do this business, and was inconvenienced by having to check another account, just because AOL blocks my server.
I have family across the country that I can't send email to using my usual account because AOL blocks my server.
I have friends out-of-state that I can't send email to using my usual account because AOL blocks my server.
If I call and have to pay long-distance charges because I was on hold for an hour, can I sue AOL in small-claims court for those charges, plus the loss of my time and my gf's time in having to dick around with everything else?
I have a mouse that I got on clearance at Staples that has both a horizontal and a vertical scroll wheel. Getting drivers for it for anything other than Win95 was a pain, and I finally found some half-@$$ ones for XP that are ok. The only reason I was disappointed with this mouse was the fact that the current software treats the horizontal scroll bar, if there is one, as a vertical bar, if that doesn't exist. Maybe this is a Windows API problem, or maybe this is a workaround for mice that only have one wheel. I would actually use the horizontal wheel if it worked in more stuff.
I love the fact that people make a big deal out of this, and how Apple has done it before, and that maybe some others have done it before, but it's news because M$ is doing it now. At least now maybe the horizontal wheel I have might actually work, since I'll be able to just grab a usable Intellimouse driver from M$ to use on my existing mouse.
It would be funnier yet if they sent Sean Astin and Brendan Fraser to Mars to dig a hole, and they found Pauly Shore. It would explain so much...
First, this isn't a government thing, it's a corporate thing. Second, it IS a privacy violation, because if this is the same technology someone I know at Purdue was working on, a skilled person could tell which pocket you had your wallet in. How's that for scary?
"The US is and claims to be a global leader. It should set the standard on the environment. The fact that it doesn't live up to that is puzzling."
:-)
A leader is only a leader if they have followers. If the US sets the standard on the environment, then other countries have to comply with that standard if we are to consider it leading. The problem is that since those countries see this problem as smaller for them, since they don't produce the vast quantities of greenhouse gases that the US does, the effect is really that the US has to change things while those other countries just watch. This makes the earlier argument of this accord just being a way to hurt the US economy a potentially valid one, since only the US businesses have to spend huge amounts of money on reducing greenhouse gas production.
Also, by saying that developing countries don't have to worry about this problem, you are encouraging them to do whatever it takes to become an industrialized nation just short of actually becoming an industrialized nation. They get to the point where they can spew out the stuff and not deal with the problem because they're not industrialized nations, even when they get to the point that they really are, but don't quite produce enough product to be considered such. Furthermore, they may never do so, just to avoid having to deal with emissions restrictions. This could stagnate their development. If restrictions are to be imposed, they should be imposed on all that sign, equally. Those that have a larger problem already have more to deal with, as far as this accord goes.
Of course, I'm talking out of my a$$, which only increases greenhouse gas production, but at least I don't have to wear an exhaust scrubber like so many factories do....
In some dialects of Englihs, particularly those spoken throughout the American Midwest, "then" and "than" sound a lot alike, and are often misused in print for that reason.
Purdue University's Engineering Computer Network maintains several of these for the various engineering schools and their research groups on campus. The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering had ten of them the last time I counted, but I know that they have more now. Many of the other Schools of Engineering have a few as well, and some of the ECE research groups have one or two to themselves. ECN suggested these machines for the same reasons as the review likes them: they are small, have a lot of capability to be upgraded, and can be made very powerful. Just watch out for the price tag... :-)
Does anyone remember the Atari game Solaris?
The CEO/founder of Charmed is the woman on the web page. Technically, she is not a "he" and it is not "his", and she did industrial espionage before founding Charmed.
Don't flame me for saying this either. I just happen to have read an interview with her in some mag or another that I no longer have lying around (probably Fortune), and thought that disseminating information was the point of this site.
Matt Gozo