Playing through the game for the best ending now. To tell you the truth I've had way more fun with this little game than Half-Life 2 or any of the other recent releases.
It's retro, but it's got a fun story and memorable characters.
Why haven't they jetisoned the foul beast from Redmond and migrated en mass to the Macintosh or even Linux?
Microsoft may be evil and windows may be shot full of holes, but it's at least better than the alternatives.
I can A: switch to macintosh, which means that I get a user friendly interface that can't run any of the programs I want.
or
I can B: switch to Linux, which means that I get an overly complicated desktop operating system that I have to spend hours just to install a simple piece of software. I don't get to run any of the sofwtare that I like (and btw, I don't like the GPL alternatives, they lack polish), and say goodbye to gaming.
or
I can C: install a personal firewall, stop running IE / Outlook and viola, problems solved. I get my software, I get my games.
A report from the University of Utah says when motorists between 18 and 25 talk on cell phones, they drive like elderly people moving and reacting more slowly and increasing their risk of accidents.
Putting something in your own body does not, under just about every conceivable circumstance imaginable, force anything on anyone besides yourself. You are not stealing, damaging their property, or hurting them.
...Until you completely ruin your body and have to go into hospitals paid by taxes, go into rehab paid by taxes, go on welfare and live off of my income.
If I'm having problems, I open a single folder and 99% of the time I can handle the issue from that folder (or at CLI, from a single directory).
This is, of course, is false. When you install a program, shared system libraries go into the \windows or \winnt directory. Program related files and executables go into \Program Files. Settings specific to a particular user go into \Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data.
Not to mention the registry, but not going there today.
I totally agree, it would be nice to have everything located in a simple manner, shared libraries go into a shared directory, everything else goes into/usr/bin/<program name>/
A link is created in wherever, and that's it.
People don't want plans that charge them for what they actually use, they want to pay a huge lump some for all they can use, even if that cost is way over what they would normally use.
Consider: All-You-Can-Eat Buffets, Unlimited Internet Access, Unlimited Phone Minutes
Despite that it may have human intelligence, feelings, or whatever. It was created by humans and probably is far from perfect.
Giving rights should probably be done on a case by case basis, since to a large degree all humans are created with the same mental algorithms, their experience determines the outcome of these.
I suspect that most computers will have completely different AI algorithms (due to software patents), and thus would have slight differences in morality, etc.
In addition, I think that since you are the creator of the computer, you should have destruction rights. (I think this also applies to children.)
I agree, you're using a mouse (2 dimensions) and a keyboard (0 dimensions). Until they get real VR where I can interact with a 3D environment in a 3D way, it's just not going to work.
Also, the larger the capacity the greater the troubles in ripping/modifying/burning the discs. If the discs hold 50GB you need a 100+GB HD to do any modifications to the movie before reburning it.
Apparently we're going to need some new algorithms to make the videos 10 times their current size.
Either there will be a whole lot of filler, or the movie is going to have about 1000 times more resolution than my TV can display anyway.
I'll just lossy compress them down to standard DVD size and play them on my normal console DVD player without the ADs.
As a side note, I don't see why we need a higher capacity format for video anyways, I just barely bought a DVD player 4 years ago and I have no intention of purchasing a new console for another xx years.
Do you realize how much money those scumbags make from selling cam movies on the street.
I think there's multiple classes of pirates. In your case, you're referring to the pirates for profit. That would be like stealing a secret recipe, then selling it on the street for $5 a shot, rather than obtaining it for themselves for personal use.
What the parent is referring to, I'm sure is swapping and obtaining songs or movies for no profit.
Pehaps %?? would have bought that movie otherwise, but I'm inclined to thing that people become pirates because the industry is constantly beating into our heads that we need these things, but we're too poor to get our fix.
Maybe something of an industry induced drug addiction?
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the closest a linux geek ever gets to pussy.
Playing through the game for the best ending now. To tell you the truth I've had way more fun with this little game than Half-Life 2 or any of the other recent releases. It's retro, but it's got a fun story and memorable characters.
Microsoft may be evil and windows may be shot full of holes, but it's at least better than the alternatives.
I can A: switch to macintosh, which means that I get a user friendly interface that can't run any of the programs I want.
or
I can B: switch to Linux, which means that I get an overly complicated desktop operating system that I have to spend hours just to install a simple piece of software. I don't get to run any of the sofwtare that I like (and btw, I don't like the GPL alternatives, they lack polish), and say goodbye to gaming.
or
I can C: install a personal firewall, stop running IE / Outlook and viola, problems solved. I get my software, I get my games.
Sure you do, haven't you noticed how silly you sound when you record your voice and play it back?
Finally another form of birth control for males.
Chobits...
Wait, isn't Microsoft spanking Linux by a large margin?
Unless you're talking about the, "I can run linux on my girlfriend's vibrator" crowd.
Good thing I'm 26 and excempt from this study.
they'll be doing an experiment to see if people will pay for kitty-porn.
Where can I get a grant to do some lame study?
In other news, study finds that cigarettes are addictive, and that caffine may prevent you from sleeping.
I know you're not supposed to post this, but a-fuckin-men. This voices the reason why I gave up linux and went back to windows.
Thanks for mooching, asshole, please come again.
Never mind that it would take like 20 minutes for that collective mind to formulate a response and type it in.
Yea, does it have any juicy sex scenes later?
This is, of course, is false. When you install a program, shared system libraries go into the \windows or \winnt directory. Program related files and executables go into \Program Files. Settings specific to a particular user go into \Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data.
Not to mention the registry, but not going there today.
I totally agree, it would be nice to have everything located in a simple manner, shared libraries go into a shared directory, everything else goes into /usr/bin/<program name>/
A link is created in wherever, and that's it.
People don't want plans that charge them for what they actually use, they want to pay a huge lump some for all they can use, even if that cost is way over what they would normally use.
Consider: All-You-Can-Eat Buffets, Unlimited Internet Access, Unlimited Phone Minutes
Despite that it may have human intelligence, feelings, or whatever. It was created by humans and probably is far from perfect.
Giving rights should probably be done on a case by case basis, since to a large degree all humans are created with the same mental algorithms, their experience determines the outcome of these.
I suspect that most computers will have completely different AI algorithms (due to software patents), and thus would have slight differences in morality, etc.
In addition, I think that since you are the creator of the computer, you should have destruction rights. (I think this also applies to children.)
You must be an EverQuest player.
I agree, you're using a mouse (2 dimensions) and a keyboard (0 dimensions). Until they get real VR where I can interact with a 3D environment in a 3D way, it's just not going to work.
Apparently we're going to need some new algorithms to make the videos 10 times their current size.
Either there will be a whole lot of filler, or the movie is going to have about 1000 times more resolution than my TV can display anyway. I'll just lossy compress them down to standard DVD size and play them on my normal console DVD player without the ADs.
As a side note, I don't see why we need a higher capacity format for video anyways, I just barely bought a DVD player 4 years ago and I have no intention of purchasing a new console for another xx years.
Except for your minions will be quadrapelegic, or paralized.
Spelling at the moment isn't worth the effort.
I think there's multiple classes of pirates. In your case, you're referring to the pirates for profit. That would be like stealing a secret recipe, then selling it on the street for $5 a shot, rather than obtaining it for themselves for personal use.
What the parent is referring to, I'm sure is swapping and obtaining songs or movies for no profit.
Pehaps %?? would have bought that movie otherwise, but I'm inclined to thing that people become pirates because the industry is constantly beating into our heads that we need these things, but we're too poor to get our fix.
Maybe something of an industry induced drug addiction?
...is like having sex in a bus station. You're going to get what you're going to get.
Pissing into the wind since 1982!
No, they all sucked. Was I the only one that used windows NT as a desktop operating system?
Windows NT 4, Windows 2000...?
Hmm, batman, my spider sense must be out of whack. I thought it was an oligarchy approaching.