After playing a bit, I have to say it's a pretty impressive use of Flash, but, as an interface, this pig is not going to fly. Who wants a computer that worked like that? Please raise your hands... anyone? Nah, me neither. Sorry, Jef, it's doomed. As far as the real world is concerned, there are only three viable interfaces with today's technology:
1 - Mac 2 - Mac wannabes 3 - command line for the übernerds
Yeshua, or Jesus, or "the Christ", was just a guy who, a long time ago, got on the bad side of a political and military empire, and got in really deep trouble because of that.
And somehow, I am supposed to think that his death (and not anything he had done or said or written while he was alive), around two thousand years ago, in a far distant land where I have never been, is not only somehow relevant to my life, but essential to a supposed life that is claimed to exist after death.
I could say "sorry, man, but I don't buy it" - except it'd be a lie, because I am not sorry! I am proud and glad to say I don't buy a single line of it, or any other religion.
* (except Wozniak-worshipping, because WOZ IS GOD. Or Bob. Whatever.)
Actually, from what I heard: Sony promised 75 million polygons per second, but it takes the best coders to squeeze a tenth of that out of the PS2.
Just to compare: Sega promised 3 million polygons per second, but the Dreamcast could actually do more than that. Melbourne House (Infogrames' aussie studio) claims to have achieved 5 million polygons per second with "Test Drive Le Mans".
Yes, Robin Hood is a hero. He fights unelected tyrants who squeeze the people's money with heavy taxation. How can Ayn Rand disagree? But read the excerpt again. Rand (or the character Ragnar Danneskjöld) acknowledges that, but points that the meaning that remains today - what comes to mind when most people think of Robin Hood - is the "steals from the rich and gives to the poor" thing, which is totally different.
Read again; the "Robin Hood morality" is not merely of charity - it is of charity with/stolen/ money.
By the way, I will not say Bill Gates is some thief* or evil monopolist. If people are too clueless to consider systems other than Windoze, or too cheap to buy a Mac, or if the open-source options are not user-friendly enough, does that make the man a criminal?
Not saying he's any saint, but he's no satan either.
* (now, plagiarism is another thing. DR-DOS, anyone?)
Not only your English is pretty bad, your ideas are wrong as well. What poor countries NEED is precisely what they do NOT have: capitalism, full-blown capitalism, in both economical and philosophical senses.
"[...] I'm after a man whom I want to destroy. He died many centuries ago, but until the last trace of him is wiped out of men's minds, we will not have a decent world to live in."
"What man?"
"Robin Hood."
Rearden looked at him blankly, not understanding.
"He was the man who robbed the rich and gave to the poor. Well, I'm the man who robs the poor and gives to the rich-or, to be exact, the man who robs the thieving poor and gives back to the productive rich."
"What in blazes do you mean?"
"If you remember the stories you've read about me in the newspapers, before they stopped printing them, you know that I have never robbed a private ship and never taken any private property. Nor have I ever robbed a military vessel - because the purpose of a military fleet is to protect from violence the citizens who paid for it, which is the proper function of a government. But I have seized every loot carrier that came within range of my guns, every government relief ship, subsidy ship, loan ship, gift ship, every vessel with a cargo of goods taken by force from some men for the unpaid, unearned benefit of others. I seized the boats that sailed under the flag of the idea which I am fighting: the idea that need is a sacred idol requiring human sacrifices - that the need of some men is the knife of a guillotine hanging over others - that all of us must live with our work, our hopes, our plans, our efforts at the mercy of the moment when that knife will descend upon us - and that the extent of our ability is the extent of our danger, so that success will bring our heads down on the block, while failure will give us the right to pull the cord. This is the horror which Robin Hood immortalized as an ideal of righteousness. It is said that he fought against the looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed, but that is not the meaning of the legend which has survived. He is remembered, not as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, but as a provider of the poor. He is held to be the first man who assumed a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth which he did not own, by giving away goods which he had not produced, by making others pay for the luxury of his pity. He is the man who became the symbol of the idea that need, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we don't have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does. He became a justification for every mediocrity who, unable to make his own living, has demanded the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by proclaiming his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors at the price of robbing his superiors. It is this foulest of creatures - the double-parasite who lives on the sores of the poor and the blood of the rich - whom men have come to regard as a moral ideal. And this has brought us to a world where the more a man produces, the closer he comes to the loss of all his rights, until, if his ability is great enough, he becomes a rightless creature delivered as prey to any claimant - while in order to be placed above rights, above principles, above morality, placed where anything is permitted to him, even plunder and murder, all a man has to do is to be in need. Do you wonder why the world is collapsing around us? That is what I am fighting, Mr. Rearden. Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive."
Rearden listened, feeling numb. But under the numbness, like the first thrust of a seed breaking through, he felt an emotion he could not identify except that it seemed familiar and very distant, like something experienced and renounced long ago.
Because Sepultura, in my not-too-humble opinion, is the CRAPPIEST rock band out there - their "music" is little more than grunts and noises. It's not random, depends on the audience to whom you tell this joke.
Me, I'm much more into Iron Maiden, Angra, Queen, Helloween, Scorpions... you know, REAL music.:P
Damn, I wanted to tell that joke! But in the version I knew, the lady yells "SHIT", and what comes on can be: Britney Spears / Spice Girls / Backstreet Boys / Fugees / Sepultura / Nelly (not to be confused with Nelly Furtado) / Black Eyed Peas / everyone with bling-blings / pretty much anything that hit big on MTV after the mid-90s.
"Mr. Rearden," said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, "if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - what would you tell him to do?"
"I... don't know. What... could he do? What would you tell him?"
No way. AbiWord on Mac is also VERY crash-prone when printing. At least when I tried it, a month or two ago... It had a "Netscape 6" feel: potential to be good someday, but NOT READY for serious use yet.
This is not only funny, but informative. I never had any problem with spyware, viruses, or worms, in so many years of using Macs. Guess what my dad got a few MINUTES after buying a brand-new PC? Yup that's right... w32.Blaster.
One thing to keep in mind
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This is a list of the best DVDs - that is, picture & sound quality, crapload of cool extras, yadda yadda. Under such criterion, a DVD may kick ass, even if the movie in it sucks.
Sure, most of those movies are great. On the other hand... Star Wars Ep 1, Pearl Harbor, and Men In Black... enough said!
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Yeah, and Sifo Dias sounds like the portuguese to "fucked himself". That's why they changed the names in the subtitles.
...welcome the humanoid vulpine girls. You can be my overlord any time you want, babe! ~_^
: "How much more efficient can it get?"
Same principle, but done better? Get a Macintosh.
I meant "ubernerds", with an umlaut over the "u" - should have previewed first. X-(
After playing a bit, I have to say it's a pretty impressive use of Flash, but, as an interface, this pig is not going to fly. Who wants a computer that worked like that? Please raise your hands... anyone? Nah, me neither. Sorry, Jef, it's doomed. As far as the real world is concerned, there are only three viable interfaces with today's technology:
1 - Mac
2 - Mac wannabes
3 - command line for the übernerds
Yeshua, or Jesus, or "the Christ", was just a guy who, a long time ago, got on the bad side of a political and military empire, and got in really deep trouble because of that.
And somehow, I am supposed to think that his death (and not anything he had done or said or written while he was alive), around two thousand years ago, in a far distant land where I have never been, is not only somehow relevant to my life, but essential to a supposed life that is claimed to exist after death.
I could say "sorry, man, but I don't buy it" - except it'd be a lie, because I am not sorry! I am proud and glad to say I don't buy a single line of it, or any other religion.
* (except Wozniak-worshipping, because WOZ IS GOD. Or Bob. Whatever.)
Actually, from what I heard: Sony promised 75 million polygons per second, but it takes the best coders to squeeze a tenth of that out of the PS2.
Just to compare: Sega promised 3 million polygons per second, but the Dreamcast could actually do more than that. Melbourne House (Infogrames' aussie studio) claims to have achieved 5 million polygons per second with "Test Drive Le Mans".
No, Ayn Rand's view - to make a long theory short - is that forcing a man to give his fish to another is immoral.
Yes, Robin Hood is a hero. He fights unelected tyrants who squeeze the people's money with heavy taxation. How can Ayn Rand disagree? But read the excerpt again. Rand (or the character Ragnar Danneskjöld) acknowledges that, but points that the meaning that remains today - what comes to mind when most people think of Robin Hood - is the "steals from the rich and gives to the poor" thing, which is totally different.
Read again; the "Robin Hood morality" is not merely of charity - it is of charity with /stolen/ money.
By the way, I will not say Bill Gates is some thief* or evil monopolist. If people are too clueless to consider systems other than Windoze, or too cheap to buy a Mac, or if the open-source options are not user-friendly enough, does that make the man a criminal?
Not saying he's any saint, but he's no satan either.
* (now, plagiarism is another thing. DR-DOS, anyone?)
Not only your English is pretty bad, your ideas are wrong as well. What poor countries NEED is precisely what they do NOT have: capitalism, full-blown capitalism, in both economical and philosophical senses.
"[...] I'm after a man whom I want to destroy. He died many centuries ago, but until the last trace of him is wiped out of men's minds, we will not have a decent world to live in."
"What man?"
"Robin Hood."
Rearden looked at him blankly, not understanding.
"He was the man who robbed the rich and gave to the poor. Well, I'm the man who robs the poor and gives to the rich-or, to be exact, the man who robs the thieving poor and gives back to the productive rich."
"What in blazes do you mean?"
"If you remember the stories you've read about me in the newspapers, before they stopped printing them, you know that I have never robbed a private ship and never taken any private property. Nor have I ever robbed a military vessel - because the purpose of a military fleet is to protect from violence the citizens who paid for it, which is the proper function of a government. But I have seized every loot carrier that came within range of my guns, every government relief ship, subsidy ship, loan ship, gift ship, every vessel with a cargo of goods taken by force from some men for the unpaid, unearned benefit of others. I seized the boats that sailed under the flag of the idea which I am fighting: the idea that need is a sacred idol requiring human sacrifices - that the need of some men is the knife of a guillotine hanging over others - that all of us must live with our work, our hopes, our plans, our efforts at the mercy of the moment when that knife will descend upon us - and that the extent of our ability is the extent of our danger, so that success will bring our heads down on the block, while failure will give us the right to pull the cord. This is the horror which Robin Hood immortalized as an ideal of righteousness. It is said that he fought against the looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed, but that is not the meaning of the legend which has survived. He is remembered, not as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, but as a provider of the poor. He is held to be the first man who assumed a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth which he did not own, by giving away goods which he had not produced, by making others pay for the luxury of his pity. He is the man who became the symbol of the idea that need, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we don't have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does. He became a justification for every mediocrity who, unable to make his own living, has demanded the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by proclaiming his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors at the price of robbing his superiors. It is this foulest of creatures - the double-parasite who lives on the sores of the poor and the blood of the rich - whom men have come to regard as a moral ideal. And this has brought us to a world where the more a man produces, the closer he comes to the loss of all his rights, until, if his ability is great enough, he becomes a rightless creature delivered as prey to any claimant - while in order to be placed above rights, above principles, above morality, placed where anything is permitted to him, even plunder and murder, all a man has to do is to be in need. Do you wonder why the world is collapsing around us? That is what I am fighting, Mr. Rearden. Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive."
Rearden listened, feeling numb. But under the numbness, like the first thrust of a seed breaking through, he felt an emotion he could not identify except that it seemed familiar and very distant, like something experienced and renounced long ago.
( excerpt from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" )
Stuffit Expander can expand pretty much anything. www.stuffit.com
Abolish the FCC
Because Sepultura, in my not-too-humble opinion, is the CRAPPIEST rock band out there - their "music" is little more than grunts and noises. It's not random, depends on the audience to whom you tell this joke.
:P
Me, I'm much more into Iron Maiden, Angra, Queen, Helloween, Scorpions... you know, REAL music.
...Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984".
"Aperto", in Portuguese, means "strait" - A position of difficulty, perplexity, distress, or need.
Damn, I wanted to tell that joke! But in the version I knew, the lady yells "SHIT", and what comes on can be: Britney Spears / Spice Girls / Backstreet Boys / Fugees / Sepultura / Nelly (not to be confused with Nelly Furtado) / Black Eyed Peas / everyone with bling-blings / pretty much anything that hit big on MTV after the mid-90s.
"Mr. Rearden," said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, "if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - what would you tell him to do?"
"I... don't know. What... could he do? What would you tell him?"
"To shrug."
I guess he is so powerful, he has no one but yes-men around him. There is no one who could warn him that the movies are VERY poorly written.
No way. AbiWord on Mac is also VERY crash-prone when printing. At least when I tried it, a month or two ago... It had a "Netscape 6" feel: potential to be good someday, but NOT READY for serious use yet.
> I'd rather play any Capcom fighting
> game as opposed to Tekken.
Tekken sucks. Namco has made far better games before - Pac Man, Galaga, Xevious... (get teh romz at: www.planetemu.net)
And Capcom can also go very wrong with 2D (Marvel vs Capcom 2) or make an excellent 3D fighting game (Project Justice).
> Boobs are much better in 3D.
Two words: MAI SHIRANUI.
This is not only funny, but informative. I never had any problem with spyware, viruses, or worms, in so many years of using Macs. Guess what my dad got a few MINUTES after buying a brand-new PC? Yup that's right... w32.Blaster.
This is a list of the best DVDs - that is, picture & sound quality, crapload of cool extras, yadda yadda. Under such criterion, a DVD may kick ass, even if the movie in it sucks.
Sure, most of those movies are great. On the other hand... Star Wars Ep 1, Pearl Harbor, and Men In Black... enough said!