Wow, I've never heard anyone describe the Gord novels as "wonderful" before. As an author, Gary Gygax made a great game designer - you could hear the dice rolling in the background during the combat scenes.
Why doesn't everyone put up files named Madonna_Like_a_Virgin.mp3 or Britney_Spears_Takes_it_Reel_Good.mp3 filled with random data? A few hundred thousand of those on the peers should give the BPI a headache.
Maybe because everyone is smart enough to realise that if you destroy the filesharing networks by flooding them with mislabelled garbage, but avoid prosecution by so doing, you haven't actually achieved anything except wasting a lot of bandwidth?
The fact that the country did not break into civil war is because we ARE a model democracy.
Absolutely! A model democracy like the USA (as everyone knows, "the world's most stable democracy") would NEVER erupt into a civil war over a dispute between different regions of the country, would it? Why, to even suggest such a thing is absurd!
I mean, once you have a 40 gig player, I can't imagine needing much more.
Well, you can cram about 100 hours of lossless compressed audio into 40 gig. That would be enough for a lot of people. It wouldn't hold my entire CD collection though. It would probably all fit into 40 gig at 128kbps.
I have a large collection, true, certainly larger than many people. But it's by no means the largest of all the people I know. I have friends with 1000+ CDs, if they wanted to store all that lossless compressed, they might need more like 400 gig.
..which will probably be available a few years down the track, and then you may well scratch your head and say "well, that ought to be enough for anyone".
Black jack is a game that can be beaten in the long run.
No, because unlike real-world casinos, online casinos shuffle the deck between every hand of Blackjack. There is no opportunity for card-counting (precisely because they know how simple it would be to write a Blackjack-bot), and thus it cannot be beaten in the long run.
What's the point of saying you have a relatively "informed" view, when your view is wrong?
For the case of online casinos, his relatively informed view is correct.
I don't know if Adam's Platform has been discussed on Slashdot before, but it was one of those classic "we can compress video 100x tighter than MPEG and decompress it realtime on a 286!" type claims. Good to see them getting spanked, as described in that report to the Australian Stock Exchange..
Juicy highlights:
after uninstalling the APT codec and rebooting, the APT video files mysteriously still played!
The team that evaluated the codec found that it had "what looked like the exact characteristics of VP3"
Adam Clark claimed he wrote the codec using ResEdit! LOL!
I don't understand this "Australian Ballot" talk. I was under the impression that "Australian Ballot" was the term American's used for a secret ballot, since it was invented in Australia. It has nothing to do with preferences, runoff, etc.
p.s. in case any foreign readers think that here in Australia we use a voting system "which by design keeps anyone from voting for a third party" - we don't. We use instant-runoff voting, which allows voters to freely vote for minor candidates without "wasting" their vote.
Slashdot does emit code to an HTML standard, it just happens to be HTML 3.2.
Nice try, Jamie. That'd be why the W3C Validator reports 207 validation errors on Slashdot's front page, eh? The HTML is absolutely rancid with unbalanced start/end tags, it's a miracle anything renders it properly.
Of course, you've done your best to hide this, haven't you? If anyone wants to try plugging "http://slashdot.org" into that validator, you'll get a "403 Forbidden" error - yep, the fine folks at Slashdot have blocked the W3C from accessing the page. But save the HTML to a local file and validate that, it'll be most illuminating. You'll need to tell it to use encoding "iso-8859-1 (Western Europe)", since that's sent in the http headers rather than defined in the HTML code.
Maybe you're not talking about the same thing that.NET detractors dislike. It might not be the.NET itself, but rather the unwillingness to throw any additional support towards the already-unmanageable 800 pound gorilla. Maybe it isn't the OSS software people really like, but rather the freedom that they have to deal with what they don't like.
Sounds to me like you're making his point for him. Slashdotters hate.NET because it's from Microsoft ("...unwillingness to throw any additional support towards the already-unmanageable 800 pound gorilla..."), and rather than saying so, they spew absurd "technical" arguments which merely serve to prove that they are completely unfamiliar with.NET.
Discrediting his post may only require a little good discussion, but I note that rather than doing so, you chose to call him a troll and an astroturfer, and his argument "crap". Wow, as technical arguments go, that's +5, Insightful.
I go through iiNet.. to be fair, the 1.5Mb ADSL is normally $80/month when combined with preselecting iiNet for long-distance phone calls, the $60/month is a special deal just until the end of November. See here for details.
wtf? For a start, there are one million connections to broadband internet in Australia. Not "one million people have access", "one million households are already connected". Here are the details.
You might live in the sticks, but everyone I know has broadband. I'm getting 1.5Mb/256Kb ADSL for $A60 (~$US41) per month. Maybe not Sweden quality, but it's good stuff, and it has rapidly been getting better and cheaper.
I still fail to see how this entitles you to a new copy of System Shock 2 if YOU lost or broke your own. It's your property, be responsible for it. Your kid lost it or dog chewed it? I can't quite understand how this is the publisher's fault.
It's the publisher's fault because the publisher is preventing the responsible users from being responsible and making a backup copy to mitigate the risk of the kid losing the original or the dog chewing it, you simpering halfwit.
Please do not post links to thefreedictionary.com - they are a dodgy site which repackages Wikipedia content, with ads, for profit, whilst stretching the GFDL as far as they possibly can.
Look at that link you posted - you'll see a credit to Wikipedia at the bottom. Now disable javascript in your browser and refresh - ooh, the credit is gone! They insert it in with javascript rather than putting it in the body of the page to ensure that Google doesn't pick it up. Why? Because a link to Wikipedia's article would help lift Wikipedia's pagerank above that of thefreedictionary.com.
Just say no, and if you want to read about PAE, read the original Wikipedia article.
Please do not post links to thefreedictionary.com - they are a dodgy site which repackages Wikipedia content whilst stretching the GFDL as far as they possibly can.
Look at that link you posted - you'll see a credit to Wikipedia at the bottom. Now disable javascript in your browser and refresh - ooh, the credit is gone! They insert it in with javascript rather than putting it in the body of the page to ensure that Google doesn't pick it up. Why? Because a link to Wikipedia's article would help lift Wikipedia's pagerank above that of freedictionary.com.
Just say no, and if you want to read Wikipedia's timeline of Linux development, read the original.
..another chance for ESR to push his description of "J. Random Hacker" (i.e., him and his mates) as the canonical definition. Please, one day, let him slip at the firing range and accidentally shoot himself in the ego..
Wrong. I'm currently (as in I've alt-tabbed over from it to post this) using it to develop for PS2
Ditto, I've also developed for PS2 and Gamecube using Visual Studio. Since we were also doing a Windows/DirectX and an Xbox version, it seemed easier to use the same editor environment for all 4 versions, with the MS compiler for the MS platforms, and the SN Systems gcc-based compiler for the PS2 and GC.
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I'm not going to take this report seriously until Netcraft confirms it.
Wow, I've never heard anyone describe the Gord novels as "wonderful" before. As an author, Gary Gygax made a great game designer - you could hear the dice rolling in the background during the combat scenes.
Why doesn't everyone put up files named Madonna_Like_a_Virgin.mp3 or Britney_Spears_Takes_it_Reel_Good.mp3 filled with random data? A few hundred thousand of those on the peers should give the BPI a headache.
Maybe because everyone is smart enough to realise that if you destroy the filesharing networks by flooding them with mislabelled garbage, but avoid prosecution by so doing, you haven't actually achieved anything except wasting a lot of bandwidth?
You know I'm laughing at you right now. I swear Libertarians bite easier than any other political grouping.
And you thought Libertarians couldn't be funny!
Au contraire, I often find myself laughing at Libertarians.
The fact that the country did not break into civil war is because we ARE a model democracy.
Absolutely! A model democracy like the USA (as everyone knows, "the world's most stable democracy") would NEVER erupt into a civil war over a dispute between different regions of the country, would it? Why, to even suggest such a thing is absurd!
I mean, once you have a 40 gig player, I can't imagine needing much more.
Well, you can cram about 100 hours of lossless compressed audio into 40 gig. That would be enough for a lot of people. It wouldn't hold my entire CD collection though. It would probably all fit into 40 gig at 128kbps.
I have a large collection, true, certainly larger than many people. But it's by no means the largest of all the people I know. I have friends with 1000+ CDs, if they wanted to store all that lossless compressed, they might need more like 400 gig.
..which will probably be available a few years down the track, and then you may well scratch your head and say "well, that ought to be enough for anyone".
Black jack is a game that can be beaten in the long run.
No, because unlike real-world casinos, online casinos shuffle the deck between every hand of Blackjack. There is no opportunity for card-counting (precisely because they know how simple it would be to write a Blackjack-bot), and thus it cannot be beaten in the long run.
What's the point of saying you have a relatively "informed" view, when your view is wrong?
For the case of online casinos, his relatively informed view is correct.
MOD PARENT UP!
I don't know if Adam's Platform has been discussed on Slashdot before, but it was one of those classic "we can compress video 100x tighter than MPEG and decompress it realtime on a 286!" type claims. Good to see them getting spanked, as described in that report to the Australian Stock Exchange..
Juicy highlights:
I don't understand this "Australian Ballot" talk. I was under the impression that "Australian Ballot" was the term American's used for a secret ballot, since it was invented in Australia. It has nothing to do with preferences, runoff, etc.
p.s. in case any foreign readers think that here in Australia we use a voting system "which by design keeps anyone from voting for a third party" - we don't. We use instant-runoff voting, which allows voters to freely vote for minor candidates without "wasting" their vote.
Uh, garage bands that are successfull turn into standard RIAA bands.
Yeah, and then you call them sellouts and stop listening to them! Jesus! You haven't been paying attention, have you!?
Slashdot does emit code to an HTML standard, it just happens to be HTML 3.2.
Nice try, Jamie. That'd be why the W3C Validator reports 207 validation errors on Slashdot's front page, eh? The HTML is absolutely rancid with unbalanced start/end tags, it's a miracle anything renders it properly.
Of course, you've done your best to hide this, haven't you? If anyone wants to try plugging "http://slashdot.org" into that validator, you'll get a "403 Forbidden" error - yep, the fine folks at Slashdot have blocked the W3C from accessing the page. But save the HTML to a local file and validate that, it'll be most illuminating. You'll need to tell it to use encoding "iso-8859-1 (Western Europe)", since that's sent in the http headers rather than defined in the HTML code.
OK, resume flaming us and our sucky HTML
Did I do OK?
Maybe you're not talking about the same thing that .NET detractors dislike. It might not be the .NET itself, but rather the unwillingness to throw any additional support towards the already-unmanageable 800 pound gorilla. Maybe it isn't the OSS software people really like, but rather the freedom that they have to deal with what they don't like.
Sounds to me like you're making his point for him. Slashdotters hate .NET because it's from Microsoft ("...unwillingness to throw any additional support towards the already-unmanageable 800 pound gorilla..."), and rather than saying so, they spew absurd "technical" arguments which merely serve to prove that they are completely unfamiliar with .NET.
Discrediting his post may only require a little good discussion, but I note that rather than doing so, you chose to call him a troll and an astroturfer, and his argument "crap". Wow, as technical arguments go, that's +5, Insightful.
I go through iiNet.. to be fair, the 1.5Mb ADSL is normally $80/month when combined with preselecting iiNet for long-distance phone calls, the $60/month is a special deal just until the end of November. See here for details.
wtf? For a start, there are one million connections to broadband internet in Australia. Not "one million people have access", "one million households are already connected". Here are the details.
You might live in the sticks, but everyone I know has broadband. I'm getting 1.5Mb/256Kb ADSL for $A60 (~$US41) per month. Maybe not Sweden quality, but it's good stuff, and it has rapidly been getting better and cheaper.
I mean, who remembers movies like Fklesh & Blood?
I don't, but I sure as hell remember the 1985 remake - it had a naked Jennifer Jason Leigh in it!
I still fail to see how this entitles you to a new copy of System Shock 2 if YOU lost or broke your own. It's your property, be responsible for it. Your kid lost it or dog chewed it? I can't quite understand how this is the publisher's fault.
It's the publisher's fault because the publisher is preventing the responsible users from being responsible and making a backup copy to mitigate the risk of the kid losing the original or the dog chewing it, you simpering halfwit.
Yep, unfortunately thefreedictionary.com have been quite successful at Google-optimising themselves ahead of Wikipedia. :-(
Please do not post links to thefreedictionary.com - they are a dodgy site which repackages Wikipedia content, with ads, for profit, whilst stretching the GFDL as far as they possibly can.
Look at that link you posted - you'll see a credit to Wikipedia at the bottom. Now disable javascript in your browser and refresh - ooh, the credit is gone! They insert it in with javascript rather than putting it in the body of the page to ensure that Google doesn't pick it up. Why? Because a link to Wikipedia's article would help lift Wikipedia's pagerank above that of thefreedictionary.com.
Just say no, and if you want to read about PAE, read the original Wikipedia article.
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Well, that was about as funny as every other Userfriendly strip.
Please do not post links to thefreedictionary.com - they are a dodgy site which repackages Wikipedia content whilst stretching the GFDL as far as they possibly can.
Look at that link you posted - you'll see a credit to Wikipedia at the bottom. Now disable javascript in your browser and refresh - ooh, the credit is gone! They insert it in with javascript rather than putting it in the body of the page to ensure that Google doesn't pick it up. Why? Because a link to Wikipedia's article would help lift Wikipedia's pagerank above that of freedictionary.com.
Just say no, and if you want to read Wikipedia's timeline of Linux development, read the original.
Yes Quake 2 wasn't exactly the pinnacle of their achievements
Actually, I thought Quake 2 was the pinnacle of their achievements. Certainly they nailed the single-player fun most effectively in that one, imho..
I for one certainly won't be buying this without a demo, ID have had far more misses than hits, for me.
..another chance for ESR to push his description of "J. Random Hacker" (i.e., him and his mates) as the canonical definition. Please, one day, let him slip at the firing range and accidentally shoot himself in the ego..
Wrong. I'm currently (as in I've alt-tabbed over from it to post this) using it to develop for PS2
Ditto, I've also developed for PS2 and Gamecube using Visual Studio. Since we were also doing a Windows/DirectX and an Xbox version, it seemed easier to use the same editor environment for all 4 versions, with the MS compiler for the MS platforms, and the SN Systems gcc-based compiler for the PS2 and GC.