Say what you will of the writers (clearly, it isn't their strong point) but the fact that the subject was even broached in a periodical that is clearly not tech-oriented means that desktop linux is gaining even further ground.
Unless you're a MS shill, I don't see how this can't be a good thing.
I deal with AIX servers daily and I've never heard anyone try to pronounce the acronym. And trust me, there are much worse names (I shudder every time I hear mention of HP's Tru64 flavor of unix)
Big whoop, government has always taxed everything they could get their hands on, be it in the roman empire, in the middle ages, the british empire, or the present day.
What happens now is simply a natural extension of that as the nature of government has changed.
Then she's talking to that large-dicked nigger who she's cheating on you with.
When she says that she's meeting her "woman friend" for a makeover, she's really meeting him so that she can use his man-sauce as her foundation before she pulls herself inside out on his pole.
Parent is, sadly, pretty much right. I've had my laptop(s) with nearly a dozen times in the past year and the security folks never did more than a quick look-over.
Are you telling me that in the US, if people don't do this "registration" thing a month in advance and they show up the day of the election, they won't be allowed to vote in some states? Huh?
I modded it +1 insightful (before I opted to respond) and, really, I expected that the slashdot community would pick up on that subtlety.
It's exactly cases like this that opponents of NASA call upon when they want to cut its budget (and have done so successfully for years - it's been getting better but it's still not even as high as it was in the early 90's). It's not fair in the least, of course, and one should retort with facts - but sadly that's not how American politics works.
Yeesh, no need for the ad hominem attacks - the guy had some legitimate concerns, namely about working "out of the box."
You shouldn't need to have to rely on a search engine when installing an OS and making the basics function (especially if it's something like network connectivity - can't do much searching on google if you can't connect to the internet)
I use ubuntu myself but by no means is it absolutely trivial to get everything set up the way you like, especially with more obscure hardware configurations
Bah, just marketing hype. It's exactly the same as Coca-Cola's "secret" recipe - it's already been published several times (just that the company 'denied' that was the 'true' recipe)
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In single player games, some of the same difficulties exist, but at least your actions can change the world in more meaningful ways: you kill Hogger, he stays dead. Maybe a new farm crops up at his old stomping grounds. Maybe new people come in and have new quests.
But in an MMO, what if I have the Hogger quest, and now he's gone?
And that's the largest problem with MMOs - not the boring content. The fact that the world doesn't react to any changes that players make is what gives a certain 'pointlessness' to the game as the only thing that can change in the world is you; once someone is able to implement some sort of actual working interaction with the world environment, it will be quite a feat.
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We all played the same things when we were little, but don't you think it's time to get a life?
Waaait a second. You're posting on slashdot and you claim to have a life?
1) EULAs are legal binding contracts, which has never been really tested
Well, that's half true. The validity of a number of EULAs as contracts has been upheld in court, but the decisions were limited in such a way for it to not be very broad and precedent-setting - so it's very likely the courts would agree with EA's lawyers.
Slashdot's moderating system is total bullshit and the admins are retards for still keeping it around. Nearly every downmodding that occurs on Slashdot is 100% invalid.
The lack of quality titles for BluRay isn't doing the format any help.
From what I've seen there are only a few handfuls of movies available in BluRay that were made pre-2000; I'm no market analyst but I know most of the things out there I'd want to see are already a decade or two old and just haven't been produced on BluRay. Perhaps if they go hand-in-hand with actually making use of the storage capacity along with raping up production of actual good movies (e.g. not movies like Wild Hogs and Van Wilder) they'd get some ground.
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Say what you will of the writers (clearly, it isn't their strong point) but the fact that the subject was even broached in a periodical that is clearly not tech-oriented means that desktop linux is gaining even further ground.
Unless you're a MS shill, I don't see how this can't be a good thing.
He added to the discussion explaining something for those who aren't familiar with the issue
And unlike you, he got +1 Karma point for it.
[citation needed]
Strikes a chord - really active vegetarians are little different than any other advocacy group which, in the end, get little real interest.
Or Velcro(tm) the space-age adhesive!
Uh, what?
I deal with AIX servers daily and I've never heard anyone try to pronounce the acronym. And trust me, there are much worse names (I shudder every time I hear mention of HP's Tru64 flavor of unix)
Big whoop, government has always taxed everything they could get their hands on, be it in the roman empire, in the middle ages, the british empire, or the present day. What happens now is simply a natural extension of that as the nature of government has changed.
Uh... what? You realize that by giving approbation they're lauding it, right?
I don't quite understand your point unless you're implying Fox News isn't part of the Mainstream media.
You don't get out much, do you?
Funny, I thought quite the opposite - that the campaigns on the whole were mind-numbingly long and boring.
Parent is, sadly, pretty much right. I've had my laptop(s) with nearly a dozen times in the past year and the security folks never did more than a quick look-over.
Cute, so even slashdot spam generally follows these guidelines.
Yes.*
*though there is the option of a provisional ballot
Just shows how much faith google has in its own products ;)
I modded it +1 insightful (before I opted to respond) and, really, I expected that the slashdot community would pick up on that subtlety.
It's exactly cases like this that opponents of NASA call upon when they want to cut its budget (and have done so successfully for years - it's been getting better but it's still not even as high as it was in the early 90's). It's not fair in the least, of course, and one should retort with facts - but sadly that's not how American politics works.
I'm actually quite curious as to the source of the image. Some impromptu photo of politburo staff in the '30s?
Yeesh, no need for the ad hominem attacks - the guy had some legitimate concerns, namely about working "out of the box."
You shouldn't need to have to rely on a search engine when installing an OS and making the basics function (especially if it's something like network connectivity - can't do much searching on google if you can't connect to the internet)
I use ubuntu myself but by no means is it absolutely trivial to get everything set up the way you like, especially with more obscure hardware configurations
Bah, just marketing hype. It's exactly the same as Coca-Cola's "secret" recipe - it's already been published several times (just that the company 'denied' that was the 'true' recipe)
And that's the largest problem with MMOs - not the boring content. The fact that the world doesn't react to any changes that players make is what gives a certain 'pointlessness' to the game as the only thing that can change in the world is you; once someone is able to implement some sort of actual working interaction with the world environment, it will be quite a feat.
Waaait a second. You're posting on slashdot and you claim to have a life?
As your sibling said, you just basically described the gameplay of SimEarth ;)
Well, that's half true. The validity of a number of EULAs as contracts has been upheld in court, but the decisions were limited in such a way for it to not be very broad and precedent-setting - so it's very likely the courts would agree with EA's lawyers.
Including the -1 you just got? ;)
The lack of quality titles for BluRay isn't doing the format any help.
From what I've seen there are only a few handfuls of movies available in BluRay that were made pre-2000; I'm no market analyst but I know most of the things out there I'd want to see are already a decade or two old and just haven't been produced on BluRay. Perhaps if they go hand-in-hand with actually making use of the storage capacity along with raping up production of actual good movies (e.g. not movies like Wild Hogs and Van Wilder) they'd get some ground.
Very insightful comment - if I only had some mod points...