Regardless of people's opinions of the government of china, the fact remains that 'Communism' as practised in that nation is in fact Maoism, and does not have overly much in comming with Marxist communism. The fact that people routinely label things as 'Communist = Bad' is somewhat disheartening on a forum where people are expected to be capable of rational thought. Toeing the capitalist party line and just deriding communism because the media told you to makes you no better than someone who mindlessly parrots Maoist dogma in China. You just think your government allows you to have 'free' and 'uncensored' media, while the chinese government is more blatant about it.
And if you don't know what I'm talking about, try searching google for 'US Soldier casket pictures'
Actually, in Canada, Telus already had an unlimited calling plan in the city of Winnipeg. It was $30 CDN a month, unlimited local calling all the time. It was their marketing gimmick to get into a new market. The only problem is, due to their contact the user is entitled to renew their contract when it expires for the same plan ad infinitum. This has led to those cell phone plans being bought and sold for as much as $3000, since as long as you renew it, you've got an unlimited cellphone for life for $30.
I just downloaded the demo, and it ran flawlessly on my FreeBSD box (4.9-RELEASE, latest nvidia drivers, linux-7.1_5 compat from ports). The only "tweaking" I had to do was set the __GL_SINGLE_THREADED environment variable to 1 (as described in nvidia's docs). After that, it was smooth sailing.
This means that all us BSD people can be senselessly violent as well;)
There's also ampcast.com - similar thing to mp3.com, from what I can tell, though there is a tendancy for artists to have more than three songs... which was one thing that sucked about mp3.com.
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See, that would be true if the Blizzard Dev's had actually done the interview, but we all know it was the PR dept...
That I can read this perfectly. My god, I obviously spent *way* too much time on IRC...
Regardless of people's opinions of the government of china, the fact remains that 'Communism' as practised in that nation is in fact Maoism, and does not have overly much in comming with Marxist communism. The fact that people routinely label things as 'Communist = Bad' is somewhat disheartening on a forum where people are expected to be capable of rational thought. Toeing the capitalist party line and just deriding communism because the media told you to makes you no better than someone who mindlessly parrots Maoist dogma in China. You just think your government allows you to have 'free' and 'uncensored' media, while the chinese government is more blatant about it. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, try searching google for 'US Soldier casket pictures'
Actually, in Canada, Telus already had an unlimited calling plan in the city of Winnipeg. It was $30 CDN a month, unlimited local calling all the time. It was their marketing gimmick to get into a new market. The only problem is, due to their contact the user is entitled to renew their contract when it expires for the same plan ad infinitum. This has led to those cell phone plans being bought and sold for as much as $3000, since as long as you renew it, you've got an unlimited cellphone for life for $30.
That whole thing assumes communism is in any way bad... It's biased to begin with.
I just downloaded the demo, and it ran flawlessly on my FreeBSD box (4.9-RELEASE, latest nvidia drivers, linux-7.1_5 compat from ports). The only "tweaking" I had to do was set the __GL_SINGLE_THREADED environment variable to 1 (as described in nvidia's docs). After that, it was smooth sailing. This means that all us BSD people can be senselessly violent as well ;)
There's also ampcast.com - similar thing to mp3.com, from what I can tell, though there is a tendancy for artists to have more than three songs... which was one thing that sucked about mp3.com.