That's not the point of taxes on imports, and it's not the point of VoIP controls, either. The point is to influence the economy and make money in the process. Perhaps they have a reason to slow the adoption of VoIP.
If you follow Slashdot's opinions on which companies are good, you are sheeple. Baa baa baa. Remember that 51% of the US population has voluntarily declared themselves stupid - no matter what the Republican's policies are, they're wrong. Remember that every company is inherently evil, and every open-source project is good. Unless it start sending e-mails to other open-source projects. Remember not to pay companies for their goods, to encourage them to become open-source. Now be good and vote for Comrade Badnarik.
(there goes the slight cushion of Karma I worked up in the past few comments)
Best Buy won't be getting any more of my business if they value this philosophy.
They don't want your business. You, being market-savvy, are nowhere near as valuable to them as the "sheep" who will buy copy-protected products and honestly have no problems with it, who will buy expensive computers with Win XP Pro and MS Office preloaded for no savings, etc.
(How I hate that term "sheep". It's useful duckspeak when you'd like to attack everybody that doesn't think like you, or everybody that doesn't have the überdemanding anti-business and anti-Republican attitude that you have. ["You" is of course the general, vague, plural ye, not the singular thou who wrote the post.])
lock its "customers" into a proprietory VoIP network.
Why does it look like everyone can't abide the concept of a software company making money - and this one on the service not the software, no less?
The majority of the innovations in the software world come from people paid to innovate, or people figuring out how to make money innovating. I love open-source software as much as the next guy, but face it, most OSS is a copy of existing software: Linux, GIMP, Mozilla (from Mosaic), OpenOffice.org, etc. There is a purpose for proprietary software; even if you don't believe in it, that's no grounds to attack them just for being proprietary.
Skype may have faults, but that's not (necessarily) a symptom of malicious intent.
Cmd-Tab/Cmd-Q does something different from actually pressing Cmd-Q in the app itself, though. I've had VNCThing hang (by putting the Mac to sleep) such that Cmd-Q wouldn't respond, but Cmd-Tabbing until VNCThing was selected and then pressing Cmd-Q would work.
It doesn't really refer to Halo 2 gameplay, but it fits into the mythos. The Libary has the full story.
To summarize the relevant connecting parts, a UNSC ship in 2552 gets a Covenant virus on them, finds a Forerunner artifact just floating in space, and falls through a hole in slipspace. Part of the ship's AI, along with the virus, went back in time and landed on this website; the other part went onto a server on the Earth of 2552. As it turns out, the brain used to create Melissa was from a former Spartan-II and the sister of one of the I Love Bees characters.
I understand that Bush has many failings. There are millions of people better qualified for the office than him. (Kerry might not be one of them, incidentally, but that's another story.) But all your arguments attack Bush; there's nothing to explain why something about a private company's purported (and false) act of censorship is any excuse to attack the administration, especially on a retraction of the story.
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If I said, "You bought a PC because you do not understand consoles enough to buy one...Use a gamepad and play a proper FPS online with everyone else, like Halo. Then you might finally get it, if you ever get good enough to play online. An input device for typing does not offer the level of accuracy that you need to easily perform multiple tasks or coordinate your shooting," would my argument make any less sense?
I don't find an "angry exchange of bullets" the motivation for playing FPSes. I find the strategy combined with first-person defense much more important. (This is why I prefer CTF to Slayer for Halo online. Slayer tends to devolve into get-the-gun-first. CTF will almost always allow you to keep strategy.)
I find that one advantage of a controller is the differential motion: keeping it slightly to the left means a slight, constant motion that way, not a one-time movement and then a stop. This makes it easier to pan around the area or to circle someone (hold both control sticks in opposite directions). And I can also not manage variable walking speeds on a computer as well as I can with, say, the Xbox controller - even if you say there's a run key, that still only offers you two speeds.
And as for grammar, tu quoque, or should I say, "u" quoque?
How do you smoke a crucifix, especially one described with such a participle and one that contains a political statement on our country? I don't think sentences burn very well.
Have you ever seen/heard of an actual dirty bomb in an actual terrorism attempt? We know China has a strong military with nuclear weapons. The terrorists are a lot less of a threat, and to think otherwise is to admit defeat to their tools of terror.
Can we get a few people together (or ask a company to sponsor), get some bandwidth, install Slashcode, fork it to fix moderation, and syndicate the news stories that are specifically "News for Nerds" - no politics, general interest stuff, nor cetera?
Allow laws to be publicly editable via the web (in a Wiki style). The only power elected lawmakers would have would be to approve for a version of the page.
A retraction for the attack on Google, but another attack on the Bush Administration? Abu Ghraib was bad, but the issue here is Google's perceived censorship of the images, not the event itself.
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as opposed to a keyboard/mouse combo
Input devices aimed for entering text (the keyboard was first designed for the typewriter!) and for selecting large objects with a margin of error are somehow better than a controller that was half-designed with Halo in mind.
Oh, and people who buy consoles are innately less of a human beings.
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That's not the point of taxes on imports, and it's not the point of VoIP controls, either. The point is to influence the economy and make money in the process. Perhaps they have a reason to slow the adoption of VoIP.
Open standard? PSTN via SkypeOut. If you want to call into the Skype network, set up your own interface.
If you follow Slashdot's opinions on which companies are good, you are sheeple. Baa baa baa. Remember that 51% of the US population has voluntarily declared themselves stupid - no matter what the Republican's policies are, they're wrong. Remember that every company is inherently evil, and every open-source project is good. Unless it start sending e-mails to other open-source projects. Remember not to pay companies for their goods, to encourage them to become open-source. Now be good and vote for Comrade Badnarik.
(there goes the slight cushion of Karma I worked up in the past few comments)
Best Buy won't be getting any more of my business if they value this philosophy.
They don't want your business. You, being market-savvy, are nowhere near as valuable to them as the "sheep" who will buy copy-protected products and honestly have no problems with it, who will buy expensive computers with Win XP Pro and MS Office preloaded for no savings, etc.
(How I hate that term "sheep". It's useful duckspeak when you'd like to attack everybody that doesn't think like you, or everybody that doesn't have the überdemanding anti-business and anti-Republican attitude that you have. ["You" is of course the general, vague, plural ye, not the singular thou who wrote the post.])
George Bush and his right-wing zealots are planning to divide the country.
It can't be into two, since that wouldn't account for 8+ missing countries. Do you mean Arixo, the Nation of Hollywood, Texas, the Empire State, etc.?
lock its "customers" into a proprietory VoIP network.
Why does it look like everyone can't abide the concept of a software company making money - and this one on the service not the software, no less?
The majority of the innovations in the software world come from people paid to innovate, or people figuring out how to make money innovating. I love open-source software as much as the next guy, but face it, most OSS is a copy of existing software: Linux, GIMP, Mozilla (from Mosaic), OpenOffice.org, etc. There is a purpose for proprietary software; even if you don't believe in it, that's no grounds to attack them just for being proprietary.
Skype may have faults, but that's not (necessarily) a symptom of malicious intent.
Flamebait? How can you flame yourself?
This was supposed to be funny. At worst, it's unmodded.
Cmd-Tab/Cmd-Q does something different from actually pressing Cmd-Q in the app itself, though. I've had VNCThing hang (by putting the Mac to sleep) such that Cmd-Q wouldn't respond, but Cmd-Tabbing until VNCThing was selected and then pressing Cmd-Q would work.
It doesn't really refer to Halo 2 gameplay, but it fits into the mythos. The Libary has the full story.
To summarize the relevant connecting parts, a UNSC ship in 2552 gets a Covenant virus on them, finds a Forerunner artifact just floating in space, and falls through a hole in slipspace. Part of the ship's AI, along with the virus, went back in time and landed on this website; the other part went onto a server on the Earth of 2552. As it turns out, the brain used to create Melissa was from a former Spartan-II and the sister of one of the I Love Bees characters.
You know, you can, like, stop reading Slashdot if it bothers you so much.
This was relevant to people interested in RPGs in general. If you still want to read Slashdot, block Games or RPGs from your home page.
If you don't care about this, why did you waste your time commenting?
You know what I want to see?
Halo's story and multiplayer as a d20 (D&D-style) game, maybe something like KOTOR except with just one character.
The guy is a big and easy target.
Not on an article about Google Image Search.
I understand that Bush has many failings. There are millions of people better qualified for the office than him. (Kerry might not be one of them, incidentally, but that's another story.) But all your arguments attack Bush; there's nothing to explain why something about a private company's purported (and false) act of censorship is any excuse to attack the administration, especially on a retraction of the story.
If I said, "You bought a PC because you do not understand consoles enough to buy one...Use a gamepad and play a proper FPS online with everyone else, like Halo. Then you might finally get it, if you ever get good enough to play online. An input device for typing does not offer the level of accuracy that you need to easily perform multiple tasks or coordinate your shooting," would my argument make any less sense?
I don't find an "angry exchange of bullets" the motivation for playing FPSes. I find the strategy combined with first-person defense much more important. (This is why I prefer CTF to Slayer for Halo online. Slayer tends to devolve into get-the-gun-first. CTF will almost always allow you to keep strategy.)
I find that one advantage of a controller is the differential motion: keeping it slightly to the left means a slight, constant motion that way, not a one-time movement and then a stop. This makes it easier to pan around the area or to circle someone (hold both control sticks in opposite directions). And I can also not manage variable walking speeds on a computer as well as I can with, say, the Xbox controller - even if you say there's a run key, that still only offers you two speeds.
And as for grammar, tu quoque, or should I say, "u" quoque?
How do you smoke a crucifix, especially one described with such a participle and one that contains a political statement on our country? I don't think sentences burn very well.
Who is the bigger enemy, China or the terrorists?
China.
Have you ever seen/heard of an actual dirty bomb in an actual terrorism attempt? We know China has a strong military with nuclear weapons. The terrorists are a lot less of a threat, and to think otherwise is to admit defeat to their tools of terror.
Can we get a few people together (or ask a company to sponsor), get some bandwidth, install Slashcode, fork it to fix moderation, and syndicate the news stories that are specifically "News for Nerds" - no politics, general interest stuff, nor cetera?
Quit reading Slashdot if it apparently bothers you so much.
You don't have to listen to the editors. You don't need to come, voluntarily listen, and then complain.
Allow laws to be publicly editable via the web (in a Wiki style). The only power elected lawmakers would have would be to approve for a version of the page.
Can't you just, uh, not read Slashdot if you're so angry with it?
Or just register and block michael's stories, if you want.
John Kerry invented the Internet before he voted against it.
CIFS is SMB.
If you've signed the license for MS's implementation, don't contribute to that protocol's open source implementation. That's all they're saying.
If you can read more than seven words at a time, you'd've had the answer to your question.
five 9's of uptime
What's it do during the downtime?
A retraction for the attack on Google, but another attack on the Bush Administration? Abu Ghraib was bad, but the issue here is Google's perceived censorship of the images, not the event itself.
as opposed to a keyboard/mouse combo
Input devices aimed for entering text (the keyboard was first designed for the typewriter!) and for selecting large objects with a margin of error are somehow better than a controller that was half-designed with Halo in mind.
Oh, and people who buy consoles are innately less of a human beings.
You make a lot of sense.