I don't know about you guys, but I have an idea of what my husband's reaction would be if I were to say I was going to smoke a dick. I don't think it would be pleasant, so I don't believe the parent poster's advice is good.
Very possible... but they're also couting on that patent never being thrown out. It's been known to happen, companies paying off a patent troll only to see the patent invalidated -- most recently with the.jpeg patent, if I'm not mistaken. Wonder who'll get chewed up by management if that happens? Especially since there might be prior art on the Amiga system, as one poster has mentioned already? Moral of my rambling: sometimes it might be better to stand and fight.
Can anybody tell me what a ShoZu is? I could barely make sense of this and the site is down right now. I'll actually come back and check to see if I have replies this time, promise.
You sound like an absolute idiot when you use profanity. No one with any intelligence will take you seriously when you use language like this.
Yeah? Would you have preferred he said "a darn sight cheaper"? Because that would be the same thing except for the concept of profanity, which is that some words are bad while other words aren't -- even though they mean the same thing. Everyone with any intelligence realizes this. If I hadn't decided not to moderate anymore and I came across this while meta-modding, it would've been one of the very, very few times something was modded up that I would mark "unfair". Your statement was rude and just plain silly.
My biggest complaint with my female co-workers has been a total unwillingness to put in any overtime, work on any extra projects, etc. The usual excuse always has something to do with their kids - picking them up, taking them to practice, etc. Seriously, is it going to kill your husband if he has to be the one to take Suzie to band practice one night out of how many months? Since they don't really carry their share, they are seen as second string contributors by most of my male colleagues. I have to admit that in many ways I seem them in the same light.
And it hasn't occured to you that this shows you how most men are? I've dealt with female coworkers too who had that problem -- their husbands didn't want to do shit they didn't absolutely have to, foisting everything on their wives. The difference is, being female myself, I was able to get close enough to know that they were usually telling the truth. And the sad fact is, if your husband is like that, about the only solution is divorce. And then she doesn't have time for anything else either becuse she's a single mom. You obviously don't have kids yourself, or don't help out much with them if you do, since you've made it blindingly clear that you don't know what it's like.
Frankly, a lot of the women I work with really make me angry because they give the rest of us a bad name. They want all the gravy, but they don't want to pay the dues to get it.
Riiiiight. You're having problems with women at work -- not just one woman -- and it's all their fault. Frankly, I think that's a bit suspicious. Maybe if you didn't expect them to just say "piss off" to their children to do what you want they wouldn't think you're a jerk. Men in your department never take off for family problems? What's your attitude towards them when that happens? Have you considered the idea that they're doing to their wives exactly what the women who work with you say their husbands are doing to them, putting everything on them? But it's okay for your male coworkers to put everything on their wives, but it's not okay for your female coworkers to have everything put on them by their husbands? Nice double standard there.
I'm not sure that's a good comparison. White Wolf does use a class system, or more accurately, a race system. If you want to play a game with vampires and a demon, you need to buy the Vampire and Demon games. That's like having to buy a book in addition tot he basic books just to play a dwarf. Compare that to D&D, where all the classes and races are in one game (not counting optional add-on/ variant classes in supplements like the swashbuckler). Really, a pure skill system reminds me far more of GURPS. In GURPS everyone had access to the same skills and advantages; there were no classes at all. Problem is, GURPS did achieve a repsectable measure of popularity, but compare that to (A)D&D.
Do you think they were sitting around in a room and were like "gee, how can we soak the kids?"
Uh, yeah, they're a corporation. That's what corporations do. They try to charge the most while providing as little as they can get away with, regardless of how young or old their target market is. What are you suggesting, that corporations have hearts? All they care about is making as much money as possible. If Sony had no competition in the console market they would be charging $1200 for the PS3 and it would already be done -- but it wouldn't be comparable to even the Gamecube.
Because if you have older hardware 2.6 may not work with it. A lot of hardware support was dropped from 2.6. Everybody said it would only be legacy hardware (i.e., 90s stuff), but I know from personal experience that some not-so-old hardware drivers were dropped too.
I don't speak Klingon and I don't attend science fiction conventions at all. Nor have I ever done so. I'm not a programmer, I'm just an advanced user. I'm a surprisingly normal, well-adjusted 35-year-old female. I use Linux because I happen to like it. Hence, I find the attitude in this article highly offensive. It's like saying all black people love fried chicken and watermelon.
Mr. Raymond is trying to tell us what's so wrong with Linux and the Linux community, but he just proved he was both ignorant and bigoted on both subjects. Bigotry is for fools and I don't suffer fools gladly. Nor do I find ignorance pleasant.
The new CPUs may be great, the motherboards available now are good and fairly cheap, the video cards are as expensive as ever, but memory has went up in cost by $20 or more just in the last month. Now is not the time to upgrade to the latest & greatest. Get last year's (or even the year before that) best Linux-friendly hardware and buy used memory.
The standard is open, published and free for everybody to implement. There are just no good free tools, that's all.
True, and Adobe is the patent holder of the PDF format. You can use it freely as long as they allow you to. Remember what happened when MS wanted to include a "save to pdf" option in the next version of Office? What do you think Adobe would do if you came up with a free pdf program that does everything (or just nearly everything) that Acrobat Pro can do?
I've had this problem quite a lot with both Word & Writer. A title and a block of text fits nicely on the second page -- and then when I open the file again, the title is at the very bottom of the second page and the block of text is on the third page, spoiling my nice layout. Arrrggghhhh!!!
he X-Box has three problems - it's a tad expensive, it's only an "improved" version of what preceeded it rather than an innovative new design, and it has the word "Microsoft" on the box.
You fogot to mention that it lacks the backwards compatibility it was originally supposed to have. That makes its library of games rather small. It may have somewhat better graphics than the PS2, but the PS2 has a ton more games.
And the PS3? Yeah, lots of people are going to be really excited about it up until they see the price tag. By then the Wii is supposed to be out too, and all three consoles will be there together in the stores within a few steps of each other. Sony doesn't seem to realize that for many of the non-geeks they're hoping will buy the PS3, the $600 PS3 is going to be sitting between a $400 console and a $200 console. There will not only be alternatives, but they will be right there. Imagine a street vendor selling his tacos for a $2 while the guy right next to him is selling his for $1.
Then you are one of the people who are immune to it. I'm immune to Demarol; for others, it's an effective painkiller, for me it does nothing. We don't think about it, but it is entirely possible to be immune to painkillers. The next time you are hospitalzed you should mention to your doctor that morphine doesn't appear to work for you.
More people are switching to Opera now. Whether you like or hate the widgets thing, it's still a damn good brwoser. Some of FF's most popular extensions are imiations of standard features in Opera. That was not a troll.
On the other hand, the threat of losing your trademark is real, and I can't condemn a company for defending theirs.
I can, when they're going after companies that are in no way violating their trademarks. And the items spoken of here have absolutely nothing to do with iPods so it's hardly like they're trying to cash in on its popularity.
Next up, Apple sues farmers for growing peas in pods. Yeah, that's how friggign stupid this is on their part.
When the developers of Photoshop have to work 60 hours a week just to pay the rent & eat, then maybe I'll care. But that's a bullshit argument anyway -- the developers have already been paid. When you buy a copy of PS it's Adobe the company that gets yet more money, not the developers. And it's most definitely not a lost sale because I won't be buying it whether I use it or not. People like you always ignore that fact, don't you? If no one could pirate software, how much do you think your sales would increase? 10% That's pretty generous, actually. How much might your sales drop if no one could pirate your software? If you think they'd only go up you'd be in for a big surprise. Chances are many people would never have eve heard of your software if it weren't pirated. Where would Photoshop be if no one had ever pirate dit? It would probably still be one of the best image-editing apps, but many people wouldn't know a thing about it. "Photoshopiing" would be an unknown phrase.
But I use free software myself; so yes, the devloeprs of over-priced shareware can go fuck themselves. Why not? That's their attitude -- give me your money and then go fuck yourself. It's not working right? Tough. Free software devs don't charge for bug fixes and call it a new version, nor do they charge for bug-ridden new versions that they refuse to fix. How come it's so bad for people to pirate software but it's okay for software companies to screw over people left and right? Because it sure as hell seems to be okay for them to do so as no one ever does anything about it. And people like you always support their right to be paid but never seem to support the customer's right to get a quality, working product for their money.
You obviously don't know the history of the British occupation of India very well, because many of Gandhi's followeres were massacred. More than once. But the survivors didn't let the threat of being killed stop them.
By the way, what's with all the preaching pro-/anti-violence in this thread anyhow? So this group codes software that could have miliatry applications and states in their EULA that it's not to be used for such. All of you guys start rants, dissertations and lectures about whether violence solves anything or not as if you were all entitled to tell them what to do. If I were to code something and stipulate in the EULA that, say, a lawyer is never to use it professionally, then that's my damn business. Don't like it? Code similar software yourselves and use a different license.
I've never met an alcoholic who was screwing up only his own life either. Yet alcohol is legal, because everyoe knows if you drink moderately it's not dangerous to you. (That logic would apply to some drugs too, of course, but that simple fact is completely ignored.)
I've worked in studios big and small for two decades and have yet to see one the likes you describe.
True. The best acoustics are found in bathrooms, not studios. Anyone who has been in the recording industry for a long time knows what I'm talking about; many hit songs were recorded in a bathroom of a well-known studio rather than the recording area of the studio itself.
It's one of the great failings of our internet world that we still can't create a viable alternative to the major labels. If you think of all the technology and interconnectivity we've got going, the frictionless transfer of art and the (relatively) easy means of payment... how are we NOT outselling any of those companies?
Because no one has gotten together to do this. Sure, there are a few sites out there for indie bands, but there are far more groups that record for the RIAA than there are independents. Because of that the indie music sites aren't getting enough revenue. Lastly, some of the indies are sellouts waiting for the chance to sell out; I've been to indie music sites before where certain artists had only a sampler song for you to listen to, nothing to buy or download. If a site were to get a lot of real indie artists together, persuade some of the RIAA-artists coming out of contract to publish on their site instead of singing another contract and, above all, get enough ad revenue to push the site, it could become something comparable to iTunes.
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Thank you. Your post should be modded up + Informative.
I don't know about you guys, but I have an idea of what my husband's reaction would be if I were to say I was going to smoke a dick. I don't think it would be pleasant, so I don't believe the parent poster's advice is good.
Very possible... but they're also couting on that patent never being thrown out. It's been known to happen, companies paying off a patent troll only to see the patent invalidated -- most recently with the .jpeg patent, if I'm not mistaken. Wonder who'll get chewed up by management if that happens? Especially since there might be prior art on the Amiga system, as one poster has mentioned already? Moral of my rambling: sometimes it might be better to stand and fight.
Can anybody tell me what a ShoZu is? I could barely make sense of this and the site is down right now. I'll actually come back and check to see if I have replies this time, promise.
Yeah? Would you have preferred he said "a darn sight cheaper"? Because that would be the same thing except for the concept of profanity, which is that some words are bad while other words aren't -- even though they mean the same thing. Everyone with any intelligence realizes this. If I hadn't decided not to moderate anymore and I came across this while meta-modding, it would've been one of the very, very few times something was modded up that I would mark "unfair". Your statement was rude and just plain silly.
And it hasn't occured to you that this shows you how most men are? I've dealt with female coworkers too who had that problem -- their husbands didn't want to do shit they didn't absolutely have to, foisting everything on their wives. The difference is, being female myself, I was able to get close enough to know that they were usually telling the truth. And the sad fact is, if your husband is like that, about the only solution is divorce. And then she doesn't have time for anything else either becuse she's a single mom. You obviously don't have kids yourself, or don't help out much with them if you do, since you've made it blindingly clear that you don't know what it's like.
Riiiiight. You're having problems with women at work -- not just one woman -- and it's all their fault. Frankly, I think that's a bit suspicious. Maybe if you didn't expect them to just say "piss off" to their children to do what you want they wouldn't think you're a jerk. Men in your department never take off for family problems? What's your attitude towards them when that happens? Have you considered the idea that they're doing to their wives exactly what the women who work with you say their husbands are doing to them, putting everything on them? But it's okay for your male coworkers to put everything on their wives, but it's not okay for your female coworkers to have everything put on them by their husbands? Nice double standard there.
I'm not sure that's a good comparison. White Wolf does use a class system, or more accurately, a race system. If you want to play a game with vampires and a demon, you need to buy the Vampire and Demon games. That's like having to buy a book in addition tot he basic books just to play a dwarf. Compare that to D&D, where all the classes and races are in one game (not counting optional add-on/ variant classes in supplements like the swashbuckler). Really, a pure skill system reminds me far more of GURPS. In GURPS everyone had access to the same skills and advantages; there were no classes at all. Problem is, GURPS did achieve a repsectable measure of popularity, but compare that to (A)D&D.
Because if you have older hardware 2.6 may not work with it. A lot of hardware support was dropped from 2.6. Everybody said it would only be legacy hardware (i.e., 90s stuff), but I know from personal experience that some not-so-old hardware drivers were dropped too.
Thanks, but I'm too lazy to read that.
But as a nerd, I gotta say "It would be even cooler if she were going to head a project afterward to make a great, totally free Linux distro".
I don't speak Klingon and I don't attend science fiction conventions at all. Nor have I ever done so. I'm not a programmer, I'm just an advanced user. I'm a surprisingly normal, well-adjusted 35-year-old female. I use Linux because I happen to like it. Hence, I find the attitude in this article highly offensive. It's like saying all black people love fried chicken and watermelon.
Mr. Raymond is trying to tell us what's so wrong with Linux and the Linux community, but he just proved he was both ignorant and bigoted on both subjects. Bigotry is for fools and I don't suffer fools gladly. Nor do I find ignorance pleasant.
The new CPUs may be great, the motherboards available now are good and fairly cheap, the video cards are as expensive as ever, but memory has went up in cost by $20 or more just in the last month. Now is not the time to upgrade to the latest & greatest. Get last year's (or even the year before that) best Linux-friendly hardware and buy used memory.
True, and Adobe is the patent holder of the PDF format. You can use it freely as long as they allow you to. Remember what happened when MS wanted to include a "save to pdf" option in the next version of Office? What do you think Adobe would do if you came up with a free pdf program that does everything (or just nearly everything) that Acrobat Pro can do?
I've had this problem quite a lot with both Word & Writer. A title and a block of text fits nicely on the second page -- and then when I open the file again, the title is at the very bottom of the second page and the block of text is on the third page, spoiling my nice layout. Arrrggghhhh!!!
You fogot to mention that it lacks the backwards compatibility it was originally supposed to have. That makes its library of games rather small. It may have somewhat better graphics than the PS2, but the PS2 has a ton more games.
And the PS3? Yeah, lots of people are going to be really excited about it up until they see the price tag. By then the Wii is supposed to be out too, and all three consoles will be there together in the stores within a few steps of each other. Sony doesn't seem to realize that for many of the non-geeks they're hoping will buy the PS3, the $600 PS3 is going to be sitting between a $400 console and a $200 console. There will not only be alternatives, but they will be right there. Imagine a street vendor selling his tacos for a $2 while the guy right next to him is selling his for $1.
Then you are one of the people who are immune to it. I'm immune to Demarol; for others, it's an effective painkiller, for me it does nothing. We don't think about it, but it is entirely possible to be immune to painkillers. The next time you are hospitalzed you should mention to your doctor that morphine doesn't appear to work for you.
More people are switching to Opera now. Whether you like or hate the widgets thing, it's still a damn good brwoser. Some of FF's most popular extensions are imiations of standard features in Opera. That was not a troll.
I can, when they're going after companies that are in no way violating their trademarks. And the items spoken of here have absolutely nothing to do with iPods so it's hardly like they're trying to cash in on its popularity.
Next up, Apple sues farmers for growing peas in pods. Yeah, that's how friggign stupid this is on their part.
When the developers of Photoshop have to work 60 hours a week just to pay the rent & eat, then maybe I'll care. But that's a bullshit argument anyway -- the developers have already been paid. When you buy a copy of PS it's Adobe the company that gets yet more money, not the developers. And it's most definitely not a lost sale because I won't be buying it whether I use it or not. People like you always ignore that fact, don't you? If no one could pirate software, how much do you think your sales would increase? 10% That's pretty generous, actually. How much might your sales drop if no one could pirate your software? If you think they'd only go up you'd be in for a big surprise. Chances are many people would never have eve heard of your software if it weren't pirated. Where would Photoshop be if no one had ever pirate dit? It would probably still be one of the best image-editing apps, but many people wouldn't know a thing about it. "Photoshopiing" would be an unknown phrase.
But I use free software myself; so yes, the devloeprs of over-priced shareware can go fuck themselves. Why not? That's their attitude -- give me your money and then go fuck yourself. It's not working right? Tough. Free software devs don't charge for bug fixes and call it a new version, nor do they charge for bug-ridden new versions that they refuse to fix. How come it's so bad for people to pirate software but it's okay for software companies to screw over people left and right? Because it sure as hell seems to be okay for them to do so as no one ever does anything about it. And people like you always support their right to be paid but never seem to support the customer's right to get a quality, working product for their money.
You obviously don't know the history of the British occupation of India very well, because many of Gandhi's followeres were massacred. More than once. But the survivors didn't let the threat of being killed stop them.
By the way, what's with all the preaching pro-/anti-violence in this thread anyhow? So this group codes software that could have miliatry applications and states in their EULA that it's not to be used for such. All of you guys start rants, dissertations and lectures about whether violence solves anything or not as if you were all entitled to tell them what to do. If I were to code something and stipulate in the EULA that, say, a lawyer is never to use it professionally, then that's my damn business. Don't like it? Code similar software yourselves and use a different license.
I've never met an alcoholic who was screwing up only his own life either. Yet alcohol is legal, because everyoe knows if you drink moderately it's not dangerous to you. (That logic would apply to some drugs too, of course, but that simple fact is completely ignored.)
True. The best acoustics are found in bathrooms, not studios. Anyone who has been in the recording industry for a long time knows what I'm talking about; many hit songs were recorded in a bathroom of a well-known studio rather than the recording area of the studio itself.
Because no one has gotten together to do this. Sure, there are a few sites out there for indie bands, but there are far more groups that record for the RIAA than there are independents. Because of that the indie music sites aren't getting enough revenue. Lastly, some of the indies are sellouts waiting for the chance to sell out; I've been to indie music sites before where certain artists had only a sampler song for you to listen to, nothing to buy or download. If a site were to get a lot of real indie artists together, persuade some of the RIAA-artists coming out of contract to publish on their site instead of singing another contract and, above all, get enough ad revenue to push the site, it could become something comparable to iTunes.