It would work fine. Let's just use iD as a stand-in example for any developer, and we'll use their IT5 engine as a stand-in example for any game engine. We'll also use GPL as a substitute for a suitable game-engine-tailored license with a similar spirit.
1) iD makes IT5. 2) iD releases IT5 under dual-licensing. With the GPL version, the engine, any additions to the engine, and any game assets must be under the GPL. Any mods made for your game must be under the GPL, even if you didn't make them (your fanbase did). With the commercial license, the engine is still iD's engine, but modifications and game assets are yours and do not have to be released as source, and fan-made mods belong to the fans that made them and do not have to be released as source. 3) ??? 4) Profit!
The ??? in 3 is this: game companies afraid of changing the way they do business will license the engine from iD the way they do already. Nothing will change there. But indie developers will get the GPL version for their first few games, make a little money (there's always a few who appreciate your work enough to pay), and grow into a larger developer (that can afford to pay iD for the commercially licensed engine and all the perks that come with it, such as not having to give away your livelihood). It's the best of both worlds. iD makes enough money to roll around in all day, and the indie guys get an equal shot at the "big-time" with the already-established commercial developers.
I'd love to see this. It would drastically lower the cost-of-entry barrier for game development.
Read the link. In "Developer Qualifications" it explains that the games can be for other consoles or for the PC, but they must be commercial games, and should be at least mildly successful.
I guess it all really boils down to "whatever will convince Nintendo to accept you". It is, unfortunately, kinda arbitrary.
The Wii SDK's price is not disclosed to the public, and is likely covered by NDA. At one time it was reported to be about $2000, but that could be an early version, a specific contract price with a single developer, or even just plain incorrect.
Then there's the unfortunately reality that it will cost you not only money, but also your soul. If you're not convinced of this, go read their criteria for becoming a Wii developer at their WarioWorld site.
If you read that page carefully, you'll note that even if you can pay for the dev kit, you have to be "accepted" as a licensed Nintendo developer first. During this acceptance process, they don't give a crap whether you can pay for the dev kit or not. You can't order one until you're accepted. But to be accepted, you have to be an established developer with an existing game portfolio, and the games can't suck. You also have to have an office. So no working from home. (This is supposedly to keep Nintendo's proprietary stuff "secure". As if an office can't be robbed.) It also states an approximate price for dev kits: $2500 to $10,000. It also states that they expect "financial stability".
Nintendo is going to make sure you're going to make and finish a game. Not just any game, but a good quality game. You can't just order a dev kit to "play with" or to make "indie" or "hobbyist" games. They want commercial games, and if you can't make one, you can't have a dev kit.
10.4.10, when installed, would reboot normally (from the Software Update dialog), then boot the gray Apple-logo screen, churn for a minute or two, then reboot from there and start up normally. I guessed there was a silent firmware update, but it's possible there was a patch for this issue in there as well. Note that it does this same process for my non-C2D MBP, as well as my PPC Mac Minis, but they took far less time to update than the MBP (30 seconds vs. 3 minutes).
The "new" AT&T is pure shit. This is fact, not opinion.
SBC had their shit together. They were the largest and most organized of the "baby bells". I never had problems with their customer service. I never had problems with their technicians. I never had outages. And they billed things correctly and with full disclosure. Sure, they were still the soul-stealing Phone Company, but at least they did things correctly.
Then they merged with "AT&T". Now, to tell the truth, the old AT&T was SBC. The other baby bells were essentially splintered off of AT&T and the remaining core was named Southwestern Bell (later SBC). But when the name brand came back with the merger with Pacific Bell, BellSouth, and a couple of others (one of them had acquired the "AT&T" name along the way), the whole thing went to shit. I used to consistently have a $52 phone/internet bill. Now, it's anywhere from $55 to $65, and it changes monthly. How difficult is it to charge the same monthly fee every month for local phone + no-surcharge long distance + DSL? Answer: apparently it's impossible for a company as incompetent as AT&T. They're morons. I wish they'd break back up and go back to being SBC. At least SBC had a functional billing system.
I won't be buying an iPhone (as much as I want one) until I can get it to work on T-Mobile's network.
I explicitly left out voice mail on my current cell phone account. It was $1.00 to add it, and I purposefully unchecked the box when I filled out the signup form. Reason: I don't want to be bothered dialing some retarded voice mail system to get someone's mostly-useless message. The phone itself registers missed calls; I'll call you back if/when I give a damn.
So no big loss if I don't have visual voice mail (like I need to see you when you're rambling for an hour into a networked recording device). I'll be happy without any voice mail at all.
We'll see if it can be unlocked, with or without voice mail. Just as long as the web stuff still works and the syncing with iTunes/Address Book/iCal/Mail works, I'm happy. Oh, and phone calls. But that should be a given.
Unfortunately, Tom Brokaw has convinced a great many people that something can "impact" you and yet not physically hit you. Don't believe his hype.
Something can impact you only if it hits you. Something can have an impact on you (note the posessive form) without hitting you, in which case it affects you (non-posessive form, equivalent meaning). And it gets worse day by day. The nearly braindead local news feebs latched onto the phrase and things lately have become "impactable" (vulnerable to an effect), or worse, "impactful" (full of impact? I'm not sure...). In the past tense, things have been "impacted"... like a wisdom tooth, I guess. No? You mean they were affected? Strange... I could've sworn someone said "impacted".
I blame Tom Brokaw for the mispronunciation of Missouri, too. It's not Misour-ee, it's Misour-ih (or if you're lazy, Misour-uh). Misery loves company, and Tom Brokaw says I live there.
Language changes and all, but sometimes it's a bit ridiculous. I still chuckle about "impactful". Yikes.
Will there be any impact here on Earth from the explosion?
Doubtful. Stars contain little or no solid matter, and the likelihood of a cosmic cueball (planet chunks, anyone? let's hope it's not kryptonite, I'd rather "kryp" tomorrow) coming our way is roughly zero.
Perhaps you meant "effect" rather than "impact". In that case, yes. We will recieve a tiny slice of its output of visible-spectrum radiation, an infintesimally small amount of "harmful" radiation, and some good scientific fodder. Oh, and if Hubble's still up, some awesome desktop pictures.
Not to mention the fact that the incident the ACLU is reacting to was caught, start-to-finish, on the local Fox affiliate's cameras. No framing necessary. KTVI caught it all on tape. The chase, the beatdown, the arrest, all of it.
And before anyone goes spouting a bunch of anti-Fox, right-wing-conspiracy crap, I'd like to let it be known that KTVI (Fox, channel 2, St. Louis) is about as "liberal" as local TV can become without being dismissed as leftist-whackjobs. I'm not sure how they stay a Fox affiliate.
anything you mail me is now dropped directly into my shredder.
Clearly they feel the same way as Cingular has never faxed me the unlock code for my Blackberry 7100 despite the fact that I have made multiple faxed / written requests for this and paid full retail for that phone qualifying for an immediate unlock.
Umm... am I the only one that sees what happened here?
In the US, there are a variety of ways to shop for a phone.
- The Mall Kiosk of Doom - In the hallowed halls of unfettered, unashamed, pillaging, raping commerce, there are these odd booths out in the middle of the walkway. Mind you, this isn't some backwater open-air market. This is a Shopping Mall(tm). Real Stores(tm) are located down either side of the walkway. Only scammers, con artists, and seasonal vendors use the dreaded "kiosks" that impede traffic. In the category of both "scammer" and "con artist" falls the Mall Kiosk of Doom Cellular Phone Vendor. Most malls (due to these exact vendors) now have policies that require kiosk employees to stay within their kiosk area, not roaming around bothering the passers by. But some malls don't have this limitation, and the MKDCPV will approach you, rather than waiting for you to walk unwittingly into their lair. Either way, once you're caught, your life is forfeit.
These kiosks are always run by a specific network provider, and have all the soul to match (none at all, of course, just an IOU taped to the wall, signed by the devil himself). The drooling lackeys they employ are the new breed of "burger flippers". Every other word they say is "fuck", and also "dude". When they're not talking to customers (and even when they are) they simply repeat "fuck dude fuck dude fuck..." until you walk away. Sometimes there's one with a few more braincells, enough to replace the word "fuck" with some sort of preprogrammed message installed by the network provider they work for. They will try to get you to sign your name to the list of recipients of the IOU on the wall. This involves a multi-year contract and a phone. Sometimes the phone is free. Most of the time, they "mess up" and charge you for it, or "forget to tell you about a service fee" and charge you for it, or they're "out of stock and you'll have to buy a phone" and charge you for it. In any event, your wallet is going to be raped and pillaged (remember, you're in a Shopping Mall(tm) - all your money are belong to us!) and your soul will belong to the devil (the CEO of a cell-telecom).
- The Network Provider Store (a.k.a. The Bowels of Hell) - You don't have the chance of accidental entrapment like with the Mall Kiosk of Doom, but these stores operate the same way. The help here tends to be a bit more "clueful", usually not drooling, and usually curtailing their use of "fuck" and "dude" while customers are present. Depending on the network provider, some of these guys are actually helpful. Not AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint, but the smaller carriers seem to hire genuinely helpful people. You might have a good experience here. But not if the sign out front says AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint.
Generally, they have a lot of accessories and a decent stock of phones. They have all the plans from the vendor they represent, top to bottom. But they'll deny that you can buy a phone without a plan. And they'll deny that you can buy a plan without a phone. In the minds of these guys, plans include phones, and phones are not available separately. Period. Pay up, bitch.
- The Faceless Web - All network providers have a website where you can buy a phone without having to remove your cheeto-covered ass from its resting place. They work like stripped-down versions of the network providers' stores without the salesguy sticking his nose into your butt and his hand into your wallet. Maybe it's just me, but web servers seem to be a great deal more polite than salesmen.
- The Independent - These guys are a dying breed. They sell phones. They sell plans from more than one network provider. They sell network provider plan+phone packages. They make their own plan+phone packages. They'll let you trade plans with another customer or act as a proxy plan buyer to get you the phone you want. These guys would sell a guy a Treo, sign him up for an AT&T "iPhone" plan and turn around and sell the iPhone to someone that wants it, but wants a T-Mobile plan.
I was kind of up on this iPhone thing, I don't really have a problem with ATT, but as we get closer, I don't know if ATT isn't going to return to it's scumbag roots.
I'm with you there. I've wanted an iPhone since the rumormill started mentioning ramp-ups in China (November or so). But I'll be damned if I'm going to pay more than about 50 or 60 dollars a month for the whole shebang. I've let my current contract (with Nextel, now Sprint) run out and I've been paying the month-to-month rate for 6 months now. It's just over $50. I'll gladly pay $600 for an iPhone, but I'm sure as hell not paying the anal-rape-level charges AT&T has traditionally put on data service. Unless I can buy an iPhone on a month-to-month plan (then cancel the plan and get a different carrier), or simply buy an iPhone with no plan, I'm probably not going to buy an iPhone. I'll find out in a week or two.
He was paying attention to the road. Part of that task includes avoiding idiots that are likely to swerve wildly into your bumper. Like a guy on two cell phones.
Yeah, I'm guessing that if you asked most people "What did Mr. Gatling invent?", then ask them "What did Mr. Oppenheimer invent?", they'd know the first for sure and maybe would know the second. The reason? Mr. Gatling's invention was the "Gatling gun" and people still refer to automatic weapons as "gats". Oppenheimer is most famous for working with Einstein on the A-bomb and making an "oh god look at that" sort of comment during one of the tests. Seriously. Most people remember him for his commentary rather than his work on the A-bomb.
Unfortunately, all too often that subject is "getting through a decade long college course" and not something useful. There's no guarantee they're an expert in the topic at hand, or any topic, really.
There are exceptions to this that come to mind... DDS = dentist, MD = medical doctor, PE = professional engineer, CPA = certified public accountant. But anyone claiming to be an expert because they have "Ph D" after their name is likely to be what I described before.
I have one. I've been searching for a decent ISP for a while now, and I can't find one. I'm in the St. Louis area, so if you know of a good one with service here, I'd be happy to switch.
Alternatively, I've been thinking of meeting with the board of my HOA and suggesting we all chip in for a T3. (200+ units in the HOA, so a T3 would be just about right, and even downright affordable if everyone was aboard.)
Washington wants to make sure the Internet is a one-way sh!t pipe into the American home
And when the day comes that they realize that dream, I'll be firing up a BBS with a bank of good-old 56k modems. "One-way" can go fuck itself. To poorly paraphrase some founding father or another and misquote Microsoft's asinine PR schmucks, "Welcome to the social, bitches."
He made a "snotty PC user" remark, I sniped back with a "snotty Mac user" remark. It got moderated as flamebait (rightly) and everybody had a good laugh. I'm not a "Macass".
Toyota is toying around with the uglyest cars ever made.
And they've never stopped.
GM gives us the Vega, Ford the Pinto, and AMC brings up the rear with the Pacer.
Asstastic! And not entirely unlike the current "Cobalt", "Focus", [insert your favorite Chrysler/Dodge-branded disaster-on-wheels here]. (Note: AMC was purchased by Jeep, which was in turn purchased by Chrysler. Thus the comparison is apt. APT!)
It has installed just fine on every PC I've ever tried it on. Of course, those were all PC's made by Apple.
Oh, you meant non-Apple hardware. Good luck with that unsupported mess. Just get Ubuntu for that pile of parts, you'll be far better off than trying to duct-tape a Mac OS X install onto a "beige" box.
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It would work fine. Let's just use iD as a stand-in example for any developer, and we'll use their IT5 engine as a stand-in example for any game engine. We'll also use GPL as a substitute for a suitable game-engine-tailored license with a similar spirit.
1) iD makes IT5.
2) iD releases IT5 under dual-licensing. With the GPL version, the engine, any additions to the engine, and any game assets must be under the GPL. Any mods made for your game must be under the GPL, even if you didn't make them (your fanbase did). With the commercial license, the engine is still iD's engine, but modifications and game assets are yours and do not have to be released as source, and fan-made mods belong to the fans that made them and do not have to be released as source.
3) ???
4) Profit!
The ??? in 3 is this: game companies afraid of changing the way they do business will license the engine from iD the way they do already. Nothing will change there. But indie developers will get the GPL version for their first few games, make a little money (there's always a few who appreciate your work enough to pay), and grow into a larger developer (that can afford to pay iD for the commercially licensed engine and all the perks that come with it, such as not having to give away your livelihood). It's the best of both worlds. iD makes enough money to roll around in all day, and the indie guys get an equal shot at the "big-time" with the already-established commercial developers.
I'd love to see this. It would drastically lower the cost-of-entry barrier for game development.
Read the link. In "Developer Qualifications" it explains that the games can be for other consoles or for the PC, but they must be commercial games, and should be at least mildly successful.
I guess it all really boils down to "whatever will convince Nintendo to accept you". It is, unfortunately, kinda arbitrary.
crushed my dreams
:(
Mine too.
I was thinking of starting out with a DS game or three, then maybe moving up to the Wii. Then reality landed on me like a walrus on an ice floe.
The Wii SDK's price is not disclosed to the public, and is likely covered by NDA. At one time it was reported to be about $2000, but that could be an early version, a specific contract price with a single developer, or even just plain incorrect.
Then there's the unfortunately reality that it will cost you not only money, but also your soul. If you're not convinced of this, go read their criteria for becoming a Wii developer at their WarioWorld site.
If you read that page carefully, you'll note that even if you can pay for the dev kit, you have to be "accepted" as a licensed Nintendo developer first. During this acceptance process, they don't give a crap whether you can pay for the dev kit or not. You can't order one until you're accepted. But to be accepted, you have to be an established developer with an existing game portfolio, and the games can't suck. You also have to have an office. So no working from home. (This is supposedly to keep Nintendo's proprietary stuff "secure". As if an office can't be robbed.) It also states an approximate price for dev kits: $2500 to $10,000. It also states that they expect "financial stability".
Nintendo is going to make sure you're going to make and finish a game. Not just any game, but a good quality game. You can't just order a dev kit to "play with" or to make "indie" or "hobbyist" games. They want commercial games, and if you can't make one, you can't have a dev kit.
10.4.10, when installed, would reboot normally (from the Software Update dialog), then boot the gray Apple-logo screen, churn for a minute or two, then reboot from there and start up normally. I guessed there was a silent firmware update, but it's possible there was a patch for this issue in there as well. Note that it does this same process for my non-C2D MBP, as well as my PPC Mac Minis, but they took far less time to update than the MBP (30 seconds vs. 3 minutes).
Most results are in by the 11 O'clock news.
Here in the midwest, we have you beat by an hour. We get it on the 10 o'clock news.
Ah. Thanks for clearing that up (rather than modding me Troll).
Your description makes voicemail sound almost tolerable. It might be worth looking at, now that I know.
The "new" AT&T is pure shit. This is fact, not opinion.
SBC had their shit together. They were the largest and most organized of the "baby bells". I never had problems with their customer service. I never had problems with their technicians. I never had outages. And they billed things correctly and with full disclosure. Sure, they were still the soul-stealing Phone Company, but at least they did things correctly.
Then they merged with "AT&T". Now, to tell the truth, the old AT&T was SBC. The other baby bells were essentially splintered off of AT&T and the remaining core was named Southwestern Bell (later SBC). But when the name brand came back with the merger with Pacific Bell, BellSouth, and a couple of others (one of them had acquired the "AT&T" name along the way), the whole thing went to shit. I used to consistently have a $52 phone/internet bill. Now, it's anywhere from $55 to $65, and it changes monthly. How difficult is it to charge the same monthly fee every month for local phone + no-surcharge long distance + DSL? Answer: apparently it's impossible for a company as incompetent as AT&T. They're morons. I wish they'd break back up and go back to being SBC. At least SBC had a functional billing system.
I won't be buying an iPhone (as much as I want one) until I can get it to work on T-Mobile's network.
I explicitly left out voice mail on my current cell phone account. It was $1.00 to add it, and I purposefully unchecked the box when I filled out the signup form. Reason: I don't want to be bothered dialing some retarded voice mail system to get someone's mostly-useless message. The phone itself registers missed calls; I'll call you back if/when I give a damn.
So no big loss if I don't have visual voice mail (like I need to see you when you're rambling for an hour into a networked recording device). I'll be happy without any voice mail at all.
We'll see if it can be unlocked, with or without voice mail. Just as long as the web stuff still works and the syncing with iTunes/Address Book/iCal/Mail works, I'm happy. Oh, and phone calls. But that should be a given.
Unfortunately, Tom Brokaw has convinced a great many people that something can "impact" you and yet not physically hit you. Don't believe his hype.
Something can impact you only if it hits you. Something can have an impact on you (note the posessive form) without hitting you, in which case it affects you (non-posessive form, equivalent meaning). And it gets worse day by day. The nearly braindead local news feebs latched onto the phrase and things lately have become "impactable" (vulnerable to an effect), or worse, "impactful" (full of impact? I'm not sure...). In the past tense, things have been "impacted"... like a wisdom tooth, I guess. No? You mean they were affected? Strange... I could've sworn someone said "impacted".
I blame Tom Brokaw for the mispronunciation of Missouri, too. It's not Misour-ee, it's Misour-ih (or if you're lazy, Misour-uh). Misery loves company, and Tom Brokaw says I live there.
Language changes and all, but sometimes it's a bit ridiculous. I still chuckle about "impactful". Yikes.
Will there be any impact here on Earth from the explosion?
Doubtful. Stars contain little or no solid matter, and the likelihood of a cosmic cueball (planet chunks, anyone? let's hope it's not kryptonite, I'd rather "kryp" tomorrow) coming our way is roughly zero.
Perhaps you meant "effect" rather than "impact". In that case, yes. We will recieve a tiny slice of its output of visible-spectrum radiation, an infintesimally small amount of "harmful" radiation, and some good scientific fodder. Oh, and if Hubble's still up, some awesome desktop pictures.
Not to mention the fact that the incident the ACLU is reacting to was caught, start-to-finish, on the local Fox affiliate's cameras. No framing necessary. KTVI caught it all on tape. The chase, the beatdown, the arrest, all of it.
And before anyone goes spouting a bunch of anti-Fox, right-wing-conspiracy crap, I'd like to let it be known that KTVI (Fox, channel 2, St. Louis) is about as "liberal" as local TV can become without being dismissed as leftist-whackjobs. I'm not sure how they stay a Fox affiliate.
seen an iPhone in the flesh
The iPhone is made of flesh? Ew. I didn't see that on the spec sheet. I don't think I want one after all.
anything you mail me is now dropped directly into my shredder.
Clearly they feel the same way as Cingular has never faxed me the unlock code for my Blackberry 7100 despite
the fact that I have made multiple faxed / written requests for this and paid full retail for that phone
qualifying for an immediate unlock.
Umm... am I the only one that sees what happened here?
In the US, there are a variety of ways to shop for a phone.
- The Mall Kiosk of Doom -
In the hallowed halls of unfettered, unashamed, pillaging, raping commerce, there are these odd booths out in the middle of the walkway. Mind you, this isn't some backwater open-air market. This is a Shopping Mall(tm). Real Stores(tm) are located down either side of the walkway. Only scammers, con artists, and seasonal vendors use the dreaded "kiosks" that impede traffic. In the category of both "scammer" and "con artist" falls the Mall Kiosk of Doom Cellular Phone Vendor. Most malls (due to these exact vendors) now have policies that require kiosk employees to stay within their kiosk area, not roaming around bothering the passers by. But some malls don't have this limitation, and the MKDCPV will approach you, rather than waiting for you to walk unwittingly into their lair. Either way, once you're caught, your life is forfeit.
These kiosks are always run by a specific network provider, and have all the soul to match (none at all, of course, just an IOU taped to the wall, signed by the devil himself). The drooling lackeys they employ are the new breed of "burger flippers". Every other word they say is "fuck", and also "dude". When they're not talking to customers (and even when they are) they simply repeat "fuck dude fuck dude fuck..." until you walk away. Sometimes there's one with a few more braincells, enough to replace the word "fuck" with some sort of preprogrammed message installed by the network provider they work for. They will try to get you to sign your name to the list of recipients of the IOU on the wall. This involves a multi-year contract and a phone. Sometimes the phone is free. Most of the time, they "mess up" and charge you for it, or "forget to tell you about a service fee" and charge you for it, or they're "out of stock and you'll have to buy a phone" and charge you for it. In any event, your wallet is going to be raped and pillaged (remember, you're in a Shopping Mall(tm) - all your money are belong to us!) and your soul will belong to the devil (the CEO of a cell-telecom).
- The Network Provider Store (a.k.a. The Bowels of Hell) -
You don't have the chance of accidental entrapment like with the Mall Kiosk of Doom, but these stores operate the same way. The help here tends to be a bit more "clueful", usually not drooling, and usually curtailing their use of "fuck" and "dude" while customers are present. Depending on the network provider, some of these guys are actually helpful. Not AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint, but the smaller carriers seem to hire genuinely helpful people. You might have a good experience here. But not if the sign out front says AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint.
Generally, they have a lot of accessories and a decent stock of phones. They have all the plans from the vendor they represent, top to bottom. But they'll deny that you can buy a phone without a plan. And they'll deny that you can buy a plan without a phone. In the minds of these guys, plans include phones, and phones are not available separately. Period. Pay up, bitch.
- The Faceless Web -
All network providers have a website where you can buy a phone without having to remove your cheeto-covered ass from its resting place. They work like stripped-down versions of the network providers' stores without the salesguy sticking his nose into your butt and his hand into your wallet. Maybe it's just me, but web servers seem to be a great deal more polite than salesmen.
- The Independent -
These guys are a dying breed. They sell phones. They sell plans from more than one network provider. They sell network provider plan+phone packages. They make their own plan+phone packages. They'll let you trade plans with another customer or act as a proxy plan buyer to get you the phone you want. These guys would sell a guy a Treo, sign him up for an AT&T "iPhone" plan and turn around and sell the iPhone to someone that wants it, but wants a T-Mobile plan.
And
I was kind of up on this iPhone thing, I don't really have a problem with ATT, but as we get closer, I don't know if ATT isn't going to return to it's scumbag roots.
I'm with you there. I've wanted an iPhone since the rumormill started mentioning ramp-ups in China (November or so). But I'll be damned if I'm going to pay more than about 50 or 60 dollars a month for the whole shebang. I've let my current contract (with Nextel, now Sprint) run out and I've been paying the month-to-month rate for 6 months now. It's just over $50. I'll gladly pay $600 for an iPhone, but I'm sure as hell not paying the anal-rape-level charges AT&T has traditionally put on data service. Unless I can buy an iPhone on a month-to-month plan (then cancel the plan and get a different carrier), or simply buy an iPhone with no plan, I'm probably not going to buy an iPhone. I'll find out in a week or two.
He was paying attention to the road. Part of that task includes avoiding idiots that are likely to swerve wildly into your bumper. Like a guy on two cell phones.
Yeah, I'm guessing that if you asked most people "What did Mr. Gatling invent?", then ask them "What did Mr. Oppenheimer invent?", they'd know the first for sure and maybe would know the second. The reason? Mr. Gatling's invention was the "Gatling gun" and people still refer to automatic weapons as "gats". Oppenheimer is most famous for working with Einstein on the A-bomb and making an "oh god look at that" sort of comment during one of the tests. Seriously. Most people remember him for his commentary rather than his work on the A-bomb.
Unfortunately, all too often that subject is "getting through a decade long college course" and not something useful. There's no guarantee they're an expert in the topic at hand, or any topic, really.
There are exceptions to this that come to mind... DDS = dentist, MD = medical doctor, PE = professional engineer, CPA = certified public accountant. But anyone claiming to be an expert because they have "Ph D" after their name is likely to be what I described before.
No, it's because all those movies are rated R...
wait for it... wait for it...
And pirates send more bytes because they rate them ARRRRRRRRRRR!
(Kill me now. I deserve it.)
I have one. I've been searching for a decent ISP for a while now, and I can't find one. I'm in the St. Louis area, so if you know of a good one with service here, I'd be happy to switch.
Alternatively, I've been thinking of meeting with the board of my HOA and suggesting we all chip in for a T3. (200+ units in the HOA, so a T3 would be just about right, and even downright affordable if everyone was aboard.)
Washington wants to make sure the Internet is a one-way sh!t pipe into the American home
And when the day comes that they realize that dream, I'll be firing up a BBS with a bank of good-old 56k modems. "One-way" can go fuck itself. To poorly paraphrase some founding father or another and misquote Microsoft's asinine PR schmucks, "Welcome to the social, bitches."
I was merely responding in kind.
He made a "snotty PC user" remark, I sniped back with a "snotty Mac user" remark. It got moderated as flamebait (rightly) and everybody had a good laugh. I'm not a "Macass".
Mazda is blowing their wad on a Wankel.
Let the jokes commence!
Toyota is toying around with the uglyest cars ever made.
And they've never stopped.
GM gives us the Vega, Ford the Pinto, and AMC brings up the rear with the Pacer.
Asstastic! And not entirely unlike the current "Cobalt", "Focus", [insert your favorite Chrysler/Dodge-branded disaster-on-wheels here]. (Note: AMC was purchased by Jeep, which was in turn purchased by Chrysler. Thus the comparison is apt. APT!)
It has installed just fine on every PC I've ever tried it on. Of course, those were all PC's made by Apple.
Oh, you meant non-Apple hardware. Good luck with that unsupported mess. Just get Ubuntu for that pile of parts, you'll be far better off than trying to duct-tape a Mac OS X install onto a "beige" box.