Yes and I, as a hardened criminal learned everything about the law by watching TV...
I don't know how truthful Law + Order is, but I expect reading up will hold more sway over the sceptics!
"Now if you could just get a lid on the bitching, you'd be on your way to becoming a worthwhile human being."
If (human.bitching==0) {human.worthwhile=0.5)
I'm sorry, but I can't see, even now you have enlightened me as to the true meaning, how that sentence means anything other than the above code. Without going on about the alternatives to this sentence, I'll move on.
1) You have displayed the capitalist penchant for making sweeping, incorrect generalisations. (Insert tags where appropriate)
2) There may be something wrong with thinking that the world is fair, but there is nothing wrong with attempting to put this right. Capitalism tries to make this work, expanding the rich/poor gap. Socialism tries to offer equality, closing it. Perhaps you're too rich to view this as a good thing. Hopefully someone will force you to change places with some starving, penniless person with no home. Perhaps, just perhaps you will then realise the injustice capitalism creates.
$10? Last time I checked overclockers.co.uk a 2800 and a 2.8 were priced 40 apart. If you don't believe the marketing lingo, you can still get a 3200 for the same price as a 2.8.
To be honest, I'd rather have the chance of getting a bad product and having to return it (which I haven't, yet) and get a better processor for my money.
Ignoring the most inflammatory and ignorant of the points, I'll concentrate on just one:
"Oh, and for the record, I haven't told you not to express an opinion."
You say that unless I stop bitching (expressing an opinion) I'm not a worthwhile human being? Perhaps this is a roundabout insult with a flimsy point attached, but I was concentrating on the point, not the insult.
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as surprise, IE exploits, uncaring users and an almost fanatical devotion to an annoyance-marketing based business model. And nice bulk emailers, OH DAMN!
Criticism, n: The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure.
Saying that bitching (or, as I'd prefer to put it, voicing an adverse opinion) renders me unworthwhile as a human being does not, in my book, constitute "detailed examination or review." Instead it counts as an insult, and should therefore be ignored. I appear to have failed on that last count, but hopefully it will have done some good.
"That's the kind of thing that happens in a socialist society, not on a web-based free-for-all like slashdot."
Wow... how ignorant. I live in a socialist society and I've never been told, except by people such as yourself, not to express opinion.
Socialism does not mean dictatorship, single party state, no free speech - it means something resembling equality.
"argue against something that nobody has said."
I freely admit this. Commonly known as "drawing a parallel." Allow me to explain.
Those who give to charity are, implicity, criticising the capitalist society they live in, as it is most often that society that caused the unfairness the donor wishes to correct.
I, also implicitly, criticised my society by saying I was not fond of capitalists. Hence, a parallel and therefore valid analogy and argument.
"How very disappointing. I had hoped that they were another serious competitor for the prize."
Unfortunately, no they weren't - they had to wait for funding and other such things. However, they still managed to make it into the top 3 places (although the BBC never mentions them, a source of constant irritation.)
Perhaps, had they had some money, they would have been a serious competitor.
Actually, I was referring to a global forwarding address (My email address is one) that forwards email to whatever account you specify.
You generally have to pay, but some would deem this better than having mail deleted, encrypted, lost, burnt or whatever.
"Well, good for you! Now if you could just get a lid on the bitching, you'd be on your way to becoming a worthwhile human being."
Unfortunately voicing an opinion does not appear to be permitted on Slashdot. There is actually nothing wrong with complaining about the current state of affairs - what else is voting in a new government?
"It's capitalism that made it possible for someone like you to afford a computer, you ungrateful little twerp."
So all those westerners donating to charities and trying to help even things out are "ungrateful little twerps?" You seem a little too frivolous with the insults and a little too stingy with the brain.
Someone can be rich and still want socialism, not capitalism. Why do you think anyone would vote green, or lib dems? Perhaps I am ungrateful, but actually there's a very good reason for that - wanting the world to be a fairer place than it is now.
"I'm going to give StarChaser the benefit of the doubt. They probably wish you'd shut up and quit embarassing them."
Well, the guys I've spoken to at StarChaser (One of them being Steve, the manager person) seem to share my opinion, so I disagree.
Any more rather childish insults to throw?
FYI, I have "put money where my mouth is" and supported StarChaser.
And that's the whole point - without the X-Prize, sure, Rutan could've made his craft because he can afford it. Without the prize, StarChaser (and the other *competing* companies) will all be left dirt-poor with half a rocket in the warehouse.
The contentious issue (at least for "socialist snivelling gits" such as I) is that this prize was only for groups with no government backing. This would imply that people weren't to "buy the prize" and instead it would encourage the growth of smaller groups.
To get back to the personal insults you offer, I not only became part of the StarChaser club, but also work there as a volunteer - leading to bias, maybe, but perhaps bias with a founding.
And as for socialism, well, let's not get into an argument about that, because I can't stand greedy, fat capitalist gits;-)
Only so I can say "You prize thieves!" or something similar!
I respect the work they've done towards space tourism, but taking part in the X-Prize was not something they should have done. Able to buy the prize meant that other companies, who could've actually done with the money to get them out of back-yard business into the limelight, had no chance of winning.
Quite, but that was part of the point - you can do a make install to your home dir in Linux and need only to be logged in.
However, in Linux it's probably possible to change the session preferences to start the program on login. (Although, as previously mentioned, there's no auto-autorun)
Anyway, the user action is inserting the CD into the drive. Hence the problem with autorun (and why autorun should be off by default - I don't know whether it is)
Anyway, back to the point. A program is simply a series of instructions given to the operating system and then the processor, so if one of those instructions happens to be "copy A to B" then that happens if the program is executed. If OS X requires you to validate programs being executed off the disk, all well and good, but that wasn't my point - the point was that programs don't need a password to be installed.
An RSS feed - very neat. I already check the FootNotes feed, now I have more GNOME goodies in my RSS Panel:-)
As for trying out gnome, the easiest way is to grab Fedora which has GNOME 2.6 on the CDs.
It's possible, but slow, to trawl through the sources at ftp.gnome.org, downloading all the necessary files. However, if you can find binary packages for your distro of choice then I'd go for them.
This set's looking rather sparse, at the moment. Still, it's good that they've got back their space, hopefully not to be hacked again.
I wonder whether I can submit all the miscellaneous lint I've acquired for the developers;-)
It's a real pity when things like that get hacked - It's GNOME people who're the real hackers, after all. In addition, this is a free software group - it's not like they're a software giant *cough* who crushes small businesses *cough* and uses illegal business practises *cough* (Oh, sod this - MICROSOFT) We need more white-hats, to go and whoop Teh Script Kidde H4x0r'S arses...
More like, if, whenever someone got near the car it automatically unlocked and started the engine, requiring you to remove the dashboard cover and unscrew something to change this.
On top of this, it was vulnerable to stalling at random, only restarting after you pushed it home.
In this case, you could either fix it, or get a better car in the first place.
However, one way of resolving the "issues" is switching to an Operating System that doesn't have them.
It is a fact that Microsoft has done something wrong here - it should ask before doing unkown carp to your machine. À la Linux/Mac OS X.
Sure, you can fix it on Windows, but the problem still remains.
That sounds unlikely. Perhaps with the Mac equivalent of the RPM you're prompted for a password, but installing simply means "putting the stuff where it's useful."
So unless you Mac users require a password to copy a file from A to B, where you have read access in A and write in B, then it seems unlikely that this can 't install without your knowledge.
The StarChaser crew are all thinking this, as SpaceShipOne has no launch escape system, to pull the crew clear if there's a launchpad explosion, a fire mid flight, or whatever. In other words, if something goes wrong then it's bye-bye.
I for one would not want to fly in a SpaceShip where any fault would probably be fatal.
Then we get onto my regular complaint about how SpaceShipOne has bought the prize, etc, etc, while StarChaser waits for funding.
Glad to hear it - I'm ordering it post haste. I loved Thief 2, and the promise of similar atmosphere and better AI/Graphics makes me foam at the mouth.
I'm not too disappointed about the lack of rope-arrows, but I'm concerned about the dumbing down of the game - climbing gloves would appear to make escaping very easy, and portals might utterly ruin the atmosphere.
That said, with a game such as this, it will take a lot to ruin the game, even if it is sliced into chunks for XBoxes. I'm a firm fan of these hand-shakingly tense games.
0.9 has serious extension issues, i.e. I try to install two and it hangs forever on startup, won't actually install them and then proceeds to not start at all.
Needless to say, I'm rolling back until 1.0 is well established.
I'm sure Joe doesn't want to pay twice for his music, and therefore will not want to get it off iTunes if he's got the CD already. Perhaps in the future he will buy everything from iTunes, but perhaps then he wants to play the thing from a tape recorder?
The fact is, people have legitimate reasons for having more than one copy of their music. I rip my music for simple convenience - I can listen to every single album on shuffle without changing CDs.
DRM makes life less enjoyable and convenient. Perhaps a better idea would be to fund efforts to reverse crime rates, and boost public awareness of the nastiness of copying CDs.
Alternatively, artists should bring down album prices and boost loyalty, for example - I would never dream of copying a sigur-ros CD, due to the artists being so cool, the music being so great and the CDs being so reasonably priced.
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Yes and I, as a hardened criminal learned everything about the law by watching TV...
I don't know how truthful Law + Order is, but I expect reading up will hold more sway over the sceptics!
Macs run UNIX too, silly!
Now we're into the wonderful world of "I've lost the argument so I'll insult you."
That's a forfeit, by the way - thanks, argument closed + done.
If (human.bitching==0) {human.worthwhile=0.5)
I'm sorry, but I can't see, even now you have enlightened me as to the true meaning, how that sentence means anything other than the above code. Without going on about the alternatives to this sentence, I'll move on.
1) You have displayed the capitalist penchant for making sweeping, incorrect generalisations. (Insert tags where appropriate)
2) There may be something wrong with thinking that the world is fair, but there is nothing wrong with attempting to put this right. Capitalism tries to make this work, expanding the rich/poor gap. Socialism tries to offer equality, closing it. Perhaps you're too rich to view this as a good thing. Hopefully someone will force you to change places with some starving, penniless person with no home. Perhaps, just perhaps you will then realise the injustice capitalism creates.
$10? Last time I checked overclockers.co.uk a 2800 and a 2.8 were priced 40 apart. If you don't believe the marketing lingo, you can still get a 3200 for the same price as a 2.8.
To be honest, I'd rather have the chance of getting a bad product and having to return it (which I haven't, yet) and get a better processor for my money.
"Oh, and for the record, I haven't told you not to express an opinion."
You say that unless I stop bitching (expressing an opinion) I'm not a worthwhile human being? Perhaps this is a roundabout insult with a flimsy point attached, but I was concentrating on the point, not the insult.
[JARRING CHORD]
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as surprise, IE exploits, uncaring users and an almost fanatical devotion to an annoyance-marketing based business model. And nice bulk emailers, OH DAMN!
Saying that bitching (or, as I'd prefer to put it, voicing an adverse opinion) renders me unworthwhile as a human being does not, in my book, constitute "detailed examination or review." Instead it counts as an insult, and should therefore be ignored. I appear to have failed on that last count, but hopefully it will have done some good.
"That's the kind of thing that happens in a socialist society, not on a web-based free-for-all like slashdot."
Wow... how ignorant. I live in a socialist society and I've never been told, except by people such as yourself, not to express opinion.
Socialism does not mean dictatorship, single party state, no free speech - it means something resembling equality.
"argue against something that nobody has said."
I freely admit this. Commonly known as "drawing a parallel." Allow me to explain.
Those who give to charity are, implicity, criticising the capitalist society they live in, as it is most often that society that caused the unfairness the donor wishes to correct.
I, also implicitly, criticised my society by saying I was not fond of capitalists. Hence, a parallel and therefore valid analogy and argument.
"How very disappointing. I had hoped that they were another serious competitor for the prize."
Unfortunately, no they weren't - they had to wait for funding and other such things. However, they still managed to make it into the top 3 places (although the BBC never mentions them, a source of constant irritation.)
Perhaps, had they had some money, they would have been a serious competitor.
Actually, I was referring to a global forwarding address (My email address is one) that forwards email to whatever account you specify.
You generally have to pay, but some would deem this better than having mail deleted, encrypted, lost, burnt or whatever.
You get all the advantages of a real email address without the changiness.
Unfortunately voicing an opinion does not appear to be permitted on Slashdot. There is actually nothing wrong with complaining about the current state of affairs - what else is voting in a new government?
"It's capitalism that made it possible for someone like you to afford a computer, you ungrateful little twerp."
So all those westerners donating to charities and trying to help even things out are "ungrateful little twerps?" You seem a little too frivolous with the insults and a little too stingy with the brain.
Someone can be rich and still want socialism, not capitalism. Why do you think anyone would vote green, or lib dems? Perhaps I am ungrateful, but actually there's a very good reason for that - wanting the world to be a fairer place than it is now.
"I'm going to give StarChaser the benefit of the doubt. They probably wish you'd shut up and quit embarassing them."
Well, the guys I've spoken to at StarChaser (One of them being Steve, the manager person) seem to share my opinion, so I disagree.
Any more rather childish insults to throw?
And that's the whole point - without the X-Prize, sure, Rutan could've made his craft because he can afford it. Without the prize, StarChaser (and the other *competing* companies) will all be left dirt-poor with half a rocket in the warehouse.
The contentious issue (at least for "socialist snivelling gits" such as I) is that this prize was only for groups with no government backing. This would imply that people weren't to "buy the prize" and instead it would encourage the growth of smaller groups.
To get back to the personal insults you offer, I not only became part of the StarChaser club, but also work there as a volunteer - leading to bias, maybe, but perhaps bias with a founding. ;-)
And as for socialism, well, let's not get into an argument about that, because I can't stand greedy, fat capitalist gits
Only so I can say "You prize thieves!" or something similar!
I respect the work they've done towards space tourism, but taking part in the X-Prize was not something they should have done. Able to buy the prize meant that other companies, who could've actually done with the money to get them out of back-yard business into the limelight, had no chance of winning.
Quite, but that was part of the point - you can do a make install to your home dir in Linux and need only to be logged in.
However, in Linux it's probably possible to change the session preferences to start the program on login. (Although, as previously mentioned, there's no auto-autorun)
Anyway, the user action is inserting the CD into the drive. Hence the problem with autorun (and why autorun should be off by default - I don't know whether it is)
Anyway, back to the point. A program is simply a series of instructions given to the operating system and then the processor, so if one of those instructions happens to be "copy A to B" then that happens if the program is executed. If OS X requires you to validate programs being executed off the disk, all well and good, but that wasn't my point - the point was that programs don't need a password to be installed.
An RSS feed - very neat. I already check the FootNotes feed, now I have more GNOME goodies in my RSS Panel :-)
As for trying out gnome, the easiest way is to grab Fedora which has GNOME 2.6 on the CDs.
It's possible, but slow, to trawl through the sources at ftp.gnome.org, downloading all the necessary files. However, if you can find binary packages for your distro of choice then I'd go for them.
I wonder whether I can submit all the miscellaneous lint I've acquired for the developers
It's a real pity when things like that get hacked - It's GNOME people who're the real hackers, after all. In addition, this is a free software group - it's not like they're a software giant *cough* who crushes small businesses *cough* and uses illegal business practises *cough* (Oh, sod this - MICROSOFT) We need more white-hats, to go and whoop Teh Script Kidde H4x0r'S arses...
More like, if, whenever someone got near the car it automatically unlocked and started the engine, requiring you to remove the dashboard cover and unscrew something to change this.
On top of this, it was vulnerable to stalling at random, only restarting after you pushed it home.
In this case, you could either fix it, or get a better car in the first place.
It is a fact that Microsoft has done something wrong here - it should ask before doing unkown carp to your machine. À la Linux/Mac OS X.
Sure, you can fix it on Windows, but the problem still remains.
That sounds unlikely. Perhaps with the Mac equivalent of the RPM you're prompted for a password, but installing simply means "putting the stuff where it's useful."
So unless you Mac users require a password to copy a file from A to B, where you have read access in A and write in B, then it seems unlikely that this can 't install without your knowledge.
1: Hell no. I'll point you specifically to the pro-Linux bits
2: Only if I catch you.
3: Yes
4: WTF Is Slashdot?
1: Super geek. "Hired" pile
2: Benevolent dictator. "Possible" pile.
3: Idiot. "No way" pile
4: "Feed to goatse"
I for one would not want to fly in a SpaceShip where any fault would probably be fatal.
Then we get onto my regular complaint about how SpaceShipOne has bought the prize, etc, etc, while StarChaser waits for funding.
Glad to hear it - I'm ordering it post haste. I loved Thief 2, and the promise of similar atmosphere and better AI/Graphics makes me foam at the mouth.
I'm not too disappointed about the lack of rope-arrows, but I'm concerned about the dumbing down of the game - climbing gloves would appear to make escaping very easy, and portals might utterly ruin the atmosphere.
That said, with a game such as this, it will take a lot to ruin the game, even if it is sliced into chunks for XBoxes. I'm a firm fan of these hand-shakingly tense games.
0.9 has serious extension issues, i.e. I try to install two and it hangs forever on startup, won't actually install them and then proceeds to not start at all.
Needless to say, I'm rolling back until 1.0 is well established.
The fact is, people have legitimate reasons for having more than one copy of their music. I rip my music for simple convenience - I can listen to every single album on shuffle without changing CDs.
DRM makes life less enjoyable and convenient. Perhaps a better idea would be to fund efforts to reverse crime rates, and boost public awareness of the nastiness of copying CDs.
Alternatively, artists should bring down album prices and boost loyalty, for example - I would never dream of copying a sigur-ros CD, due to the artists being so cool, the music being so great and the CDs being so reasonably priced.