I remember reading about, I believe, an emulator that was released into the public domain. Afterwards, some people who liked the emulator found out another project was using code from the emulator without crediting it. They got very angry, until the creator of the emulator came out and said that's the reason he released it into the public domain in the first place. It's public code, he *wants* people to use his code.
All of my friends have always told me that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an awesome book, but I've always had other things on my reading list already. I'm finally done reading the Wheel of Time series and everything by Raymond E. Feist, so I asked for The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide for Christmas. I wonder now, if after hearing "The meaning of life is 42." a million times I'll think it's still funny when reading the books.
And this is why you always quote sources. I thought you were an ass! Hey, you still might be, but you should have quoted the review so I could have bashed the reviewer, instead of you.
There is a free flow of money from PED to USD and from USD to PED. It would be the equivelent of saying you paid ten dollars for something or a thousand pennies.
Still, it's not a terrible deal. As a former AOL user who has tried other 56k internet services, AOL is just much easier to use. I now have cable and have for a few years, but when I was on AOL, I loved it. Without AOL, I wouldn't have my insane gaming addiction:-P
That has to be one of the worse rants and reasoning I've ever heard. Just because I'm going to get shot, I don't want to get stabbed on the way. Sure, lots of other things I do are causing me to whittle down my lifespan, but I don't particularly want to die any earlier than I already plan to. Listen, maybe you don't get this, but you are using something that KILLS! I don't want that shit near me, ever. What's the difference between making someone inhale your smoke and poisoning them? Same effect.
You're acting like smoking is something natural. IT ISN'T! Yes, I know, neither is going to McDonald's and eating their crap, but guess what? I don't shove their crap down your throat! You are *forcing* me to inhale your smoke when you're near me.
Granted, if you are moving towards someone who's smoking, you've got no reason to make a comment. That still doesn't make the rest of your rant any more valid.
Loud and/or smelly people? They have an off button:-P
I understand that babies cry, I have young nieces. What I don't understand is if a baby is crying, the parent tries to do nothing about it. If a baby is crying, it means it needs or wants something! Don't just ignore it!
That is very decent hardware for $300, and it also comes with a year of free internet at AOL. 12 months * $22 a month = $264. Retail, this PC is only costing the user $36. I doubt it's even close to possible to find anything near that PC for $36. So, Mr. Slashbot, can we stop the knee-jerk AOL and MS bashing and say this is a GREAT deal for new people to get onto the web?
You don't think the dictionary is copyrighted? There are many different versions by many different companies in many different languages and I bet you each one is copyrighted.
This is from Family Guy. This is from memory, so it might be off a bit:
Jim: What did you just say? That's OUR word! You don't have any right to use it!
Peter: I'm sorry! I thought that was your name!
A few seconds pass.
Peter: Can you please pass the oar, N-Word Jim?
Jim: Certainly.
are a fucking idiot. Learn to type. He's not whining about anything you fucking moron. God, I don't even think there's enough insults to cover the bounds of your stupidity.
(Now, before you mod me a troll, remember, I'm only saying what everyone else was thinking.)
Sign up for an AOL account, free month. Call tech support, get them to fix your AIM account (which it already is, because you can use AIM with an AOL screen name.) Cancel the account. Voila, your AIM account is still there.
I canceled an old AOL account and my screen name still worked on AIM just fine.
I guess I'm not a true geek. All important stuff I conduct in real life. I don't do any web banking, I don't do any web stock-trading. I don't do any of that, so I'm unsure what could happen. The only thing that I'd really miss would be my AIM account, which I just bumped to level 2 recently. All of my convos happen on AIM instead of the phone, so I have no idea what I would do if I lost my screen name.
Why do you have so many different passwords? Just come up with a few sufficienly complex ones. I've got 4 different passwords that I use, each having their own "security level". Slashdot is a level 1, since I don't care about someone stealing my account here, whereas my account for World of Warcraft is a level 4:-P
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Do you happen to have some links? I'd like to read over that. When I read it, there had been no replies after Loopy spoke about it.
I remember reading about, I believe, an emulator that was released into the public domain. Afterwards, some people who liked the emulator found out another project was using code from the emulator without crediting it. They got very angry, until the creator of the emulator came out and said that's the reason he released it into the public domain in the first place. It's public code, he *wants* people to use his code.
Same thing with the GPL, I believe.
Heh. The sad part is I never found it funny in real life either.
All of my friends have always told me that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an awesome book, but I've always had other things on my reading list already. I'm finally done reading the Wheel of Time series and everything by Raymond E. Feist, so I asked for The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide for Christmas. I wonder now, if after hearing "The meaning of life is 42." a million times I'll think it's still funny when reading the books.
Holy crap. I understood that. A++++++ job, will read posts again!
The only thing funny about this post are the umlauts!
And this is why you always quote sources. I thought you were an ass! Hey, you still might be, but you should have quoted the review so I could have bashed the reviewer, instead of you.
What's your point?
There is a free flow of money from PED to USD and from USD to PED. It would be the equivelent of saying you paid ten dollars for something or a thousand pennies.
Touche.
:-P
Still, it's not a terrible deal. As a former AOL user who has tried other 56k internet services, AOL is just much easier to use. I now have cable and have for a few years, but when I was on AOL, I loved it. Without AOL, I wouldn't have my insane gaming addiction
That has to be one of the worse rants and reasoning I've ever heard. Just because I'm going to get shot, I don't want to get stabbed on the way. Sure, lots of other things I do are causing me to whittle down my lifespan, but I don't particularly want to die any earlier than I already plan to. Listen, maybe you don't get this, but you are using something that KILLS! I don't want that shit near me, ever. What's the difference between making someone inhale your smoke and poisoning them? Same effect.
You're acting like smoking is something natural. IT ISN'T! Yes, I know, neither is going to McDonald's and eating their crap, but guess what? I don't shove their crap down your throat! You are *forcing* me to inhale your smoke when you're near me.
Granted, if you are moving towards someone who's smoking, you've got no reason to make a comment. That still doesn't make the rest of your rant any more valid.
Loud and/or smelly people? They have an off button :-P
I understand that babies cry, I have young nieces. What I don't understand is if a baby is crying, the parent tries to do nothing about it. If a baby is crying, it means it needs or wants something! Don't just ignore it!
Sure, let's convince them to have their conversation... on the outside of the plane.
You're quite evil, joelethan.
Sorry. As long as babies, loud and/or smelly people are allowed near me, cell phones are lumped in that same group. Ban 'em all, or ban nothing.
That is very decent hardware for $300, and it also comes with a year of free internet at AOL. 12 months * $22 a month = $264. Retail, this PC is only costing the user $36. I doubt it's even close to possible to find anything near that PC for $36. So, Mr. Slashbot, can we stop the knee-jerk AOL and MS bashing and say this is a GREAT deal for new people to get onto the web?
You don't think the dictionary is copyrighted? There are many different versions by many different companies in many different languages and I bet you each one is copyrighted.
Just a warning for all those who browse at -1.
Am I supposed to mod this Off Topic or Unintelligable?
This is from Family Guy. This is from memory, so it might be off a bit:
Jim: What did you just say? That's OUR word! You don't have any right to use it!
Peter: I'm sorry! I thought that was your name!
A few seconds pass.
Peter: Can you please pass the oar, N-Word Jim?
Jim: Certainly.
are a fucking idiot. Learn to type. He's not whining about anything you fucking moron. God, I don't even think there's enough insults to cover the bounds of your stupidity.
(Now, before you mod me a troll, remember, I'm only saying what everyone else was thinking.)
Sign up for an AOL account, free month. Call tech support, get them to fix your AIM account (which it already is, because you can use AIM with an AOL screen name.) Cancel the account. Voila, your AIM account is still there. I canceled an old AOL account and my screen name still worked on AIM just fine.
Difficult to take a poster seriously when his sig contains a link to a pyramid scheme.
It's alright. I enjoy hourly forecasts from weather.com.
I guess I'm not a true geek. All important stuff I conduct in real life. I don't do any web banking, I don't do any web stock-trading. I don't do any of that, so I'm unsure what could happen. The only thing that I'd really miss would be my AIM account, which I just bumped to level 2 recently. All of my convos happen on AIM instead of the phone, so I have no idea what I would do if I lost my screen name.
Why do you have so many different passwords? Just come up with a few sufficienly complex ones. I've got 4 different passwords that I use, each having their own "security level". Slashdot is a level 1, since I don't care about someone stealing my account here, whereas my account for World of Warcraft is a level 4 :-P
Why do you even bother to post? Why am I even bothering to reply? *sigh*