What you must realize is this; CmdrTaco and Slashdot aren't, have never been and at least at the moment don't appear to aspire of being journalistic and bigtime. Slashdot is basically what it's always been, a playground for CmdrTaco and his friends to post news. The fact that alot of other people also enjoyed reading it, and the fact that CmdrTaco and c:o has gone to great lengths to make it more enjoyable for those other people doesn't change the fact that it's HIS site and it's without any promises of journalistic integrity (not thereby saying they have none). Bascially he can do whatever the fuck he wants.
And the standard: If you don't like it. Go somehwere else.
Nog första gången jag sett en diskussion glida in på svenska på/. =)
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There's no need to coordinate versions, only protocols. That's what protocols are there for in the first place. Yes, that's a pain in the butt too, but it's clearly doable. Just look at how many protocol upgrades are done in other areas where there is a plethora of clients/servers, and it works.
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I don't want to borrow the book, but I must compliment you on your action. There's nice to see that there's some nice people in the world. =)
Here I am, having payed a ton of money for my brand new game. And what do I discover? It only takes 12 minutes to finish! On the hardest difficulty. *Sigh*. Game design today sucks.
Have people completely missed Bladerunner (the game that is), or? It's probably one of the best games I've ever played, just because it's not the "use fish in keyhole" style, but what matters is your decisions. Do you help the replicants or not? Is it morally right? Should you run away with the 14-year old replicant girl, leaving the others to their destiny? Should you hunt them all down? And so on. Basically, it's really a challenge for your intellect, not so much as your puzzlesolving abilities.
I just wish some more companies could create games like this, because it's really the future of adventure gaming (i.e not puzzlegaming). I never think I've played a game that enthralled me quite that much (with the possible exception of Outcast).
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When will people learn to spot a troll when they see one. *sigh*.
Obviously the moderators are on crack (and yes, I'm moderator myself quite often), but to first moderate the first one up, and then this one down. Exactly what was the troll part of that post? =) (If it wasn't meta-trolling that is. It's classified as troll because you say so? Can I get my post moderated up by saying they're insightful?)
Some people doesn't seem to get it, the point is that with the death penalty you don't have any way back. If the state kills an innocent by death penalty (which they do), the state too commits _real_ murder. It's not worth sacrificing one innocent to make sure 100 criminals are dead, when you might as well put them in lifetime prison.
I've been running Linux since 1993. I was 13 at that age. I liked Linux. I loved Linux. I was in fact a Linux zealot. But lately I've found myself spending more and more and more time on Windows. All the things that is usually used against Windows haven't really applied to me. The stability for once, my system easily stays up several days, I don't loose documents, and when it dies it's more often than not GlQuakes or Diablo 2's fault. But it's not really reason to USE Windows just because it's more stable than said (Linux is still 100 times more stable). Nor is it the games that keeps me from Linux.
It's in fact no more and no less than two things; Internet Explorer and Windows Mediaplayer. I'm sorry to say it but these things rock, there's nothing on any other platform that even comes close. IE is good, flexible, stable and most of all, which is the most important thing for me (and to my 10Mbps line;)) is that it's lightning fast. I don't have to spend any time waiting around for it to render a page, it does it at once. Also there's nothing it CAN'T do, which isn't something you can say about Mozilla. The same things more or less corresponds to the media player. There's nothing it can't play, and if encounters something it doesn't know off, it gets the codecs and stuff it needs.
No, this isn't a MS rant, and I have a point. The point is, that at this stage in time, Gnome and KDE is actually quite good, it can mimic and excel almost any user interface out there (except Mac on some points, but that's another story). A user can really sit down and use it at once, especially if correctly configured from the beginning. We're also seeing Helix Codes notable performance in making updates simpler, which is deeply needed due to the horrible nested dependcies. But all this in vain if there's not the two things a normal home user wants, needs and uses the most: A browser and a mediaplayer (and a word processor, but that exists). Alot of the effort now put into Gnome and KDE should be put into this area (preferably so it can be used on both desktops) so that Linux can truly compete with and destroy Microsoft on their own turf. Because it's on the Internet the battle is finally going to be. And I'm afraid that Mozilla is a cause lost, there's to much bloat, to much legacy, and to much company interference. Better would be to start again, or focus into something like Konquerer which seems to tag along nicely (although I haven't tried it). In the end there can be only one.
Just because the law says so, doesn't mean it's right. You're allowed to have an opinion of your own, and you're allowed to try to change the law within the system.
I see you obviously haven't met my math lecturers. In some situation, especially in matrixes (which a screen can be considered to be) they specifiy height before width. See Linjär Algebra (Linear Algebra) by Gunnar Sparr (1994, Lund);).
Some people prefer to write it like that. Especially some mathematicans. He didn't specifify what was width and what was height, so it can not be attacked for being wrong, only inprecise.
No, I'm not. Imagine seeing yourself and the Earth being incierated/blacked out just in time when we cleaned out the enviroment. Wouldn't that be a drag? Wouldn't it be much nicer to see the Earth (which we painstainkingly cleaned) die, and STILL be alive yourself? =)
First of all, the one and foremost reason is of course the ever present one, which drives humanity all the time, Because it's there.
And on a more serious note, mankind should strive it's hardest to reach for the stars, because the sun won't always be here, and then we're kinda screwed if we're still here. It pays to plan ahead.
Hehe, yeah, not that it was _really_ funny, but it sure as hell wasn't redundant. I wrote a program that outputted all 900 verses just to make a point, but the post was to long for/. to allow it. =)
Slashdot Mirror
What you must realize is this; CmdrTaco and Slashdot aren't, have never been and at least at the moment don't appear to aspire of being journalistic and bigtime. Slashdot is basically what it's always been, a playground for CmdrTaco and his friends to post news. The fact that alot of other people also enjoyed reading it, and the fact that CmdrTaco and c:o has gone to great lengths to make it more enjoyable for those other people doesn't change the fact that it's HIS site and it's without any promises of journalistic integrity (not thereby saying they have none). Bascially he can do whatever the fuck he wants.
And the standard: If you don't like it. Go somehwere else.
Nog första gången jag sett en diskussion glida in på svenska på /. =)
There's no need to coordinate versions, only protocols. That's what protocols are there for in the first place. Yes, that's a pain in the butt too, but it's clearly doable. Just look at how many protocol upgrades are done in other areas where there is a plethora of clients/servers, and it works.
I don't want to borrow the book, but I must compliment you on your action. There's nice to see that there's some nice people in the world. =)
Can I play cs_747 in the air then?
Here I am, having payed a ton of money for my brand new game. And what do I discover? It only takes 12 minutes to finish! On the hardest difficulty. *Sigh*. Game design today sucks.
Have people completely missed Bladerunner (the game that is), or? It's probably one of the best games I've ever played, just because it's not the "use fish in keyhole" style, but what matters is your decisions. Do you help the replicants or not? Is it morally right? Should you run away with the 14-year old replicant girl, leaving the others to their destiny? Should you hunt them all down? And so on. Basically, it's really a challenge for your intellect, not so much as your puzzlesolving abilities.
I just wish some more companies could create games like this, because it's really the future of adventure gaming (i.e not puzzlegaming). I never think I've played a game that enthralled me quite that much (with the possible exception of Outcast).
When will people learn to spot a troll when they see one. *sigh*.
Indeed, but I seem to have only gotten one mod point for mentioning "insightful" once. Perhaps if I mentioned it more, I would get more points?
This post is:
Insightful
Insightful
Insightful
Interesting
Obviously the moderators are on crack (and yes, I'm moderator myself quite often), but to first moderate the first one up, and then this one down. Exactly what was the troll part of that post? =) (If it wasn't meta-trolling that is. It's classified as troll because you say so? Can I get my post moderated up by saying they're insightful?)
If I've ever seen a karma whore, this is it =)
...is that we're one step closer to a holodeck =).
Some people doesn't seem to get it, the point is that with the death penalty you don't have any way back. If the state kills an innocent by death penalty (which they do), the state too commits _real_ murder. It's not worth sacrificing one innocent to make sure 100 criminals are dead, when you might as well put them in lifetime prison.
I've been running Linux since 1993. I was 13 at that age. I liked Linux. I loved Linux. I was in fact a Linux zealot. But lately I've found myself spending more and more and more time on Windows. All the things that is usually used against Windows haven't really applied to me. The stability for once, my system easily stays up several days, I don't loose documents, and when it dies it's more often than not GlQuakes or Diablo 2's fault. But it's not really reason to USE Windows just because it's more stable than said (Linux is still 100 times more stable). Nor is it the games that keeps me from Linux.
;)) is that it's lightning fast. I don't have to spend any time waiting around for it to render a page, it does it at once. Also there's nothing it CAN'T do, which isn't something you can say about Mozilla. The same things more or less corresponds to the media player. There's nothing it can't play, and if encounters something it doesn't know off, it gets the codecs and stuff it needs.
It's in fact no more and no less than two things; Internet Explorer and Windows Mediaplayer. I'm sorry to say it but these things rock, there's nothing on any other platform that even comes close. IE is good, flexible, stable and most of all, which is the most important thing for me (and to my 10Mbps line
No, this isn't a MS rant, and I have a point. The point is, that at this stage in time, Gnome and KDE is actually quite good, it can mimic and excel almost any user interface out there (except Mac on some points, but that's another story). A user can really sit down and use it at once, especially if correctly configured from the beginning. We're also seeing Helix Codes notable performance in making updates simpler, which is deeply needed due to the horrible nested dependcies. But all this in vain if there's not the two things a normal home user wants, needs and uses the most: A browser and a mediaplayer (and a word processor, but that exists). Alot of the effort now put into Gnome and KDE should be put into this area (preferably so it can be used on both desktops) so that Linux can truly compete with and destroy Microsoft on their own turf. Because it's on the Internet the battle is finally going to be. And I'm afraid that Mozilla is a cause lost, there's to much bloat, to much legacy, and to much company interference. Better would be to start again, or focus into something like Konquerer which seems to tag along nicely (although I haven't tried it). In the end there can be only one.
The Borg^H^H^H^H Mac cube is true. So I guess that some MacJunkie authors will be eating their shorts or something.
X Windows? What's that? Some kind of new technique in house building?
Just because the law says so, doesn't mean it's right. You're allowed to have an opinion of your own, and you're allowed to try to change the law within the system.
I see you obviously haven't met my math lecturers. In some situation, especially in matrixes (which a screen can be considered to be) they specifiy height before width. See Linjär Algebra (Linear Algebra) by Gunnar Sparr (1994, Lund) ;).
Some people prefer to write it like that. Especially some mathematicans. He didn't specifify what was width and what was height, so it can not be attacked for being wrong, only inprecise.
No, I'm not. Imagine seeing yourself and the Earth being incierated/blacked out just in time when we cleaned out the enviroment. Wouldn't that be a drag? Wouldn't it be much nicer to see the Earth (which we painstainkingly cleaned) die, and STILL be alive yourself? =)
(Ok...NOW I'm not serious, but I was before.)
Let me just say: Ha Ha Ha =)
First of all, the one and foremost reason is of course the ever present one, which drives humanity all the time, Because it's there.
And on a more serious note, mankind should strive it's hardest to reach for the stars, because the sun won't always be here, and then we're kinda screwed if we're still here. It pays to plan ahead.
The swedish courts have ruled against exactly this kind of lawsuit, so in a worstcase scenario, just move all of the internet to Sweden ;).
Hehe, yeah, not that it was _really_ funny, but it sure as hell wasn't redundant. I wrote a program that outputted all 900 verses just to make a point, but the post was to long for /. to allow it. =)
Because even though we're moderators, there's not an infinited amount of us while pressing Alt-R/Ctrl-R/F5 infinitely fast.