So far, HL2 has on average received the best reviews for any game ever. PC Gamer gave it a 98% (US) and a 97% (UK). I haven't seen one rating less than 90% (9/10, 90/100, whatever you want to call it) anywhere. CS:S was amazing. The support for it was incredible, and at several points during the beta I had ongoing conversations with VALVe in the Steam forums. Yes, there were bugs in CS:S. It was a beta.
All I want to know is: what game were you playing?
"I think it's clear to us that people can't give away things for free forever," said conference organizer Alex Vieux.
"Vieux" means "old." How appropriate. I don't blame these people for being scared to death of open source. It's bigger and better and it means less money for them. The new is clearly better, no matter how much les vieux hommes (the old men) want us to believe it.
Ok, locks only make locksmiths richer. Why, then, do we lock our houses? Even "minimal" deterrents don't deserve complete negligence because someone can find a way around them.
I've always wanted to design a system that gets nastier every time a user repeats an error.
In the generic sense, it would start with "Could not do xyz. Please check what you intended to do and try again."
Then, it would progress through "I can't do that. Try again." "You're starting to wear on my nerves. Can't you do anything right?"
Then, it would start to get more down to the source of the problem, beginning with "DOES NOT COMPUTE" and ending, finally, with "You fucking moron, my program works, read the manual before i cut you."
Stupid users always bothering me withcrap.
It strikes me as interesting that, as the article states, we are in an era of more information being collected and less returned. This applies to multiple issues, of course, not just the corporate angle - but what strikes me as odd is that none of the businesses being affected negatively by these changes are ones in which our great President Bush or his brains, VP Cheney have a hand unless their constituency specifically demands it.
A pox, I say. I've written my Senators and Representative in the past about protecting the freedom of information. Now more than ever vigilance is necessary.
You know what's actually kinda scary? I was talking this over with a friend and we were like...man...suddenly NYC to LA for lunch doesn't seem so far off...
What an age we live in!
Everyone's always out to get Cedar Point, man. But the thing is they'll always be the biggest and best. Something like 10 of their current roller coasters are or at one time were world record holders. I went there every summer growing up. Trust me, no Six Flags will EVER EVER compare to those childhood memories:)
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Yes, that's right./. beat ABC news to the story. Take that!
The article forgot to mention the heavy, heavy use of SMS to organize flash mobs in protest to both the DNC and RNC. This is not an "a-American" phenomenon.
Perhaps I'm missing the sarcasm here, but Fox is generally regarded as the single most overblown fear-inducing conservative news service that exists. As soon as I saw that the link was to Fox I went "oh, god, what NOW?"
NOTE: not intended as flamebait, mods, just a correction to an obvious misstatement:p
Exactly. This is some of the most convincing anti-SCO evidence I've seen. This man has been an expert witness in court in the past and is indisputably an expert in this kind of analysis. Look at the (badly scanned...bleh!) table in the pdf. Line after line after line of code identified by SCO as being stolen, and Davis found absolutely nothing.
That's a final word as far as I'm concerned, and I'd venture so far as to say if IBM wants to make it so it's the final word as far as the law is concerned.
Does anyone else use Yahoo! Messenger?:p They've had an avatar system for a while now (previous to AIM's SuperBuddy icons), and it's fairly nice if a tad limited in choices. Check out avatars.yahoo.com (ie only, lazy ass yahoo coders). The avatars have multiple facial expressions each, and they react to emoticons used in chat.
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EXACTLY what i was looking for. Thank you :D
So far, HL2 has on average received the best reviews for any game ever. PC Gamer gave it a 98% (US) and a 97% (UK). I haven't seen one rating less than 90% (9/10, 90/100, whatever you want to call it) anywhere. CS:S was amazing. The support for it was incredible, and at several points during the beta I had ongoing conversations with VALVe in the Steam forums. Yes, there were bugs in CS:S. It was a beta.
All I want to know is: what game were you playing?
Does someone have a handy dandy link out there for a PC (Win) program that operates much like "Little Snitch" without the supertechnical stuff?
HL2 Gone Gold (for real, they think) Friday October 15, @10:54PM Rejected
:(
Yeah. I submitted this link yesterday about 5 minutes after it went up on the net.
*sigh* I want a story posted
It does run with Firefox. Perfectly. I'm impressed.
Er. I meant, no matter how much they want us to believe otherwise :p
"I think it's clear to us that people can't give away things for free forever," said conference organizer Alex Vieux.
"Vieux" means "old." How appropriate. I don't blame these people for being scared to death of open source. It's bigger and better and it means less money for them. The new is clearly better, no matter how much les vieux hommes (the old men) want us to believe it.
Ok, locks only make locksmiths richer. Why, then, do we lock our houses? Even "minimal" deterrents don't deserve complete negligence because someone can find a way around them.
I've always wanted to design a system that gets nastier every time a user repeats an error.
In the generic sense, it would start with "Could not do xyz. Please check what you intended to do and try again."
Then, it would progress through "I can't do that. Try again." "You're starting to wear on my nerves. Can't you do anything right?"
Then, it would start to get more down to the source of the problem, beginning with "DOES NOT COMPUTE" and ending, finally, with "You fucking moron, my program works, read the manual before i cut you."
Stupid users always bothering me with crap.
It strikes me as interesting that, as the article states, we are in an era of more information being collected and less returned. This applies to multiple issues, of course, not just the corporate angle - but what strikes me as odd is that none of the businesses being affected negatively by these changes are ones in which our great President Bush or his brains, VP Cheney have a hand unless their constituency specifically demands it.
A pox, I say. I've written my Senators and Representative in the past about protecting the freedom of information. Now more than ever vigilance is necessary.
"My 12-year-old at home doesn't want to hear that he can't put all the music that he wants in all of the places that he would like it," he joked.
I know where I'd like to put that smirk of his.
Heh. On the communication issue for the all-in-one-kit:
;)
Speed: 0-36kpm
36 kilometers per minute is a little over 1342 miles per hour. Methinks something's wrong here
You know what's actually kinda scary? I was talking this over with a friend and we were like...man...suddenly NYC to LA for lunch doesn't seem so far off... What an age we live in!
Or not...as of 8:30 eastern it's been slashdotted.
Everyone's always out to get Cedar Point, man. But the thing is they'll always be the biggest and best. Something like 10 of their current roller coasters are or at one time were world record holders. I went there every summer growing up. Trust me, no Six Flags will EVER EVER compare to those childhood memories :)
I'll add my Mike's hard lemonade to that. To them and theirs.
You mean 5.0.1. Or 2.0.1. Or you might actually mean 1.5.1...what the hell were they thinking with this numbering system? :p
*hangs his head*
Serves me right for trying to score some karma points when I've been awake for 10 minutes.
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/. beat ABC news to the story. Take that!
News results for mount st. helens - View today's top stories
Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased - Slashdot - 9 minutes ago
Experts Predict Mount St. Helens Eruption - ABC News - 10 minutes ago
Yes, that's right.
Sir Tim (he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July)
There are some who call me....Tim?
The article forgot to mention the heavy, heavy use of SMS to organize flash mobs in protest to both the DNC and RNC. This is not an "a-American" phenomenon.
I actually had this problem in UT2004 with a CRT - then I turned the option titled "reduce mouse lag" on. No more problem. RTFM anyone?
Perhaps I'm missing the sarcasm here, but Fox is generally regarded as the single most overblown fear-inducing conservative news service that exists. As soon as I saw that the link was to Fox I went "oh, god, what NOW?" NOTE: not intended as flamebait, mods, just a correction to an obvious misstatement :p
Exactly. This is some of the most convincing anti-SCO evidence I've seen. This man has been an expert witness in court in the past and is indisputably an expert in this kind of analysis. Look at the (badly scanned...bleh!) table in the pdf. Line after line after line of code identified by SCO as being stolen, and Davis found absolutely nothing.
That's a final word as far as I'm concerned, and I'd venture so far as to say if IBM wants to make it so it's the final word as far as the law is concerned.
Does anyone else use Yahoo! Messenger? :p They've had an avatar system for a while now (previous to AIM's SuperBuddy icons), and it's fairly nice if a tad limited in choices. Check out avatars.yahoo.com (ie only, lazy ass yahoo coders). The avatars have multiple facial expressions each, and they react to emoticons used in chat.