"Bush's government" : Let's stop being so partisan and call it the United States Government, shall we?
Why? Do you deny that almost half (or more than half, depending on who you ask) didn't vote for Bush, and thus probably feel a bit trod upon by the whole thing?
Ever been hit in the head with a can thrown from a moving car that was travelling (at least) 80 km/h? While you were simply walking at the side of the road?
Until you've been used for someone else's amusement and can't do a thing about it, you won't know anger. I sure wish I had a rocket launcher handy then, though it was probably better that I didn't.
Misleading and incorrect? on Slashdot? Yeah, so what else is new?
I think it was pretty obvious that Alien54 was just being cynical and stupid when he said "not only will [your Dell] probably come preloaded with spyware..." And that comment tainted the whole article. It's the Slashdot editor's job to avoid that, but I guess Slashdot doesn't care too much about accuracy.
Dell is selling you a computer with spyware PRE-INSTALLED, and are refusing to help you remove it because the spyware companies are paying Dell to put it there.
What the hell are you talking about? Read the memo. It just says that they won't endorse the user of spyware removal software because it might fuck up the computer even more. Take off your tinfoil hat.
ISOs of the binary install and source code CDs for Lycoris 3 download edition (their latest release) are both available, just check out their FTP site. But you should probably use a mirror.
I know this isn't very in-line with the techie mentality, but I DON'T CARE. If I want to make a phone call, I'll pick up my phone and dial. Sure, I'd want a reasonably cheap rate and choose my carrier accordingly but, as long as it works, I don't give a shit whether it's routed through Madagascar or not. This is between the government and the phone company. I don't have a place in any of it.
Yes, but if someone in a Big Corporation can't use their computer because Microsoft's software doesn't work, it's the Big Corporation's problem. And maybe that'll make the Big Corporation think twice about using Microsoft in the future.
True, it does seem quite useless. Also, these poems are nothing more than strings of disparate images. There's no point to them. It takes a lot more than surface analysis to generate a poem.
I hear you. And there are still plenty of great old games that I still haven't played, but which will run perfectly on a nice 486 or low-end pentium, which you can pretty much find in a dumpster these days. How sad... It goes with my theory that old hardware software never become obsolete, but are merely overlooked for the sake of novelty.
I'm sure there are still plenty of ideas to be exploited that are implementable on a 486-based system, especially in the adventure game genre. The graphics of that age were a style that, when done well, will never age. Just look at Doom, Lemmings, many of Sierra's adventure games... their graphics were all elegantly crafted to make maximum use of the resources available to them, but still look good, stylistically. It's certainly worth the time to check out these old games.
Jesus, I'm only 20 and I'm reminiscing about the "days of old." Technology is great.:)
Obviously, different organisms have different tolerances and reactions to various chemicals. However, some are quite universal. Certain neurotransmitters have vital roles in life functions all the way back to the earliest mammals and, in some cases, even single-celled organisms. Thus, it is not impossible for one chemical to have similar effects for an entire taxonomic branch of life.
I would tend to think it unlikely in sharks, however, since they are quite pointedly different organisms from even mammalian life, let alone humanity. But, like you said, who knows?
But we can resolve all this if someone just dissolves some caffeine into their fishtank. Just make sure they weren't too expensive.
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Um, infocom's text interface wasn't too complex. I mean, it mostly simple commands in the form "verb + noun."
> open mailbox
There's no life on the moon.
"Bush's government" : Let's stop being so partisan and call it the United States Government, shall we?
Why? Do you deny that almost half (or more than half, depending on who you ask) didn't vote for Bush, and thus probably feel a bit trod upon by the whole thing?
Ever been hit in the head with a can thrown from a moving car that was travelling (at least) 80 km/h? While you were simply walking at the side of the road?
Until you've been used for someone else's amusement and can't do a thing about it, you won't know anger. I sure wish I had a rocket launcher handy then, though it was probably better that I didn't.
Those things are hard to affect with force. So I'd like to see it survive after going through a clothes dryer. :)
Exactly. Is the customer always right? Obviously NOT: it's just a figure of speech.
Braindead indeed. One of those articles to which you reply, "Uh, no." and scroll on to the next.
Everyone gets angry.
And when you're angry, you fantasize about fun things like "what i would do if i had a fragmentation grenade... or a 9mm handgun."
But acting on it is rather a different matter.
Misleading and incorrect? on Slashdot? Yeah, so what else is new?
I think it was pretty obvious that Alien54 was just being cynical and stupid when he said "not only will [your Dell] probably come preloaded with spyware..." And that comment tainted the whole article. It's the Slashdot editor's job to avoid that, but I guess Slashdot doesn't care too much about accuracy.
I would say that's more of a shuffle than a walk.
I'd be interested to get one of these for myself. Though I'd hate to have to get it back afterwards...
I've done that before.
Dell is selling you a computer with spyware PRE-INSTALLED, and are refusing to help you remove it because the spyware companies are paying Dell to put it there.
What the hell are you talking about? Read the memo. It just says that they won't endorse the user of spyware removal software because it might fuck up the computer even more. Take off your tinfoil hat.
Who cares, it's just TV. I don't even have one.
ISOs of the binary install and source code CDs for Lycoris 3 download edition (their latest release) are both available, just check out their FTP site. But you should probably use a mirror.
I know this isn't very in-line with the techie mentality, but I DON'T CARE. If I want to make a phone call, I'll pick up my phone and dial. Sure, I'd want a reasonably cheap rate and choose my carrier accordingly but, as long as it works, I don't give a shit whether it's routed through Madagascar or not. This is between the government and the phone company. I don't have a place in any of it.
Yes, but if someone in a Big Corporation can't use their computer because Microsoft's software doesn't work, it's the Big Corporation's problem. And maybe that'll make the Big Corporation think twice about using Microsoft in the future.
Oh, who the fuck cares. I mean really. Nobody's "forced to use microsoft" so if they write shitty software, let them take responsibility for it.
True, it does seem quite useless. Also, these poems are nothing more than strings of disparate images. There's no point to them. It takes a lot more than surface analysis to generate a poem.
I suspect that taking a break every 30 minutes would seem a lot more reasonable back then, when monitors were hardly as ergonomic as they are now.
You think a 60Hz vertical refresh is bad? I'm sure that would've been luxurious 20 years ago.
Now that's quality software. o_0
High school? Man, I wish my high school had a Latin class.
But, of course, it's not anything particularly new. At all.
My 486/33 back in 1992 had one. But they've been discontinued since, for some reason.
I hear you. And there are still plenty of great old games that I still haven't played, but which will run perfectly on a nice 486 or low-end pentium, which you can pretty much find in a dumpster these days. How sad... It goes with my theory that old hardware software never become obsolete, but are merely overlooked for the sake of novelty.
:)
I'm sure there are still plenty of ideas to be exploited that are implementable on a 486-based system, especially in the adventure game genre. The graphics of that age were a style that, when done well, will never age. Just look at Doom, Lemmings, many of Sierra's adventure games... their graphics were all elegantly crafted to make maximum use of the resources available to them, but still look good, stylistically. It's certainly worth the time to check out these old games.
Jesus, I'm only 20 and I'm reminiscing about the "days of old." Technology is great.
Gator Network is #9? Jesus Christ. What is this Internet coming to?
Obviously, different organisms have different tolerances and reactions to various chemicals. However, some are quite universal. Certain neurotransmitters have vital roles in life functions all the way back to the earliest mammals and, in some cases, even single-celled organisms. Thus, it is not impossible for one chemical to have similar effects for an entire taxonomic branch of life.
I would tend to think it unlikely in sharks, however, since they are quite pointedly different organisms from even mammalian life, let alone humanity. But, like you said, who knows?
But we can resolve all this if someone just dissolves some caffeine into their fishtank. Just make sure they weren't too expensive.